Woork's Follow Friday List - Issue 01

Welcome to Woork's Follow Friday List, Issue 01 (23 July 2009). Every week I propose a new list with 10 interesting Twitter users you have to follow! Any suggestion for the next #FollowFriday list? Please Follow me on Twitter!


Ayelet Noff
AKA Blonde 2.0. Lover of social media and help companies understand how to use it to get their message across. Blogger. Addicted to life, travel and caffeine. Twitter Profile | Website

Brian Cray
Internet marketing, User experience design, Web development, Social media, Nearby Tweets & PXtoEM creator, Author, Blogger, Web 2.0, SEO, PHP, jQuery, Apple fan. Twitter Profile | Website

Calvin Lee
Self-Proclaimed Media Ho, Designer Guy and Twitter Addict. In his spare time, Stunt Doubles for the Hulk and a really Nice Guy! Twitter Profile | Website

Collis Ta'eed
Hola, I am Collis, I write about startups at TheNetsetter, and run one called Envato. Twitter Profile | Website

Cristian Vasile
SEO, Tech Geek, Webdesign, CSS, #LoveHelvetica
Twitter Profile

Chris Brogan
President, New Marketing Labs, a social media agency and education company. Twitter Profile | Website

David Perel
I am a designer, blogger, manager, online show host and I love life.
Twitter Profile | Website

Graham Smith
Freelance Logo and Brand Identity designer. Focused on the minimal and typographic. Blogger and writer. 22+ years experience. LoveHelvetica. LoveDogs. Twitter Profile | Website

Mike Lane
Senior UX Designer near Minneapolis, MN with 14 years experience in creative Web and Graphic Design. Twitter Profile | Website

Perry Belcher
Former Airbrush Artist, Hot Dog Vendor, Jeweler, Tattoo Slinger, Bartender and All Around Trouble Maker. Twitter Profile | Website


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10 Interesting social applications for your Google Phone

If you have a Google Phone I suggest you to take a look at this list with ten interesting and useful social applications for your mobile phone Android based. This list includes a Twitter client, Delicious bookmarks manager, MySpace and Facebook apps, Wikipedia and some music and contacts managers.

Any suggestion about other Android applications? Leave a comment, thanks!


1. Twidroid
Twidroid is a very nice client application for using twitter or identi.ca on your android mobile phone. It includes direct messaging, photo posting, replies and background notifications.

2. Delicious Bookmarks
This application allows you to save bookmarks to Delicious from the Android web browser. The current implementation simply adds the option to 'Save to delicious' when 'Bookmark page' or 'Share page' is selected from the browser menu. You can also view your bookmarks in the browser by clicking on the 'Delicious Bookmarks' icon in the application list.

3. Last.fm Android App
With Last.fm Android Application you can choose an artist or genre and Last.fm builds the perfect playlist just for you, fresh every time, featuring your favorites and new discoveries powered by millions of Last.fm users sharing the music they love. You can skip any song and find out about concerts, too.

4. MySpace App
If you love MySpace, you're really going to love MySpace Mobile for Android. Simply download the free application to stay connected with your friends, share photos, and check out the tour schedules of your favorite bands… anytime, anyplace!

5. Phonebook
Contacts are among the most important data on your phone. Phonebook gives them the place they deserve on your G1 phone.Phonebook is a great alternative to the Contacts application and it comes with a new user interface and extra features such as a landscape view, an activity log which includes calls and messages.

6. imeem App
Imeem for Android helps people easily discover music that matches their tastes. The application enables users to create custom Internet radio stations by searching for specific artists, discover new music through personalized recommendations and listen to the most popular artists in the imeem community. The application also gives people the ability to purchase DRM-free downloads by linking to the Amazon MP3 application on Android.

7. Quickpedia
Quickpedia is a free app for browsing Wikipedia on your Google Phone. Quickpedia's many features include:View Wikipedia pages optimized for comfortable and easy viewing on your phone's small screen; search Wikipedia articles using our fast find interface that puts you a click away from your most frequent searches;Dig deeper and find out more about current events and much more.

