Three weeks passed since our latest release, which was also in the mobile field. I am reffering to our mobile widget for the Vodafone App Star competition in which by the way you can still vote for us, as we are one of the contest finalists
Today’s release is about our mobile interface which let you interact with all your favorite social networks through your iPhone, Nexus One or any other web enabled mobile interface you are using to browse the web. You can see for yourself in our mobile version.
As always, let us know if you experience any problem or if there is something we can do to make your mobile experience better.
April 30, 2010, Filed under: Events — Tags: Vodafone — Nick Papanotas @ 2:10 pm
Today we are very happy to announce that we are one of the eight finalists for the Vodafone App Star Competition. At this point people can vote for their favorite application and that’s how the winner will be decided. Here is a video demonstrating our Vodafone 360 application:
By voting to the contest you will have a chance to win a 360 Samsung H1 phone, so do not hesitate to participate. We will deeply appreciate your vote
As you may know – or guessed – our team consists mostly of developers, which is cool as for the features that we can deploy, but it is really bad as for the presentation aspect of our work. So in the beginning of this year we hired one of the most talented web designers in Greece, Yiannis Konstantakopoulos and the first result is our new homepage. Later Yiannis will help us with the UI of our service and especially the new mobile client that we are developing, so stay in touch for more
In the meanwhile please take a minute and tell us how do you like our new homepage.
Today we are blogging live from the greek wordcamp event, and we would like to announce a new release for the social whale platform, consisting of two plugins, one for wordpress and one for jquery.
The WPwhale pugin for wordpress
The WPwhale plugin is a wordpress plugin that allows you to interact directly with a Social Whale group from a wordpress page. Users can see status updates in real time and they can post to your group and twitter.
The plugin is open source (GPL license) so feel free to make your own adjustments and share them with our community.
Here is a screenshot from the plugin with the default style sheet:
You can download the plugin from here. To install, follow the instructions in the readme file. We will update soon this post with more information regarding the project.
We’ve just released a major update to Social Whale, the applications. The applications is a set of tools which you can use to have a better twitter experience without having to use several third party apps that you can’t trust and without the hassle this involves. At the moment there are eight apps but we are about to add much more in the near future.
Here are some of the most important applications that we have at the moment:
Feed reader
With our feed reader application you can integrate Social Whale with your google reader account, and get new rss items as status updates.
Google Translate
When you activate this application, a new icon will appear in the statuses area which you can use to translate tweets in your language
Ignore Users
Some times you don’t want to get updates from a user for some time. With this application you can ignore this user’s tweets for as much as you want.
Post Later
Schedule status updates in the future. A really important feature for marketers.
Remove Spam Tweets
Bored of getting those “Get 400 followers per day” messages in your timeline? With this app you can ignore them once and for all
In the social web, everything is about status updates. It is very cool how easily people from all around the world can share news or anything that matters using social media services, but yet the real time web becomes a serious time waster for the social media fans out there as it is so hard to keep up with so many services in real time.
I don’t know many people who don’t have at least three social media accounts, and the majority of my friends have at least 8 accounts on sites like facebook, myspace, twitter, etc. (I know my friends are geeks like me )
Anyway for the Social Whale team social media rehab is not an option so we thought to solve the “real time web” problem with another way. We call it “social media integration” and it is actually a feature that allows you to interact with twitter, facebook, myspace, linkedin, friendfeed and identica from one place (you are guessing right, this place is social whale)
At the moment our service allows you to get status update streams from all the above services, and gives you the ability to post status updates to any of them, or just all of them at once! Of course there are still many things to get done but we are looking forward to have your feedback before expanding our service even further. So if you have any comments or suggestions please let us know. After all Social Whale is a community site and without your opinion it is no fun at all.
We hope this new feature will be welcomed by all of you.
Yesterday LinkedIn announced that they are opening their platform for business. Today we have added integration with their service. That means that you can now use Social Whale to update your status in LinkedIn (along with twitter, facebook, myspace and identica) plus you will be able to read status updates from your friends. The last one is a feature that is available only to a few alpha testers but it will roll out to all our users very soon.
To use the new feature just go to the “Settings” from the bottom menu and connect your account to a linkedin profile.
A few days ago twitter announced user lists, a feature that let’s you organize better the people you follow. This new feature works similar to SocialWhale’s lists but as it is much more promising than our own version – even that there are still many things to get done in twitter’s side to make it more funtional – we decided to replace our lists with the ones provided by twitter.
Do you already use SocialWhale’s user lists?
In order to keep the update process better for the users that use our user lists, we have added an import tool that will allow you to import your social whale user lists to twitter. Next time you will login with our service a wizard will start the procedure.
A few things to get done later
In our user lists implementation you could view the lists that a user appeared directly from your timeline stream. Now this is not possible as it requires several twitter API calls (you can only do 150 API calls per hour) We hope that twitter will give us a solution on that later and we can get things back to normal.
Demo
Bellow is a video demonstrating how lists work at the moment. Let us know if we can make this any better for you
A new feature that many of our users have been asked, has just been released. From now on you will be able to check who followed you or quited following you since the last time you’ve logged on to Social Whale. Bellow is a video demonstrating the new feature:
In the social web, everything is about status updates. It is very cool how easily people from all around the world can share news or anything that matters using social media services, but yet the real time web becomes a serious time waster for the social media fans out there as it is so hard to keep up with so many services in real time.
Twitter
