MessageDance allows you to share messages, tweets, photos, links and videos. Share them from your email, your favorite social network and from your phone.
MessageStream is MessageDance's social inbox. All messages as they come to MessageDance - messages from friends, messages you send out, your status updates, etc.
This post is been in sitting a queue for a while and today I get a time to write about it. As most of us know Twitter is the new way of looking at the news. Well I should say it is new age media now. There is certainly a media shift happened in last few months around twitter. We get to see breaking news on Twitter before A-listers of the media. Lot of mainstream bloggers using twitter more often than ever. Even though there was quite bit of apprehension about whether twitter can go mainstream or ready to go mainstream, according to me ga...
Verbs 2.0 -- tweeting, digging, blogging, emailing (ok, that one is 1.0) -- can now make you some extra change for doing what you do already. All you need to get is a Google AdSense account and add it to your MessageDance profile. Send YouTube videos, Songza songs, Digg articles, Amazon product recs, and emails to Twitter (and any of your other social networks) and when people click through to your message detail on MessageDance.com, your AdSense ads will show on the right side bar. The impressions and clicks are all yours! Imagine, when yo...
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 be...
It's probably been over two years, but I actually clicked on one today. Because Gmail thinks I'm a spammer, I've been getting tons of delivery failure messages. Gmail served up an ad for help (for a price) for getting email accounts off spamming blacklists. Geez, talk about a perfect revenue scheme for Google. Practically shut down a user's account and then serve an ad for a vendor to help you fix it. Righteous business model. Not evil? Despite Google's AdSense victory over me today, it has been a very, very long time since I clicked on an a...
It's always refreshing to see good discussion on the big picture. Fred Wilson started this thread sharing his social media vision. "every single human being posting their thoughts and experiences in any number of ways to the Internet." This vision is brilliant in it's simplicity but it's a big shift in the grand scheme of human expression. I am sure there will be enough theories on how far reaching change this simple transformation will bring. We are in first inning here. We have seen the impact of social media on ma...
I will admit I thought the Apple Store was a bad idea when they first opened. I saw them going into high-end shopping centers like the store in Walnut Creek, CA located next door to a Tiffany store. How could a traditionally low-margin business justify expensive-as-hell retail locations? I figured Apple expected these to be just cost-of-sale demo centers / brand-builders and never expect the stores to be profitable. Again, I admit I was wrong. When Apple choses a location, they do so with the requirement that it be profitable within a year ....
Stephen Baker and Heather Green has a great overview on the evolution of blogging . Read that to get a historical overview of bottom-up publishing revolution. Blogging has influenced many power structures - be it mainstream media, entertainment industry or research based business. By enabling easy publishing and non-intrusive (RSS) reading model, it created classic non consumer market out of moms, dads and every other average joe who has something interesting to say. Blogging is in it's phase 2. It's purpose and benefits are all clear and mains...
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With the Safari browser and the iPhone's sweet touch screen functionality, I can look at any web page and do what I would do on a laptop. Granted, browsing on the AT&T Edge network can try your patience, but when connected to wi-fi (and soon 3G), the browsing speed is perfectly reasonable. So, it bothers me somewhat when I land on a site and they serve up an "optimized" UI for mobile devices (try MSNBC from your phone). Typically, there is less functionality available to you and in the MSNBC's case, it won't let you switch to the standard UI ...
