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New homepage design

March 5, 2010, Filed under: Social Whale — Tags: , — Nick Papanotas @ 8:24 pm

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.

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]

Using twitter’s lists is now possible with SocialWhale

November 9, 2009, Filed under: Social Whale — Tags: , , — Nick Papanotas @ 6:48 pm

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 :)

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 :)

Social Whale alpha release

June 17, 2009, Filed under: Social Whale — Tags: , — Nick Papanotas @ 5:45 pm

We are very excited to announce the alpha testing release for the Social Whale service. During this testing period we will allow only a limited amount of users to use the service so if you want to participate just follow @SocialWhale at twitter, and we will send you an invitation the soonest possible.

This release aims to help us find and fix as many bugs as possible, and see how the application scales in production state. Still there are many features that are not implemented, but the service is full functional. If you are participating in this testing release please post any feedback to the social whale group, or send a dm to @SocialWhale.

If you want to check some early screenshots from our application click the photo bellow:

social whale screenshots

Social whale at the startup 2.0 contest

April 16, 2009, Filed under: Events — Tags: , — Nick Papanotas @ 2:37 pm

We are very excited to announce that our web site is one of the 10 finalists at the european Start Up 2.0 contest. On April 24th we will present our project in a special event that will take place in Bilbao, Spain.

We would like to thank all the people who voted for our project and helped us create a buzz about the event. We will see you in Spain.

In the Press

UK TechCrunch testimonial StartUp 2.0 testimonial

What people say about us

  • Social WhaleThanks for nominating SocialWhale at @shortyawards ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ ✩ http://shortyawards.com/SocialWhale
  • Social WhaleSocial Whale featured at current greek Glamour mag issue http://twitpic.com/ioqte (story by @amalucky)
  • Jason DunnThis new @SocialWhale interface is great for people who use the regular Twitter web interface to learn new features w/o changing the look
  • Eric ParksTwitter via Social Whale. It's a client that "gets" simplicity. Basically Twitter+. Give it a try, follow them for an invite @socialwhale
  • Fotis AlexandrouWOW! @socialwhale is Twitter web interface on steroids! Really really cool . And neat. And useful. And great :)
  • Amalia Agathou@socialwhale can only go one way and that is ☝ ;) great job you guys! You should be proud ;)
  • TechCrunch EuropeSocial Whale wants to bring Digg’s features on Twitter http://tcrn.ch/4nR by @kalavros
  • Jens Reichmannwant to see how #twitter should be? try out http://socialwhale.com #socialwhale #tagthis
  • tasos grSocialWhale rulez. this is how twitter should be
  • Constantine BeliasSomething inspired by the artwork of twitter® for www.socialwhale.com (not official) http://tinyurl.com/ldvfjf [just for fun!]
  • 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!
  • cybereddiewow! Checking SocialWhale right now! it has add sppecial chars, spell cheking, add an image, post to groups - παπανωτα μια χαρα φαίνεται!
  • Thanasis TsaousisΛίγα λόγια για την φάλαινα... (Social Whale) http://twt.gs/Et6zB
  • Thanasis TsaousisRT @SocialWhale Social Whale @facebook. Feel free to join us :) http://bit.ly/hKo5K
  • away_grΝέο post: Αποκλειστικό: Σας αποκαλύπτουμε το Social Whale! http://tinyurl.com/kpoo9s
  • cybereddieRT: @SocialWhale: We just setted up and switched to our new production server. Everything is almost ready for tomorrows alpha release
  • :PRT @SocialWhale: Social Whale @facebook. Feel free to join us :) http://bit.ly/hKo5K