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Official Android App Of Social Video Sharing Service Klip Hits Play Store

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Competing with some of the social networking giants, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google+, isn’t the easiest of the tasks. In fact, the latest update that the Android variant of Google’s very own social network has received makes it stand head and shoulders above the rest. That said, there are certain names that might be not as big as the aforementioned ones, but they certainly hold their own among the users, courtesy of the quality of service that you get from them. Take Klip – a simple, yet well-crafted social video sharing service that has its fans scattered all across the globe. Given the app’s beautifully laid out, thumbnail-laden interface, it won’t be entirely wrong to cite it as the Pinterest equivalent that is purely dedicated to catering for your shared video clips. Klip has its official iOS client available in the iTunes App Store, and the popularity of the mobile app can be determined from the fact that it has been named as Apple’s “App Of The Week” in no less than 15 countries! Wished you had an Android variant to play with? Your wish is now granted, as the official Klip Video Sharing Android app has just recently hit the Google Play Store. Read More

CrowdStream For Android Connects You With Fans & Artists At Concerts

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If you love turning up at gigs, you’re going to love CrowdStream – a free Android and iOS app that claims to connect avid music fans with their favorite stars at live events. In fact, CrowdStream happens to be one of those few apps that are equally popular among music stars and fans. Essentially an event discovery and social network for die-hard music followers, CrowdStream lets its users - both artists and fans - share exclusive photos, comments and feedbacks of live concerts with the world in real-time. Not just that; the app also serves as a one-stop shop for tracking past, ongoing and upcoming musical shows from virtually any part of the globe. In addition, it allows users to search for and follow their favorite performers, and has the capacity to fetch your favorite artist information from your local music library, as well as your Facebook account. Read More

Pinhog Is An Elegant Pinterest Client With Offline Browsing [Android]

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Almost a month ago, we covered Gallery+ for Pinterest, a third-party Pinterest client for Android and iOS-powered devices. While users of both said smartphone platforms relished the visual richness and extensive set of features that the app had on offer, it was of more significance to Android users who’re still awaiting the arrival of the official Pinterest app for their platform. In complete honesty, it’s apps like Gallery+ for Pinterest that help Android users enjoy the Pinterest experience on their devices without missing the ‘real deal’ to a great extent. Fresh to the Google Play Store, pinhog for Pinterest is yet another nice-looking unofficial Android client for the popular pinboard-themed social photo-sharing platform. Combining some of the core Pinterest features with a few of its own, the app vows to cement its place as the best and most feature-packed third-party Pinterest client for Android. Read More

aCheckin For Android: Check In To Games, Discover New Ones & Share Game Progress With Friends

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Google Play Store offers quite a collection of games, but the means to discover, discuss and share your favorite games with the gaming community are few and far between. So, it's always good to see apps like aCheckin hit the store. Simply put, aCheckin is a neatly-built social network for avid gamers, using which they can explore games from the Google Play Store, get game recommendations, check-in to their favorite games, make friends with worldwide gamers, find out what games their friends are currently playing, share game progress with the world, and earn badges for checking in to games. Read More

Movellas For Android: Discover, Read & Share New Stories On The Go

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Whether you’re fond of storytelling or into digesting long, epic tales, you must have, at least once, come across Movellas. Featuring hundreds of stories from almost all popular genres, and collected from avid storytellers from all around the world, Movellas is a social network that lets you fulfill your craving for discovering, writing and sharing interesting tales. The service released its official iOS app in the App Store a while ago, whereas the Android variant has just been rolled out into the Google Play Store. Sporting a slightly Holo-themed interface, featuring an extensive list of categories and underlying stories, and granting you access to its various social activities, the Movellas for Android certainly deserves a look, especially if you have the fervor for storytelling. Read More

Pi.pe For Windows: Easily Transfer Images Between Multiple Social Networks & Web Services

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Sharing is caring. As much as we love to view our favorite photos, we do the same when sharing them with our folks. There are hundreds (or maybe thousands?) of image sharing websites available out there now that allow you to easily upload your files and share them with your friends and family. For instance Instagram has become a limelight of many people's interest lately. If you use multiple photo sharing and social media websites, you may want a cloud data management tool instead that can help you with your online image galleries. Previously, we covered an application for Windows called Migratr that lets you move these pictures to popular photo sharing services including Flickr, Google Picasa, Photobucket and so on. Another one such service that i came across today is Pi.pe. It is a web service that allows you to transfer hundreds of images and videos between multiple social media networks and image uploading websites including Facebook, Flickr, Instagram, MySpace, Picasa, Photobucket and more. Details to follow. Read More

Plug.dj: Internationally Available Tunrtable.fm-Like Social Network For Music & Videos [Web]

