Invites - Tripwolf

Tripwolf is a traveling journal/social network that service as you guide and trip planner. The information is provided by other travelers, as well as local guides and experts.

They are only letting few hundred people at a time. So get in while you can.
http://www.tripwolf.com/invite/backdoor

Popularity: 4% [?]

Helicopter birthday cake

Now that’s a cool birthday cake. A cake shaped like a helicopter with a functioning rotor. Sweeet!!!!

You can find the instruction on how to make your own here on Instructables, an awesome do-it-yourself site.

Popularity: 9% [?]

Alert Thingy - maybe not!

Lately I have been hearing a lot of noise about the Alert Thingy. A desktop client, build on Adobe AIR, which allows you to monitor updates on your FriendFeed, and as a side bonus of its latest release you can also post to Twitter and Flickr. FriendsFeed, for which Alert Thingy was build, is profile activity aggregator. You sign up with FriendFeed and add the usernames to a number of web services like Twitter, Pownce, Jaiku and number of other others. Then when there is any activity on the linked profiles, it is distributed to FriendFeed and any other site via API or a RSS feed. FriendFeed takes those feeds and mashes them up into one.

Image via WikipediaBut back to Alert Thingy. The app has been hyped up so much by Michael Arrington, the founder of TechCrunch, in the last two weeks that I decided to turn off my Twhirl and try it out. As I finished installing it, Twhirl had an update, so I installed it, too. Looking through Alert Thingy I found myself with very limited options and customization choices. I mean Alert Thingy counterpart, MySocial 24×7, which is a Firefox plugin, offers more options. Yes Twhirl requires two different windows for each service, but I will stick with it. Especially after tonight’s update, which added few new features, and now I can get my FriendFeed through it as well. Not that I care much about FriendFeed, at least at this time. If anyone is interested in adding me as a friend on FriendFeed, this is my profile.

So Michael, why all the hype? Other than freeing desktop space, I just don’t see how Alert Thingy is better than Twhirl.

Popularity: 7% [?]

Invites - UGame network

I have 5 invites for the Facebook for gamers community site UGame Network.

UGame is a community site, currently in its beta, which functions like Facebook, but for gamers. The site allows you to upload pictures, share your achievements, rate games and create groups (private and public). In my opinion, the site is nothing special. If you are a Facebook addict, there are apps that you can install if you want to connect with other gamers.

Popularity: 8% [?]

Invites - Social Thing

I have 20 invites to Social Thing.

It is another friends’ activity aggregator, similar to FriendFeed, but with fewer features. At least for now. Looks like the developers are working on adding more monitored services. But since I visited it last, a month or so ago, there haven’t been any new choices. When adding micro blogging services, like Pownce and Twitter, you are able to post to them from inside Social Thing, but that’s something you can do now-a-days from any integrating site.

Popularity: 6% [?]