The ultimate race for Twitter Enterprise continues

October 9, 2008 – 2:41 pm

Just in case some of you guys are wondering what exactly is “Twitter Enterprise”, refer to our earlier blog post on the new twitter clone startup, Yammer.com which revolutionalize the Twitter model making it into a profit generating machine targeting at companies.

Presently all the 3 micro blogging sites: Yammer.com, Qikcom.com and Present.ly are all based on the same business model which ask: “What are you working on?”. Each of these companies offer the basic twitter format, where employees can ask quick and concise questions/ideas/news which will be instantly update all employees within the company. End result - more productivity, increase interactivity between users of the same network and Twitter-based model has proved to be a huge demand for many companies who wish to leverage on this communication platform for its employees

Now how is ReVou relevant to you? ReVou is based on Twitter.com or rather a Twitter clone if you will that allows you to start your own Twitter site offering members such capabilities. With our new Group addon, you can create groups within the community running our ReVou software so users of the same interest the employees which the company’s group is setup to communicate with each other more effectively and of course, real-time.

The power of such enterprise model of Twitter lies in the real need of such solutions for the real world for many companies and regardless of whether you are running you Twitter clone site for such purpose using ReVou or a niche twitter clone site for a specific industry or your web community. Micro-blogging is undeniably a sustainable business model in either bringing more revenues for your online portfolio or providing viral traffic for further growth of your existing web community.

For more information about our product and features, please visit our product page

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New group addon, new price.

September 28, 2008 – 3:06 pm

Yes we have heard you! Many of our prospects have sent feedback on our pricing which seem a little “too high”. hence we have decided to sit down and discuss on a new pricing for our product last week but at the same time without affecting the quality of our software.

Therefore our team has decided to reduce the price of ReVou to $250 and customers will have the option to purchase a copyright removal license (Powered by ReVou.com) for an additional fee of $100

With this license, you will be able to legally remove the ReVou copyright notice which is displayed at the bottom on every page. Once this copyright notice removal has been purchased, you will receive the keycode for the copyright notice license and instructions on how to easily remove the footer copyright notice.

For existing customers not to worry, we will not make you look like clowns in this price revision. As a goodwill we will offer you an additional 1 year updates worth $60. Note: The free 1 year upgrade is valid for purchase made before September 29th, 2009.

Another update to be made in this post is that we are please to annouce the Group addon for ReVou. This has been requested extensively which we have custom made for our client which we will also be offering to our customers. With ReVou group addon, members with a common interest will be able to participate in a dedicated channel and interact together to share news and comments. The group addon can be used for any purpose including coverage for a special event (similar to Twitter US Election) to a general group for a specific interest group such as automobiles or hobby.

Keep coming back to our site for more updates and news!

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Who says Twitter can’t have any business model?

September 11, 2008 – 1:03 pm

If you are asking yourself this question, think again. While Twitter is no doubt one of the coolest web service on the net today which provides a unique real-time messaging system within a social community. We have also previously discussed the various ways you can use ReVou to run your own micro-blogging site like twitter.

Yammer, a startup similar to Twitter has bring the micro-blogging concept to another level. Yammer which is also the top winner for the recent TechCrunch50 event featuring over 50 web startups. How it works is very simple, anyone with a corporate email can sign up with Yammer and follow other people in their company. This creates a platform for co-workers to share/post ideas and company updates as well as following people or topics in Twitter style.

The core difference between Twitter and Yammer is that it actually has a solid business model - if a company that wishes to claim over the network, it will become a paid service so that administration rights can be granted. Much to the anticipation, over 10,000 people and 2,000 organizations have registered on the first day of the launched

Now the boundary does not just end here, similar business models for running a profitable micro-blogging site using ReVou can be applied in any areas be it real estate, automobiles or even a local portal. ReVou has made it simple and affordable for you to run your own micro-blogging running on your site. For more information, please visit our home page at www.ReVou.com.

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The first ever Formula One night race

September 11, 2008 – 12:51 pm

A historical event in the Formula One history will take place coming September in the next 2 weeks featuring the first ever night race held in the streets of Singapore!

Full Circuit Map

F1 Singapore Trailer with Mark Webber courtesy of RedBullRacing

 

Don’t miss this exciting event!

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Why Twitter hasn’t failed: The Power of Audience

August 26, 2008 – 12:55 pm

An interesting writeup by Gregor Hochmuth on the Twitter model, a must read if you are keen on starting your own microblogging service with ReVou:

Twitter isn’t for everyone, and you may have dismissed the service a long time ago. But regardless of your own use, it’s hard to dismiss the phenomenon itself and the passion of so many that has built up around it.

No matter how long the outage du jour, Twitter users continue to stay attached to the service despite an ever-changing backdrop of alternatives.

Blogging isn’t for everyone either. But unlike blogging, Twitter enjoys a far a greater variety of users — they include people, many people, who would never think of starting a blog and people who would never touch an RSS reader. The 140 character limit is a plus for Twitter, but it isn’t all.