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Popular social network Turntable.fm is one of the best ways to share songs online and socialize with music-lovers from across the globe. Unfortunately, it is only available for users in the United States. If you're based outside of the US, and want to experience something similar, then Plug.dj is what you probably need. This social network cum web application lets you explore a wide variety of DJs and tracks, create playlists, join DJ waitlists, join online chatting rooms and choose dancing avatars that express your personality. The app is integrated with YouTube and SoundCloud, which means you have a heavy repository of songs at your disposal. Moreover, you can join or switch between any number of virtual rooms, where you can discover or share music, talk to people from different locales using real-time chat translations! Additionally, Plug.dj features a reward system wherein you can earn points by participating in different activities, like joining rooms, voting for different tracks and you can even get points when people add your tracks to their own collection. Read More

Proximity-Based Group Collaboration App Kibits Released For Android

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Kibits is a cross-platform group collaboration and socializing app for Android and iOS-powered devices. The app, having made its mark among iOS users, has just hit the Google Play Store. Using Kibits, users can easily and instantly create private conversation groups (called Kibits), and invite their friends or nearby users with whom they can share text messages, photos, videos, music files, URLs, locations, and notes etc over the internet. Whether it’s about indulging in private file-sharing activities with just your family members, or collaborating with your workforce that is scattered in various parts of the world, Kibits has you covered. There is no restriction on the number of different groups that can be created or joined, and for all the activities going on within each individual group, the app keeps you apprised through real-time notifications. Read More

Memolane Aggregates A Timeline Of All Your Online Social Media Activities [Web]

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Timelines are great for taking a trip down memory lane. While Facebook has had its own timeline view for a while now, it isn’t the only widely used social media service. For those of us who want a single public, private or hybrid timeline view for all our social media feeds, including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram, Foursquare and many more, there’s memolane, a new web application that serves as a true aggregator for all the supported networks, with an elegant interface. Details past the break. Read More

Social Stock For iPhone Converts Social Media Influence Into Stocks Tradable For Real-Life Deals

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Although the newly released iPhone app Social Stock might appear to be a copy of Klout at first glance, the two services differ from each other in almost every aspect, including the basic concept. Social Stock doesn’t just calculate your social network influence and presence; it aims to let you use that influence in real life to get deals and discounts. For now, the deals part is just a concept, as Social Stock is in its alpha phase and no commercial partners have been added, but still, you can spend a few interesting hours trying to invest in your friends and calculating their social media importance. Social Stock assigns a net worth to all your Facebook friends based on their influence and activeness on social media. The same principle holds true for places, and you can buy any person or place’s shares and reap the rewards if their activity or influence increases. Feeling a bit confused? Head past the break for details regarding this innovative app. Read More

Talpic: Embed Audio Recordings Within Shared Images [Android, iOS]

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If you feel that you can’t get enough dose of multimedia content from the likes of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google + and other social networks, then you should take Talpic out for a spin. Based on the concept of crowd-sourced content-sharing, Talpic is a relatively fresh media-sharing social service available to Android and iOS users. Apart from sharing your own content, you can also explore an endless stream of photo and sound-oriented posts shared publicly by other app users. What makes Talpic unique is its feature to supplement all the shared photos with relevant audio recordings. For instance, if you’re attending a debate competition, not only can you capture and share photos of all the participants, but also a portions of their speeches. Read More

Masatu For Android & iOS: Create Photo Time Capsules At A Location & View In Augmented Reality

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Fresh to the Google Play Store and iOS App Store, Masatu is an innovative and fun-filled social photo-sharing app based on the concept of sharing location-based time capsules. A time capsule created via Masatu can be filled with photos as well as personal messages, and shared publicly, privately or just with selected friends. You can create multiple time capsules, and the content modification privileges of each individual one can be altered to allow or disallow anyone to add their own personal messages or photos to it. In either case, all the content within a capsule can be opened by the selected audience only at the time specified by the creator. Once a time capsule is unlocked, users can view the hidden content in a simple list, or enjoy shared moments through an interactive augmented reality view, provided they are present at the location of sharing at that very instance. Read More

Hojoki Goes Mobile; Now Monitor All Your Cloud Apps On Andorid, iPhone & iPad

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With the multitude of online web and cloud services available at the users’ disposal these days, it can easily become a monstrous task for one to keep abreast with the activities from each individual account in a timely manner. Additionally, the time and effort that it takes to log in and sift through all the various services to check the latest updates can prove to be quite tiresome. This is where all the mighty helpful online data aggregators come into play. Previously reviewed Hojoki is one such very helpful web app that vows to boost your productivity by letting you bring your various social and cloud services under one umbrella. Hojoki presents users with a unified real-time feed of all the ongoing activities across their various online accounts. In addition, it lets you create personal workspaces, invite collaborators, share instant messages and notes with others, and keep up-to-date with all your ongoing projects. Read More

Use CalendApp To Create & Discover Facebook Events In Your Area [iPhone]

