Technology Bites

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 [...]

Xobni (it’s inbox backwards) is an add-on for Microsoft Outlook which shows the hidden social network in your inbox. Xobni adds a sidebar to your outlook and automatically tracks your contacts and organizes the messages in to threaded conversations. It adds a profile for each of your contacts, conversations you had with them, and the [...]

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 [...]

Recently i got a chance to check VeohTV, for those who don’t know about VeohTV it is a desktop application that lets you watch, upload and download video from popular video sites. VeohTV is a killer application in the internet TV space. Like Joost and Babelgum it lets you watch TV over PC, you can [...]

File hosting service divShare has been re designed to add some new features paid model for file sharing. divshare direct is the new premium plan introduced in this relaunch. divShare Direct feature is a paid model and allows you to add media to your folder and embed it anywhere you like, including social network profiles [...]

Gizmoz is a new service for creating 3D talking avatars quite easily. Voki is another site operating in this space. The unique feature of gizmoz is that it creates a 3D image of your photo. You can place these avatars as widgets in your MySpace profiles or blogs. Gizmoz is built on flash platform and [...]

PlayMyGame is another site like Pictogame for creating flash games with your pictures. You can upload your picture and select the game from the 4 game options and create the game. These games can be embedded to Myspace or blogs. What is different from Pictogame is it allows to create eCards and Clips also along [...]

Pictogame is flash based online tool for creating fun games with your pictures. It will make nice flash games out of your pictures, these games once made can be embedded to your blogs or myspace pages. To create a game upload your pic, select the game type you want and set options zoom and rotation, [...]

I came across few nice tools to embed Flickr Photos in your blogs or myspace pages, I will make a list of them here and update the post with new tools whenever i find new ones. Pictobrowser: Easy to use interface, you need to enter your flickr username first and then select tags or sets [...]

Phozi is a new service to for hosting photos to share in social networking sites or blogs. With phozi you can upload photos from your computer, from your webcam or from mobile. What is unique about phozi is it allows you to add borders, phozi stamps and free form text to photos. You can share [...]

Microsoft to announce the release of Popfly private beta today. Popfly is a web based software application to create mashups, widgets and other applications, Popfly is built on Microsoft Silverlight. What is Popfly Popfly Creator is a set of online visual tools for building Web pages and mashups. Popfly Space is an online community of [...]

Voki is a place where you can create customizable avatars talking your own voice. You can customize all the aspects of the character like nose, head, mouth, color, hair clothing etc on your dashboard. Users can add their own voice to the Voki character, you can add voice by phone, by uploading a clip, or [...]

Scratch is a tool aimed at kids to make animations, games and interactive artworks, scratch is developed by MIT media lab. With scratch anyone can create animations or games with out knowing any programing language. One can import pictures from the computer and start animating it, the program provides buttons that have programmed to do [...]

Ireland based Babelgum is a P2P internet TV like Joost. Babelgum also works on the same principle as Joost that is peer to peer sharing, currently in private beta this will launch on may 31st. With babelgum users can create channels and share those with friends. To create a global, personal, open, free, TV-like new [...]

Cluztr is a new service in the social space which lets you share what you click with friends while browsing. With cluztr you can share your clicks and see what others are clicking to discover new sites. It works through a browser addon, you need to register to the site and install the addon to [...]

Last.fm lanched widgets for personalized music, these widgets can be added to myspace profiles or blogs. These widgets can be used to show a radio based on artist or genre, Playlist of songs or last played tracks. For using radio widgets membership is not required just type the artist or genre and your widget is [...]

Me.com launched a product called Social Networking Application Platform shortly SNAPP for creating social communities. Snapp free is ad supported, they will run Google Adsesne across your community and 50% of the revenue is shared with the community owner. Creating a community is easy, register with me.com and select your community url, all Snapp free [...]

FlipFrames is the entrant in the slideshows space for social networking sites like MySpace. FlipFrames is a cool flash application, you can create your slideshow in few moments. Registration is not required to create slideshows but to track the views or earn some points to purchase frames it is required. Once created the flipframes slideshow [...]

FlexLists is a social software for creating lists and sharing with others. With FlexLists you can create lists of any kind like Tasks, Addresses, To do lists and share it with others or keep it yourself. Lists created with FlexLists can be exported to CSV or paste on your blog as widgets and monitor them [...]