When we started designing and developing our innovative social media hub Twimbow we had in mind, since day one, that it had to be very different from other similar solutions out there. This is, probably, the reason why some blogs called Twimbow the “Apple of Social Media Dashboards”, since it offers a completely new approach in the way people interact with their Twitter friends and consume new content and interesting news they discover.

Twimbow is currently being used in over 120 countries worldwide by marketers, bloggers and users (both power users and “normal” users) who want to get the most of their Twitter stream, remove noise and focus on what is really important for them in terms of users, tweets and news.

Today I would like to use this space to tell you something about four Twimbow features not many users heard of or actually tried out (yet).

1) Skins

Did you know you can change the way Twimbow looks like? You actually have a few options. First of all, you can choose whether to use a compact view (two columns) or a full view (three columns). You can choose that from settings, just turn “Compact Mode” ON from the second settings tab (called “layout settings”).

Secondly, if you don’t like the default dark grey skin, you can activate the “light” one.  Same tabe as above, just click on “Light”.

Third element you can configure is the font size. The default one could be small if you use a big screen. Just select “medium” or “big” (this option is in the 2nd tab as well).

Last but not least, you can change the appearance of the main top bar. First of all, you can choose between a large one or a small one. Secondly, you have 8 different skins to choose from. Personally, I like the orange one and the black one. What do you think?

2) Rich Tags

On Twimbow, every single piece of content people share looks better. It’s not only about the color, it’s about stuff that, on Twimbow, can turn into something cool Examples? Rich tags. Some tags, in Twimbow, are shown with a small icon you can click on to “generate” a new event. What do I mean?

For example, try the followings and let me know (leave your comments below):

#rainbow #cloud #angrybirds #sunny #ilovetwimbow #rain #xmas

Moreover, we support many different “event tags” that are related to tech/social media events and that give you an overview about an event, location, dates and a photo stream about the ongoing or past event. Here is an example from the recent Mashable Media Summit (you can see how the tweet looks like in Twimbow and what you can see if you click on the Mashable logo):

3) Filters, Filters, Filters

Too much noise? Too much stuff you don’t care of? Just filter it. On Twimbow, filtering is very easy and powerful. There are three main ways to do that:

• Noise Killer:

  it’s the third tab on the settings pane. You can simply create “sets” of keywords you want to filter and enable / disable each of those set. You can see an example in the image below. Any tweet containing one of the keywords / phrases in the set will be filtered out and you won’t see it.

• Anti-spam:

  you can enable it for each of the Twitter accounts you are managing on Twimbow. It will filter out all the mentions you receive by Twitter users with 0 followers / following and containing a link only.

• Mute:

  muting one ore more users is very easy. Just create a new colored label called “Mute”, assign that label to the users you want to mute and uncheck it from the home buzz. Easy right?

4) Visual and Audio Notifications

If you use Twimbow on Chrome, you will be able to get visual and audio notifications for various types of messages. Mentions, Direct Messages and for any user/keyword/tag/list you are tracking in the monitor. You can easily enable them from settings and, one by one, by clicking on the red “speaker” for the monitor you want to get alerts from. In the example below, by clicking on the red speaker I will activate audio and visual desktop notifications for any new tweet by @thenextweb (and the speaker will turn green).

BONUS: realtime!

This is an exclusive bonus for the readers of this blog: it’s not really a hidden features, but in two weeks, Twimbow will turn into a realtime social media hub. We will enable the so-called Twitter “sitestreams” for every user so that any type of message will hit your Twimbow account in realtime. This is just the first of the many new cool features we will introduce before the end of the year, something that will make Twimbow very different from what you can see now. Curious? Just sign up and start using it, making sure to follow @twimbow and @filos on Twitter

Hope you enjoy Twimbow, for any question, don’t hesitate to drop me a tweet.

4 Hidden Features In The Popular Social Media Hub Twimbow is a post from: Technshare

Steve Jobs who built the world’s most valuable technology company Apple Inc, has died. He was 56. He resigned from the chief executive officer on Aug. 24, 2011, as he was suffering from pancreas cancer.

Steve Jobs  1955-2011

Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve has lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he could have built, and his spirit will forever be the foundation of Apple.

If you would like to share your thoughts, memories and condolences, please email rememberingsteve@apple.com Source: Apple

Jobs is survived by his wife, Laurene Powell, their three children Reed Paul, Erin Sienna and Eve, and a daughter, Lisa Brennan-Jobs, from a previous relationship.

Here is the statement from his Family:

“Steve died peacefully today surrounded by his family.

In his public life, Steve was known as a visionary; in his private life, he cherished his family. We are thankful to the many people who have shared their wishes and prayers during the last year of Steve’s illness; a website will be provided for those who wish to offer tributes and memories.

We are grateful for the support and kindness of those who share our feelings for Steve. We know many of you will mourn with us, and we ask that you respect our privacy during our time of grief.” Source: Mashable

He, will surely be missed. Steve Jobs, rest in peace!

Breaking: Steve Jobs, Apple founder dies at 56 is a post from: Technshare

Hello Everyone,

Today, I get to know that DesignCrowd is holding a huge cash prize giveaway contest on their site (from Lee) and I think I should take part and give it a try.

Please Show Your Support And Retweet The Post! Thanks!!