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Events might not be the most popular feature of Facebook, but they can certainly bring a lot of convenience to your life, as they provide a way of simultaneously inviting and managing your guests. There are two kinds of events on Facebook, private and public. Public events can be a lot of fun, but the problem with them is that you won’t know of their existence unless someone sends you an invitation, or you search for them specifically on the popular social network. That’s where CalendApp comes into the scene. This iPhone app lets users search for events in their area, or in any other city. You can also use CalendApp to promote your own events, and the app provides a nice way of keeping in touch with your friends’ latest activities. Read More

Google Schemer For iPhone Released; We Go Hands-On

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If you haven’t heard of Google’s social activities sharing and recommendation service Schemer, we don’t blame you. It hasn’t received as much press as it deserves (ironically, we missed out on covering it as well). Better late than never though, and what better time to check this gem out in detail, than upon the launch of its iPhone app. While the Android app has been around for a while, Google has just released the iPhone app for Schemer a few minutes ago, and we’re here to take it on a spin for you. Read on for our full review. Read More

Official LinkedIn Client For WP7 Arrives In The Marketplace, Speaks Metro All Over

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Windows Phone 7 offers deep integration with quite a few services and social networks, and provides a good way of managing and viewing all your accounts in one place. One of the services integrated with Mango is LinkedIn, and many of the features of that social network can be accessed from the Me tile. However, that cannot be considered a replacement for a dedicated LinkedIn client for WP7, as there are many things that can’t be done via the People hub. So, it is good news for Windows Phone users that the official LinkedIn client for Mango phones has finally been released. The app contains everything you may expect from an official client for such a popular service, and has “Metro” stamped all over its gorgeous interface. Read More

Gallery+ for Pinterest Displays The Photo-Sharing Social Network As A 3D Slideshow [Android, iOS]

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The popular pinboard-themed social photo-sharing service, Pinterest, has a mobile client available for iOS users whereas Android users are currently out of luck. That said, the official iOS client of the service isn’t exactly an app entirely worth dying for. There are plenty of third-party alternatives present across app stores of all renowned mobile platforms that not only let you gain complete control over your Pinterest activities, but add plenty of eye-candy as well. One such unofficial Pinterest client that has been around in the iTunes App Store for quite some time is Galley+ for Pinterest that presents you with a neatly-built photo gallery, complete with all the photo and video collections shared on Pinterest in the form of various pinboards. Apart from managing your own Pinterest account and indulging in various customary activities associated with the service, you can also dive into the world of photo-packed pinboards to explore all the underlying images via high quality, animated slideshows. To the delight of Android users, the app is no longer exclusive to the iTunes App Store, as an Android variant has just made its way into the Google Play Store. Read More

Streamified: Merge All Your Social & RSS Feeds With Google+ [Chrome]

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It's always more convenient if, instead of opening social media websites in multiple windows or tabs, you're allowed to view all your social network feeds and updates from one central location. Streamified is an extension for Chrome that gives you an overview of your social networks as well as RSS feeds within Google+. It saves you the trouble of having to visit each social media website by letting you view all the activity from a single window. The extension supports Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Instagram & Google Reader; feeds from all these networks and services can be added to your Google+ stream. This will not only simplify the process of sharing images and links with others, but also allow you to quickly update your status across all selected social media accounts. In short, Streamified provides a one-stop solution to keep tabs on all important social media feeds. More after the break. Read More

Flipboard For Android Now Available For All Devices [Review]

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Once the official Instagram Android app finally hit the Google Play Store last moth, most users (including me) set their sights on another popular iOS-exclusive app, Flipboard – an elegant, customizable magazine style news and social feed reader. Just last week, along with the announcement of the much-anticipated Samsung Galaxy S III, came the news that Flipboard will be debuting on Android as an SGS III-exclusive app. Now, unless you’re one of the lucky few to-be owners of said device, chances are bleak that you’ll be getting a taste of Flipboard on your Android any time soon. That said, XDA member, Valcho, seems to have completely different plans, as he has managed to pull the APK of the much sought-after news reader from his Galaxy S III (a test unit, presumably). So, albeit not officially, Flipboard for Android is now available for download, and is ready to give Google Currents a good run for its money in the race of the best news reading Android apps. Update: A fully tablet-optimized version of Filpboard for Android is now officially available on the Google Play Store. We've added a link to its Play Store page at the end. Read More

Plan Events & Invite Guests Through SMS Using GetTogether. For iPhone

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Event planning is never an easy task, and if you are handed the responsibility of arranging a large meeting, Murphy’s Law springs into action straight away, and everything that can go wrong does go wrong. Technology might not be able to help you too much in endeavours like setting up the table and scrubbing the floors, but if you have an iOS app like GetTogether., you can surely take the first step towards making any event memorable and successful. This iPhone app is designed to let you plan the timings, place and other similar particulars of any event, and once you're done with all that, you can invite all the guests right from within the app. The guests of an event don’t have to be smartphone users, as GetTogether. sends out all the invitations through text messages. Not only does this functionality serve to make the whole process more streamlined, it lets you concentrate on more complicated organization matters by keeping you and your guests in the loop and letting you interact with the whole invited group via broadcasting messages en masse. Read More