When people share more and more content on social media platforms, the search engines of different social media platforms go diversely as well. These search engines give the audiences diverse perspectives to discover, watch, and enjoy the content on social media. Different search engine also performs as differ service for the users.  For example, Compfight provides the creative comment filter for the users to find the photos which they can put on their blogs.

The common way to find a photo is to search the keywords just like what people do on Google Search. Several Flickr search engines follow this way. The users can search for the tag and the text related to the photos. Read more…

Can you live without your cell phone? The variable applications make the usage of cell phones goes into a new era. People can search where the gas station with the lowest price is on cell phones. They can also download the TV shows to their cell phones, update their Facebook page, and play the complex games on their mobile phones. If the iPhone users download the Shazam software, they can know what the song is playing and the name of the singer by putting their phone in front of the radio. Trapster lets the users build a social network that saw you from getting a speeding ticket.

In Japan and Finland, people use the mobile phone as an electronic wallet. They can use it to take the public transportation and pay their bills with it at the stores.

Analyst Sharma said the people would be the remote controller to us and “Anything that we touch and see and feel, and whomever we communicate with — we will control that with our mobile phones.”

The mobile phone application market is more and more We expect to see that more and more people see their mobile phones as important as their life in the future.

Your Phoe, Your Life

How Photographers use Twitter? And what they tweet?

Qiana Mestrich collects the photographers’ tweets and categorizes them. She says that there are four main categories including Tech Heads, Business Uses, Fun Self-Promotion, and Marketing. She indicates that some photographers RSS feed their new posts on their photo blog into Twitter and get more eyes on their works.

Dean suggests that photography lovers can share their views on the latest photography exhibitions on Twitter when they are walking through the gallery. The mobile device let people share their posts on Twitter when they are moving. Thus, people would use is in a similiar way to SMS.

Here is a service which helps you improve your Twitter Photos: Better Tweet Shots

Now you can track your fitness on the cell phone.

Now people can track their fitness and its environmental impact on the cell phones. Researchers at UW working with Inter developed an interesting application recently. They intend to make human beings life better through this application. People do not only track their workouts with this application, but they also can see how their workouts benefit the environment. Read more…

GPS Maps is one of those great functions on mobile phones we have today. People not only can use iphone to surf on the Internet and get Google Map, but they can also use Nokia mobile phones to download the Lonely Planet traveling guide when they are traveling. Nokia mobile phone users can get the traveling information such as the popular restaurants, popular night life places, and shopping malls from the traveling guides by 13.99 US dollars. Nokia anticipates that more than 50% Nokia mobile phones will have GPS by 2010-2012. The GPS map service market will keep growing in the following years.

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Here is an article discussing how Obama use social media in this election and what it means to us.

What Obama’s Victory Means for the Social Sector

http://www.techpresident.com/blog/entry/33075/what_obama_s_victory_means_for_the_social_sector

The author mentioned the organizational power of the networking sites just like what we read in Clay’s book. MyBarackObama.com is a great example of how web campaigning works.