What explains the Twitter phenomenon then? What produces the positive feeling and the strong attachment among those who tweet? And moreover: How can other systems learn from this?

The answer lies in understanding Audience.

Twitter has a simple premise: You tweet & the message is pushed to your friends. The actual mechanics are slightly different (messages go to everyone who follows you, whether they’re your “friends” or not, assuming your stream is public) — but from a user’s perspective, the circle of receivers consists only of the people they know. Everyone else is part of a faceless crowd that’s hidden behind the follower count.

This simple premise holds the key to Twitter’s success: messages go to a well-defined audience. In the moment you release a tweet, you know who’s on the line and you have an idea of who can catch a glimpse of your message. @replies are the best illustration for this sense of audience: Even though Twitter is not a point-to-point message delivery system (let alone a reliable one), @replies are sent with the understanding that they will be read by the intended people because they are known to be in the audience. (Imagine a newspaper article that suddenly greeted a specific reader.)

Blogging on the other hand has no such clearly defined audience. An aspiring blogger who hasn’t crossed the chasm speaks into the void. Direct feedback can only come in the form of written comments (a relatively high barrier of effort) and it’s diminished by spam and vocal trolls these days.

FeedBurner’s subscriber count only provides the equivalent of Twitter’s opaque follower count and MyBlogLog didn’t solve this problem either.

So it’s not surprising that the majority of blogs are abandoned — the most-cited reason being “No one was reading it.” No one might be following your Twitter stream either, but Twitter is designed for network effects to take hold and given the natural reciprocity among groups of friends, it’s likely that most people have at least a handful of followers they know.

Back to Twitter: Why Audience works
Twitter works and enjoys such strong attachment because it provides real-time access to a well-defined audience. The backlog of all previous tweets is a guarantee of permanence (you can even search it) and you can catch up on it anytime. As a result, people use Twitter because they have an idea of who will see their lightweight messages and this sense of audience is reinforced by @replies, re-tweets and references in future conversations (online and offline).

Designing for the sense of Audience is a powerful tool to create cohesion and a sense of utility among users of a service. This lesson from Twitter can apply to many other services too and I dedicated a separate post to the principles of designing for Audience.

In closing, let me also refer you to a follow-on post, which looks one service that has missed the full power of Audience so far: Facebook. Designed for Audience? Not so much.

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ReVou now supports Twitter posting

August 7, 2008 – 9:53 am

Yes we are finally adding Twitter plugin (free for all our customers) which we have previously added this feature for one of our client. Some of you might ask, what is this Twitter plugin and how will it affect me as a ReVou customer?

The twitter plugin essentially allows your members to post messages to their Twitter account via your ReVou website. This means that not only will the messages appear on your revou site but also at the same time on Twitter.com.

For ReVou customers or would-be customers, how would this feature benefit you? This twitter addon is a neat function that can convert Twitter users to use your site since messages posted on your revou site can also be updated on your member’s Twitter account.

To test our demo, go to www.revou.com/demo and login as: test for both username and password. Go to “Settings” and enter your twitter login info to start posting messages.

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Twitter meets Yahoo Answers, cool or not?

August 7, 2008 – 2:04 am

An interesting concept or rather a hybird between Yahoo Answer and micro-blogging allowing users to post questions/receive answers in a Twitter style manner.

ToAnswer is a new startup based on Twitter API which allows users to ask questions via Twitter.com and receive answers in ToAnswer

Bringing forward, the ToAnswer concept is an interesting business model for starting your own Twitter Clone that works like Yahoo Answers using our ReVou software. Site owners can easily run their own Twitter site targeting at a specific industry as discussion in our previous post on running your own twitter clone site allowing members to post questions and receive answers from experts or public members just like Yahoo Answers.

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Blippr: Twitter model for product reviews

July 29, 2008 – 3:55 am

In case you can’t read from the screenshot above, Blippr lets users browse and rate commercial products including books, video games, movies, and music. The twist is that these reviews are incredibly short at just 160 characters, or the limit on an SMS message on your mobile phone. Twitter, the popular micropublishing tool pioneered this idea, and the folks at Blippr think it might work on product reviews.

The fact that I need to write more about it is also one of the reasons that Blippr doesn’t fit he bill for what it was created for. Sometimes reviews just need to be longer to give a product or service justice.

Coming back to the review system, the written reviews are coupled with a 1-4 rating system that uses emoticons (aww how cute) to establish a metascore for how good an item is. In addition to the rest of the Blippr users scores, you can get see a quick friends score as long as your Blippr friends have rated said item. These scores are shown at the top of each review and help sort through content.

Blippr doubles as a social bookmarking tool, letting you create custom lists and subscribe to the day’s hot list of products that are getting buzz. There are no ads on the site, so to supplement an income for the creators, the entire thing runs off affiliate links to various online retailers.

Source: Cnet News

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