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Do you have a thing for vintage propaganda posters? Check out these propaganda posters designed for the big three of social networking.
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Tags: Facebook, Google Plus, Posters, Propaganda, social networks, twitter, Vintage
Google+ = Terminator
Tags: Facebook, Google, social networks, twitter
Aadvark is a service where you can ask a question and get answers from real people and not from a previously written web article. This community powered service lets you tap the knowledge and experience of people in your network and their friends. You can use the website to ask questions or join them in answering questions submitted by other users.
You can send Aadvark a question from the website (www.vark.com), IM, email, Twitter, or iPhone. You’ll be able to get quick help and helpful response from someone with the right knowledge and similar taste. Get recommendations, research help, advice, second opinions, tips, discoveries and a lot more from the service.
Most questions are answered within 5 minutes, and the vast majority are answered within 10 minutes. The speed of the answer depends upon the subject of your question, and the number of people in your network who are online. Questions that have more detail and questions with extra tags usually get answered faster.
How Aadvark treats your questions:
Aardvark analyzes incoming questions to determine what they’re about – questions might be about topics like *vegetarian recipes*, *dry cleaners in Wichita*, *iPod accessories*, etc.
Aardvark then searches through all of the people in your network who are available over IM or Email to find the right match for you for that topic. Aardvark considers…
• related topics in peoples’ profiles
• how you’re connected to people
• who you trust about related topics
• your history of training Aardvark
• people who share your favorites (for taste-related questions)
• people in the right location (for location-related questions)
• other mysterious factors…
If you have a question that cannot be answered by search engines and requires an answer from a real person, Aadvark is a great place to start looking for answers. This can be entirely useful when asking a question which relates to an event that just occurred and ones that does not have written articles (yet). If you don’t know where to start looking for answers and have time for long conversations with someone who really knows what he/she is talking about, this service is for you.
Tags: Aadvark. vark. Ask Questions, answers, social networks
Most social voting sites have rating scripts to judge if a post or topic deserves to be read. There are sites that feature only the up vote button, some uses stars to balance the ratings and there are those that only allow two sided votes. The classic 1 and 0, yes or no, thumbs up, thumbs down,black and white good or bad.
GoodBaad is one of those social voting sites where everything is black and white. Well, the site itself looks black and white but with shades of grey. I guess it’s only for design purposes. Good Baad aims to be the definitive record of public opinion. They hope to present the statistics that interest you in the most simple, uncluttered manner. Yes people, it’s just black and white for these guys, strong opinions about certain topics that interest its users.
We hope these stats will act as a useful basis for blog posts, articles and debates. When using this site as a source please link back to us – the more users we have the more useful the information becomes. We plan to add widgets to make adding our features to your sites and social networks easier.
Those of you who are up for debates about a certain topic, you can consider Good Baad as a place to ignite the fire leading to more interesting discussions.
Tags: Debate, Good Baad, social networks, social voting, Topics, Vote
PictureSurf Gallery is a Photo Gallery service that you can use with social networks and integrates with different blog platforms (WordPress at the moment). It started off as a small side project for Alan (founder) and eventually took off when bloggers started asking him if they could use it on their blogs.
Using the tool can double the ad impressions for blogs. The images are displayed on separate pages which increases pageviews. It also features drag and drop editing which eliminates coding jobs and search engine optimization.
Special Considerations
1) It was built with SEO considerations in mind from day one (good permalink and meta-data structure)
2) It is compatible with all major RSS feed readers (all JavaScript and Flash galleries disappear); this allows you to monetize RSS subscribers (who would otherwise never visit your blog) because clicking on a thumbnail takes them to your blog.
Picture Surf is a great gallery tool for bloggers. The tool is currently available for WordPress hosted blogs. Blogspot and other platform users will have to wait a bit in order to fully integrate Picture Surf. For the meantime using the gallery embed codes should do the trick.
Tags: Blogs, Picture Surf Gallery, Pictures, social networks
PingVine is an enhanced form of TwitterFeed. TwitterFeed allows you to publish your RSS automatically to your Twitter account. PingVine gives an extra support to other micro blogging service and allows you to publish your blog RSS or favorite site feeds to Twitter, Ping.FM and Identi.ca.
You can select which micro blogging service you want your feeds published. Add the feed URL and set the update frequency. With regards to Ping.FM, PingVine posts to Ping.fm, microblog method. Make sure you have at least 1 microblog service enabled within the Ping.fm dashboard.
Services like PingVine make updating social networks and microblogs a lot easier. Just don’t overdo the updates since you can choose from different RSS sites or you might end up losing followers. Imagine adding the RSS feed for Digg’s upcoming page and setting the update frequency to 30 seconds if you know what I mean.
Tags: identi.ca, microblog, microblogging, ping.fm, pingvine, social networks, twitter
