Moralize.us is a site with an interesting concept: users post hypothetical scenarios, and other users vote on whether a course of action is right or wrong, according to their own personal moral codes. It’s a nice theory, that we can crowdsourcing our tricky moral dilemmas. In practice, though, t…

There have been reports flying around Twitter and several prominent blogs that Twitter is making a move to acquire Summize, a popular Twitter search engine. In case that is the first you’re hearing about Summize, here’s a rundown of what it does. It can search Twitter for any string — most impo…

Everybody that has a web-enabled phone and a thing for online interaction in lieu of actually having in addition to a social life knows that the biggest social networking sites are but a few keystrokes absent at all times via mobile websites. Of course, even mobile-optimized web applications can…

The only thing Facebook messages have ever been good for is getting a friend’s real contact info so you can talk external of Facebook. But what happens when you lose that critical report with your buddy’s new address or screenname? Facebook fails you, and you have to scroll back through all your…

A lot of web apps seem to be targeted at problems that nobody actually has. SoundCloud is smarter than that, focusing on a problem we have at least once a week: what’s the best way to send a song to a friend? E-mail is a pain, you might not have ready access to an FTP server, and those weird Rap…

Do you have an notion for a widget or Facebook app? perhaps you either don’t have the day or the full knowledge to actually manufacture it?

You reallllly want to construct Wolverines vs. Dracula Part 8 for Facebook, and it frustrates you. Well be frustrated no more, in steps Zembly.

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AOL completed its acquisition of social networking site Bebo nowadays. You may remember that AOL announced it would buy Bebo for $850 million back in March. According to InformationWeek Bebo will be the center of AOL’s new citizens Network commerce unit. Heading up that trade unit is Joanna Shie…

Yahoo! Fire Eagle got a lot of attention when it launched back in March, and for good reason: a cross-platform system for building location info into an application? The buzz died down, though, considering there weren’t any cool applications using Fire Eagle. That’s changing now, though, as the fi…

While the Firefox 3 web browser is still in beta, it offers a ton of features that you won’t find in Firefox 2. There’s full page zoom, full history search, and vastly improved speed and performance with many web services. But there’s a downside: many add-ons designed for earlier versions of Fir…

Social media tool Chirpscreen is out of beta, and has a few new tricks up its sleeve. When we first looked at Chirp in January, the application was a tool for grabbing images from your Flickr and Facebook accounts and showing them on your Windows desktop. Now Chirp has added support Twitter and …