blummi! is a new Twitter third-party application that is being introduced on the Web recently. It harnesses the micro blogging innovation that brought by Twitter and want to bring it to the next level, i.e. social network that based on the tweets. I guess when potential users visit their landing page, they’ll be surprised by what they see after they arrive that blummi! also include the native support of microformat.

What you need to know about blummi! is that it is a Web service which combined features of Twitter and social network. You can track your friends here, probably through the mobile support provided by blummi!, discover new places, share the favorite places by reviewing it with a maximum 140-character, meet new friends, and if you find a friend that share the common interest as you, you can make friend with her/him on blummi!

Currently, blummi! is available in the private beta phase, thus the inquisitive may need to request a beta access to it. In overall, blummi! still very new, not much users right now, that’s why we won’t see any testimonial from the satisfied users in the blogosphere.

The other day I came across a new Twitter third-party application called Easy Tweets. Easy Tweets has a lot of useful built-in services for existing Twitter users. It seemed the team behind it has saw a lot of opportunity in improving Twitter by develop a truly useful features such as multiple Twitter accounts management, tweets scheduling, “Replies” tab shown on the account as well as RSS feeds addition.

Meanwhile, I see the competition has been heat up not only from micro blogging phenoms such as Twitter and FriendFeed, but also from the third-party Twitter app, like Matt and twhirl, that offered multiple Twitter account login features.

Nevertheless, Easy Tweets is currently in private beta phase, to use it you have to apply for an account from them.

Social Oyster is a tool that allowed users to share their Web activities to their friends. In order to use the functionality rendered by Social Oyster, you need to register an account with them which they called it “Your Oysterpass.” After you signing up the service, you can fill-up Your Oysterpass. In other words, your profile completely with all the fields such as your favorite, your business URL, etc. Besides, they allowed you to embed your profile to your Web site or blog through a one-click button called Oysterbutton. On Social Oyster, you’ll find that all the features are labeled with the word Oyster, and I only can decipher about its offering after playing with it for a couple of minutes.

Meanwhile, I believed Social Oyster is a FriendFeed (I will profile this startup in later stage) clone. Though it remains coy as it won’t say what is its ambition and which services it intends to provide in the near future on its Web site, but from the “OysterLine”, you can easily aggregate your Web activities as well as able to find out all your friends’ recent activities from this particular page. In addition, Social Oyster also build a “Public Oysterline” page which allowed users to see all the Social Oyster users’ activities in a real-time basis. The Oysterline is an ajax-realtime-reader, click on the item will bring you to that page, regardless it is aggregated from Flickr, YouTube, or del.icio.us, etc.

Social Oyster hasn’t proved that it can do well in the RSS aggregation at this moment, as I aggregate my Twitter activities to this Social Oyster, all the links appeared to be a long text, not the URL link that I expected. However, Social Oyster is seeking to offer its users a new means of searching user profile on the Web with the launched of a social search engine, users can type an username to conduct a profile search as well as use the “places” to find users in their neighborhoods.

Pikter is a photo and image sharing service that currently targeted at Twitter or Jaiku users. Currently still in Alpha phase, and if you’d like to receive a beta invite, you can leave your email address for them on its landing page.

There are not that many Web applications that let users easily upload and share their photos/images on their Twitter accounts, the most notable is TwitPic, but Pikter expanded its support to Jaiku. It seem that they’ve faced some technical difficulties in working the Jaiku aspect of Pikter’s service, in viewed of its Jaiku’s entry at 28 June 2008, i.e. anyone know a simple way to verify Jaiku credentials via the API using JSON? as well as in its own blog posted in June 30, i.e. Jaiku’s api development site has been down the last couple of days, hindering any opportunity to advance the Jaiku aspect of Pikter’s service.

Nevertheless, I hope that they’ll solve the scripting problems and launch the Pikter beta version as promised in August this month, simply of its motto: Because sharing is nice.

I recently got a private beta access to a new Twitter clone called YouAre. YouAre is a newly launched Web application that launched in the beginning of this year, with the target market of Hispanic community, and then expanded to the English speaking users. As stated in one of their blog posts: YouAre is about to share what you are doing, your interests and your professional profile with your friends and colleagues — and anyone you want to connect with. Despite this definition, I found YouAre somewhat of a Twitter clone, albeit that YouAre is circumvent this users’ impression, by gradually adding a lot features and this has given rise to a new form of micro blogging tool with an idea that sound like this: Twitter + Tumblr + Linkedin + Del.icio.us + our secret ingredient = YouAre.

If you’re not familiar with Twitter + Tumblr + Linkedin, etc. It’s that simple, you only need to remember YouAre is a Web application that help you to summarize what is your profile, your favorites, as well as your Web life at large. Upon you sign-up to this site, you’re allowed to build your own profile, so that your friends you make on YouAre know you better through your online identity. Besides, you also can contribute to the body of knowledge on the Web through your favorites. It means you can import the content you made on your YouTube, Flickr or Del.icio.us accounts, thus the videos (YouTube), photos (Flickr), or bookmarks (Del.icio.us) can be shared in this way to your community.

Why I still insist YouAre is a Twitter clone. From the YouAre dashboard, I believed the core focus of this application is about micro blogging. It’s become a norm that there is a downside to the application if you can’t find a feature that let you update your latest status. YouAre has developed it, not only users are allowed to post text, they also can post video or image links. In comparison to Twitter, Twitter has became a role model to many new applications that emerged on the Web today. Many copycats copied Twitter’s features, and many of them lost their luster eventually, but I hope YouAre will not.