Platform Five – This week’s most useful new social media tools and platforms
Welcome to Platform Five – our weekly look into the social media tools and platforms that have been generating buzz across the web.
While Facebook hogged most of the limelight with the launch of its partnership with Skype, several other clever developments are also worth checking out.
Here are five goodies that stood out from the crowd…
- Create outlet specific dashboards with geeje.com – This could be one of the most useful tools we’ve seen in a while, especially if you want to keep your eye on specific competitors. geeje.com works by creating personalised feeds of brands / people you want to follow closely. All you need to do is set up your brand / person tab, add the URL feeds you’re interested in and geeje keeps them updated in real-time so you don’t miss a thing. Very handy!
- Narrow down your Facebook searches with Facebooksearch.us – This is a quick and easy way to search for content on Facebook by key types e.g. posts, photos, people, pages, groups and events. It only returns ‘public’ results so you won’t see everything, but it’s a good starting point. The specific photos search option allows you to search through millions of photos located on Facebook pages.
- Discover what you love with Google’s wdyl.com – This is a really nice concept from the busy bods at Google. ‘What Do You Love’ enables you to search by interest areas and returns results as sorted into Google gadgets / categories. This is a nice way to get an ‘at-a-glance’ look at where people can interact with content by web sub-sections. Take a look at my Dogs example here.
- Convert your Flash content to HTML5 with Google Swiffy – Although still in development stage, Google Swiffy is a handy way to turn those troublesome Flash web pages into the more universally acceptable HTML5 format. Check out the gallery section for some examples.
- Mash up your Facebook photos into a music video with Masher – More proof that creating solid web content can be performed by almost anyone. This easy-to-use app allows you to ‘drag and drop’ content into a basic editor which helps turn your static images into a video and supporting soundtrack.
That’s it for this week.
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