8. Fbook, Facebook App
fBook is an Android app that wraps and optimizes the Facebook iPhone website for your Android phone. In addition to the features available from Facebook's iPhone web app, fBook adds several important new features. You can upload photos directly from your phone to your Facebook account.

9. Snap!
Snap! stands for Social Networking on Android Phones. Snap! makes it easy to meet new people with common interests and to keep in touch with your friends and colleagues. Snap! turns your phone into a social networking companion and combines the best features from mobile devices and social networking sites. Check out the short screencast with audio below if you are interested.

10. Palringo
Palringo is the ultimate Instant Messaging client for mobile phones and computers. Palringo allows you to instantly exchange text, photos, and vocal IMs with groups or individuals. Keep in touch with all your buddies on all the most popular IM services, without installing or switching between different applications. Palringo allows you to chat to your friends on MSN, AIM, iChat, ICQ, Yahoo!, Jabber, Gtalk, Gadu-Gadu and Facebook.

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One application for six social web services: EventBox

Are you looking for an application to aggregate all your social web services in one place? Take a look at EventBox (Beta) for Mac.

EventBox is a useful Mac application (in beta) which integrates your social web profiles in one place. EventBox actually supports Facebook, Flickr, Reddit, Twitter, Digg (at this moment this service is suspended) and RSS aggregation features but in the coming months will be added new features, services, RSS syncing and support for del.icio.us, Last.fm and Orkut.

Interface is clean, flexible and intuitive:

EventBox version is available for a 15 days free tryout, after this period you have to buy a license. During the beta, license price is 15US$ (instead of 20US$ for the coming definitive version.)

Download EventBox here

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Free tools to create your own social network Facebook-like

Are you looking for free tools to create your own social network Facebook-like? Take a look at this popular free services on-line.



1. Ning
Ning is a popular online platform for users to create their own social websites and social networks quickly and free:

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2. SocialGO
SocialGO lets you easily create and run a feature-filled social networking website. You choose who can join, what they can do and how it looks and the best part is it's free to get going.

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3. Elgg
With Elgg you can create your own social network, quickly and easily. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organisations, groups and individuals.

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4. WackWall
WackWall is another social network builder tool. Your network can have custom design, photo/video sharing, forums, blogs, events, and such - all easy, fast, and FREE!

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One shot, one kill: how to become popular with (almost) each post you write on your blog

Do you need for traffic for your website? Take a look at these simple tips...

This post is dedicated to my readers that asked to me how I succeed in making "popular" a lot posts I published on Woork on delicious. There is a "simple" way to make popular your post and assure a costant high traffic on your site for a medium period conquering a place on delicious home page... and this is what you have to do.

Step 1: Write something interesting
...otherwise it's all useless.

Step 2: your link on delicious/popular page
If you want to conquer delicious home page with your new post, the first step is do appear your new post/link on del.icio.us/popular page:

How can you do it? It's not so difficult if you have a medium daily traffic and a god number of feeds subscribers. I noticed in average 10-12 votes on delicious (users who save your link to their bookmars) in 30 minutes are enough to do appear your link on delicious/popular page and - this is the good news - immediatly you'll receive a high number of new visits from this page.

The "bad" news is: if you want to remain for a long time on delicious/popular page page (and in this way have a possibility to conquer delicious home page) you have to mantain an increasing votes trend for your link. And how can you do it? The faster way is using social network to promote your new post.


Step 3: Publish it and promote it on social networks
In general I use this simple... let me say... "rule" which works very well: when I publish a post on Woork the first thing I do is add it to some general news sites (I use only digg, mixx, reddit) and other niche websites related to the topics about which I write on my blog (Dzone, Design Float and CSS Globe).

Combined effect in terms of visits from these websites produces in general the hoped result and the number of people who save your link on delicious will increase quickly. In this way after one / two hours your link on delicious will catch up 100 votes, enough to appears on delicious home page!

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