Social.im turns your social networking contacts into IM contacts

Social.im turns your social networking contacts into IM contacts

Social.im is an instant messaging service that turns your Facebook friends — and potentially friends on any social network — into IM contacts.

In other words, you don’t need to use a standard IM client such as AIM or GTalk, you can rely on your social… Continue Reading

Mogad gets half a million to build a better recommendation site

Mogad gets half a million to build a better recommendation site

Mogad is the latest startup building a peer-recommendation web service, similar to Facebook’s “news feed” feature.

Unlike Facebook’s closed system, however, Mogad wants to be a “news feed” for the whole web, that can give you recommendations from anything they do. For example, if you’re purchasing… Continue Reading