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 network. First, you download Social.im software to your desktop. The software connects to Facebook’s servers, identifies your friends there and displays them in an IM-like list. You can start IM-ing… Continue Reading
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 a book, Mogad will show you what books your friends are most interested in.
This field is a daunting one, because it’s filled with players. Plaxo’s social network, Pulse, Forbes’ newly-purchased… Continue Reading