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Iloho Simplifies Networking and Navigation

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iloho.pngIloho announced a new messaging function and site upgrade to simplify networking and navigation for its users. Iloho’s messaging system makes sharing travel information quicker and easier; the new look homepage and instructional landing page simplify site navigation and enhance user experience.

Iloho users can now share travel information and interact more effectively via the site’s own user-friendly messaging system. As well as further facilitating inter-site communication, the messaging system allows members to mail outside contacts, making it easy for users to share information with an even wider group of travellers. Members can access their mailbox from every page on the site through a static “mail” icon in the header.

Navigation on the homepage has also been improved; a newly designed sidebar provides a summary of the different areas of the site and the most popular content from each. From the new sidebar members can also access their account settings, recommended travel podcasts and audiobooks, and the latest deals from isango!, the travel experiences specialist. Iloho’s interactive world map has also been expanded, making searching for destination specific travel information even speedier.

To make iloho more visually dynamic, users can now add an image to the news stories they post. When a user submits a travel story, iloho searches the source for images and displays those available. The user then selects their preferred image for it to be displayed next to the story’s synopsis. Other visual changes include the addition of a rotational “Landmarks” slideshow on the homepage, which will show the week’s most popular user-generated travel photography.

Originally posted on March 4, 2008 @ 6:01 am

Mosio launches Q and A services for the Twitter community

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Mosio announced that it has integrated its live, community-based mobile question and answer service with Twitter. Now anyone can ask questions via Twitter and receive quick, personalized answers and comments in real-time from their personal network of friends and the entire, global Mosio community.

Mosio’s unique, community-based approach provides users with quick, personalized answers and opinions for free on any mobile device, from the entire community or from their friends in real-time. Mosio‘s questions and answers are also fun and entertaining, since users are interacting with live, social responders; irreverent questions often attract equally irreverent answers.

Twitter users can ask questions and have them answered by real people within the community by following www.twitter.com/QNA and then sending direct messages (“d qna your question”). People who would also like to contribute answers can follow www.twitter.com/questionz.

Originally posted on January 30, 2008 @ 6:15 pm

SplashCast inks deal with Columbia Records; releases new features

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splashcast.jpgSplashCast today announced a new partnership with Columbia Records and three major new features to make the SplashCast experience more interactive. New York’s Coheed and Cambria is the first Columbia band to have an artist channel built by SplashCast.

Coheed and Cambria’s channel will also be the first to deploy two exciting new SplashCast features. FanCast, a new mobile publishing feature, will allow the band’s fans to upload photos, audio files and video from their mobile phones to the Coheed and Cambria channel. The second feature that will be deployed first on Columbia Records artist channels is live chat. Fans will be able to discuss whatever is on their minds in real time with the new in-player chat functionality.

Finally, SplashCast also announced today its immediate availability on all channels. SplashCast now offers the only media player online that allows quick, inline messaging to Twitter.

Originally posted on September 13, 2007 @ 2:30 pm

Twitter launches people search

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Twitter, the startup that made social networking slash micro-blogging the ‘in’ thing on the web, launches the people search, an easy way to find twitter-ers to follow.

Whether you’re looking for a specific person (i.e., you can take the chance and search for the complete name), or you simply want to find people within a particular location, or with the same interests, twitter’s people search can work both ways. It searches through profile information such as name, location, bio, and url, and returns your query. The twitter people search field appears on the sidebar of your twitter homepage only when you’re logged in. Search results come out alongside a one-click follow button so you can immediately add people to your friends’ list as soon as you “found” them.

Along with this, Twitter also announces its partnership with MTV for the Video Music Awards next month. MTV Moonman, MWA’s very own icon, will be twittering from Las Vegas during the whole weekend before the music awards night, which will happen on Sunday, September 9.

With more and more micro-blogging platforms sprouting on the web and following its lead, Twitter sure is on a roll to secure its spot.

Originally posted on August 22, 2007 @ 3:49 am

Twitter gets funding from Union Square Ventures

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twitter.jpgTwitter today announced through its blog that they have raised funding from Union Square Ventures.

“From some of his early writing about Twitter we had a hunch Fred Wilson was someone we’d get along with. After we met with Fred and his team, we knew we wanted to work together. As Fred’s written in his post about the news, Twitter is going to use this funding to grow our resources and focus on the important tasks ahead,” the Twitter blog post said.

Twitter will also continue to work with Charles River Ventures. No figures were released about the investment from Union Square Ventures.

Originally posted on July 27, 2007 @ 11:22 am