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Social Whale group plugins

January 30, 2010, Filed under: Events, Features — Tags: , , — Nick Papanotas @ 3:00 pm

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 see a demo at the wordcamp’s web site

Download

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.

Now you can do even more with Social Whale (applications release)

December 28, 2009, Filed under: Features, Social Whale — Tags: , — Nick Papanotas @ 3:18 pm

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

You can check our youtube account for videos demonstrating those new apps and we would like to hear your opinion on these applications. In case you have an idea for a new application let us know.

Best wishes for the new year that is in front of us :)

It’s all about status updates

November 30, 2009, Filed under: Features, Social Whale — Tags: , , , , , , — Nick Papanotas @ 5:30 pm

SocialWhaleIn 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.

[official press release, image credit]

LinkedIn integration

November 25, 2009, Filed under: Features, Social Whale — Tags: , — Nick Papanotas @ 5:45 pm

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.

Social media integrations

social whale firefox extension version 1.1

October 13, 2009, Filed under: Features, Social Whale — Tags: , , — Nick Papanotas @ 11:13 am

We’ve just released the version 1.1 of our Firefox extension. The new version has a few new features which may be handy for twitter users:

  • Right click to any image or link on a page and get a short url
  • right click on highlighted text and copy it to clipboard with the short url to active page

Of course all the features of the version 1 still apply.

Bellow is a video showing how it works. Feel free to download the new extension from here and let us know how do you like it in comments :)

New feature: Check new and quited followers since your last login

October 6, 2009, Filed under: Features — Tags: , — Nick Papanotas @ 2:54 pm

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:

Use Social Whale with your favorite url shortening service

September 23, 2009, Filed under: Features, Social Whale — Tags: , — Nick Papanotas @ 12:12 pm

We’ve just released a new feature that will help you use Social Whale with your favorite url shortening service. So if you do not like our default service you can use one from the bellow:

  • twt.gs
  • tinyurl.com
  • is.gd
  • digg.com
  • bit.ly
  • snipurl.com
  • tr.im
  • budurl.com
  • cli.gs
  • su.pr
  • l2s.gr

Bellow is a video demonstrating the new feature, and how you are using it. In case we missed your favorite url shortening service, let us know so we can add it too :)

What about posting at twitter, facebook, identica, myspace and friendfeed with one click?

September 11, 2009, Filed under: Events, Features, Social Whale — Tags: , , , , , — Nick Papanotas @ 4:00 pm

Today we are blogging live from the Vodafone Greece devCamp. To make this event even better we’ve just released a new feature to our application which we are going to insert in our Betavine client at the developer workshop today.

From now on you can use Social Whale to send status updates in all your favorite social networks. At the moment this new feature is available for twitter, facebook, identica, myspace and friendfeed. In addition this new feature allows you to connect to other social networks as well, something that will be used to your extended profile page (the extended profiles is under construction so expect a post here later about it)

For instructions how to use this new feature just watch the video:

What comes up next? Well we are about to play more with social networking services and give you the ability to read your streams from them as you do for twitter now. In other words we will try to expand our service and make it an one stop place for all your social media needs. As this is a feature under development you can help/participate by letting us know of your opinion. Any idea is more than welcome, and after all Social Whale is a community web site, meaning that your opinion really matters to us :)

Social Whale now has user lists

September 3, 2009, Filed under: Features — Tags: , , — Nick Papanotas @ 5:37 pm

A new feature that many of our users asked has been just released, user lists. With this new feature you can group your friends to lists and then fetch custom timeline feeds.

For instance you can create a list with your close friends and when you need to know what are they doing you can just check without visiting every individual’s account separately. This may be handful for people that have many friends in twitter.

Bellow is a video that demonstrates how user lists work. Hope you will enjoy this new feature. More are coming soon :)

New feature: Hashtag definitions

September 1, 2009, Filed under: Features — Tags: , , — Nick Papanotas @ 1:24 pm

Today we’ve released a new feature, the hashtag definitions. Whenever there is a hashtag in your feed, there will be a little “info” icon which you can click and get more information about the hashtag (definition and statistics)

Bellow is a video demonstrating how this works:

This feature is powered by what the hashtag, a service that is dedicated to provide more information about twitter hashtags.

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  • Sebastian KomianosCongrats to the @socialwhale guys, their "service" looks quite interesting and promising, to say at least. Looking forward to its evolution!
  • annnahas installed a new extension, #Social Whale Extension, into her firefox
  • Social WhaleThe first @SocialWhale group is here. In the next 2 hours we will start inviting people :) http://twt.gs/bvsS8
  • sotomi@humaworksSEO Βρήκα εκπληκτικό κ πολύ εύχρηστο το #socialwhale FF addon. Το χρησιμοποιώ. well done!
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