Tatango is a group text messaging website that is launching its private beta today. Tatango claims to offer the simplest and most effective way for groups to communicate via their mobile phones. Basically the service allows you to message multiple contacts at once from your computer or mobile phone.

Previously known as networkText, Tatango will support faster text messaging, replies to mobile phone, contact importing, and many more features. The company recently received a round of funding from Bellingham Angel Organization in late June and currently boasts over 4000 groups using their service with over 17 million text messages served.

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Xoopit is a Firefox plugin for Gmail that enables you to quickly find photos, videos, and files that have been attached or linked within emails that you’ve sent or received. It is especially helpful when you are trying to hunt down that email you sent with an important attached image or document. Instead of trying to find that specific email, now you can just grab the file directly using Xoopit. Thus you’ll never misplace an attachment again!

After you register for a Xoopit account and install the Firefox plugin for Gmail, Xoopit automatically indexes and aggregates all the images, files, and videos that are associated with your Read more »

Needish is a social network of people and businesses that help one another find solutions for each other’s needs. It’s akin to posting a well designed wanted ad, except that Needish actively seeks out solutions for you by contacting the appropriate persons and/or businesses and notifying them of your specific need. Thus saving you the time and hassle of doing tons of research to find the right solution while also giving businesses the opportunity to compete for your attention. For example, if you are in need of health insurance you post this need on the site and your friends, and health insurance providers, are notified of that need Read more »

I am really excited about the potential of this newest desktop application. Have you ever wished you could have a huge monitor but aren’t willing to fork over the cash to get it just yet? Well, 360desktop may have provided the perfect alternative for you. Basically 360desktop gives you almost unlimited desktop space on your computer by extending the size of the desktop itself via a scrolling panoramic view. Thus now you can have an almost unlimited number of multiple windows open and you are no longer simply limited to the size of your monitor to do so. It also allows you to make desktop widgets from your favorite parts Read more »

I’ve been using a new RSS feed reader for a couple of weeks now called Feedly. While I am a big fan of google reader, I don’t use it that much. I’d rather just visit that actual sites and blogs individually get news and updates. Feedly, on the other hand, has given me reason to think otherwise and use it instead.

Feedly is a Firefox based feed reader that launches directly from my Firefox browser and is directly integrated with Google Reader. Hence, any subscriptions you add to feedly will be added to Google Reader and any article you read or recommend in feedly will be marked as read and shared in Google Read more »

Snackr, an Adobe AIR based RSS ticker, is creating quite a buzz with its flashy looks and smooth moves. I recently heard of Snackr via a Robert Scoble tweet a few weeks ago. I am a past user of the Firefox add-on RSS Ticker which works similarly to Snackr but is less visually stimulating. While I prefer Snackr for catching the latest posts from my favorite sites, there are a few things missing that I would like to see implemented in the next version.

Snackr’s Missing Features

1. Paused movement of ticker when positioning your mouse arrow over an article
2. Ability to move the

Just discovered a new niche video site called GodTube. You guessed it, a YouTube wannabe with very specific target users and audience in mind: Christians. According to the site, “GodTube.com is a video-driven social network designed for both Christians and non-Christians to share the message and love of Christ. We are a family-friendly site where people of all ages, races, backgrounds, and nationalities can share and belong”. The potential here is very huge given the number of Christians in the US and abroad. Just like YouTube, you can upload and share videos, create a channel, join or create a group, etc. They have also tapped into churches by helping them spread their messages to Read more »

I am a long time Outlook user who just recently moved to Gmail for many reasons (to be discussed in a later post). However, my interest in Outlook has been reignited with the public beta release of Xobni (inbox spelled backwards). Xobni is a plugin that essentially transforms MS Outlook program into a social network. It improves upon Outlook’s organization, search, and navigation abilities to a greater standard and makes it more user friendly. Xobni is a great analytics tool that identifies and displays trends for who and when you email someone and vice versa. It also automatically extracts contact information, attachments, and the sender’s known acquaintance’s (i.e. friends) from emails to display Read more »

It looks like Silicon Valley’s favorite tech gossip rag blog Valleywag is giving the most popular internet start-up news blog TechCrunch a real run for its money. As you can see traffic stats from Compete has Valleywag in a very close place within a difference of only ~10,000 unique visitors per month. What is more impressive however is the surge in Valleywag’s traffic that was experienced in January and overall growth for the year compared to TechCrunch (3415.3% vs. 749.8%). Given the popular stories that Valleywag has covered this month, we will likely see it overtake Techcrunch again but perhaps for good this time. After all, what’s more interesting to readers; multi-million Read more »