Today, I’m happy to announce the MobiFriends travel community. Built in partnership with Mobissimo, MobiFriends is a social application that creates a next-generation online travel community for Mobissimo users.
Mobissimo visitors can share travel plans and deals, discover fellow travelers, trade tips on favorite hotels, restaurants, bars, museums and activities – all in the context of [...]
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I had a great time talking with Ian Kennedy of Yahoo! and MyBlogLog about we’re using their API to accelerate community building. Ian and the team at MBL are pushing the envelope on open-ness with their API strategy. (Also, they have some cool new MBL stickers — they say “You are [...]
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 [...]
Good times. — we’ve just launched an integration with Pownce. Why? Besides the great name? “Pownce”. Just sounds good. Beautiful design. Lively community. Works great. So now, if you want to talk about a particular ‘thing’ on Thingfo, you can send an [...]
If you’ve come to the site and happen to be a MyBlogLog user, you’ll notice that we just integrated the MyBlogLog API into the service. What this means is that we can recognize public MyBlogLog users and if that’s you, it’s even easier to join. But that’s just the first benefit of our [...]
Kristen Nicole of Mashable just wrote a great post on our new “update from Twitter” feature.
Kristen perceptively says: (my emphasis)
Thingfo had already planned on Twitter integration, such updates [to Thingfo] could be sent in from Twitter. Equally as important, it allows Thingfo to have mobile integration as well. As I previously noted, [...]
We just released another way for you to update any Thing on Thingfo! As the title of the post says, you can now use Twitter to update any Thing, from your favorite web app, or from your cell phone or mobile device. There are tons of possibilities, now that you can update [...]
Hey there! I’m happy to announce that we just opened Thingfo up to the public, with a bunch of new features. What’s new? First of all, you can now associate your Thingfo and Twitter accounts, and send your Thingfo updates over to Twitter. Thingfo sends a formatted post into Twitter [...]
The title for this post makes me think of, “No soup for you!” but really it’s just the opposite. New design for you!
We just launched some design changes to the main “thing” page, based on what our test users asked for. The feedback was pretty consistent and I think the new design [...]
A quick post to say “Thank you!” to the initial group of friends trying out Thingfo during our testing phase. In our first week, we’ve fixed a bunch of little bugs, and most importantly, gotten great feedback and ideas. Please keep ‘em coming. I’m inviting more people [...]
