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Tumblr Rolls Out Fan Mail, A New Interblog Messaging Service

Megan O'Neill — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:37:00 +0000

Have you ever wished you could send a quick note to your favorite Tumblr users to give them notes and suggestions or just let them know you think they’re awesome? Soon you’ll be able to with a new Tumblr feature called “Fan Mail.” Tumblr will be rolling out Fan Mail to all users over the next few days, opening up a new channel of communication via interblog messaging.
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WhatsApp Sends One Billion Messages Per Day

Frank McPherson — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:17:46 +0000

It has taken a long time, but text messaging has finally become popular in the United States. Unfortunately, the mobile carriers still want to charge ridiculously high prices for text messaging plans, and with more people now using smartphones, Internet-based messaging apps are becoming popular. Messaging apps like WhatsApp Messenger and Apple’s iMessage provide text messaging like services but use the Internet and therefore eliminate the cost of text messaging plans.
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Content Marketing Belongs in … Marketing

Tom Johansmeyer — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:00:36 +0000

When I was making the rounds a few days ago, I ran into an interesting piece on PR Daily (where I write every now and then) contributed by Shel Holtz (“Marketers, keep your hands off of your company’s brand journalism”). The crux of the argument was that content marketing (which I assume is equivalent to “brand journalism”) should be kept out of the marketing department’s grubby little paws. And there really is no other word for describing our paws, frankly. Rather, it belongs with content purists, of sorts, who eschew pitching in favor of educating.

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Samsung ChatOn Joining Increasingly Crowded Group Messaging Category

Todd Ogasawara — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:37:18 +0000

Group text and picture messaging looks to become a crowded category as 2011 rolls along. Apple started the ball rolling with the announcement (but not the release) of iMessage earlier this summer as part of its iOS 5 announcement. Google provided Huddle as a the group messaging component of Google+ apps for iOS and Android. Facebook Messenger for iOS and Android soon followed.

Next up? Samsung announced their own worldwide messaging service that they claim works across all major smartphone and feature phone platforms.

Samsung introduces ChatON mobile communication service

The service is a multimedia one supporting text, iamges, handwritten notes and video. Unlike Google+ Huddle, ChatOn is also accessible via a desktop browser. Samsung states that ChatOn even works in a basic mode on feature phones.

Via Reuters: Samsung launches mobile instant messaging tool

Video courtesy of SamsungTomorrow

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MySpace One Ups Facebook With Google Gears Messaging

nickoneill — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:11:29 +0000

Last week at the Google I/O conference MySpace made a significant announcement about integration of their messaging platform with Google Gears to enable searching and sorting of messages. For the longest time, I have been writing that Facebook needs to update their messaging system to make it easier to search and sort through. With the help of Google gears, MySpace has made this type of sorting and searching a reality.

Last week Mike Arrington sugested that MySpace has over 170 million messages sent every day on the service. With some users suffering inbox fatigue, the service has been immediately released for users with at least 5,000 messages in their inbox. Over the coming weeks and months this threshold will be lowered to enable more users to take advantage of the new service.

For those of you that think in code, MySpace has also posted their presentation from last week’s Google I/O conference. This announcement also highlights the strong relationship between Google and MySpace who are both trying to compete with Facebook. While I have yet to use the new message integration, based on the video below, it appears to be a slick application. The only question now is why hasn’t Facebook updated their messaging system?

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