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Facebook Camera Review: Edit Pictures and Upload Multiple Facebook Photos at Once With this Mobile App for iOS Created: Friday, May 25, 2012 Updated: Saturday, May 26, 2012
Facebook Camera for iOS is an app that makes it easy to edit photos on mobile phones and upload multiple photos at once to the Facebook.
Social Cam Review: Easy Video Sharing, Annoying Facebook App with SocialCam Network Created: Friday, May 18, 2012 Updated: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Social Cam offers social video services for the iPhone.
Social TV: Television Converging with Social Media, Computers, Online TV Created: Monday, January 16, 2012 Updated: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Social TV refers to the many new technologies allowing people to communicate with each other and interact with information while watching shows on television or online TV.
Music Social Networks: Going Mobile Created: Friday, May 18, 2012 Updated: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Music social networks are on the rise, with tons of startups trying to make listening to music more of a group affair, especially on smart phones.
Turntable.fm Review: Free Social Radio App for Mobile Phones and Desktops Created: Sunday, May 20, 2012 Updated: Sunday, May 20, 2012
Turntable.fm is a free social radio app that streams music to mobile phones and lets users create avatars, virtual DJs and group listening rooms while chatting about the music in real time.
The Social Radio App Review: Listen to Your Tweets Created: Sunday, May 13, 2012 Updated: Friday, May 18, 2012
The Social Radio app reads your tweet timeline out loud using text-to-speech technology. The innovative app is available for iPhones and other iOS devices as well as Android.
Mobile Video Sharing Apps Lead to Mobile Video Networks Created: Friday, April 27, 2012 Updated: Friday, May 18, 2012
Mobile video sharing apps are increasingly popular, especially ones that help people make and share short movies shot on cell phones. Learn about Viddy, Klip, SocialCam, Glmps and other mobile vide...
What Is Social Networking Addiction? Created: Monday, May 14, 2012 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
Social networking addiction usually means excessive use of Facebook, Twitter and other forms of social media -- to the point that it interferes with other aspects of daily life. Yet there is no agr...
Social Media Fires up Brain's Pleasure Center Through Self Disclosure, Harvard Study Found Created: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 Updated: Monday, May 14, 2012
The popularity of social media may be due to how self disclosure makes people feel good, Harvard researchers found.
Tout Video App: Review of Tout.com Mobile Video Sharing Service Created: Sunday, May 13, 2012 Updated: Sunday, May 13, 2012
Tout video is a free mobile app that lets people share short video status updates from mobile phones. It's a video version of Twitter, with people using it to send and receive video messages of up ...
Trickle Displays One Tweet at a Time Created: Thursday, April 07, 2011 Updated: Saturday, May 12, 2012
Trickle displays tweets one at a time on mobile phones.
Video Status Updates: Short Video Messaging Apps for Mobile Phones Created: Friday, April 27, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Video status updates are growing popular on mobile phones as they allow short video messages. Keek, Tout and Vloggo are examples of video update apps that help make mobile video more social -- and ..
Friv.com: What is the Friv Games Site and How Does It Work? Created: Sunday, March 04, 2012 Updated: Monday, May 07, 2012
Friv.com is a free online game network with more than 700 Flash-based games that is growing wildly popular. Learn what the hot Friv.com games are and how to find more Friv games.
Viddy Review: How to Use the popular mobile app for enhancing and sharing short video clips Created: Monday, April 16, 2012 Updated: Monday, May 07, 2012
Viddy is a social video app for mobile phones. It enhances videos by adding special visual effects and music with the click of a button. Learn how to use Viddy in this article.
Spreaker Is Social Radio: Podcasting and Sound Mixing for the Masses Created: Sunday, May 06, 2012 Updated: Sunday, May 06, 2012
The Spreaker social radio platform offers powerful audio-mixing tools that make live podcasting and Internet radio easier for non-technical people to do. It offers plenty of social networking featu..
How to Use BranchOut: Guide to BranchOut.com Created: Thursday, April 19, 2012 Updated: Sunday, May 06, 2012
BranchOut is a professional networking app for Facebook that works a lot like LinkedIn. It's easy to use and allows people to mine their Facebook network to advance their careers.
