The Social Singularity
From In-Portal Developers Guide
Social software is an application system that facilitates group communication, building and solidifying social bonds, collaborative work. It helps in organizing multi user online games, produce and share personal and collective creation. Nowadays young people, especially teenagers, choose to utilize their free time mainly on social networking websites and in particular Facebook for entertainment. Social networking sites allow users to create their own content and share it with a wide network of people, in some cases globally. There are a large number of such services and content shaped by users, is becoming increasingly popular. These services are targeted at various groups of Internet users, but are used primarily by children and young people. Social networking sites allow users to create and design a personal website, blog or diary using graphics, color, music and images to give it a unique character and identity. On these sites, children and young people share ideas and information about their interests, publish and share their music, receive comments from friends and visitors, publish pictures and videos of their own or their friends' and linked websites other users. Many websites can also interact with their friends in real time via instant messaging services, chat room or forum and can meet new friends, play games online, participate in communities where they have the opportunity to discuss their interests with others and take part in competitions and quizzes. With every day that passes, new ideas come to life and new variations of the existing services become at our disposal. On March a new, long awaited application for mobile phones will be launched. Karmalush is a unique social peer review app which utilizes Facebook's API to authenticate its users. It allows it's users to write anonymous reviews on their "friends". The review then goes into a time period where anyone following the person being reviewed can vote on the accuracy of the review. Based on how the voting goes, points can be awarded to or deducted from the writer of the review or the person being reviewed. The goal is to build up your karmalushies by improving your self awareness and how you treat those around you. This release is fully functional and will be a lot of fun. The next version will include check-in challenges, mobile notifications and additional voting slots. There will be a beta release in March along with the launch of an indiegogo crowd-funding campaign. The first 1000 contributors will be able to instantly access the app. Social media applications have made a huge progress. They changed a lot our way of communication and they constantly keep on changing. They are very important in daily use for a lot of people and as it shows, they will be with us for a long time. For more information, please follow Social applicationsocial singularity