Demo Girl

If you’ve jumped on the FriendFeed/Twitter wagon but you’re not all that impressed with Alert Thingy or Twhirl, then you may want to have a look at MySocial 24×7.  It’s a Firefox Extension that allows you to connect with your FriendFeed account in your sidebar.  You can view what your friends are posting all around the Web, share links, add comments, and even reply to Twitter from MySocial 24×7.  It’s really a handy way to quickly see what you’re friends have been up to, especially if you don’t want to download applications like Alert Thingy or Twhirl.  Here’s my screencast tour of MySocial 24×7:

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Walabok allows you to receive video or audio messages from your blog readers or email recipients.  All you really need to do is add a Walabok button to your website or insert it into your email signature.  There is no sign up either – just enter in your email address and Walabok will send you the code to copy and paste into your site or email.  When your blog visitors or email recipients click on the button they’ll be able to quickly send you a video or audio message.  You’ll be notified of Walabok messages through the email you initially provided and all of your videos are stored in a Walabok account.  You can play them over and even reply with a video or audio message.

When I initially went to Walabok.com I was disappointed because there’s not much there to look at.  I decided to enter my email address into the little box to see what would happen and I was pleasantly surprised.  It’s an easy way for almost anyone to leave you a video message, with little or no effort.  Here’s my screencast tour of Walabok:

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CamTwist is an application that allows you to add special effects to webcam video.  It works with services such as Stickam.com, Justin.tv, Ustream.tv, and Skype and adds effects like bubbles, flames, earthquake, and bullet holes (sweet!).  It requires OS X 10.4 and is completely free to use.

I don’t own a Mac, but thankfully I found a screencast put together by David over at Tech-Recipes.  There’s a YouTube video below and a higher resolution video here.  If you know of any Windows compatible software that compares to CamTwist, please share in the comments.

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