Technology Bites

Facebook launched a redesign of the profile pages, the new design looks clean and clutter free. The new interface is live for some users, if you don’t see the new interface you can access at new.facebook.com The biggest change is the content stream combining status updates, wall posts and news feed items. Applications are pushed [...]

Lifeblob is a life streaming app that allows you to post (import) pictures, blog posts, videos and text messages. The posted messages or photos are arranged in a timeline so you or your friends can see your lifestream.

Early adopters and social media junkies use twitter for connecting with friends, peers and others, what if the profile page of twitter can be customized to include a simple bio of you so that others know your other online destinations. Adam at Mashable pointed out to a technique used by folks like @problogger to customize [...]

Mixx today expanded its groups feature to more customized niche communities. With this new feature any one can create a community of their niche topic. The communities will reside on subdomains at mixx, limited customization can be done by changing the header, colors and logo. This feature is great if you want to create a [...]

Social news site reddit code is now released as open source for public. That means now you can build your own reddit clones like digg clones. We’ve always strived to be as open and transparent with our users as possible, and this is the next logical step. When we say ‘open-source’ we mean specifically that [...]

If you are a social media junkie probably you are everywhere from Flickr to Twitter, how about showing all your profiles in a single widget. Retaggr just that it makes an interactive business card with your online social media life. These cards will follow you online, you can leave them wherever you want.

Orkut open social applications (apps) are finally went live in India today and will follow other users in the next few weeks. You may not see immediately these apps as they are rolling out slowly to users. You will see a “Apps” menu in your profile sidebar if these are enabled for you from there [...]

Orkut may not be popular in US but it is popular among Brazil and Indians. For all those who care about Orkut, now you can arrange your photos as albums. Orkut added photo albums feature, you can upload 100 photos and arrange them as albums. You can even highlight a photo as an album cover. [...]

Techcrunch is reporting that frustrated Digg contributors are heading over to Mixx, a new web 2.0 site for social news. What is Mixx Mixx has the same functionality as Digg, users can share stories, vote on favorites and comment on the stories. Mixx has categories lke Tech, News, Business, Sports, Science etc. Your Mixx section [...]

Two days back i wrote about Jango, Social Radio, at that time i only have 3 invites and i have given them to readers. Today Jango team has given us unlimited invites, you can follow this link http://www.jango.com/?r=342366207 to register for Jango. Meemix Meemix is a similar service like Jango and Fairtilizer, you can create [...]

Intel launched a digg clone called Cool Software that lets users rank the cool software applications. The site is mainly focussed on software business ideas and help to keep track of the the next big idea. According to Venturebeat the site cost around $40,000 to launch and tested internally before launching it to public. If [...]

Jango is a new service that lets you listen to your favorite music online for free. You can create stations searching with artists names, once created you can customize the station by adding other artists. You can control what you want to hear in your station by using the slider ranging from Popular Favorites, Happy [...]

DalilyMe is a personalized news service currently in private beta. DaliyMe is not another news aggregator, what separates it from the crowd is DailyMe licensed the content from publishers, so you will never have to leave the site to read that interesting piece of story. After creating an account with DailyMe, you can refine your [...]

InterviewUp is a new site which helps you prepare for the interview. InterviewUp has possible questions and answers you may face in your interview. The idea is simple and interesting, the site has lot of questions categorized with tags. You can find the type of questions you are looking by using the tags and search [...]

Fairtilizer is a community for music lovers. Using Fairtilizer you can upload and share songs, and vote on others submitted songs. You can listen to what people have voted most, create playlists. All tracks submitted first appear in the Upcoming section. From there, tracks that get the most support make it to the Charting section, [...]

Propeller, a rebranded version of Netscape is live. The site looks like previous Netscape social news Digg clone. According to Netscape Blog, the new social site is live at propeller.com and also at news.aol.com. “In the coming weeks, you will be able to see Propeller content on both the new Netscape.com portal, as well as [...]

Technorati today announced a new feature called ‘Topics‘. This section replaces the recently designed homepage of technorati. Topics is a new feature showing a stream news style blog posts from authoritative blogs. Topics include Entertainment, Technology, Politics, Sports, Business, and Life. The topics pages gives 10 blog posts in a continuous stream, you can interrupt [...]

Thanks to YoutubeDesktop team for allowing me to see their rich web 2.0 application. Youtube desktop has a simple to use interface which is better than any other video watching application. It is a web based application and mimics a desktop application but nothing to download to watch the videos Youtube desktop is a dynamic [...]

I have 3 moola.com invites if any of you would like to check the fun at moola.com. Follow this link (acts as a referral link for me) to get your account at moola.com. Once these 3 invites are over i will get some more so don’t worry, and please leave a comment of you register [...]

Pligg the popular digg clone CMS is for sale at sedo. Pligg is a open source software and has seen some tremendous over a few years, people use this to setup digg clones. Currently Pligg has some 10,000 registered users and the software has been downloaded 60,000 times. They say all good things must come [...]