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Socialwok, an application which adds the 'social layer' to Google products, has just been integrated with Google Apps, making them more usable and social friendly. Right now, Socialwok can be used with Facebook, Twitter, Google Buzz, and RSS feeds, all at once.

Yesterday was a huge day for all technology geeks, and one topic soared to the records of popularity on all the social networking sites. Apple has released its brand new baby, the iPad. After months of speculation about what exactly the new gadget will be able to do, we finally have the real news.

Twitter Peek which has just appeared in stores is a mobile device designed especially for tweeting. It's an alternative to smartphones, created by Peek company, with a much lower price and, of course less functionalities. Twitter Peek can be used to twee, of course, to check other user's tweets, and also to receive and answer emails from 5 different accounts. The device also offers the possibility of viewing and sending image and text files (JPG, PDF, Word).

Recently, the Twitter team dug out an old sketch with an idea for an improvement, and decided to see if it will work. And now it seems like a new Twitter feature, the Search Engine will be introduced soon. The feature It will enable the users to find appropriate tweets after submitting a key word, and also check the most active trends.

How many times have you dug fruitlessly through the links you've saved in your browser's Favorites folder, struggling to remember how you categorized that site you wanted to remember? Or how often have you been unable to locate information you needed -- simply because you didn't know what search word to use?

This guide has been modified from an article that originally appeared on Global Voices Online, a nonprofit global citizens' media project sponsored by and launched from the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at the Harvard Law School. For additional information on blogging anonymously, you may also want to download Reporters Without Borders' Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents.

Widgets, also called gadgets, modules and snippets, are small pieces of software, that can be easily installed almost everywhere, on social networking profiles, blogs, personal or business sites. They appeared soon after internet sites, first as link counters or banners, than as more sophisticated weather forecasts, train schedules, moon phase calculators, games or adds. 1997 saw the growing popularity of Trivia Blitz, a java game applet, that got embedded on more than 36 thousand sites. Now it seems like widgets are everywhere, almost everyone can create them and it could be easy for a user to get lost in the world of widgets. It's high time to organize them.

Internet users who like to keep up to date with as many sites and other users as possible are now falling into the trap of feeds invasion, and have hundreds, if not thousands updates every day. The situation is very similar to the growing content of email folders, which we have all experienced - ten years ago we would receive only a couple of messages with important information and from well-known users. Now apart from real messages, we get advertisments, notices, spam messages and viruses, so spam filters are a necessity. The same is happening with RSS feeds, and FeedScrub is supposed to be an intelligent system that will help us to get the number of feeds under control.

Collecting friends, struggling to make the most complete profile, creating the biggest gallery and receiving the most comments, messages, and hugs is an important part of the way some ambitious people use the community portals. They want to be the best, the most popular, and the most influential, but how do they know how far they are from the top?

Microsoft's Photosynth came to public attention during the inauguration of Barack Obama, when it enabled us to explore an interactive panorama created out photographs of the event.
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Photosynch combines users photos so that they can be navigated almost like a video game, and gives the opportunity to see places, or events from many angles and distances, and introduces a brand new photo viewing experience.