Archive for October, 2008

Responses to Yoono’s Latest Announcement

Friday, October 31st, 2008

As many of you know, we announced some big changes at Yoono. I’ll talk more about these later but the primary points are that we are releasing a version of our popular sidebar to users of Internet Explorer. We also made some big changes to the user interface of Yoono to make things much easier [...]

Show us Your Skin! [CONTEST]

Friday, October 31st, 2008

The next version of Yoono is going to have an awesome new feature. We’re adding an array of skins that make Yoono more customizable. The skins will come in a variety of color schemes and custom looks but we’d like to turn the creative muscle over to our community to see what they come up [...]

Tweets and Dreenks: November Social Drinkup

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

Yoono and CrossLoop present Tweets and Dreenks! This month, we’ve moved a to MarsBar (http://marsbarsf.com).
We’re buying a few hundred dollars in drink tickets good for beer and well drinks. Look for the Yoono and CrossLoop t-shirts. We’ll be giving out Schwag and drink tickets in the patio area (weather permitting).
*FYI: THE TWITTER HASHTAG FOR THIS [...]

Yoono in StartupSchwag November

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

A month ago, we started discussions with Roddy over at StartupSchwag.com to include some Yoono gear in their monthly packages. We decided to give it a try and had some stickers included. Our stickers went out to 500 subscribers and we now see some photos coming in from Flickr with the Yoono Sticker included. Just [...]

Announcing Social Calenario!

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

I attend bay area tech events on a daily basis and these events make San Francisco very attractive to startups because it gives us geeks the ability to step away from the computer and meet people with similar interests. Tech meetups & parties help to breed innovation and is a fantastic extension of social media. [...]

We’ve heard your feedback

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

Yoono is an amazing multi-purpose sidebar for Firefox and I’m authoring this blog because when I started using it back in May it changed the way I connect with friends online, listen to music on Last.FM and bookmark websites. Not everyone favors the current look and design of Yoono. A lot of people love it, [...]

Tweets & Dreenks: A Huge Success!

Thursday, October 16th, 2008

 Last night, October the 15th, we partnered up with Hubpages to host Tweets & Dreenks. it was a huge success. Nearly 70 people came out to have some drinks with us and talk about social media, Web 2.0 and we were able to get feedback from our very valuable users. The event started at 6PM [...]

Love Yoono? Use Wakoopa!

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

I started using Wakoopa 2 months ago and it’s been a fun way to track my computer usage. Wakoopa offers an installer for Mac and PC and eventually Linux that sits on a very small amount of ram to track your usage patterns of software and what websites you visit. The privacy can be completely [...]

It’s All About Connections

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

With so much exposure and transparency on social networks, it’s important that companies are attentive to their user base and the person acting as community manager or chief of customer service needs to be aware of the various outlets that their customers will be sounding off.Â
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I follow Twitter, Technorati, Google Blog Search, Google Alerts and [...]

“Yoono It Makes Sense”

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Sharron Field, another friend of Yoono’s posted an excellent blog entry today on PCMech about Yoono. Here’s a blurb:
The versatility and potential of this add-on is only limited by screen-space in all reality. This type of App brings cloud-computing together into a multi-faceted indexed and easily accessible medium which is both convenient and fairly easy [...]