Archive for the ‘social networks’ Category

Startup Lucky ThingFo Interview

Great video of Mike getting inteviewed by Startup Lucky’s Aronado Placencia on Cinco de Mayo. Mike talks about ThingFo and has some really interesting things to say about getting a startup off the ground. Aronado is an excellent interviewer, he has great energy and an understanding of the startup scene. Plus, we always [...]

The Daily Galaxy Uses SocialSite to Bring News From Planet Earth… And Beyond

Scientists have discovered hundreds of Earths, our brains have a “memory switch”, DNA encryption will save our secrets and pollution-fighting Robo Fish will save the oceans.
That’s just today’s news on The Daily Galaxy .
Covering the awesomest cutting-edge science clearly and with a great dose of enthusiasm, this awesome blog custom-made themselves one of our [...]

ABC News Bring Themselves Into the Social Web With SocialSite

During President Obama’s first address to a joint session of Congress, ABC News featured our SocialSite system on their main and politics pages. During the historic address, which dealt primarily with Obama’s plans to deal with the current economic crisis, a prominent SocialSite widget followed all the Twittering about the speech. We think this shows [...]

SocialSite badge system — git yer private alpha codes!

We have new toys for you.
With our new SocialSite system, you can create a custom, people-powered content feed for your site that provides great content and connections for your visitors — in minutes.
You control what content shows up and how your badge (aka widget) looks.  For example, your badge (also called widgets) can contain [...]

TechCrunch August Capital 2008 — serious fun

Kick-ass roof deck? Check. Blazing Valley sun? Check. Add 1100 attendees from the tech startup world ranging from entrepreneurs, bloggers, vloggers, venture capitalists, strong mojitos and a couple of rappers (MC Hammer and Chamillionaire), and you have a must-attend Silicon Valley event.
Thingfo’s partner Mobissimo sponsored a table to demo our new [...]

From social networks to social applications

Thingfo and Mobissimo just launched MobiFriends, described as an online travel “collaborative community” by Mashable, and as a “travel social network” by TechCrunch.
I think MobiFriends can also be described as a “social travel application. ” How so? MobiFriends is an app that helps people do some key things, all in the context of Mobissimo’s [...]

Introducing the Thingfo platform

Today, we are introducing our thingfo platform. By introducing, I mean blogging about it and launching a new site at http://www.thingfo.com, while moving the Thingfo community app to http://things.thingfo.com, where it lives on and will get more attention in the future.
What is the Thingfo platform? It’s a widget and API system that [...]