When Israel-based entrepreneur Avi Charkham realized he had various social media accounts that weren’t being monitored for third-party access he decided to do something about it. Charkham quickly realized that many of us grant access to our social media accounts on a daily basis, yet checking who still has access can be time consuming since…Continue Reading ›
Startups
Copious: Bringing Facebook User Integration To The Marketplace
Copious wants users to feel secure with their buying decisions and for that reason the company has decided to leverage the Facebook social graph so buyers can learn a little bit about their sellers via their Facebook accounts. The site works just like Craigslist, eBay and other person-to-person selling communities, allowing visitors to search for…Continue Reading ›
Tweegram: Inject 140 Character Messages Into Your Instagram Timeline
Many Twitter users will add a photo to their Instagram account and then Tweet about that photo to friends so they can check out their timeline, however a new program now allows users to send “Tweet type messages” directly to a users Instagram account, creating a “word by word” addition to the Instagram photo sharing…Continue Reading ›
Stampede.it Brings Social Buying To Digital Products
Online gaming, digital books (e-books) and other online services have grown exponentially over the last several years, creating a virtual goods market that is estimated to bring in $318 million by 2015 and company Stampede.it plans to capitalize on that market by offering discounts on virtual goods, much in the same way Groupon offers real…Continue Reading ›
FeedKite Facebook App: Discover Places Your Friends Have Traveled
FeedKite is a Facebook app for people who love to travel and anyone who wants to see what their friends did on their travels. The premise of the application is simple, it finds locations your friends have taken photos from and plots those trips on a map which can be used to discover new sights.…Continue Reading ›
MorningPics: Receive An Instagram Everyday, Keep Your Memories Fresh
MorningPics is an ingeniously simple idea, the program allows users to connect to their Instagram account and then it sends them one of their photos everyday. The program is intended to allow users to relive their memories by not only sharing photos with users, but also displaying all of the comments their photos have received…Continue Reading ›
Patchlife: Turn Your Social Media Experiences Into A Journal
Patchlife is an aggregator of sorts, the website grabs your digital postings and weaves them into a searchable online journal that you can access whenever you wish. The program currently connects with the following social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Flickr, Tumblr, Prosperous and even your RSS feeds and connects the information you post into daily…Continue Reading ›
Former MySpace Exec to Launch ‘Facebook Competitor’ Altly With Focus on Privacy
At this point, competing with Facebook is going to be like competing with oxygen as the main source of breathable substances for humans. Then again, a few years back, it seemed MySpace wasn’t doomed for the devastating fall it endured, and here we are. Former Myspace Music CTO Dmitry Shapiro is out to challenge the…Continue Reading ›