Spokeo - Social Networking

Spokeo allows you to organize friends from MySpace, Youtube, Digg, Facebook and more at one place. Think of it as gaim for social networking.

Stickis - the social web annotator

Got an invite to test out Stickis - the social web annotator.

Stickis lets you add blog feeds, build a community based on your "notes" and read other's annotations.

What ?

• You add/subscribe blog feed(s) + you can showcase your own blog/site
  
• Add annotations/notes to whatever urls you like.
  
• Let others "subscribe" to your annotations/network/site and build a big community of readers! Your annotations could be on any site/url.
  
• In future, Stickis promises to restrict the notes subscription to whoever you wish to grant access to - Right now, whoever has subscribed to your network can read your notes.
  
• You can also get alerts whenever someone posts a note

Why ?

• As I understand it now, If you have a site, people get to read your site. You can read other's sites as well through the feeds.
  
• You get to hear opinions through annotations which might provide interesting insights of what people actually reading and commenting on - this could be an equivalent to the comments that you see on various sites - but, your subscribers will get to read all your comments at one place.. Ah... digg + comments ?
  

Implementation

• You can either add new notes through the website or through the extension that they provide only for Internet Explorer. That meant I had to reboot to Windows :(
• However, they plan to add a Firefox extension soon.
  

Overall experience was completely different and it took sometime for me to understand what exactly I had to do :).

Update (Dec 4)

Jean from Stickis has left a comment that they now have a Firefox extension. Will try it out! Thanks !

Try it out and see if you like it - for now, I am gonna skip this one - atleast I get a Firefox extension

Social Bookmarking Buttons ?

Like the social bookmarking buttons you see below the post ? I had this implemented through the tutorial at Beautiful Beta by Hans. Pretty simple to get it up and running. Try it out!