Keep Business and Pleasure Separate with Whoopaa

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Whoopaa is not just another social network, it’s also a social aggregator for Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. The site allows you to create both a personal and/or business profile, which lets you to keep your personal life separate from your business life. “These profiles will be your online identities, both with their own separate connections, communications and settings” (via the Whoopaa homepage).

Personal Profile

This profile can only be seen by your personal network. On your personal profile you’ll be able to connect your Twitter and Facebook account(s). You can manage all of your updates for each site as well as view the timelines for each one in their own separate tab. Having a private personal profile gives you the freedom of sharing anything you like without having to worry about it ruining your professional image. Once you’re ready to get professional, you can switch to your business profile in a snap.

Business Profile

Likewise, your business profile can only be seen by your business network. For this profile, you can connect your LinkedIn and Twitter account(s). Just like the personal profile, you’ll be able to manage your updates and view your timelines. You can share business photos and videos and switch to your personal profile at anytime.

Required Information

To setup both profiles you’ll be asked for: profile name (keep in mind this is a nickname and not your actual name), birthday, biography, country and photo. Having the two separated allows you to enter a fun biography and use a fun picture on your personal profile, while showing your professional side on the other.

Dashaboard

This is where you can access all of your timeline, post status updates, search for friends and business connections, post videos and images, view your messages, join communities (coming soon) and add widgets (coming soon). When posting updates, you’ll have the option to add images, links, a location and mentions with the click of a button.

Viewing Timelines

The actions you can perform on the Twitter timeline are: repost, favorite, reply, translate. The items you can view are: mentions, favorites, all updates, combined timelines. There is also a refresh button and search button for filtering by keyword(s).

The actions you can perform on Facebook and LinkedIn are: repost, like, comment, translate. The items you can view are: mentions, all updates, combined timelines. Likewise there is a refresh button and search button for filtering by keyword.

Other Features

On the sidebar you can view your number of friends, updates, messages as well as upcoming birthdays. There is also a link here to change your avatar.

Searching for friends is easy with the search bar and you can even organize your friends and connections with labels.

The messages area is where you can create new messages as well as view your inbox, outbox and trash. Keep in mind that this is for Whoopaa messages only; Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn messages are not displayed here. You can also create folders for organizing your messages.

Privacy Options

When it comes to privacy, Whoopaa has that covered as well. When editing your profile, you can set privacy options for your country, city and bio. You can choose to make these items viewable to friends, friends of friends or everyone. The same goes for your contact information. Unfortunately, there isn’t an option to make this information viewable only to you so if you want something totally private, you shouldn’t add it at all.

Lastly, Whoopaa lets you customize the types of notifications that you want to receive by email and like Facebook, they even have a separate page for you to view all of your notifications on the site.

With all of that in mind:

How do you feel about having to keep up with not one, but two more profiles?

Do you like Whoopaa concept or do you prefer a single profile?

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Cascaad – Tailored Social Streams that Match Your Interest

“Cascaad is an interest-centered social hub and networking service that helps you discover and join relevant conversations on the topics that you care about.” With the service you can filter your Twitter stream based on what you like and dislike. New content will then be recommended to you based on your interests. Conversations are also organized into “topic pages” which make them easier to follow. Between the website and the iPhone app, Cascaad is a great way to find people with similar interests, filter out unwanted tweets and join conversations that appeal to you.

To get started you’ll need to connect your Twitter and/or Facebook account. Although you do can connect your Facebook account, it does not seem to actually import your Facebook timeline — just tweets. You can then start going through your streams to like (thumbs up) or dislike (thumbs down) tweets. In the settings you can choose to automatically save liked tweets as favorites. You can also choose to forward liked tweets to your Facebook profile.

I like the clean setup of the site and ease of use. For starters, you can preview links (short or long) before clicking on them by clicking on “preview” underneath the post. You’ll see the title of the website along with the description (if available); this seems to be taken from the metadata.

You can also “share” and “comment” on tweets and post it to Twitter and/or Facebook; both actions are done inline so that you don’t lose your place in the timeline. The stream is not automatically updated but there is a notification on top that lets you know when and how many new messages are available. There is a status update box that lets you post updates on both Twitter and Facebook; there is also an integrated URL shortener.

The left hand column shows some interesting information as well. You can view your feed, filtered tweets (the most relevant tweets based on your interests), tracked items (if you have any), discover new content (tweets you might like due to their popularity in your extended social circle), see your liked items and also view what you’ve posted via Cascaad. There is also a section below the menu items called “highlighted topics”; these are trending topics within your social circle.

