Tweitgeist
Realtime Top Twitter Hashtags
http://tweitgeist.colinsurprenant.com/
Prismatic
This fantastic news browsing tool just got a redesign:
http://getprismatic.com
A case study they wrote on their redesign process:
http://blog.getprismatic.com/blog/2012/11/29/new-prismatic-web
ThingLink
Excellent new tool for social sharing. Create rich images with music, video, sound, text and more.
Github
Github Is The Social Network of the Future
http://www.apievangelist.com/2012/10/06/github-is-the-social-network-of-the-future/
TED: How The Internet (& Github) Will Transform the Government
http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/en/clay_shirky_how_the_internet_will_one_day_transform_government.html
Six Examples Of Brands Doing Great Work On Facebook
Paul Adams, Social interaction design lead for FB, lists his favorite brand pages right now
http://www.thinkoutsidein.com/blog/2012/09/great-work-on-facebook/
jQuery Socialist
Tool for pulling in social media feeds through AJAX
Hunch
Hunch’s “Taste Graph” is a development platform for apps that connect people based on their tastes.
Lalo.li
Fun! Create short voice messages to share with people
“Unhyped” New Areas in Internet and Mobile
http://techcrunch.com/2012/02/19/unhyped-internet-and-mobile/
Analyze Your Follower Power
Free service that tells you who your most influential followers are and how much you influence them (takes 30 seconds or so)
If This Then That
Now in public beta. Create a variety of automated tasks hooking up your various accounts (facebook, twitter, flickr, etc).
Windows Azure Toolkit for Social Games
From Microsoft, an SDK for building HTML5/.NET social games. Comes with a example game built Grant Skinner and his team (includes server-side code and documentation).
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