Tag: GROUPS

Facebook is making a major announcement on Monday, and while nothing is certain at this point it seems very likely that they could be unveiling Project Titan -- Facebook's take on Web-based email. Also a good bet: this new email platform will tightly integrate with Docs.com, which Microsoft and Facebook opened to beta testers earlier this year. With all the hubbub about email, an update on the ...

Friend lists are so yesterday. Facebook has just announced a total overhaul of the Groups feature, designed to make it easier to share things with the groups of friends who are likely to care about them, without spamming the rest of your Facebook contacts. The new Groups are private by default, which is a big change from the previous publicly-searchable default. Group Chat has also been added, ...

If a tweet gets posted in a forest, and there's no one around to read it, does it make a sound? When it comes to finding a big audience, Twitter's so far ahead of other Twitter-like services that it seems almost impossible to catch up, even if you're offering features that Twitter doesn't. A new site called Whispurr is willing to try, though, with a focus on groups. Instead of making you send ...

Google Groups, Google's mailing list and forum app, has become part of Google Apps for Premier Edition and Education Edition users. Businesses and educational institutions can now run their mailing lists on Groups, which plugs a big hole in the enterprise package that Google has been pushing, and offers one more incentive for businesses to switch from Microsoft's Office and Office Live. Google ...

Facebook is under attack! Okay, maybe that's a little too dramatic. Recently, however, hundreds of Facebook groups were exploited by a group of attackers known as "Control Your Info". The hackers promise they aren't doing this for any malicious purpose though. The purpose of the mass hacking is to point out a major problem with the way Facebook handles groups management. So what's the ...

With all of the redesigning to focus Facebook on your News Feed, one classic Facebook feature got lost in the shuffle. What happened to Groups? Facebook must have noticed that Groups had become virtually useless, because they've just taken some steps to upgrade the feature back to first-class citizen status. Groups now have walls, just like Profiles and Pages, and group activity now has a place ...

Orbit is a mobile app that brings together your Facebook and your phone book. It's a phone book at heart, but it shows your friends' recent Twitter and Facebook status updates, and allows you to create groups called "orbits." You can turn the level of social noise from each orbit or individual up or down according to your needs. Of course, you can also initiate a call, text or email from within ...

There are plenty of complex, feature-rich collaboration systems out there, but the web developers at Tgethr found that they weren't using all those extras. When it came down to it, all of their collaboration was happening over email, and Tgethr is just a way to make that email system work better. Start a new group with its own @tgethr.com email address, and Tgethr can encrypt and archive all the ...

As if having your mom on Facebook weren't awkward enough, Facebook has rolled out special groups for families, aimed at getting everyone in your family to join the site. The groups are private, so none of your family activity should end up in your friends' streams, and family members who didn't want to join Facebook might feel comfortable joining for this. Other than the privacy aspect, and the ...

When it comes to potential new features for Twitter, the Japanese version has always been a testing ground. For example, Twitter in Japan is supported by ads, which haven't hit the US yet (and nobody seems sure if they ever will!). While I'm just fine using Twitter without ads, we'd love to see an English version of Twicco, which basically adds group support to Twitter. You can test it out for ...

In a move to add even more functionality to their site, Facebook has quietly rolled out Friends grouping. This long expected feature enables you to make different groups of friends such as "High school buddies", "Co-Workers", or "Ex-boyfriends". To start making your own groups, simply log into Facebook. Next, click on Friends in the upper nav bar and you'll see the option to start creating ...

Google Alerts is a handy service that allows you to get emails for the latest relevant Google results that hit the web or news based on the query of your choice. It's extremely handy when you're trying to stay on top of a subject and want every piece of related news to hit your inbox. Text is one thing, but what about online video? It is a major part of our lives now. Well, Google has added ...

Yesterday Facebook announced several small enhancements to Facebook Groups. These changes add a lot of value to the groups while at the same time keeping the simple and easy to use. Group Summaries - This is a blurb of information that now appears next to a group's listing showing how many new wall posts, board topics, profile updates, events, and changes have taken place within the group or ...

Vox, a Six Apart blogging community I admittedly am enjoying more and more each day, has just launched a few major new features, the most notable of which is Groups. Vox members can now create public or private groups for sharing anything you can already publish on Vox: posts, pictures, videos, books and more. Group owners can allows others to admin the group, and members can post either directly ...

Hot on the heels of a major overhaul of Google Reader, Google has announced a brand new beta version of Google Groups. The new Google Groups, which is currently living at groups-beta.google.com, is slicker in every way, and also "fits in" a little better with the growing family of Google web apps. In fact, some parts of the interface look a whole lot like Gmail, with rounded borders around each ...