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more Twitter features

13 April 2009 | 12:16 pm by Miriam

We went so Twitter-happy last week, you’d think we were in Congress.

Texting through Shoutlet? Send that SMS to your tweetstream, too.

Send SMS to Twitter

tweet about e-mails and RSS posts

Every Shoutlet e-mail has a permalink page — so if you’re sending out your monthly Pirates v. Ninjas newsletter and you want the world to see it, tweet about it right from Shoutlet; we’ve even made the Twitter-friendly URL for you.
twitter e-mail

pull your Tweets into RSS

3 April 2009 | 11:01 am by Miriam

twitter feed options
You know how you can make an RSS feed in Shoutlet that mirrors one created elsewhere? We’ve added a few options in case you’d like to do that with your Tweetstream.

sync Small World Labs contacts with Shoutlet

30 March 2009 | 5:54 am by Miriam

Small World Labs key in Shoutlet
You can now use your Small World Labs contact database with Shoutlet. On your client settings page, enter your secret SWL keys. Initial sync is automatic; after that, we’ll sync your contacts and groups daily.

user guide 3.01 released

24 March 2009 | 11:21 am by Miriam

detail of the user guide cover
The updated user guide is available! Get yours today. It’s a 10MB .pdf file, so you may want to go get a cup of coffee, too.

a few new e-mail features

16 March 2009 | 11:51 am by Miriam

service links

  • on the e-mail create tab, under “additional options”
  • place forward/opt-in/unsubscribe links directly in your e-mail source

service links in e-mail create

sharing bar

  • on the distribute tab
  • positionable (top, bottom)
  • see live example by clicking links at bottom of this e-mail!
  • removable
  • set opt-ins to go to a specific group
  • whitelabel accounts can use their own logo
  • basic reporting for now, more information coming with new reports

sharing bar controls
sharing bar forward form

pricing, demo accounts

1 March 2009 | 12:48 pm by Miriam

sign-up form detail
You can sign yourself up for several new packages — all with a 30-day free trial.

TiVo

6 February 2009 | 6:30 pm by Miriam

A lot of us around here are huge fans, so this is pretty exciting.* The photo is from my actual television. Contact your account manager for details!
publish videos to tivo
shoutlet on my actual TiVo
*seriously, what is the point of having a television without TiVo? We surely don’t know.

new year, new CDN

3 January 2009 | 9:13 am by Jim

limelight networks logo
Content you send with Shoutlet is now whooshing through Limelight Networks — they of the awesome, international, and super-fast pipes.

there’s no snowdays on the internet

9 December 2008 | 2:03 pm by Miriam

snowday
Snow, schmow. It’s a fair trade for no-pants days!

queen for a day

26 November 2008 | 8:11 am by Miriam

With a sudden burst in commits—forty in the last two days—the race to 1337 was on.
commit #1337
Who will win the next magic number? (And, for that matter, which is it?)