Improving app discovery the social way

I love to discover apps for my mobile, tablet, ipod touch, etc and I'm sure most of the others who have such handheld devices feel the same way. While the current app engines like "Google Play", "ITunes Store", "Amazon Apps", "Samsung Apps" etc try to fulfill this in some way or another, it still doesn't fully meet my/everyone's requirements.

For long, I've wanted the ability to know what apps are popular with my friends, and for me to publish what I use in an easy way so that others can see what I've discovered (other than me having to write about it).

Would it be possible for Google/Apple to aid app discovery by allowing my phone/tablet/... to publish the list of (my selected) apps that I have installed on my phone/tablet/... to Google+, Facebook, Twitter (via some URL), etc?

Google+/FB/ (or Google/Apple) then in turn needs to have a way for users to discover the popular apps, categories (and such) in their circles at the aggregate level and even deep dive to individual users.

I terribly miss the capability to share my list of apps in an easy way and/or discover what others are using.

Is this already available and I'm somehow missing it? Or do you know if there are such plans on the cards and it's on its way? If so, when? If not, do you know how it can be brought to the attention of the powers that be?

I feel that it may also be worthwhile to provide a mechanism to indicate the phone manufacturer, model, OS, etc in FB, G+ posts - if users wish to include it - and provide a similar mechanism for discover.

My adsense account disabled! Google Vs Facebook. Social Networking ...

Given the long hiatus from my blog and the apparent lack of a huge readership group, here's what I got!

One thing that bothers me when I have to blog stuff is that I've to think about a title. Seriously! Facebook is much easier with the simple "what's your status?" update. Of course, it's a "closed" group, so I'd end up posting a bit more on it than on a public blog and most of my personal, day-to-day contacts are connected via it - so hopefully, they are a bit more "informed" that what comes via this medium (blog). Does make me wonder that Google is so close to losing it on the social networking front!

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Contacts Management, Social Networking

Any way to easily merge/manage contacts on linkedin, twitter, facebook, orkut, gmail, etc? Need some kind of dashboard that shows information available for each contact (including emails, phone numbers, blogs, etc), provides option to discover/connect to them easily on each of those networks, etc. Need this from web and mobile.

Looks like some of the latest high end smart phones are going this route, though not necessarily sure whether they provide capability to do this on the web as well and how far they are elegant.

Thoughts, suggestions?

And there's goes facebook vanity URL

Hmm, missed to get my first name vanity url on facebook in a matter of 2 seconds or so. So, got my usually available favorite.

In any case, you can reach me on

facebook at http://go.lakkaraju.net/facebook
orkut at http://go.lakkaraju.net/orkut
linkedin at http://go.lakkaraju.net/linkedin

Read
my blog at http://go.lakkaraju.net/blog
humor blog at http://go.lakkaraju.net/humor

Slideshow missing for photos on Facebook

I don't see a slideshow option for the photo albums (appearing in friends' pages) on Facebook. Is it just me or does it strike as odd for everyone ? Or am I missing something ?

On a different note, the wait for facebook profile page must be agonizing for those who have been on the platform for ages and now want to make a mark :)

Flood of social networking, blogger import into orkut ?

So, there's orkut, facebook, blogger, linkedin,twitter that I'm on. Or atleast those that I can remember of. Not that I'm regular on any of these :)

All that I need is one master aggregator that will pull content from all of these and show it to me in one place, along with an ability to publish to each of these (in a controlled manner). Dreaming too much ? :) Anyone have heard of anything like this ? Using anything like it ?

On a related note, how do I publish my blog to orkut ? I found a way to do this for facebook (via the application -> notes -> import external blog). That makes life a little bit easier.