As a consistent Twitter user, I’ve found the service to be a valuable marketing tool, as well as an entertaining activity for my friends to shoot one-liners at each other. Last week, I started experimenting with Yammer, a Twitter clone that facilitates private microblog user groups, a feature that Twitter not only doesn’t have but [...]
Social Network
Yahoo Inbox Gets Social, Opens Up to Third-Party Apps
Yahoo announced a new set of social media features for its e-mail service yesterday that will incorporate a set of friends (Yahoo calls them “connections”), third-party applications and e-mail filtering. The new services are part of Yahoo’s Open Strategy that aims to open all Yahoo sites and services (not just e-mail) to third-party developers, and [...]
Sony PlayStation Home Arrives
Sony finally announced the open beta version of the much anticipated online 3D social network service – PlayStation Home. The launch date had been pushed by a year. In the online 3D realms of the PlayStation Home, gamers and other interested individuals can interact through computer-generated characters. Jack Buser, director for PlayStation Home, posted more [...]