Entries Tagged as 'News'

Digital Media Sharing - on the Cream and Clear

March 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Roundup: YouTube to Twitter, Photo-Blogging, Share Email Attachments & more.
We’ve been insanely busy at MessageDance the last few weeks adding features requested by our beta users. The enormous value we believe MessageDance will bring to the social media is starting to take shape. MessageDance is revolutionizing messaging by enabling a single publishing of content to […]

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Tags: Email-to-Twitter · News

From social intent to social ads

February 12th, 2008 · No Comments

This blog post is just to seed some ideas out there.
Idea is to explore how Google search rank along with Google AdWords give valuable trend information. Idea of reaching out to customers and users is nothing new, it’s been going on since man started selling. Thanks to internet, we have more efficient window to analyze […]

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Tags: Google · News · Social Media

Social media measurement - marketing is distributed

January 31st, 2008 · 2 Comments

I was lucky to see Jeremiah’s tweet on Twitter mentioning social media measurement webinar. He was joined by Glenn Fannick of Dow Jones. I joined just about when slide was on distributed marketing. His key takeway point -
“Campaigns are happening off your servers, so you cannot easily measure”
He talked about new attributes […]

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Tags: News

10 things I hate about email

January 24th, 2008 · No Comments

I guess, it’s a lot easier to complain about something. That’s why I didn’t use this headline - “10 things I love about social email”. I love the simplicity of email, Gmail is great for most of my needs. Though it doesn’t allow me to engage with my friends on the social network destinations.
Time […]

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Tags: Email · News · SocialEmail · Twitter

MessageDance now for MySpace, Xanga, LiVEJOURNAL and Blogger

December 29th, 2007 · No Comments

Just in time for Festivus, we have released widgets for MySpace, Xanga, LiVEJOURNAL and Blogger. This means you can have your conversations (and your friends’) show up on all of these sites. This adds to our existing support for Facebook, Wordpress, and any personal website you have. If you want to check […]

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Tags: Email · Facebook · MessageDance · News · Social Media · Widget

We are in private beta! We are running!

December 21st, 2007 · No Comments

Running a startup is like running marathon at the speed of 100-meter dash. We recently finished our first big stretch. If you talk to purists, they will ask you to take it easy and do a warm up run first. Our team did not listen to that.
That quick stretch resulted in a successful rollout of […]

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Tags: Email · MessageDance · News

Your feedback paid off - new MessageDance features

December 20th, 2007 · No Comments

Thanks to all of our “opinionated” beta users who are giving us great feedback on MessageDance. We’ve been cranking away the last week and got some of the new stuff already in production. You asked for a stream-lined Facebook install - done. You asked for a separate widget design for Facebook - […]

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Tags: Email · Facebook · MessageDance · News · Widget

Rise of the Widgets

November 28th, 2007 · No Comments

That title gives me sci-fi visions of an army of Econ-101-manufacturing-units marching over a hill to overtake an unsuspecting fictional Orwellian village, but it is actually the reality of our web today. Other People’s Platforms (OPP - yeah you know me, sorry, had to) is the new web where programs run on top of […]

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Tags: News · Social Media · Widget

Live Blogging Event 11/15 6:00ish - Plug & Play Web 2.0

November 15th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Update 7:30: 1) how did you seed the site? it was done all virally with no marketing spend 2) is language your edge? yes, being global early has helped us grow 3) building platform? yes, we are building one and will partner with google on open social 4) mobile strategy? yes, working on one especially […]

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Tags: News · Social Media

Yahoo and Google open up their email inbox?

November 14th, 2007 · No Comments

Saul Hansell’s post at NYTimes has put email at the center of social networking strategy discussion. “Inbox 2.0 Yahoo and Google to Turn Email into a Social Network” talks about how Yahoo and Google plan to turn their email user base into rich social network experience-
Web-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook […]

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Tags: Email · News