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Shutterfly recently released a new application called the Express Uploader that makes it very easy for their customers to upload images to a Shutterfly account. Once uploaded, the existing Shutterfly can be used to turn albums into prints, photo books, calendars and more.

The application is powered by Adobe AIR and leverages new capabilities available in our most recent version of the AIR runtime (version 2) including integration with native code using the native process API. Congratulations to the team at Shutterfly on the launch of the desktop application!

Anumber of popular uploading tools are now powered by AIR including the Vimeo uploader that we highlighted in an earlier blog post.

Screenshots below:

Photos can be queued up for uploading and associated with new or existing albums.

The intuitive, clean design makes uploading a breeze.

To promote the upcoming release of the Alien Anthology on Blu-ray, FOX released an interactive, promotional application powered by Adobe AIR and built by Oskoui+Oskoui.

The application includes a number of features that fans of the Alien franchise are bound to enjoy including an image gallery where you can discover unique photos and concept art from the films, listen to musical tracks from the soundtrack, watch video clips including trailers and customize the "wallpaper" within the application.

Congratulations to the team at Oskoui+Oskoui for building another engaging application that Alien fans around the world are sure to enjoy! Earlier this year, the team also built the Avatar Interactive Desktop to promote the launch of Avatar on Blu-ray & DVD.

The application is available for download from the official Alien Anthology website.

Screenshots below:

Refreshed and Ready

A few months back, we launched the HootSuite Learning program to offer comprehensive training for social media professionals about the nuances and features of HootSuite. We also sought to offer an environment to exchange ideas and discuss trends, tactics and strategies for managing outreach and listening activities.

Now with the first batch of grads proudly displaying their badges, we’ve tuned up the Learning site to be a bit more “Hoot-like” with easier access to the courses, quizzes and the important directory of certified pros.

If you are already a student, take a look and see what you think. Not a student yet? Perhaps you’ll be inspired to join up.

Big Owls on Campus

Now that the quizzes are completed and the grades are in, we’re happy to congratulate the first group of HootSuite Learning program students who are now certified as “HootSuite Professionals.”

All graduates are listed on the HootSuite Certified Professional directory, plus you can identify them by the insignia proudly displayed on their websites.

The list of pros are sortable by city and country so you can find a consultant close to your location as needed from USA, Canada, UK, The Netherlands, Switzerland, South Africa, Ecuador and more.

Guest Faculty

Along with the quizzes and learning modules, HootSuite Learning provides students with “stories from the trenches” as told by an assortment of experienced marketers, authors and managers.

As a recap: In the first month, Lewis Howes demonstrated the power of LinkedIn and shared tips on maximizing this popular business networking tool.

Up next was Lisa Kacerosky from legendary curator of humor, Icanhascheezburger.com. Lisa blew the audience away by revealing the 50+ different profiles she personally manages using the HootSuite and showed exactly how one person can accomplish such a huge task.

Then came Chris Garrett — co-author (with Darren Rowse) of the book “ProBlogger – Secrets for blogging your way to a six figure income — who discussed the business of blogging and creating compelling content for your social media channels.

Following up with a different perspective was Rich Harris, the customer support manager at hardware manufacturer Seagate who discussed tactics for providing customer support using HootSuite.

The latest speaker was Amber MacArthur, host of online shows, writer of columns and author of “Power Friending” who shared her insights about the power and benefits of networking.

Next up is Sean Malarkey discussing ins and outs of Twitter and then an encore webinar by Lewis Howes.

Plus Dave Olson, HootSuite’s Marketing and Community Director, has participated to share freshly released tools, as well as providing some context about how ideas become features in the HootSuite universe.

Ready to Join?

Sounds great! Get signed-up for the on-going HootSuite Learning University program for only $47/mo.

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The successful reception of our two products buzzom and buzzom premium has given us a lot of confidence over the social media space.

But a story and an experience can go unheard if not shared. Hence, we worked together with all the inner faculty members and external partners to write a book that would summarize all our experience and knowledge over marketing in Twitter.

We have humbly named the book as “Demystifying Twitter Marketing”. Let me summarize what you will get from the book.

1. Brief history and structure of today’s social media space.

2. Twitter and its relation with business.

3. Success stories of Twitter Marketing from CEO of InRev Systems(Maker of Buzzom).

4. Learning ways of analyzing your Twitter Success. (using Twitter Analytics).

5. Twitter Case Studies of businesses who have succeeded in Twitter.

Lastly, the book ends with thoughts from pro twitter user Jody Nimetz (Blogger and SEO Expert).

We are a product development company, hence we could not end the book with out some detail’s about building an application over Twitter. At the end, we have our developer speak on how to build application over Twitter, encouraging everyone to try on their own.

So Please get your copy soon and share the story. Thank You.

We have the book in two formats : PaperBack and Electronics (Currently Available only for Kindle).

Seesmic was paid a visit by the voice of LG Mobile and reviewed the latest features on Seesmic for Android. Stephanie Duchaine, also known as The LG Girl (@theLGgirl)  came by the office to interview our own product manager for mobile, Mathieu, and went over our recent release for Seesmic for Android. Mathieu also did a quick run through of the Android App on The LG Ally. Check out the video:

The LG Girl was a recent addition to LG to bring brand awareness through social media on Facebook and now Twitter. We're looking forward to seeing The LG Girl utilize all her tools to increase the LG brand.

