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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.

Social Whale now uses oAuth

June 24, 2009, Filed under: Features — Tags: , — Nick Papanotas @ 12:15 am

Recently we decided to use oAuth with our service in addition to the basic login system. To login with oAuth, just go to the login screen and click on the “Continue with oAuth” link. After clicking the link you will be redirected to twitter and you will have to allow the Social Whale application to use your account in order to continue.

Please notice that the oAuth login feature is still experimental – even the oAuth protocol itself is under development – so please let us know if you have any problems while using this new feature. IMPORTANT: The oAuth implementation we use now is using cookies. That means that your session will never expire, so in case that you are using it from public pcs, make sure to logout before exiting your browser.

Trending topics & saved searches

June 19, 2009, Filed under: Features — Tags: , — Nick Papanotas @ 6:45 pm

We’ve just added a new feature in Social Whale, trending topics and saved searches from twitter. Now whenever you click on the search input area, you will get your saved searches and the current trending topics.

saved searches & trending topics

Still there is more work to get done in this area, as we also want to offer “local trending topics” which is actually the trends for your timeline. In other words in the next update you will be able to see trending topics that the people you follow are talking about.

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