The application is about a year old, but a major upgrade late last February put Clipmarks—a browser tool that allows you to save portions of web content for later review—into a new stratosphere of functional social networking. The benefits of the tool are potentially huge. Not only is this a great way to browse content on the Internet by letting it come to you, but it is relatively easy to identify users interested enough in that topic to clip and comment about it. More importantly for academics, it is a wonderful application to aid in consumption of academic journals and abstracts available online.
TweetVolume
Twitter, the status stream tool some refer to as a mini-blog, saw two new integration apps released recently to widen the community. A new Twitter Facebook application—which brings Tweets into the profiles of members of that community—was joined by TweetVolume, a monitor of the public stream of 140-character messages from Twitterers. The biggest gripe I have about TweetVolume is that too few are talking about me. But you can’t shoot the messenger.