New Features: FatBird and FWDance. MessageDance introduces new way to blog your tweets

Well we have been too busy working on new features. We added tons of exciting features. Some of those we are announcing today.

MessageDance is an email service. We like to call ourselves social email delivery. We understand very well issues affecting mainstream email services. There is spam, clutter, asynchronous attention issues, and general pain to deal with attachment pain.

With this new release we decided to address non-work related email attachments. We call it FWDance. I remember how our sys-admins used to send emails emphasizing email best practices. One best practice used to be related to handling big attachments. Your colleague's funny lol cat haz message was usually just one click (and one virus) away from bringing high stakes product rollout plan to a grinding halt!


FWDance is a simple service to offload all those non-work related email messages and attachments. Instead of forwarding big ( potentially toxic!) attachments, you are just sharing a url. Your email administrator will come and hug you for doing this. Hey bandwidth is not all that cheap either, so you are saving your company some money.

Talking about money (how about few dollars to compensate for oil price pain!). Now with FWDance you can make money. We are allowing users to embed their own ad. This will show up on sidebar place. Currently we only allow Google Adsense (160x600 ad units) but we will be expanding this to include other networks.

Best way to test drive this feature is to create account in MessageDance, go to Affiliate module and enter Adsense publisher id. Once done you are ready to send attachment emails to <username> @ messagedance.com.

In short,  FWDance is a simple service which lets you forward your attachment emails, share cool stuff with your friends and make money in the process. We think money making part is an awesome twist to the shared email experience!


Along with FWDance, we are also announcing FatBird  Twitter phenomena is amazing, it's hard to define but amazingly simple to use. At MessageDance, we love Twitter community, 140 character constraint based tweets creates good addictive environment. Sometimes profound as well. As recent quake in China showed, Twitter can be put to good use.  Microblogging format can be used for breaking news.
Twitter fits in nicely with our vision to push all forms of expression in a completely decentralized fashion. We call it anywhere to anywhere publishing.  Today we are announcing MessageDance FatBird, a smart way to share browse and share tweets. FatBird allows users to -

- Browse tweets. FatBird does smart url expansion, that creates rich media browsing experience. Current release shows YouTube videos and Flickr pictures. You can even listen to song if tweet has any url pointing to mp3 file. Cool isn't it!




- Take bunch of tweets and blog them to your blog. Yes they come with url expansion.

   
- Share tweets with your friends. Like someone's tweet and feel like sharing it, now you can do that using MessageDance friend network. Tweet sharing notification will show up in all networks where you have MessageDance widgets installed.  Facebook, Myspace, Livejournal, Xanga, Wordpress and Blogger are just some of the destinations where your tweet digest can go.


Also you can do other Twitter-y stuff like REPLY, RETWEET and posting new TWEETS.

I hope you like these new features. As always we would love your feedback. If you are not signed up then please headover to FatBird home page and signup using using Twitter credentials.