Monitor Your Social Networks Through Email
Feb 18, 2009 Facebook, Internet, Online Tools, social networking
UPDATE: You can also use this service from NutshellMail.com, rather than just the Facebook application.
Yesterday Mashable broke news about a new Facebook application that monitors your social networking and email accounts and sends recent activity straight to the email address of your choice. The application, called NutshellMail, allows you to select at what times and on what days you want to receive email updates. It only informs you of certain Facebook activity, including new messages, friend requests, group invites, friend invites, and unread pokes. However, you can also get updates from LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, and any other email address that you dread checking all of the time. I’m extremely pumped that it doesn’t tell me every time your mom threw up on my super wall or asked me to be an interior decorating pirate. Whew.
NutshellMail is enormously beneficial for me. I have two Facebook profiles, manage three Twitter accounts, have two personal email addresses, a work email address, and a profile on all of the sites I listed above. Rather than logging into all of these every day with the possibility of being distracted from my real work, I can simply read the email from NutshellMail email as I do several others throughout the day to catch up on the latest.
Installing the application is pretty easy – just go to the application page, click “Go to Application”, and follow the instructions. Don’t forget to check your inbox to verify your email account so you can start receiving updates.
Hope many of you find this free application as beneficial as I do.
Tags: application, consolidation, email, linkedin, myspace, Twitter, updates
GodTube becomes Tangle
Feb 4, 2009 Social Media, Video, social networking
A few weeks ago, I was tipped off by YouthMinistryGeek (who recently got a nice redesign) that GodTube, the Christian online video service that raised 30 million dollars in funding last year, would soon be changing its name. After watching a funny video by the Skit Guys, which formally let users know of the upcoming change, I was intrigued at what was to come.
Sure enough, I pulled up GodTube.com today only to be redirected to Tangle, the new version of the site, including a redesign to go along with it. The site now offers not only video sharing – but blogs, photos, music (band pages), playlists, and more. It essence, it’s now a Christian version of MySpace.
I must admit, I’m always skeptical when Christians take ideas that have already been done well by someone else and make the faith-based. However, if it’s going to be done, it must be done well. And given the funding that the service received, it looks like they have put the time and resources into doing it well. What do you think about it?
Tags: godtube, myspace, Social Media, social networking, tangle, Video
