Xoost, a new beta search engine, was just launched. It’s a new search engine that let’s search sites through what seems like Google API, Yahoo API, and LIve search API.
Basically you get all three major search engines in one plus you get to tag and bookmark all your searches.
On top of that, you can also share your searches on your favorite social networks such as Facebook or Twitter.
A lot of experts have been pointing out that Google needs some type of human interaction in order to reach the next level. Xoost seems to have done just that, taking Google to another level and it might grow big if they can pick up a lot of active users.
Do you Search the Web for your favourite topics and you would like to share your search skills with your friends? Xoost is the only place for you. With Xoost you will web search what you like most, your search stream will be continuously added to your profile, and you will socialize with other Xoosters on the basis of common search interests.
Your searches and related websites will be automatically stored in your account and you will be able to access them anytime. In addition, you can share your Xoost searches with your friends on other networks such as Facebook or Twitter and you can tag or delete any search and related website as you like most. Xoost is simple, viral, scalable, enjoyable and is currently in private beta test: join the beta if you like the concept.
Well, I’ve never been a real fan of Facebook since I get so much spam with facebook apps my friends send me and I don’t want to spend 5 minutes doing any of that. But my friends are really into facebook and it’s like drugs for them.
In a recent launch of Google’s (GOOG) Friend Connect, Facebook has banned Google’s access temporarily until Google complies to Facebook’s specifications of sharing private data.
It’s hard to tell whether Facebook will ban Google completely but I think they are really trying to protect their own privacy policies at this point.
The day that Facebook goes public, I am buying shares though.
The fact is that Google is taking perfectly adequate steps to protect user privacy with their Friend Connect product, and it is a useful product for users. After talking with both sides, it seems to me that Facebook is relying on a very convenient catch-22 to stay out of Google’s network. They are the ones in control of their own API functionality, and they could add features that fix this problem. Until they do, there’s nothing Google can do to remedy the “problem,” and the walls around the Facebook garden get ever higher.
OfficiallyDating.com launches today. Supposedly they are trying to make it into a Facebook-like site for couples.
My personal opinion?
It think this is a great concept and dating has always made a lot of money on the internet. Now the only hurdle they will face is if their site stands up to the level of Facebook.
I did sign up and test out the service but what I think is missing is API like Facebook where developers can add games, movie raters, and etc…etc…
At this point, it doesn’t look any more different than other social networking sites, these guys have a lot of work to do.
However, their video looks very persuasive to use the service:
Most couples have the natural, human compulsion to let the world know that they’re in love. This phenomenon crosses cultures and spans millennia. Ancient ancestors marked their relationships by painting walls and chiseling stone. Particularly in the early 20th Century, couples carved their initials on trees. In the 1980s and 1990s many accomplished the same goal with graffiti. However, culture always evolves. Modern young women no longer wear their boyfriends’ “pins”, “graduation rings” and “varsity jackets”. So, other than seeing a wedding ring, that perennial icon, it can be surprisingly difficult to discern if someone is available.
It seems like everyday we see more web apps geared toward Facebook and Twitter.
Well, it should be obvious to everyone in the Web2.0 world that there’s a lot of money to be made by piggybacking on those bigger “whales”.
LiveTwitting brings you conference twitting at its finest with their launch.
Say you’re at a conference about the latest and greatest Twitter experiment and you want to tweet to your friends about what’s going on as it happens. Live Twitting will record all your tweets and assemble them into a single page for easy reading. It works with web, IM, SMS, twhirl, or twitterific.
iRead, is a Facebook/MySpace application for organizing your favorite books.
It looks like a great niche social network done right using Facebook app as the piggyback method.
Great job guys, keep up the great work! They are also making apps for other social networking sites, maybe it’s time that they create one of their own under their domain name. (That might be the killer revenue for them and also build a brand…)
iRead is an application and online community for book lovers. Once registered, you list, rate, and write reviews about books you are reading or what you have read in the past. Based on your reviews and preferences, you can find other readers with similar tastes, and check out their reading lists and recommendations to find more books you might enjoy. You can also browse randomly through other users’ reading lists and reviews. The iRead application for Facebook has already become very popular, with over one million registered users.
It seems like Web 3.0 is nearing and you see Wikis popping up everywhere. These days, most wikis don’t require and wiki markup language. (That’s the whole process of moving to Web 3.0. Sometimes, you can’t even tell it’s a wiki.)
PikiPages, is an evil-brother of PikiWiki, a wiki site that let’s you create wiki pages with sounds, pictures, and video on your Facebook. (Pretty neat I’d say, they are on the verge of Web 3.0 here)
I am not an avid (ab)user of Facebook anymore but these guys have their wikis straight.
Go check out PikiPages on Facebook and found out what you can do. I think this is one Facebook app I might actually log in and check out. (and probably has a good chance of going viral…)
The PikiPages editor is relatively simple to operate. It’s not the most aesthetically pleasing device in the Facebook application marketplace, but it’s no eyesore, either. And more importantly, it gets the job done. As long as the job is a fairly elementary one. No finagling with CSS here from what we can gather. Just options to add backgrounds, change layouts, add text, designs, various embeds, photos from your Facebook archive (or uploaded from your PC), audio and video recordings. Is that enough to get by? Only the individual user can decide that, of course, but for most people interested enough to find a place for the application in their personal library of choice services, what’s included may generally be what’s needed.
