social media

You can now share your private data with groups of your friends, coworkers, and those outside your work organization courtesy of a new free product, Glassboard, from social media company Sepia Labs. Users can connect with each other's Windows Phone, Android, or iPhone. Soon users can…

Last month, we told you about Fizzik, a new “social” web browser designed for keeping up with news, video and social media. Web services like .NET and WPF are used in the software which is also built on top of Internet Explorer. At the time of the original announcement, the browser was not yet…

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, Microsoft announced a new social aggregator called Spindex, a project built by FUSE Labs, the folks behind the Outlook Social Connector, Bing Twitter Maps and Docs for Facebook.With Spindex, now available as an early technical preview, your social streams from…

Fizzik is a new web browser that’s designed to let you keep up with the news, video and social media on the web in different ways than before.  The browser, built on Microsoft technologies, lets you scan the web and track news, multimedia, and social media. Search results from Bing are…

Sobees, the company known for their desktop and web-based social media tools, has just launched a new real-time search platform powered by Silverlight and running on Windows Azure. The new platform lets you search the real-time web including images, news, and videos. It pulls from sites like…

Sobees, creator of a .NET/WPF desktop app for social media junkies, has just launched a new version. This latest release adds Digg to the list of supported services which already includes Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr, as well as RSS feeds, too.  The Facebook integration has also been…

The latest version of Kinoma Play, formerly a media player type of application for Windows Mobile, has just released a new version they’re calling a “social media browser.” Now, in addition to the multimedia streaming of photos and videos from sites like YouTube, flickr, SmugMug, Last.fm, and…

Sobees just showed their .NET/WPF beta at Demo09 and it looks like crack for social media junkies. It's an all-in-one application to show you Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and your RSS in one place. It also lets you upload your pictures to Flickr, Facebook, and you can upload your videos to…

[Stay tuned, Laura Foy is meeting with these folks and will have a video soon.] Microsoft Research will be debuting a prototype called Social Desktop at the annual TechFest event being held next week. This software offers a new take on cloud computing, blending the PC and the web in a completely…

The Live Labs team has just released a new project, Political Streams, and just in time as the U.S. Presidential election draws near. The site mines social media from across the internet, including blogs, newsgroups, and web sites, in order to track what stories are popular and if that popularity…