Archive for August, 2008

Keywords Explained

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

Keywords are one of the most useful tools in text message marketing. Below we explain the two different types of keywords that Tatango offers and how to use them to achieve the best results! Join Keyword - This type of keyword is used when you wish for someone to join a group ...

Text Your Amazon and Netflix Requests With Kwiry

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008

We wanted to give a shout out from Tatango to our friends at Kwiry for the announcement today on TechCrunch that they have added support for both Amazon and Netflix, which will allow users to add their wish lists on the go. I have embedded below how this new service works. "To use the service, ...

Pick your Tatango flash widget color

Monday, August 11th, 2008

Want your Tatango flash widget to match your blog, MySpace or website? Well the new flash widgets, that we released today allow you to pick from 7 new colors. You can find your flash widgets under the "Advanced" tab on the left hand side of your screen. Please let us ...

CEO Casual?

Monday, August 11th, 2008

We were sent an interesting article that was written by Christina Binkley in the Wall Street Journal How to Pull Off 'CEO Casual' and we really liked what was said, especially as suits in the Tatango office are as rare as one of our engineers without a Red Bull in their hands. We ...

Support our Troops! Operation Soldier Care

Saturday, August 9th, 2008

The following is a guest blog post by our friends at www.eMailOurMilitary.com We here at Tatango are always looking for ways to support our troops and we feel that both this organization and it's goals are something we want to promote. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- August is in full force through the U.S. with record heat ...

Seattle Startup Index Ranks Tatango In Top 100

Friday, August 8th, 2008

Seattle 2.0 blog just released the numbers for July Seattle startup traffic rankings and Tatango was ranked 91. Tatango.com had the second highest growth out of the 311 startups that were ranked. This ranking takes into account both our Alexa ranking and our Compete ranking. To see the full list click ...

Celebrity blogs go mobile

Friday, August 8th, 2008

We are excited to announce today that we have two new celebrity blogs using Tatango. These blogs use Tatango to send out text message alerts to their readers when news breaks, driving readers to their blogs to get the whole story. The first blog, BreatheHeavy.com is a dream for any Britney Spears fan, ...

What is a Tatango Public Page?

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

The Public Page was designed by Tatango to allow your group members to join your group by clicking on a hyperlink that you can place in your emails, facebook profile, blog, MySpace etc. For example, want to join my baseball teams text messaging group, check out my groups Public Page here: https://tatango.com/join/598-NTk4LS1 ...

New Tatango widget colors coming soon

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

When we launched the Tatango website widgets we had a lot of requests for different colors that would allow people to match their website widget to their blog, website or MySpace page. We listened and had our designer come up with five new color schemes for Tatango widgets, you can ...

$1,000 iPhone Application

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008

Have you seen the $999.99 "I Am Rich" iPhone App by Armein Heinrich? What do you get for $1,000? Not much, it displays a glowing red gem for an icon and that's about it! Apple has just pulled the application as reported by Silicon Alley Insider. We wonder if anyone actually purchased ...