Social Games Guide: Facebook Games Dominate Free Online Games Created: Sunday, April 10, 2011 Updated: Saturday, April 28, 2012
Facebook Games dominate the growing market for free online games. This guide to social games will show you how to find and play the top Facebook games and find out which free social games are most ...
Guide to Social Bookmarking Created: Saturday, July 16, 2011 Updated: Saturday, April 28, 2012
Social bookmarking is a rapidly growing practice on the Web that helps organize knowledge by saving, and sharing links. Learn how it works.
Pinterest Clone List: 20 Niche Sites Similar to the Top Image-Sharing Social Network Created: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Updated: Saturday, April 28, 2012
A Pinterest clone is appearing for every imaginable topic. These 20 specialty Pinterest clones of the leading image-sharing social network offer their own take on visual bookmarking, each in a part...
Pinterest Apps for Mobile Phones: Overview Created: Monday, February 27, 2012 Updated: Saturday, April 28, 2012
Pinterest Apps: Finding a Pinterest application for your mobile phone can be challenging.
Micro Video Guide to Popular Mobile Phone Video Sharing Apps Created: Monday, April 23, 2012 Updated: Thursday, April 26, 2012
Micro video apps are designed to help people make use of videos shot on mobile phones by making it easier to enhance, edit, share and upload them to social networks online. Learn about the differen..
StumbleUpon Website Review: Is the Stumble Toolbar a Major Discovery Tool or Time Waster? Created: Saturday, April 14, 2012 Updated: Sunday, April 15, 2012
The StumbleUpon website and toolbar offer a powerful Web exploration service that can help you discover useful sites you might otherwise miss, but it can also feel random and waste enormous amounts..
Pinterest Board: Guide to Using the Virtual Image Boards Created: Saturday, March 03, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 09, 2012
The Pinterest board is the heart of the Web's top visual social network, thanks to social features baked into each image board. Learn how to manage and navigate image boards and choose Pinterest bo..
Sites Like Pinterest Sprout Across the Web; List of 10 General Interest Copycats Created: Monday, April 09, 2012 Updated: Monday, April 09, 2012
The web's top visual sharing social network has spawned a wave of sites like Pinterest as web developers copy its popular design and functionality, often in their own unique ways. Here are some of ..
Tips for Using Hashtags on Twitter Created: Sunday, May 22, 2011 Updated: Monday, April 02, 2012
Researching hashtags on Twitter is easier if you use the right tools. These sites can help you identify and compare popular tags.
Change Facebook Language Settings Created: Friday, March 30, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 30, 2012
How to change the Facebook language settngs to English or any of the other 70 possible languages on Facebook.
Highlight Mobile iPhone App Created: Friday, March 16, 2012 Updated: Friday, March 16, 2012
Highlight mobile app is an application for the iPhone
Facebook Timeline Tutorial Created: Monday, March 12, 2012 Updated: Monday, March 12, 2012
Facebook Timeline is your public face on Facebook, the place where other people go to check you out. Learn how to manage and edit Facebook Timeline in this illustrated tutorial that walks through..
How to Use Facebook: Profile, Wall and News Feed Created: Saturday, April 09, 2011 Updated: Monday, March 12, 2012
What everyone needs to know about how to use Facebook. After the Facebook login, basic tips on how to manage your Facebook profile and home page -- and understand what goes into your News Feed and ..
Hide Friends on Facebook to Hide Status Updates You Don't Like Created: Saturday, March 10, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 10, 2012
Hide friends on Facebook is a must-know feature to weed out the junk and show you only the status updates you care about. Using hide Facebook friends (also the unsubscribe button) can improve your ..
Use Facebook Friends List to Control What Shows in Your News Feed Created: Saturday, March 10, 2012 Updated: Saturday, March 10, 2012
A Facebook friends list can help you manage your friends by controlling which ones show up in your news feed and ticker.
Twitter List 101: A Basic Tutorial Created: Thursday, September 01, 2011 Updated: Friday, March 09, 2012
A Twitter list can help organize your tweet reading. This tutorial tells you what you need to know to get the most out of a Twitter list.

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