It’s been quite some time since my last post here in Think LAB (getting used with this new name of our blog, stands for Think Like A Beginner).

Got a lot of things in my head to blog. Wedding, Tech, Blogging are some of the ideas. But I’m running out of time and words to write.

While the page views of this blog is diminishing little by little, day after day, I’m doing my very best effort to boost up the page views once again. Gone were the days when this blog was hitting 3000 – 5000 page views and thousands of unique visitors daily. Thanks to Mara Clara. Lol!

Honestly, sometimes, I’m loosing hope that Think Like A Beginner’s page visits will pick up again. Imagine, in the past few weeks, this blog is hitting page views of not more than 100 only. Sometimes, I’m thinking not to continue updating this blog anymore but my conscience is telling me not to.

Can somebody tell me what’s the culprit? Where do we go wrong? Perhaps, I must follow my conscience to continue blogging. I will just hope and pray that someday we will pick up again. By the way, last November 17, 2011 was the 1st birthday of Think Like A Beginner. Belated happy 1st birthday!!!

A couple of days ago, we blogged about a new social network, UNTHINK.COM, which is claiming to be an “anti-facebook” type of social network. And yesterday, we signed up for our very own account with Unthink so we will be able to know what’s really inside, however, joining with Unthink is not as instant as joining a public network where upon joining you will get instantly a confirmation email and then that’s it. You will need an invitation code before you can activate or create your account. Luckily enough, today, we got our invitation code from Unthink.

After the 5-step process in completing your account with Unthink, you will see the message below where you can sense the being “anti-Facebook” of Unthink.:

• the default privacy setting is Private or only visible to owner
• you are not considered a user but an owner settling on the Unthink domain.
• in short, you are in control of privacy which is said to be no. 1 concern with the facebook account

Your Unthink profile is called SUITE. Not the usual “Profile” name. Below is Think Like A Beginner’s Suite.

Your Network Suite with Unthink.com has three types of newsfeed box – iUNTHINK, Social, Lifestyle, and Professional. In each newsfeed box, you can set their own privacy settings or you can assign friends or followers who can read a particular newsfeed box. For instance, if you have a professional group, let’s say your officemates, you can assign them to Professional newsfeed box so only update in this box will be seen by your friends under the Professional newsfeed box.

For now, we will be exploring our Network Suite while Unthink is beta testing their site.

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What can you say about this newly launched social network Unthink?

Unthink.com claims that they are “anti-facebook” and promises to give users complete control over their personal data.

Here’s the reason why they claim themselves as an “anti-facebook” social network:

1. Unthink makes all user data private by default. Users may then allow others to see the information they want public, and keep private anything they want private.
2. Unthink doesn’t sell user data to companies. Instead, users can choose to have specific brands “sponsor” their pages. Any users who don’t want corporate sponsorship can pay a $2-a-year fee to use the service.
3. Unthink users may choose how brands communicate with them via a section that’s totally separate from their regular information stream.

Wishing that Twitter would have an IM or chat feature so you can talk with your Twitter friends right then and there?

Wish granted! Tadan!

Bonfire, a third-party app which just launched today, made this “chatting” or “IM-ing” possible with Twitter. This app adds an IM-style chat to twitter.com and can be downloaded as an extension for Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari browsers. Bonfire lets you know which users are online as long as they have Bonfire installed, too, and allows you to chat with those users you follow.

Screengrabbed from Bonfire.com

We tried to install the extension to try the power of this app, however, currently the server is “mega” busy so you won’t be able to make it work right now.

If this app interests you, you may download the Bonfire App extension here.

Looking for a free Twitter Management Software? Here’s for you.

Twitter management software is a tool that puts your Twitter activities in automation. In short, it can automatically do your tweets, retweets, follow back and unfollowing, and direct messaging.

There are numbers of Twitter management software available for download in the internet but most of them are not free. You have to pay for their license. There are free applications, however, but mostly, they are web-based only.

However, there’s a twitter management software that you can download and use for free. Yes, it’s for free and, personally speaking, one of the reliable twitter management applications. It is called MarketMeSuite.

I once used MarketMeSuite but during those times, it was a paid one. I think the price before was $5 per month and I only used it for a couple of months.

And recently, I received an email from MarketMeSuite informing me that this application is now 100% free. With my amazement, I downloaded the apps again and installed it in my PC. See below how the interface looks like:

What can we do with MarketMeSuite?

Some of the features of this application are as follows:

• Update Twitter, Facebook & Many more using Ping.fm
• Take advantage of the increased Twitter Api Rate
• ReTweet in the style you want – Twitter Style or YOUR Style
• Manage your conversations, @replies and Direct Messages Easily
• Manage multiple Twitter and Facebook Accounts with Ease
• Use Scheduling to save time and effort for more important things
• Geo Target your Twitter Campaigns to find Local Connections
• Allow multiple users to login to MarketMeSuite at any time
• Receive a daily email on your mentions of the day
• Use any Google Calendar supported device to schedule on the go
• Get more clicks back to your website by setting up a Facebook Signature
• Schedule, Manage and post scheduled Facebook Updates
• Search for and keep persistent searches for topics, editable for each column
• Use a variety of different URL shorteners with more being added all the time
• Connect with people all over the world, or local with our unique targeting features
• Your data, settings, and accounts will all be synced ready to go on any computer
• Say “No!” to Twitter spam, can it right inside our app using Twitter Spam Features
• Auto Direct Messages to get networking as soon as you’ve followed back
• We use OAuth secure encryption, your Twitter logins stay private
• Ping.fm integration to message other social networks in one swoop
• Organize your Tweets with Dotted Content – Perfect for Team Collaboration
• Monitor your progress with Klout integration – see how YOUR social influence increases using MarketMeSuite

If you’re planning to expand your influence by getting more followers in Twitter and don’t want to spend even a single dollar, MarketMeSuite is for you.