Contest Guidelines

• Each blog must include an explanation of DesignCrowd in your own words
• Each blog must include at least 250 words
• Each blog should include honest comments
• Each blog must include at least 1 link to DesignCrowd
• To be eligible for the 1st place award you should submit your blog to either Digg or Twitter
• Blogs should not take text from DesignCrowd verbatim
• Entrants be over 18 years of age
• Blog entries will not slander DesignCrowd or its designers

How to Win

If your blog post receives the most tweets or diggs, then you’ll win the grand prize. Even you’re not receiving the most tweets or diggs, you’ll still win the 2nd prize if the blog post receives up to 50 tweets or diggs.

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Deadline

• Friday 28th May 2010

What is DesignCrowd

DesignCrowd is a market place where businesses and designers can be engaged and work together. It includes logo design, web design and graphic design.

For Business – Post your requirements by filling in a brief, providing your budget and setting a deadline. They will publish your project requirements and invite designers from around the world to respond. Businesses can choose the design that they like the most.

For Designers – can search job from the market place. Search for logo design jobs, web design jobs or many other graphic design jobs. Read the project brief; view the budget and deadline; and ask the client questions.

DesignCrowd is a win win platform for designers and business owners.

At the end, DesignCrowd only charges 10% as a commission from the designers, it’s fair enough for all parties.

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Blog and Win $1000 from DesignCrowd is a post from: Technshare

Today I found a site while browsing other sites that I must share with you. I don’t think many of you have heard of ThemeGrade. This is a WordPress theme directory which is so different from 99% of similar sites out there. This site makes it so easy to find WordPress themes like no others. Why do I say so? Simply put, there are 3 reasons why ThemeGrade is currently the best source when it comes to finding best WordPress themes.

1. It only selects the best theme in design. You won’t find low quality themes by appearance.
2. You will know which themes have the best coding by looking at the theme‘s coding score.
3. You will know which are the top 10 theme providers.
4. You can easily find the themes best suit your topic via the multiple-selection search, tag search or simply search via keywords.

Now there is one more reason to visit the site. For those with PR 2+ blogs, ThemeGrade will give you a copy of premium theme from one of the 11 leading providers. I have already won a theme from Wpzoom. There are still hundreds of themes to be won. Go to the theme contest page to find out more now!!

Get Premium Themes for Free at ThemeGrade.com is a post from: Technshare

On Tuesday 13, 2010, Twitter announces its Business Model! Promoted tweets are coming in your Twitter feeds even if you use a Twitter client (third party application). Promoted Tweets are ordinary Tweets that businesses and organizations want to highlight to a wider group of users. Read more.

[Image: Mashable]

How do you feel about Twitter trying to monetize the network?

Twitter Launches ‘Promoted Tweets’ to Make Money is a post from: Technshare

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33% Discount Offer on $365K Blog Traffic Formula is a post from: Technshare

Google officially rolled out their Buzz service on 9 February, 2010. Logging into your Gmail account, you should already be seeing it there.  Google Buzz has many good Features and some bad features also.

What is Google Buzz?

So, what’s the Buzz? Google’s new social medium. It let’s you use your Google/Gmail account to automatically get into a network that encompasses all other Google/Gmail users.

We focused on making the sharing experience really rich by integrating photos, videos, and links. No more fuzzy little pictures: Buzz makes it easy to quickly flip through photos and experience them the way they were meant to be seen: big and full-resolution. And videos play inline so you can watch them without opening a new window.

Here’s a short video by Google demonstrating what Buzz can do -

launch event Video:

Google Buzz Key Features:

• No Setup Needed
• No setup needed
• Share publicly or privately
• Inbox integration
• Connect sites you already use
• See updates in real time

Some Bad Features :

• When you link your Google profile from any web page it’s going to be disadvantage as most people would n’t like a profile with some random Id
• A user may not be able to find his other friends or buzz until you know their profile links

Let’s hear more specifics for why you love or hate the Buzz in the comments.

Google Buzz challenges Twitter And Facebook is a post from: Technshare

Five years ago it was founded , cross-blog social networking widget MyBloglog. Yahoo will close down this service in January 2010, this  is really sad and shocking news for me and for all Bloggers. I have read this news on write web And Chotoan.  MyBloglog is great web communication to earn some money. I have joined this a month ago only . By Mybloglog I received little traffic and backlinks.

Eric Marcoulier – Co-founder of MyBlogLog:

“So much of your company’s long term sucess when it’s acquired is based on the amount of executive juice it has. The only way it survives and flourishes is if you have an executive champion who promotes it internally. Shortly after we were acquired we were transfered away from our champion and under someone who didn’t feel the same way about MyBlogLog. In those circumstances, things simply slow down…”

Mybloglog will be closed down? and Blogcatalog will become the best social networking widget for bloggers in 2010?

Here is a news from Yahoo about Closing down MyBlogLog

Chris Yeh – head of the Yahoo! Developer Network, has responded over at the YDN blog:

“Frankly, it’s no secret within Yahoo! that we’re actively discussing the future of MyBlogLog. However, it’s also true that we have not made any final decisions at this point. Is a shutdown on the table? Sure, that’s an option. But there are other options as well.”

Yahoo will close down MyBloglog in January 2010 is a post from: Technshare