These are the basics of what Cascaad can do for you and definitely worth digging in deeper if you have the time. I’ve also tried the iPhone app and I find it very useful. You can view your feed, filtered items and discover new content as well as view trending topics in your social circle and search tweets all from the app.

I definitely feel that Cascaad makes a really great and simple Twitter app, plus helps increase productivity by filtering out tweets the tweets that don’t matter to you. It also makes it easier to zoom in on and keep up with the topics that genuinely interest you.

So, how will you use Cascaad?

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Stream Your Social Networks from A Single Location with Vinehub

Vinehub is a social media connector that lets you stream your social networking content from one central location; it is a work in process. They state that they will be constantly adding new features in the next few months. So far it only supports importing content from Twitter and Facebook, but soon they’ll also be adding support for MySpace and LinkedIn.

Google Buzz is also integrated into each tweet and Facebook status messages. There is a “Post to Google Buzz” link that does just what it says – repost the item to your Buzz account.

Once you connect your accounts, you can see all of your updates (from Twitter and Facebook) on the homepage. Here you can reply & retweet on Twitter content and comment & like on Facebook content. It also shows the current likes and comments on Facebook content.

Commenting on Facebook items is done inline, which is nice – unlike with tweets. Replies to tweets are composed in the box at the top of the page. So, when commenting on Facebook items you won’t lose your place but unfortunately you probably will lose your place when replying to a tweet. This could mean extra scrolling (up and down) when replying to someone.

You can also post tweets and status messages right from the site. Messages can be posted to Twitter and/or Facebook (you decide). There doesn’t seem to be an integrated URL shortener or a way to directly share images or any other content.

There is a filter button on the timeline that didn’t seem to do anything when I clicked it. Maybe soon there will be a way to view just Twitter updates or Facebook updates. The site also seems to be a bit slow when clicking on a button or link.

When you sign up you’ll have a free standard account. There will soon be a PRO account that will offer a lot more. You’ll be free of ads on the site and you’ll also receive priority updates and priority technical support. Lastly, you’ll be able to add 5 accounts per social network. Currently there is not a price (that I could find) for the upgraded account.

People are always looking for new ways to aggregate their social networks, which is why I wanted to try out Vinehub. Even though I think it is too early to tell just how useful it will be, I definitely think it’s worth keeping an eye on. While it’s not love at first site, I can see that it has true potential. What do you think?

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Yahoo Helps Users Track Updates More Easily

Well, I have to say that coming off a long weekend and having nothing to yell at Facebook for (at least to his point in the day) there is precious little else going on in the Internet marketing space. Believe me, I am not complaining because it can be nice when the industry takes a break to grab a little cheese with their whine. In other words, when no one is griping about something then there is not as much news. Just that statement on its own tells you something doesn’t it?

Back to reality though. Apparently Yahoo is working to make its mail service more social by allowing users to track other users more easily. Of course, considering how great these services worked out for Google and Facebook, Yahoo is being pretty cautious. They haven’t provided much in terms of innovation as of late so they last thing they need are changes that would produce a negative backlash.

TechCrunch reports

Here’s the product expansion in a nutshell – currently to see status updates for others in Yahoo Mail, you have to have a mutual follow, meaning both people have agreed to be “friends.” You can then see that user’s Yahoo status updates as well as updates on third party services that they have added to their Yahoo profile as well. In the new version there will no longer be a requirement for a mutual follow. So, like on Twitter, users can follow whomever they choose.

Ok, harmless enough. My question is though, who is using Yahoo to track their social media interactions? I have been a Yahoo mail user for a long time and I just never consider Yahoo for being the one-stop shop for my social media interactions.

Whether or not this is a viable option for you, Yahoo is at least trying to make sure that privacy concerns are not raised.

Yahoo Chief Privacy Officer Anne Toth, who has been with Yahoo since 1998, says that there will be no privacy surprises for users, who can choose to turn sharing on, turn it off, or make more granular settings. One thing users will have to get comfortable with is the fact that most of this data is by definition public anyway. The privacy settings simply allow those users to decide whether others can follow you, and get notifications on new content you’ve created.

So it looks like if anything has come out of the Facebook privacy debacle it’s that at least others have heard the cry of the masses (or just the social media insiders which is what I contend is more like the truth) and privacy is once again sacred……for the moment.

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