Archive for July, 2008

Tatango Launches!

We just launched Tatango tonight, July 15 at 12:01AM PST. Tatango has been over a year in the making and is set to revolutionize group text messaging. With the launch of Tatango we need to look back and thank the many people that have got us to this point. Family & ...

Tatango Launching Tomorrow!

We will be launching Tatango into private beta tomorrow, you must have a beta invite to access the site! If you have not signed up for a beta invite yet, swing by Tatango.com to sign up! With over 1,500 beta sign-ups within the past 3 weeks, we are very excited for ...

How Fast Do You Text?

Everyone at Tatango wants to congratulate Nathan Schwartz, a 20-year-old college student from Cleveland State University. He won the $50,000 grand prize in a national texting competition held in New York this week. The winning text completed in under 50 seconds with no mistakes. Does everybody here know the alphabet? Let's text. Here it ...

Tatango CEO Interviewed at YoungEntrepreneur.com

Check out the interview our CEO, Derek Johnson did for A great excerpt from Derek's interview below... If we aren’t looking solely at financials, any company that is successful in my mind is one that has a service or product that can supply a need in the market that isn’t being filled. I ...

Group Text Messaging – TechCrunch Elevator Pitch

Check out the Tatango pitch on TechCrunch Elevator Pitches: http://pitches.techcrunch.com/pitch/78-tatango

All Text Messages Are Not Created Equal

Did you know that not all text messages are created equal? In fact, there is such a disparity between the two types of text messaging available to groups and organizations, that we thought it best to write an entire post about the differences. Hopefully this will help to not only ...

Tatango Featured in Mobile Marketing Watch

Check out the latest article featuring Tatango on Mobile Marketing Watch! Tatango is a new service launching July 15th that offers free group-messaging services from a PC or mobile device. It’s actually the re-birth of the popular NetworkText service that grew by leaps and bounds since it’s October 2007 launch. ...

Architecting for Scaling

Our backend is written in Ruby, and we can handle over 5,000 messages per second.  Per messaging server. Twitter, everyone's poster child for poor scaling capabilities, is written in Ruby, and using Rails, and because they've been having such a terrible time of keeping their system alive, a large majority of ...

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