Library clips

We all know we can make topic RSS radars, the latest being Feedburner Networks, others are Feed Collectors, Blogdigger Groups, well Outside.in is similar but by locality, and the website looks like a neat portal.

Check out Stanford University, and Boston.

Features

- Map
- Tags (view posts by topic…some are even featured in a drop down menu called “topics)
- Blogroll
- Nearest neighbours
- Suggest a blog
- Suggest a story

OK, so this seems like you can’t make your own, but you can suggest feeds and clip stories into the stream.

TechCrunch mentions some others: Smalltown, insiderPages, Yelp.

See more at:
PerthNorg is my local news
What is news 2.0 to you? 2.0

Twitter is a social network micro-blogging services. Where you can send/receive posts from your phone, IM or the web.

nowthen is also a social network, like Twitter the homepage aggregates the latest posts, but it also sections this into time periods, even providing a calendar…I’d like to see a calendar on each user space.

The way it works is you can SMS text or MMS photo/text or email with attachment to your user space, or simply use the web.

Features

- add friends

- send private messages

- tag and comment pics

- text someone from the web

- private/public

(you can override this - by sending your picture to a public or private email address or the text PRIV or PUBL at the start of your MMS.
You can also send pictures for your friends eyes only by emailing a special friends email address or the text FRIE at the start of your MMS)

- Watch a friend via the web or by texting “watch [your friend’s display name]”

- comment from your phone by replying with “COMMENT [friend’s username] [your comment here]”

- also set Silent times for when you are asleep, when you wake you can catch up on all the pics you have missed.

- Groups allows you to organise your friends into groups, this way certain friends won’t get photo’s they are not meant to see.
(to send a pic to a group email group name email address, or text the group name at the start of the MMS.

NOTE: these are not formal groups, it is just organising your friends

- widgets (others can text you from the widget…added to the list.)