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What was once a Mashable exclusive feature may now be available to every blog using the Disqus commenting system. Don’t know what I’m talking about? Social Media Reactions! (See Mashable’s post for an in-depth review: Mashable, Disqus, and UberVU Launch Social Media Comments.) Hat tip to Wayne Sutton for the tip off!

Social Media Reactions By Disqus

In short, social media reactions (formerly Social Media Comments) pulls mentions and comments about your content made on other web services into your Disqus commenting system. For example, if someone posts a comment about your latest post on FriendFeed, Disqus finds it and pulls it into the system as a “social media reaction.”

Head to your Disqus account under Admin & Settings. Scroll down and you’ll find an option to enable Social Media Reactions. Current services include FriendFeed, Vimeo, Twitter, Picasca, Digg, Flickr, Blogg, Typepad, Wordpress, Movable Type, Youtube, and an option for other services.

Comment Fragmentation Who?

I’m not sure if this will pull in comments and mentions made on previous posts. I highly doubt it in any case. I’m not sure how well this works right now, but I plan to test it out on SheGeeks for the rest of the week. So feel free to comment on Friendfeed or Twitter about the content on SheGeeks.net.

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Camera phones are an important part of the future of technology. The following apps will demonstrate with such clarity what half of Asia probably already knows. These are the apps I hope to see in the future as technology evolves. These apps are innovative.

TinEye Mobile Music by Idee

I’m a huge fan of Idee’s numerous search engine projects. They are awesome and great tools for bloggers when it comes to finding unique and creative images for your content. However, their TinEye Music [iTunes] app takes image recognition and user interaction to another level.

From The Site:

TinEye Mobile allows you to search for products using your mobile phone’s camera. Just take a photograph to start your search and view pricing and reviews for products.

Idée’s first mobile release is TinEye Music and is for iPhones only. The next releases will include books, DVDs/movies and games as well as support for multiple smartphones.

And boy does it deliver! The database behind this service indexes over one million visually “fingerprinted” music albums. They plan to bring this innovative service to multiple smartphones and also include searches for books, DVDs/movies and games. TinEye Music provides links from albums on iTunes, YouTube, allmusic.com, and Wikipedia. From song clips to reviews and bios, TinEye Music packs a lot of features in this app. Best of all, it’s free! Check out this demo of the TinEye Music:

SnapTell

Where TinEye Music lacks topics outside of music, SnapTell picks up the pace by offering image recognition services for books, DVDs, CDs, video games. They offer product links from Google, Youtube, Wikipedia, Amazon, IMDb, eBay, GameSpot, Barnes & Nobles, and more. Chris found it to be pretty clever. I think it’s friggin awesomesauce!

Fortunately, SnapTell is available for free on the iPhone, Andriod, Windows Mobile, or just your average cellphone by sending any image to fun@snaptell.com. So it’s pretty accessible right now. Video demo anyone?

And to think, all of this is now available at your fingertips with just a snap from your camera phone.

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This is a guest post by Shawn Kirsch, better known as thattalldude on just about every social network. Shawn is an awesomesauce social web lover who gives great tips and suggestions via Twitter. This is his story on Information Overload.

I am an information junkie. It isn’t enough just to get the information; I have to get it FIRST! I don’t want to be on Twitter 3 days from now and find out about something that happened this morning. I blame Dave Winer. He made it too easy.

The Initial Innocence of The Web

I used to be a regular guy. I played endless hours of basketball. I frustrated my parents countless days as I refined my drumming skills. I hung out with friends. Sure, I knew computers inside and out, and was skilled at bringing new life to PCs running Windows 95/98, but I was really only a part time geek. Besides, when I graduated High School in 2003, the newest computer in our house was a Performa 575 (which I loved dearly).

I opted to go to college at Mayville State University, which turned out to be my mistake. They provided a [Gateway] laptop for everyone to use, but neglected to teach me anything about a computer that you couldn’t learn by using one for a week. Nevertheless, having a laptop and "high speed" internet (complete with bandwidth caps) opened up a whole new world to me.

I spent massive quantities of time surfing the net. With a natural curiosity, and Firefox at my disposal, I learned new tricks, drooled over gadgets, and gained new perspective from many bloggers’ opinions. StumbleUpon guided me to places I’d have otherwise never discovered. I was becoming a proficient multitasker and a bigger geek with each day, right down to my voracious appetite for Mountain Dew.

Tragedy soon struck though. On Thanksgiving Eve, 2003, I was officially informed my National Guard unit was going to Iraq. Within 6 weeks, I was in Colorado training for our mission. Iraq had long lines and time limits for the computers, which left me with barely enough time to check my email, much less scour the net like I had but 3 months earlier.

It would be Sept. 2004 before I finally bought a laptop (HP), after we obtained satellite internet service for our living area. Once again, I spent my free time devouring all I could on the net and quickly become addicted to iCrack as the iTunes Music Store made it way too easy to spend way too much money on all the new music I had been missing.

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