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Visual Message Annotation Helps You Put a Moustache on the Mona Lisa

By Curt Hopkins / July 4, 2010 6:26 PM / View Comments

hellotxt_logo.pngAll you budding Perez Hiltons need wait no longer. Hellotxt's app for the iPhone has been approved. Its latest iteration, Hellotxt 2.0, allows you to doodle on a photo or other graphic, prior to posting it to your social network of choice.

In addition to fun and games, this function allows social networks and their users the capacity for a bit of extra meaning. The history of annotation is a long one, stretching from classical times through the latest dial-twirling on microblogs. With a drawing function, partners in a network can save space by not having to quote the piece of information they're commenting on.

Two New Ways to Update Facebook Pages without Using Facebook

By Sarah Perez / May 7, 2009 5:48 AM / View Comments

Today, competing services hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages. The pages, which also include the new Public Profiles introduced after the latest Facebook revamp, let companies or individuals promote businesses, products, or even public personas using a page that's similar to the standard user profiles.

Six Ways To Update Your Status

By Sarah Perez / July 4, 2008 10:00 AM

As Twitter began to fail on a regular basis, many of its users turned to other micro-blogging services to continue on with their 140-character lifestyle. Some returned to Jaiku or Pownce, others starting plurking, and just recently, an open source Twitter clone launched called identi.ca which has people "denting" (Yes, really - it won the vote). And then there are the true social media addicts who joined each one of these services as they launched. For these folks, maintaining a presence in all the communities can be difficult, which is why finding a universal status updating service can help.

Interview: Socialthing! Founder Matt Galligan

By Muhammad Saleem / March 23, 2008 8:00 PM

Recently people have been comparing lifestreaming services FriendFeed and Socialthing!, trying to determine which one will win or whether they even compete. For example, see ReadWriteWeb's post FriendFeed vs SocialThing!. I signed up for FriendFeed when it first came out and more recently I was lucky enough to get a private beta invite for Socialthing! as well. I sat down with Socialthing! founder and CEO Matt Galligan, to get a little insight into the differences and similarities between the two products.

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