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Blackberry gets Facebook'd

Blackberry gets Facebook'dNow you can stay in touch with friends using Facebook for Blackberry, a standalone application. Sure Facebook can be accessed normally through the likes of mobile browsers like Opera, but this new application provides more streamlined and optimized mobile access for Facebook.

After installing the application, users can send and view messages, photos, pokes, and wall posts. They will also be able to take a picture and directly send it to their profiles complete with tags if their Berry's have cameras. Although this is good for long commutes and waiting for meals to be served, it could be encouraging a new level of unproductiveness in the workplace!

There have been reports of Facebook for Blackberry not working with older handsets and on some mobile networks.

You can download the installer from Blackberry or Facebook.

Filed under: Fun, Internet, Utilities, Web services

Get smart profiles and traffic histories of websites with Compete


Compete aims to help users by showcasing websites that are trusted, transparent and add value to both the end user and the internet in general.

Compete has a few different products running, SnapShot, Toolbar, and Search. Snapshot is a handy service that provides traffic history and competitive analysis (similar to Statsaholic), which is great for search gurus and online marketing individuals. Toolbar is a browsing tool for IE and Firefox that provides real time SnapShot information to its users. Complete Search is built on Yahoo's search technology, and weaves in SnapShot results to provide trust scores and search results.

This site and the tools it offers isn't for everyone, but those that only care to be presented with what Compete sees as safe, popular and valuable to visitors might find it useful.

Filed under: Fun, Web services, Social Software

Social Shopping with Wists


Do you have a birthday coming up and want everyone to know just what gifts they should bring to the surprise party you're pretending not to know about? You can't email your friends and family a long list of "suggestions" since that would be tacky, and the Amazon Wishlist tool won't help if they don't have what you really have your heart set on. Enter Wists, the website that bills itself as a social shopping service.

Register at the site and place the Wist bookmarklet on your toolbar. When you come across something on the net that you must have, simply click on the bookmarklet, add a keyword, and Wist automatically saves your selection, along with an image of the product. Direct others to your Wist by giving them a link, pasting some code onto your website or, displaying your Wist right inside a post for maximum "suggestion power." The only niggling difficulty I encountered is that it wouldn't easily display images from Flash-heavy sites, but the ability to apply tags and keywords remained intact. Wists will make it easy for me to encourage the people in my life to go forth and shop for my upcoming birthday. I promise to be surprised about the party.

Filed under: Internet, Web services

Browse for goods with... Browse Goods

Browse Goods
Most online stores are great if you know what you're looking for. Can't find that whazzit at the local Radio Shack? Just type the model number into the search engine of your choice and find it at RadioShack.com, Amazon, or any number of other online retail outlets.

But what if you're snowed in and just really want to replicate the experience of going to the mall without actually having to leave your house? Browse Goods is a new site that has a fresh take on the user interface for online shopping. Whereas most stores give you a list of 10 to 20 items and then the option to click "next page," Browse Goods arranges everything visually.

You pick a category to start (currently: shoes, toys, sports, and watches), and then you're presented with an enormous number of tiny images divided into subcategories. Click on the screen to zoom into an area (or use your mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out), and click and hold on a section of the screen to drag your way around. It works much like Google Maps.

Browse Goods doesn't so much replicate the feel of being in a store, as that scene from The Matrix where Neo and Trinity need to load up on guns to rescue Morpheus. Right now, all the items for sale actually come from Amazon, so when you click on a picture for more information, the "buy now" button takes you to Amazon.

I wouldn't expect the site to work well if you're using an older computer or web browser, or slow internet connection. But if you've got a fairly new system and a broadband connection it's worth checking out.

[via GigaOM]

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