Thanks to Stephanie and the rest of the LG crew for stopping by the Seesmic office. As for Seesmic, we're certainly looking forward to additional features coming up for the Seesmic for Android app.

As we burn down the home stretch toward the release of TweetDeck for Android, our development team is operating at maximum capacity. Recently Max gave a talk at Betaworks about how we keep such a well-oiled machine moving.

In addition to being our lead mobile developer and all-round splendid chap, Max also has deep roots in the open-source community, and helped bring some of his collaboration techniques to TweetDeck.

WARNING: The rest of this article comes under the category "Hardcore Geek" :-)

Since Max's arrival we've switched source code repositories from Mercurial to Git and Github. Max's highly popular open-source project Homebrew was built entirely on Git/Github and we wanted to leverage some of that mojo for our development process. 

Check out Max's six-part talk below to learn all about how Git's distributed nature, and Github's amazing collaboration tools, helped him succeed with Homebrew and helped us take our development to the next level at TweetDeck. 

Max Howell - Git/Github Talk

Links to individual videos:

Part 1  |  Part 2  |  Part 3  |  Part 4  |  Part 5  |  Part 6  

 

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Argh HootSuite buccaneers! Here’s a fresh news round-up to share more “Social Owl” feedback and reviews, plus some tasty iPhone bits too.

To all of you who are spreading the HootSuite story — thanks! We enjoy reading your remarks and gathering your feedback to make HootSuite even ummm… hoot-ier.

We’ll keep the news round-ups coming in the days ahead but if you need more, check out HootSuite’s social bookmarks stream and/or follow @hootwatch for the first notices.

Now, here’s your fresh dossier:

The BizCATS – REVIEWS: HOOTSUITE – How to Manage Your Social Network Marketing

Tim McMahon – We’ve watched Hootsuite for some time as well as being an active user. One thing that’s impressive is that in their ultracompetitive product space, the company consistently brings out improvements and enhancements – even to the free version! Their latest announcement brings some great new features in the Social CRM arena that will be of real interest and value to many of us.

Macworld and PCWorld – HootSuite Adds Foursquare Integration, IOS 4 Support

HootSuite, an app aimed at Twitter and Facebook power users, now features Foursquare integration as well as support for iOS 4’s app switching features, thanks to an update by Hootsuite Media that arrived on the App Store this week. Version 1.1.5 of the iPhone app also promises performance boosts, and customizable re-sizing of fonts.

National Post – Amber Mac: Social Media for Authors – The Tools

Amber Mac was a recent guest presenter on a HootSuite U webinar. Amber had some great things to say about HootSuite is this article:

HootSuite – Don’t be fooled, social media does take time.  Fortunately, HootSuite can save you time.  What I love about this service is that you can use it to send a status update to multiple social networking sites at once.  For example, I use HootSuite to send a post to Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter at the same time.  You can also use this tool to schedule messages, just in case you’re going on vacation or don’t want to forget a certain date, and it will allow you to measure your link traffic.

CalvinAyre.com – Why I’m switching from Tweetdeck to Hootsuite

With all of the noise in the Social Media space lately it is nice to see a company providing tools that simplify the needs of individuals and business. I look forward to using Hootsuite moving forward and seeing the company grow. I’m sure Invoke Media will be launching some more interesting tools and applications in the near future and I will be sure to cover them here on the Tablog.

Mobile Knots – Hootsuite for iPhone gets Foursquare Integration and iOS4 support

This update, which is applicable to both Hootsuite Lite (Free) and Hootsuite for iPhone ($2.99) includes the much requested Foursquare integration, customizable fonts re-sizing, ability to choose between twitter’s native RT style or the original RT style or both and support for iOS4 features like App Switching etc.

Cynthia Markets for Today – How I Love Hootsuite!

So with all this social media that I do for fun, how can I post all my information for all of you in an efficient and effective way to use my time wisely?  You guessed it:  my friend, Hootsuite. The best friend a social media strategist could have.

With Hootsuite, you can have more control over your content updates AND you can track click statistics with Hootsuite’s built in analytics.

More

Remember: check out HootSuite’s social bookmarks stream and/or follow @hootwatch for the first notices for all the news.

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Excellent progress has been made by our localisation team and we are now looking for more translators to join the following languages:

• Chinese Traditional

• Japanese

If you’d like to get involved, we ask that you be fluent in written and spoken English as well as your selected translation language.

We can’t offer you payment, but we can promise you our eternal gratitude, some TweetDeck freebies and credit for the completed translations on our site. We’re also happy to provide you with a letter to acknowledge your volunteer work on this project, so you can add this experience to your CV

Please apply by sending an email to: localisation@tweetdeck.com and include the following in the subject line: "Localisation Application: Your Language" (eg Localisation Application: Japanese)

NB: Any emails that do not include the subject format will be discarded.

 

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Today, Buzzom has launched the updated version of user interface. the new updates include:

1. Easy Visibility of adding new account and switching between two accounts.

2. User profile updates to incorporate more tweets and easy statistics.

1. Easy visibility of Account Management

2. Updated User Profile

Please let us know, if you have any queries or confusion.