Archive for December 2014

Manage your Twitter account with Meshfire, a new social media management platform

new social media management platform

For social media managers & Online community managers, here`s a new social media management platform called Meshfire. As of now, this new social media management platform works only with Twitter.

While there`s already a surfeit of such social media platforms, what makes Meshfire interesting is Ember, a virtual member team member at the heart of its core intelligence. Among other things it`s capable of, Ember uses machine learning as its base & layers on the advice of human social media experts to recommend the best content for Twitter posts.

As the makers of Meshfire have said on their Website: Ember is our artificial intelligence agent and virtual community manager. She helps you filter down the noise to what really matters. Ember is always in the background making sure that, even when you aren’t on Twitter, you don’t miss what’s important.

The new social media management platform has been started with an eye on small business. Meshfire uses Twitter accounts for several purposes, including managing how you log in to Meshfire itself, associating Twitter handles with missions, & associating Twitter handles with team member roles. In short, your Meshfire account may be linked to several different Twitter accounts used in different capacities. And yes, Meshfire believes in collaboration so allows one or many members of your team to be part of the account.

Coming back to Ember: Here`s the many things it can do:

Recommend influencers. Ember takes into account Klout scores, interest topics, etc,

  • Ember recommends people to block.
  • It also recommends accounts to connect with.
  • Ember also allows a company to react to high-profile tweets from a mass of volume.

Meshfire’s growing plugins include Buffer for scheduling Content, Flickr, Feedly, & Surveymonkey for content curation and creation, Bitly for reliable link shortening, & Klout for influence insights.

Though there’s a free trial, there’s only 1 paid plan called the Social Pro at US $8 per social media account per month. It includes all of Meshfire’s built-in capabilities for managing your social media presence by yourself, or with a team.

Image Credit: Meshfire

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Watcha Doin’? iOS mobile game app combines gaming with social networking

whatchyadoinglogoWatcha Doin’? is a mobile game app for iOS that allows a group of friends to share photos & guess who took each photo.

The photo guessing game app therefore helps you discover how well you know your friends, & also find out more about them. It’s obviously also an addictive multi-user mobile gaming experience. The way it works is pretty simple. You create games with a group of up to five people per game.

You can then write in a question, or the app will provide one. All the players send in a photo in response to the question, & everyone has to guess which friend took which photo.  The scores tell you which of your friends knows you best, & how well you know your friends.

The good thing about it is that it allows you to share personal information safely, since you’re among a group of known friends & family members.

The mobile gaming experience & novelty of combining social networking with an iOS game app apart, another reason this game is getting a lot of attention (featured by Apple as best new iOS game) is that Watcha Doin’? is the first app from Palo Alto, CA-based mobile gaming startup Xoo.

The strong pedigree of the Xoo founders & their experience makes it a slam-dunk, so to speak. XOO Inc. was founded in Jan 2014 by Glen Wong, Philip Yun, Steve Lawrence & Wilson Li.

Philip Yun is the company’s CEO, & formerly at Sony & as stints as CEO of Naver USA & Outspark. Glen Wong is Xoo’s director of Engineering, & has worked at Microsoft, Google, & Red Robot Labs.

Steve Lawrence is the company’s CTO, with a background in Ph.D. Machine Learning at Google. Wilson Li is the Product Lead at Xoo, & has previously worked at Outspark & WeMade.

Click here to download the Watcha Doin’? iOS mobile game app from the App Store.

Image Credit: iTunes/Xoo

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