Facebook and Social Startups Meme.

We all share webpages with our friends in one way or the other. Either by email, instant messaging, Facebook, twitter or various other social bookmarking and networking websites. The problem with these shares is the lack of description. It’s only text based.

Agglom provides a solution to this problem. It is a Firefox extension that lets you create slideshows of live links to share with other people. It’s very simple to use as well. After downloading the extension just click on the Agglom button. It will capture all URLs from the open tabs in your browser, and after going through some options of private or public sharing as well as password protected sharing, you’ll be given a link to share with other people. People can then follow through the slide show along with you, access it later, get any changes made to it by RSS, leave comments and suggest additional links.

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Video: pptPlex details: the pptPlex ribbon, presenting pptPlex decks

If you saw the Touch Wall demonstration by Bill Gates, you would have noticed the cool and fluent interactive interface that the Touch Wall had. He used it to browse throught many PowerPoint presentations on the fly, along with panning and zooming. The pptPlex plugin available for download by Microsoft Office Labs lets you do that on in Microsoft PowerPoint now. It’s used by a mouse and not a touch interface though, but then those aren’t common yet.

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Tired of constantly changing and taking new pictures of yourself to put as your avatar? Or if you’re a fan of The Sims or Yahoo’s Avatar creation system, you’ll love Face Your Manga. It basically lets you create your online alter ego, that can look just like you thanks to the vast range of choices in head shapes and faces.

Creating your avatar with Face Your Manga is a lot of fun. You can open up a picture of yours to match the avatar with it, which makes it interesting, and it’s a great possibility that you’ll be able to come up with an avatar that matches you. Once you’re satisfied with you avatar in the flash wizard based interface, you’ll have to enter you email address, and the avatar will be emailed to you. So in case you lose it, you’ll still have it in your email. From there, you can use the .jpg image anywhere on the web you want. If you love your artistic creation that much, you can order a high quality print out directly from the website for a low cost.

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As if the downtimes weren’t enough for MobileMe users, there has arrived a new problem for them: Phishing scams. ReadWriteWeb has referred to a post from Computer World which tells of how users are receiving phishing emails, which are shockingly written without any grammatical mistakes.

Here’s a snippet of the email, in case you’re one of the MobileMe users:

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Google has a new graduate out of its testing grounds for Blogger. Google Gadgets is now enabled by default for all users. This allows for integration of iGoogle Gadgets into your sidebar with various options for easy tweaking. The Gadget Directory is also built into the Gadgets interface, which gives you one click access to thousands of cool gadgets.

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Here’s another interesting video by ‘Dr.’ Allen Stern. Dr. Allen Stern tried to save Alexa with all he could, but nothing helped. All the venture fundings, advertisements and Amazon S3 migrations proved to be useless. Let us all hope that may Alexa rest in peace! Follow the bright light Alexa! Read More »

Yes, you read it right. If you don’t live in US, Canada or India, no more SMS updates for you! We know it’s horrible but true, as apparently it costs $1000 per user per year to Twitter for SMS costs. Instead of monetizing Twitter and providing better services to its users, we are seeing the demise of a quality feature.

The reason why US, Canada and India will continue to get updates is because Twitter has good relations with the cellular operators in those countries and it doesn’t cost them anything to provide SMS services to those users. This makes one wonder, where the funding went? There certainly  hasn’t been any new feature or improvement in Twitter over the past time ( except if you call the reduced downtimes an improvement ). A lot of other services also used Twitter’s API to send text alerts to Twitter, so RememberTheMilk doesn’t look that attractive suddenly.

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Google Reader has been updated to include new sharing features. It already had feed sharing, but now Friends Lists have been introduced to take the sharing to a new level. A custom Friends List can be made to share with people who aren’t in your Gmail contacts. The shared items in Google Reader are now automatically visible to your contacts by providing notifications about that share. You can also chose whether to share with any particular contact or not.

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John Paczkowski from AllthingsD has made a very interesting post about how Apple is worth more than Google now. No, this doesn’t mean the end of the world though! According to stats, Apple’s current market cap: $159.37 billion. Google’s: $157.56 billion. Does that mean Business is booming for Apple? Or has it slowed down for Google?

How ever it may be, it has given Valleywag boasting rights about it’s prediction in November 2007 saying

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Facebook is trying a lot to monetize it’s huge network, which is also the fastest growing social network in the world. It’s latest try is a foray into video ads as pointed out by Jason Beckerman of AllFacebook.

It’s going to be huge challenge though as we’ve seen them already looking for users to rate their ads. And as Silicon Alley Insider has pointed out, BusinessWeek cited marketers claiming that Facebook’s ad click-through rate of 4 per 10,000 impressions is about one-fifth the Web norm.

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