Quick, someone throw me a life jacket. I’m drowning in a sea of social networks! I’ve actually lost count of the exact number in existence, but it has to be in the hundreds by now.
Well you can add another bookmark to your overflowing list of socials. This one goes by the name Multiply, who has developed a web-based social networking application for the iPhone. One feature that differentiates Multiply from other networks is that it integrates Media-Sharing Capabilities into its service rather than act just as a web frontend for text, like so many other services - Twitter, I’m casting an eye in your direction.
Among the list of things you can do with Multiply…
View blog entries, videos, photos, reviews, events, and more from friends and friends-of-friends
Customize settings to determine who can see posted photos, videos, and blog entries
Add comments and replies to blogs, videos, photos, etc.
Invite new users to join Multiply
Visit “group” sites to see content based on common interests
Minglets is a new social network designed specifically for iPhone users to meet and mingle. Just go to app.minglets.com, select one of many different categories of topics to choose from, then chat with other iPhone users who share your common interest.
My only complaint is that a broader range of topics is desperately needed. I didn’t see a Suicide hotline for overcharged AT&T users available, and that is a must have.
Kyle Stoneman managed to successfully setup his very own Myth TV box. After dancing wildly through the living room, shouting with glee, like a nine year old boy on Christmas morning, his elation was soon dampened when he realized that controlling the box required sitting next to a computer. Lame.
So the industrious would-be hacker came up with a solution - use the iPhone as a remote. And wouldn’t you know it, the son of a b*tch did it!. He even posted a video demonstrating his creation.
You can read more about his exploits and download the script, which he is making available for free.
Enophi is a new online service designed specifically for iPhone users. This RSS feed reader allows you to track your favorite newsfeeds, sprinkled with some social web trappings as well.
The service works as advertised and is free. Just point your iPhone to enophi.com and register. Create a list of feeds, then sit back and let your fingers do the walking…or scrolling, such as it is.
Listen up Skype junkies! You can now use your iPhone to make Skype calls over the wireless tubular interweb…nets. A German-based company called SHAPE Services, whoever the hell that is, is offering a new service (invitation only, in beta) allowing iPhone users to connect with other users in the Skype ecosystem.
You can make calls to any Skype user at their PC, make el cheapo phone calls all over the world, or do the IM + Skype cally thing. Try it yourself and see what you think.
Those of you that use a project outliner, such as OmniGroup’s popular application, will love LooseStitch. This web-based service is a bunch of different things all rolled into one.
You can jot down ideas and collaborate with others. Create presention notes. Store writings and reports for easy access on the web. Create recipes. Take notes on the person you’re stalking. Record the number of times Windows crashes each week. And any number of tasks you can think up.
Mundu has a long pedigree in the world of business-class mobile instant messaging software. I have used their Mobile Messenger client on PalmOS and Windows Mobile - it works like magic. So it didn’t take long for their developers to show some iPhone love.
The company has announced a web based service that fully supports iPhone, via Safari of course (we’ve heard this line before). To access the web client simply point your iPhone to iphone.mundu.com. Login to any existing IM accounts (Yahoo, Gtalk, AIM, or Windows Live Messenger protocols supported), and text your way to repetitive stress injury.
The service is in beta, so don’t look surprised when Safari chokes and drops you back to the homescreen.
Coolgorilla.com breaks down language barriers and offers a novel way to meet foreign women in bars with the help of its talking translation service. Avoid those embarrassing social faux pas as you stumble to form poorly structured sentences from a book.
Just visit CoolGorilla.com on your iPhone - select any available sentence from the phrase book and your iPhone will repeat it back in the desired native tonque of your guests.
What better way to waste spend your time than downloading thousands of Widgets, slideshows, gamecasts, and feeds right on your iPhone. Plusmo offers a very simple iconic web frontend that delivers easy access to online content, suited for mobile devices. It works very similar to another online mobile content service called Widsets.
Plusmo goes a bit further my creating a homescreen-like interface and enabling web content developers and bloggers (that would be me) to create one-click publishing links that allow users to quickly subscribe to your mobilized content.
And like so many other Web 2.0 services…this one is free!
A website called Booksoniphone.com offers a full library of copyright free books available for reading right on your iPhone, from within Safari. Once you visit the site you’ll need to create a free account profile, complete with username and password. After logging in you’ll be able to browse a fairly substantial library of works by drilling down into categories and authors to find anything that suits your fancy.
The experience isn’t thrilling, but does make for a wonderful way to pass the time when you find yourself stuck in dull situations, like office meetings, child berthings, that sort of thing.
The iPhone Blog merged with the Phone different site in May of 2008. Both sites were founded on a premise that comes one from one of Apple's old slogans: Think different. The iPhone Blog: for people who dare to phone different.
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