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Izimi Offers File Sharing and Social Networking
Izimi is a combination social network and file sharing service that lets you share photos, documents, vidoes and music with others. Venture Beat compares to Avvenu, a file-sharing service they reviewed earlier.
It also creates a public Web page for you, which lists all the content you have created. Let's say you create URL for some videos to send to your sister. Izimi puts a link to the videos at your Web page too, so other friends can see what you've been sharing. That's where the YouTube-like element comes in.File-sharing services are starting to replace email for some Internet users. It is probably a smart idea to combine it with a social networking service. Private sharing will be popular once Izimi makes it available. The only downside is web users have to be concerned about security if they are allowing any kind of access to files on their computer or laptop.
In other words, Izimi has two heads: One is a straight-forward file sharing application, and the second is a profile-based social network (see partial screen shot below). You can add friends to your profile, for example, and click through to see their content.
Right now, everything is for public viewing. It is all searchable at Izimi's home page. You can't share things privately. However, that doesn't mean once you've published something, it is open for all to see forever. You can choose to "unpublish" something, and it goes away. Izimi says it is working on a feature to send things privately, to be released soon.
Posted on June 27, 2007
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Twelve Music Social Networks
Everyone has heard of the big social networks like Facebook and MySpace buat some of the niche music social networks are starting to get very popular as well. Mashable has a post that describes what they claim are the twelve best music social network. Here is a list of the music social networks discussed on Mashable's post. Unless you are really into music you probably haven't visited them all.Last.fm was recently acquired by CBS and it is has 15 million users. iLike has generated a lot of buzz lately because iLike's widget has been very popular on Facebook. MySpace technically could be included in the list since it is used frequently for music and music was one of the main reasons MySpace became so popular.
Posted on June 23, 2007
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SEOMoz Announces Web 2.0 Award Winners
SEOMoz has announced the winners of the 2007 Web 2.0 Awards. You can see a short list of the winners with links to the Web 2.0 sites' homepage here. The winners list gives web users a good idea of some of the many Web 2.0 sites available and there are sure to be at least a few you haven't heard of yet. This page on the Seomoz.org website provides a list of the winners as well as a logo and a description for each of the winners.
Posted on June 16, 2007
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Find Faces on Google Image Search
Google has a secret built in feature that lets you focus on faces when searching images in its Google Image database. Wired Epicenter blog details the find discovered by Google Operating System.A hidden image recognition feature buried in Google's image search function has been discovered. Blogger Ionut Alex Chitu discovered the hidden search feature a few days ago. To try the search feature out, simply go to Google image search, enter a search term, and once you have your results, enter the following at the end of the URL in your browser: "&imgtype=face". Suddenly you'll find a wealth of new images-all faces. I tried the search on PBS television host Charlie Rose, and it worked like a charm.You can find more uses for this secret feature here.
Posted on June 4, 2007
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