Published by mike on Sep 22nd, 2007 in brushfire, examples, fan evangelism with 1 Comment
CNN covered Fox’s marketing campaign for their new hit TV show, GLEE. Their strategy of an early premiere and the embrace of social networking and new technologies like the Thingfo-powered social media game, “Biggest Gleek”, which channels and rewards fan enthusiasm, have payed off.
Some highlights from CNN’s article [with my emphasis in bold]:
The new [...]
Tags: brushfire, cnn, glee, press, social games, social media, thingfo
Published by rafael on Feb 27th, 2007 in mobissimo, mybloglog, platform, press, rafael, social apps, social networks, socialsite, thingfo, twitter with 7 Comments
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 [...]
Tags: abc, abc news, media, socialsite, thingfo, widget
Published by rafael on Dec 8th, 2007 in rafael, thingfo with 1 Comment
Hi, allow me to introduce myself. I’m Rafael, and you’ll be hearing a lot from me. As Thingfo’s new Director of Social Marketing I’ll be blogging and twittering about all things Thingfo, because I care. Pleased to meet you.
I will use this space to explore all the exciting developments underway at Thingfo as we move [...]
Tags: blog, helloworld, socialsite, thingfo, welcome
Published by mike on Nov 16th, 2007 in socialsite with No Comments
Just read a post on Mashable about Wildfire widgets, so using some Twitter keywords, Delicious bookmarks, Flickr and YouTube tags, updates from InciWeb, I made a California Wildfire Tracker Widget using SocialSite. Took me about 4 minutes to tweak the keywords and get great results.
To put this social news widget for tracking the CA Wildfires on [...]
Tags: cawildfire, news tracker, social news, socialsite, thingfo, widget, wildfires
Published by mike on Nov 15th, 2007 in socialsite, thingfo, twitter with No Comments
Hey there! Thingfo’s on Twitter now, meeting people, Twittering about Widgets, and shamelessly promoting our new widget system, SocialSite.
It’s so cool how easy it is to meet people with similar interests online. Then again, I have the SocialSite widget right here in this blog. One of the tags it’s searching is “widgets”, so it brings [...]
Tags: socialsite, thingfo, twitter, widgets
Published by mike on Nov 10th, 2007 in social apps, social networks, socialsite, thingfo with No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: feeds, private alpha, social network, socialsite, thingfo, widget
Published by mike on Apr 2nd, 2007 in platform, products, social networks, thingfo with No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: communities, open social networks, platform, thingfo
Published by mike on Feb 13th, 2007 in press, thingfo, twitter with No Comments
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, [...]
Tags: kristen nicole, mashable, mobile, press, thingfo, twitter
Published by mike on Feb 5th, 2007 in thingfo with No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: new features, thingfo, things, twitter, with who
Published by mike on Dec 19th, 2007 in thingfo with No Comments
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 [...]
Tags: seinfeld quotes, testing, thingfo