Tweet Instagram: Instagram is a mobile app that allows you to apply filters to photos taken on a mobile device. Each photo taken can then be shared with both friends and strangers on various social media networks including Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr. Instagram was just purchased this week for $1 billion by Facebook. You may [...]
Tweet Checkthis: Checkthis is a unique web tool that allows users to instantly create a one page website. Users are presented with four options: Tell, Sell, Ask and Invite. These four functions allow users to create a single-blog like post with the ability to include images and videos, sell a product with payment done through [...]
Tweet TweetReach: TweetReach is a simple tool for obtaining a quick snapshot of the level of exposure for your tweets. By entering any search term, such as a user name, keyword, hashtag or URL, you can get an exact number of people who saw the tweet(s) as well as total impressions. This provides insight into [...]
Tweet ZocDoc: ZocDoc is a free online tool for patients searching for a doctor or a dentist. Users can search for doctors by geographic location in 15 major cities, by specialty, or by insurance carrier. There are also options to search by the doctor’s name, the procedure or the name of the practice. Each doctor [...]
Tweet LiveGO: LiveGO is a web dashboard that incorporates email, instant messaging and social media in one easy-to-use platform. After connecting LiveGO to your Twitter, Facebook, and Gmail/Yahoo!/AOL email accounts, users can get a combined view of all messages and updates in the dashboard screen, or they can choose each account individually to obtain the [...]
Tweet ifttt: This simple acronym is a very unique and useful tool for the social media user trying to synergize. ifttt stands for “if this then that,” and this free tool allows users to create certain scenarios within their online presence. For example, “If a friend tags me in a photo on Facebook, add that [...]
Tweet Chaptur: Chaptur is a simple, easy-to-use real-time search engine for staying up on the latest breaking news or simply following a news outlet. From the front page, all a user needs to do is type in his/her search term, and instantly real-time results appear that have been instantly indexed from Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, RSS [...]
Tweet SOPA: The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a bill that was introduced late last year in the House of Representatives that is aimed at protecting intellectual property on the Internet. Supporters of the bill cite its ability to improve the enforcement of copyright laws as well as protect Internet users against scams aimed [...]
Tweet Social Television: Social TV, simply put, is the combination of watching television while simultaneously engaging in conversations via social media. Tweeting or Facebooking about the shows we are watching was a trend on the rise during 2011 and is expected to continue to thrive as we move into 2012. Twitter has already begun to [...]
Tweet Flipboard: Flipboard is a social news app that integrates all of your social networks with the news that you want to follow. Released last year for the iPad and just last week for the iPhone, Flipboard provides a simple yet unique way to keep up with your social life and your news while seamlessly [...]