What exactly is this Social Media malarkey, and why do some people reach the lofty status of influential rockstar while others fall flat on their faces?
There seems to be a growing consensus among the down-trodden majority that social media simply isn’t fair, and that a handful of power-users must have got where they are by [...]

With a slogan like “Put a contract out on yourself” I was half expecting StickK to be the brainchild of a masochistic hitman. I was slightly disappointed to find out it was quite the opposite - StickK is a service that helps busy people to improve (not extinguish) their lives by setting goals in the [...]

 
Let me kick off this review by pointing to the ‘?’ in the title, as I do not intend to make the assertion that this fledgeling start-up can compete with the likes of StumbleUpon (yet), but on first glance at streakr.com, the comparison is inevitable.
Everything, from the toolbar to the site itself just shouts “we [...]

Podobo (www.podobo.com) is a twitter variant that seems to encourage more philosophical musings than its better known counterpart, and it does this without losing the light and fluffy ‘web 2.0′ aesthetic and social aspects we’ve all come to expect.
Despite it being a one-man operation, podobo seems to achieve the goal of getting users to purge [...]

According to its creators, Tupalo is “social mapping for local culture, allowing members to share and review their favorite locations around the world”. Intrigued, I ventured onto the site to do a little exploring for myself…
The service is basically a social network wrapped around Google Maps technology, and it all looks pretty nice, with user [...]