http://blog.thingfo.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:14:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.thingfo.com/index.php/2008/07/27/techcrunch-august-capital-2008-%e2%80%94-serious-fun/ 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 ... http://blog.thingfo.com/index.php/2008/07/20/from-social-networks-to-social-applications/ 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 – ... http://blog.thingfo.com/index.php/2008/07/15/thingfo-and-mobissimo-launch-mobifriends-travel-community/ 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 ... http://blog.thingfo.com/index.php/2008/04/11/how-thingfo-uses-the-mybloglog-api-to-accelerate-community-building-interview-with-ian-kennedy-of-yahoo-and-mybloglog/ 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 ... http://blog.thingfo.com/index.php/2008/04/02/introducing-the-thingfo-platform/ 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 ... http://blog.thingfo.com/index.php/2008/03/17/pownce-integration/ 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 ... http://blog.thingfo.com/index.php/2008/03/05/mybloglog-integration-and-more-updates/ 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. ... http://blog.thingfo.com/index.php/2008/02/13/mashable-breaks-news-on-thingfotwitter-mobile-integration/ 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, ... http://blog.thingfo.com/index.php/2008/02/12/update-any-thing-from-twitter-via-web-or-mobile/ 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 ... http://blog.thingfo.com/index.php/2008/02/05/just-launched-twitter-integration-new-designs-with-who-and-more/