Foursquare Badge List. 25 Essential Social Media Resources You May Have Missed. If you've some catching up to do this weekend, we've got a list that's hot and fresh from the Mashable HQ kitchen.
This is your one-stop shop for all the resources you might have missed. In the social media department, you'll find some useful tools to track those pesky Twitter unfollowers, some handy tips for dealing with Twitter complaints, and some funny web comics. Tech and mobile brings you some great Safari extensions for power-browser and some cross-platform development tools for the versatile mobile app builder.
Check out the business category for a look at current web design trends, a behind-the-scenes peek at the offices of 360i, and analysis of social gaming — the next big money maker on the web. Looking for even more social media resources? Social Media Why Entertainment Will Drive the Next Checkin CrazeWhen checkins are connected to culture rather than location, a whole new social world opens. Tech & Mobile. Could open source tools make Facebook the next AOL? News By Joab Jackson July 28, 2010 01:05 PM ET IDG News Service - Last week, Facebook announced that it had amassed 500 million users, a formidable portion of the global Internet audience.
But even as Mark Zuckerberg and company celebrates, others are busy trying to uproot Facebook's popularity by establishing a set of open standards to share Facebook-like features across the Internet. Just like open standards for e-mail and the Web broke users free from proprietary closed networks of the early 1990s, so too could a new set of standards allow people to share their thoughts, photos and comments across the Internet, regardless of what social networking services they use, argued Evan Prodromou, head of open source microblogging software provider StatusNet, during the O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), held in Portland, Oregon last week.
Open-source social, or "open social," networking services are not new. E-mail is one example of this. Reprinted with permission from IDG.net. HP says IT pros need own social network. News June 17, 2010 06:00 AM ET Computerworld - WASHINGTON -- Despite the flood of existing social networking tools, Hewlett-Packard Co. will soon introduce its own social network, albeit specifically aimed at IT professionals.
It's called 48Upper and it comes with its own "manifesto," which says this about IT pros: "We have lived with the stereotype of being introverted, pessimistic loners for too long. " There's also video that shows IT workers laughing, smiling and working in cubicles with stuffed animals. This anti-Dilbert version of IT aside, 48Upper (which gets its name from an HP building in Cupertino, Calif.), incorporates familiar social networking tools, collaborative, friend-based, knowledge sharing, but is clearly aimed at users of HP system management tools. The product is being readied for beta testing, and HP officials discussed some aspects of it at its software conference here.
There are a number of elements that make 48Upper different from the mainstream social networks.