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Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Greg Go — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 00:18:39 -0000

What makes Twitter work is the ubiquitous inputs -- sms, iphone app, desktop, mobile web, email, facebook, etc. I like shoutme's slick interface and easy configuration settings, but until there's more ways to interact with your shoutme powered account, it'll be hard for users to build up their communities because members will want more input options.

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Sasa Sarunic — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:25:19 -0000

As far as I know, Identi.ca is a Twitter clone based on open source software called Laconica.
We take it one step further. ShoutEm is not yet another Twitter clone. It is a platform which enables you to create your own micro-blogging site with a few mouse clicks. We host it, we maintain it, we add new features.
On the other hand, if you choose to use Laconica, you have to rent your server and deal with server administration, software installation, upgrades, patches, etc.

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

??? — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:42:50 -0000

Sasa, Viktor, there are other platforms that you are competeing with, like Identi.ca ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... ). They've even got some revenue models, so it seems they are here to stay...
How are you going to handle this (pls no naive responses like "they are not our competition", "we do not see them as our competitors", "we are completely different", "the market is big enough for both" etc.)

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

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Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

CyberHood Watch — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:18:19 -0000

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Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Rika Susan's Home DIY News — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:47:03 -0000

I didn't know about Buzzable. Will have to join and see how it goes.

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Ovais — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:48:33 -0000

Hey,

Id love for you guys to check out Buzzable (http://buzzable.com). While Shout'em aims to keep the service as a lightweight and simple site, we are trying to provide the best end user experience by offering a whole host of features. We are constantly hammering out new features on a weekly basis. Best of all its free and open to the public!

Id love to hear your thoughts. You can reach me personally at ovais [at] buzzable.com

Best,
Ovais
Buzzable.com

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

WaKoosH — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:38:10 -0000

Shout'em is well built all around but there were a couple of things that i felt it felt short on.

First, the lack of sms support? I want to be able to have these updates pushed to my phone.
Second i want to be able to take those communities and embed them in my own site.

For now, im sticking with http://buzzable.com . Although it does not have themes (supposedly they're releasing them soon) it is a small thing to trade for big features.

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

popgloss — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:10:24 -0000

This could be neat... Leading to other things? Not sure what I would use it for at this very moment. But good peek into things to come?

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Vatroslav Mihalj — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:50:37 -0000

@Nick: 160tag is a service, a Twitter clone. "Shout'em", as far as I can see, is a PLATFORM, not a service. It's like saying that Twitter is a clone of Ruby on Rails because it's built on RoR framework. Zrikka is a Twitter-like service built on Shout'em.

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Nick — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:04:08 -0000

there is another clone out there, which I think it is pretty cool. It is www.160tag.com and they have quite a few features.

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Hans — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:17:04 -0000

thanks for the fast reply
in that case its OFF topic for me - I strictly host my own content and services myself
good luck - you'll have enough customers w/o me

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Sasa Sarunic — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:11:32 -0000

@Hans, it won't be open source. It will be a hosted service. We develop it, we host it, we maintain the servers. It can be customized to look exactly like the part of your site and we support custom domains also. Connectivity with custom user base is on the way. My colleague can contact you with pricing details.

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Sasa Sarunic — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:04:36 -0000

@faryl Twitter has recognized that it is the problem what you describe. They will probably try to support different message channels by a group feature (although it has to be seen how it will look like). We are trying to accomplish something similar via networks (users can use the same identity on different ShoutEm networks).
I can promise that a lot of interesting stuff is coming from ShoutEm team in the following months and we also hope and do our best so that our users don't see so many whales on our site ;)

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Hans — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:56:05 -0000

Looks great - now I would like to know how to run such on my OWN site.
I have a nice daily visitor basis, blog, forums and newsfeeds and would love to keep it all within my own site!
it is opensource ?
is it available for private domains?
is so at what price?

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Sasa Sarunic — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:50:36 -0000

@dealshouter This is one of the most common questions that we get. The fact is that we don't try to compete with Twitter. We provide a software that anyone can use to create his own small Twitter-like network. I can imagine the case where some company uses it for internal communication or a class of pupils that have their own network for exchanging messages about the next exam or a football fun club which uses ShoutEm to exchange photos from the last game. Possibilities are endless.
Besides that, the network can have richer capabilities than Twitter currently supports, like picture attachments, links, videos or geo-location.

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Rika Susan's Home DIY News — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 02:43:07 -0000

Thanks for this info. It will be interesting to see how Shout'Em developes. Will go and check it out.

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Seavista Software — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 11:12:14 -0000

Seems very interesting. Integration would be the key in IMHO as well , but could see a variety of uses from a developer perspective.
@seavista

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Sasa Sarunic — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:40:00 -0000

Mike, I can assure you that the integration with external communities is at the top of our priorities list. We are working 24/7 in the last few days to support well known APIs (like Twitter or Pownce API) and to support pluggable identity providers (OpenID, LiveID, or any custom identity service). All these efforts are going in a way of seamless integration with other sites, communities or client software.
Sasha (ShoutEm team CTO)

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Google SEO Tools — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:35:47 -0000

Why does everytime we have a successfull app (like tweeter) do 20 other copyCats have to come and try to get a piece of the pie, don't get me wrong I respect competition but sometimes they just seem to copy what everyone else is doing and add one or two features, nothing revolutionary....

hminaya
Google SEO Tools

Re: Shout’Em: Roll Your Own Twitter

Mike Walsh — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 10:07:16 -0000

cool pete. I'll check out the integration capabilities for internal social networks and external customer and partner communities. How do you rate it against the other white-labeled twitter-like apps, such as Yammer?
thanks.
@mwalsh