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Facebook has announced a new website widget that allows information from Facebook Pages to be embedded elsewhere on the web.
In fact, the service isn’t restricted to “important people” but the announcement makes a big issue out of the celebrities and big organizations who are using it: Lance Armstrong, Kings of Leon, Lenny Kravitz, Roger Federer, ABCNews, Newsweek… [Read more…]
Online life management? I wouldn’t mind some of that, and newly open-to-the-public ZooLoo.com could be a solution.
Firstly, if you’re so inclined, you can host your life using ZooLoo’s services and your own domain name, making it more personal than using some-non-descript-name.forgettable-web-service.com.
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NoitWorld.com has been open for just over a month now, and claims to offer a “cooler” and more “consumer friendly online marketplace” than the likes of eBay, with a major selling point being that it’s designed to integrate with popular social media services.
Cofounder Todd Foret (a US Army veteran, hence the site’s name — “noit” means cool or hip in US Military speak) says that because many Internet users spend so long on social media sites, it makes sense to provide tools for buyers and sellers to easily share stuff that way.
So, cool merchandise can be propagated across the likes of Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. [Read more…]
I’m all for social media and networks so it wasn’t a huge shock to discover that a lot of doctors, particularly junior ones, are consulting online resources in order to help them diagnose patients and to improve their medical knowledge.
Naturally that doesn’t mean they’re not qualified to do the job, though I really hope they’re choosing the right online media and resource web sites before dishing out advice and medication to patients. After all, we already know the Internet is a hypochondriac’s dream. [Read more…]