Facebook Releases “Groups for Schools”

April 17, 2012 by Yonah · Comments Off
Filed under: Announcements & Events, File-Sharing Programs, Networks & Services

Facebook has recently launched a collaborative campus tool called “Groups for Schools”. At the moment only U.S. colleges and universities (soon to include worldwide institutions) can create groups related to their activities (dorms, classes, student events).

Back in Facebook’s early years Mark Zuckerberg attempted to launch a file-sharing service called Wirehog, and failed, but did not give up. Yesterday Facebook came out with yet another feature – Groups for Schools. As part of this program, students can upload files, but Facebook included some limits: you cannot send any .exe files (from obvious reasons – to avoid viruses spread), and a 25MB upload limit. Lastly, Facebook is going to monitor all uploads in order to avoid copyrighted files from getting shared.

The fact that Facebook bought the file-sharing service Drop.io in 2010 could be a hint that Zuckerberg is planning out a cloud-based service, but we may be wrong.

And since we’ve mentioned Zuckerberg’s failed project Wirehog, let’s get a little into that. Wirehog was part of Facebook until 2006, when Sean Parker shut down the program so that Facebook stays online and far from copyright infringement lawsuits.

Groups for Schools may just revive one key section that Facebook lost during the years. Anything posted within this group can be accessed only by students who use their .edu e-mails in order to authenticate, a key feature if you don’t want your future employer to see compromising pictures of you at some party.

Lastly, Groups for Businesses could be a project in Facebook’s agenda, so companies like Yammer or Google should get busy pretty fast. More news about this as soon as we find out.

Tags: Facebook, file-sharing, social networking

New Social Music Network Solution For iPhone Enthusiasts: SoundShare

November 9, 2011 by Yonah · Comments Off
Filed under: Announcements & Events, Downloads, File-Sharing Programs, Networks & Services, Movies, MP3, Digital Audio & Games

Music is part of our everyday life, as Steve Jobs once said. This is the main reason he launched the iPod for the first time, thus pushing the boundaries of how we listen to music forward.

SoundShare continues his legacy by providing a new Social Music Network for iPhones.

“SoundShare app allows you to share your music experience with your friends just by listening to your songs,” the developer said.

“With a built-in Player, you can listen and share every song while using Safari or any other app. SoundShare also has its own Social Network, so you don’t have to worry about posting on Facebook/Twitter every song you listen, though, if you want, you’re just one tap away.”

The application’s features are similar to Twitter’s – in the sense that you’re provided with newsfeeds of people you want to follow. If you find yourself stuck on listening the same playlist over and over again all you have to do is to “spy” on other people’s preferences and pick your favorite tunes.

Just like any respectable social network, SoundShare allows you to post comments, rate songs and even show your favorite tunes on other social networking portals.

The app has a built-in music player which you can run in the background while using other applications. To download it, just install the latest version of iTunes and look-up SoundShare.

Enjoy!

Tags: Apple, digital music, iphone, social networking

Diglo: Sharing Your Digital Life

August 10, 2011 by Yonah · Comments Off
Filed under: Announcements & Events, File-Sharing Programs, Networks & Services, Movies, MP3, Digital Audio & Games

Diglo can be considered a newcomer in the file-sharing community. However, its usefulness is without doubt; by offering services such as social networking, host of massive amounts of data and a media search engine Diglo.com helps the file-sharing community to expand and to evolve.

In order to join the social network you must provide a valid e-mail address. By doing so, your confidentiality is guaranteed. After the account is created you can immediately begin to publicly upload files without transfer or hosting restrictions. Sharing a file with someone who doesn’t have an account is also possible by providing a public link to that person.

However, the private hosting imposes some restrictions – the storage limit is up to 15GB for files accessed only by the owner, 10GB for files shared among friends, plus an extra gigabyte for every friend one has.

Launched almost a year ago, Diglo has a considerable user database, sharing millions of files. As a matter of fact, the top 5 users share approximately 2.5 terabytes of data in public mode.

Diglo’s search engine provides direct download links to movies, music and more.

Talking to TorrentFreak, Diglo’s team said:

“Diglo is unique because it’s not a file sharing service with social add on, but a social network site where you can really share everything. It also doesn’t invade your privacy like all popular social media networks, but gives you perfect control over what you share with others.”

An outstanding feature is that users can access all files through a FTP account. Moreover, users can listen to their favorite music thanks to the on-site music-player, can create albums, join groups, and so on.

Last but not least, all these services are for free so don’t be shy and give it a go.

Tags: file-sharing, social networking

Video Uploads Feature from Android Facebook

June 28, 2011 by Yonah · Comments Off
Filed under: Announcements & Events, Downloads

The official Facebook app for Android rolled out its 1.6 version which comes with an option many have been expecting – that of uploading videos directly from the app.

The app allows users to share videos as easily as they are able to share images. To do it they just need to click on the camera icon next to the status update bar, followed by ‘Video’ to select the clip they want to upload.

Furthermore, when hitting a link to a Facebook page from the news feed, it opens the page within the app itself rather than launching the Android web browser. This translates as a time saver and in the digitally-social environment today, that’s quite significant.

Tags: Android, Facebook, social networking

All Your Web Identities in One Place: Meevr.com

September 28, 2010 by Yonah · Comments Off
Filed under: Announcements & Events, File-Sharing Programs, Networks & Services

This is less p2p file sharing and more social networking kind of news. Meevr promises to unite all your social identities into one single extensive service. Let’s face it – most of you who are reading this right now have accounts on multiple social networks and site like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Digg, Vimeo. So why not bring all these services together for more convenience?

Meevr simply save some time and effort by allowing you to link to your own Mevr page rather than link to the aforementioned sites individually. Yes, it does sound pretty handy as it gives you instant access to all your Web branches, which is ‘every you’ networking speaking.

From the site:

“Meevr is a social networking aggregator allowing you to pull your favorite social profiles into one place. Don’t link to multiple social sites, link to Meevr.”