Social Web CMS, the popular fork of social bookmarking platform Pligg is reinventing itself as Hotaru CMS.
From Digg:
HotaruCMS will be a complete reinvention of Social Web CMS. Hotaru is an open-ended content management system, almost entirely plugin based. It will be used as a framework for anything, but we are currently building a suite of [...]
To prevent identity confusion, Twitter is experimenting beta testing with a ‘Verified Account’ feature. We’re working to establish authenticity with people who deal with impersonation or identity confusion on a regular basis. Accounts with a Verified are the real thing!
via Twitter.
Google Latitude enables you to see where your friends are at any time from either your mobile phone or PC (with iGoogle). If your friends are willing to share their whereabouts, this could be quite an interesting little social app.
Learn more about Google Latitude here.
If you’ve ever wanted to add a forum to your blog, or even just start a standalone forum, bbPress has just come out of beta and version 1.0 is now available.
bbPress is forum software with a twist from the creators of WordPress.
Have you ever been frustrated with forum or bulletin board software that was slow, [...]
Feed Stats brings you visualizations of a user’s FriendFeed activity the last 1000 items, anyway. Just enter any FriendFeed user’s nickname and see their posting behavior.
via FriendFeed stats for you and your friends | Feed Stats.
monitter? what is it?
Simple. It’s a twitter monitor, it lets you “monitter” the twitter world for a set of keywords and watch what people are saying. Cool huh?»
Just type three words into the three search boxes below (where it says ‘monitter’ now..) and within seconds you’ll start seeing relevant tweets streaming live
via monitter : real [...]
If you’re running your own local web server, e.g. WampServer, you can quickly see your php settings with very simple script:
<? phpinfo(); ?>
If that gives you a blank page, try this:
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
If you’re wondering why the first didn’t work, it’s because you probably have short_open_tag turned off in your php.ini file. Once you’ve got [...]
Graph your Twitter Stats including
* Tweets per hour
* Tweets per month
* Tweet timeline
* Reply statistics
In use by over 100,000 Twitter-folk!
via TweetStats :: Graphin’ Your Stats.
Klout allows you to track the impact of your opinions, links and recommendations across your social graph. We collect data about the content you create, how people interact with that content and the size and composition of your network. How influential are you?
via http://klout.net/
I recently started a site on Ning and was surprised that the main page wasn’t nearly as flexible as profile pages for which there are all manner of third-party “profile apps”. That’s all about to change, though, as Ning rolls out beta testing for main page apps.
Ning Apps is similar to Profile Apps in that [...]




