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Sunday, April 13, 2014

Used Instagram?

Hi!

It's most thrilling to announce that Tapmate is finally ready! What is Tapmate? It's the most powerful self expression tool you'll find online. It's the answer to your "like" button woes. It's a quick and fun way to bounce pics around with your friends. They get to guess your reaction and taste.

To use Tapmate you'll need an iPhone or a Android device for now. 


This is where to get started with your phone. The Android app just received a huge update to the way you receive images from friends and we hope to bring this to iPhone soon.

The only thing you need to know to get started is this: You tap the big image to express yourself. The sliders will then show that the upper half is like and the right half is share. Tap again to guess the next persons reaction. 

How can you help? Glad you asked! Tell your friends to tell their friends! Write a review! Rate it five stars. Have fun!

Tapmate is in pre-release but pretty intuitive and ready for use. Please reply here with any praise or feedback.
 
Be well,

Elias Moosman 

Youiest LLC

UAE +971566744336
USA +19177250603

Tapmate - Powerful Self Expression

Get for Android & iPhone here: 
http://Tapmate.Youiest.com

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Gmail vs the future

I'm fanatical about the promises of the social web. I wish they materialized tomorrow! But they won't. This post isn't about what we're working on, but finding bits and pieces of the future, available today, and making the best of it. Today I'm interested in how we all maximize our experience of Gmail.

Pro-Filtering?

I'm assuming you know all about gmail filtering, or how to google it ^^ Here I'm more interested in that additional edge. Here are a few quick hits I found smoothly saves a bundle of time. Got any of your own?

Use code words

I include one unique tag word for quick notes and one for long term storage of information.

This way you'll be able to find it way after you forgot all the specifics.
These days there's so many access keys, times/dates, confirmation numbers and who knows what else to keep track of. Just include the code word when forwarding or send the info to yourself in an email. Search is still king I'm afraid... You just need to know what your're looking for.

Filter code words into "code" label

Just including the code word is way quicker than labeling, especially from a mobile device/blackberry.
Finding "multiple inboxes" from labs works great with this. Also, guilty as charged, I use android's shortcut to gmail label to skip right to my latest info. One touch of the screen...

My inboxes below, what are yours?

  1. Family
  2. Company
  3. Billing
  4. Code, for code words (archived)
  5. Social Alerts (archived)
  6. Newsletters, commercial etc(archived)
One great thing about this is that the number of emails in your inbox doesn't matter. You could have 2000 or have archived them all. You can see what's recent or bring them all up in once click.

Used to keep them to the right of my inbox, but after using an asus 1005HA netbook I now keep them below due to the smaller screen. Got used to it quickly though, now computers that looked tiny before seem huge. Funny thing.

Let me know if you found it useful, or if you do it differently. I'm aware that not everyone has use for this much organization. Personally, I find it quite nice. It affords me greater freedom and less time spent filing/retrieving information.

The connection

With all this automized filtering, what could possibly be missing? Well google wave is coming, which aims to reinvent email with the technology of today. This instead of technology that's been around decades before the likes of me. You could think of it as a real-time scratch pad, what seems more like a multi user chat+wiki than email. Which is all nice and well, but probably won't do much in regards to above.

I'm keenly interested in how to maximize you're use of gmail for a few reasons. For many people, much of the time it exposes a more fundamental problem about current means of communicating online. Online interactions contribute less to the real world than they could. Twitter, though nice, ain't the answer. Neither is clicking "yes" on a facebook recommended friend from grade school. Looking the current social web, there's no real change in sight on this one. Or?

Presently considering what to be secretive about and what to share. These ramblings will make more sense as we release more in the coming months, and of course commence beta testing.


Tuesday, June 30, 2009

What do we require in a blog?

  1. Slick commenting system
  2. Integration with atom/rss?
  3. Ability to use te same design as main site
  4. Sign up for email newsletter, instead of only reading online
  5. Professional feel, vs super simple. branded as blogger ok for now?