Get MarketMeSuite for free now!

Should you have queries about MarketMeSuite, just leave your message in the comment box below and we’ll do our best answer them as soon as possible.

It’s quite late now and I’m still thinking of what to post when I bumped into this photo in Facebook:

Looks non-sense at first but the friend of mine commented that there is a CAT in this photo. My first attempt was unsuccessful. I really couldn’t find the CAT so I left this photo for a while and watched a movie entitled “Friends with Benefits” starring Justin Timberlake (Social Network) and Mila Kunis.

After watching the movie, I went back to find the CAT again and presto, in less than 3 minutes, I was able to find the CAT.

Where is the cat in the photo? Were you able find it?

Yesterday, I watched Facebook F8 Developers Conference via its live streaming in its own fan page. Here, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, discussed about some changes that will take effect in Facebook. And one of these is the re-imagination or re-invention of your profile or your Facebook profile through the use of TIMELINE.

Timeline tells the story of your life (or at least the part on Facebook) in three parts: Your stories, your apps, and a new way to “express who you are.” Stories appear at the bottom of the page, in the middle there are tiles to display all the apps and things you done with them, and on the right is a toggle displaying years where you click your time of choice to see what  someone was doing way back when.

You can check out the recap of this conference via Digital Trends.

Facebook TIMELINE is currently available in beta stage, however, only developers (apps developers) can try to use it. Does it mean we have to wait for how many weeks before we experience this TIMELINE thing? Of course not! If TIMELINE is available to developers only, then make your status as developer. Getting a developer rights on Facebook is very easy.

Here are the few steps on getting the developer status on Facebook (via Digital Trends):

1. You need developer access, so visit this link to start the process.
2. Click “create a new app” and name it whatever you want. You’ll need to agree to the Platform Privacy Policy and then click “continue.” You’ll then go through a CAPTCHA.
3. Then go to your app’s main settings screen and find “open graph” on the left hand side. After that, you’ll be send to “getting started using open graph.”
4. Then test it. Type in any verb into the first box and any noun into the second and click “get started.” Then you’ll be taken to a new page where you should change default settings to whatever you desire. You’ll have to click through a couple pages of settings.
5. Next time you go to the Facebook home page, there will be the option to try out Timeline on your homepage. If it doesn’t happen immediately, be patient, but this trick worked for us.

I tried those steps above and it became successful. My Facebook profile is now on TIMELINE. However, only developers will be able to see your new timeline during the developer release.

Screenshot of my Facebook Profile, now in TIMELINE.

What can you say about this re-imagined Facebook profile? Hope to hear from you.

Yes! Twitter is now available in Tagalog (major dialect being spoken in the Philippines).

Twitter’s blog announced today that they launched five new languages – Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Hindi, Malay and Tagalog. With these new languages being added, Twitter now supports 17 languages, making it more accessible to almost half a billion people around the world.

Below is the screenshot of our twitter page in Tagalog format.

See how English terms were translated to Tagalog:

• What’s happening = Anong nangyayari?
• @Mentions = @Mga Banggit
• Who to follow = Sino ang dapat sundan
• Trends = Mga Nauuso
• Searches = Mga Paghahanap

I am bothered with this ads popping out from our website. It says “Google Pays me $129 an Hour…Google has blessed me with a $4,800 a Month Income”.

I tried to search from the world wide web on how to remove this and detect what’s causing this ads to pop up but I can’t find one good answer to solve this problem

If you’re a blogger or one who maintains a blog, perhaps you encountered the same problem and was able to solve it, may we ask your help on how to remove this pop up ads?

Looking for some channels to share or boast of your own music or arrangement and build a community that follows your self-composed tracks or music?

Or you’re just wishing to find some sound or music that you can download for free for your project?

Or simply listen to music that is not “commercially” distributed?

Then, SoundCloud.com is for you.

Sound Cloud, as described in its website, is a “platform that puts your sound at the heart of communities, websites and even apps”. You can also watch conversation, connections, and social experiences happen, with your sound as the spark.

How does SoundCloud work?

Sound Cloud works on three ways:

1. Visualize your sound. When you upload your sound, you can see the sound waves that visualizes your stuff and people can post a comment and at the same time you can post your reply to their comments. It’s like Twitter and Facebook for sound.
2. Share it anywhere. You can share it privately to your family or friends, publish to social networks or embed your sounds on your site.
3. Connect with over 100 apps. In the App Gallery you’ll find over 100 apps for desktop, web and mobile all built to amplify your SoundCloud experience.

Demo-2 by grnmchn1

Thanks to Green Machine (grnmchn1) for allowing me to share his work of art here in Think Like A Beginner. By the way, it is through Green Machine I came to know about Sound Cloud. He is a friend from Israel, an IT guy and DJ by profession. When you sign up with SoundCloud, please follow him. Good thing about this guy and his music is that you can download them to your desktop for free.

So sign up now and please go back to this site and place your comments here about your experience with Soundcloud.