Evidently 2008 is the year of the aggregators. They’re everywhere. Socialthing, ping.fm, and what have you. But here’s one with an immedialy obvious business model. Introducing Spokeo. An aggregator that asks you to provide your AOL, Gmail, Hotmail or Yahoo email credentials (which, in my opinion isn’t the safest way to share contacts and I […]

More and more companies are starting to embrace the social web. Comcast discovered that communicating and following up with unsatisfied customers through third party web sites (personal blogs, Twitter, etc) can have a positive effect.
Of course, that’s a Good Thing™, because as a (due to lack of alternatives, sometimes forced) customer it often seems that […]

Ever been wanting to map out your family tree in an intuitive format and work on it collaboratively with other family members? Check out itsourtree.com, which is essentially a social network site for your extended family.
So far I’ve found genealogy software to be quite clumsy, but Hamburg, Germany based OSN Online Social Networking GmbH has […]