Archive for the ‘Industry’ Category

Tatango Featured in the Wall Street Journal

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

When Derek Johnson was interviewing candidates for a marketing job at his tech company, one applicant arrived in a business suit. "It put us on edge," says Mr. Johnson, founder and CEO of Tatango.com. Mr. Johnson believed the job candidate was presenting a false image of himself. The suit, he ...

Open Web Awards

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Mashable presents the second annual Open Web Awards. Be sure to vote for Tatango! Open Web Awards is the only multilingual international online voting competition that covers major innovations in web technology. Through an online nominating and voting process, the Open Web Awards recognizes and honors the top achievements in 26 ...

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

We came across this today and thought it was worth posting to the blog. We have worked extremely hard at Tatango to build a product that is both easy to use and functional. Seeing this type of thing is a big complement to our team! If you need a little extra ...

Sidewalk Rally with Gary Vaynerchuk

Sunday, November 9th, 2008

Ted Murphy from Izea.com posted a pretty interesting "keynote" from Gary Vaynerchuk that I wanted to share with fellow entrepreneurs. This guy is in your face, loud and tells it how it should be. From what Ted said, "the bar that the event was being held at wouldn’t provide Gary with a ...

Cell Phone Numbers Going Public

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

My Mother forwarded me an email today that had been forwarded to her, which I posted below. "Cell phone numbers going public tomorrow -- Reminder: All cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies tomorrow and you will start to receive sales calls. You will be charged for these calls. ...

Tips for Successful Myspace Marketing

Tuesday, October 28th, 2008

So you want to use Myspace as a marketing tool... here are some basic tactics and implementations that I found to be successful in marketing on MySpace. * Speak to the demographic. The most important thing you've got to realize about MySpace is the demographic that is present. MySpace has a very ...

Junobe Announces SMSBook iPhone Application

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

Junobe today announced a free iPhone application that we thought was pretty interesting for our users. This application is SMSBook, which provides an alternative to the internet when looking for information while on the move. Most customers don’t realize that an amazing amount of information is accessible from services via text ...

University of Houston Bauer College Entrepreneurship Program #1 in U.S.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2008

You may be asking why Tatango is writing a blog post about the University of Houston and their entrepreneurship program, but did you know that our CEO, Derek Johnson, attended this program? Even though Derek didn't graduate, he left half way through to manage Tatango, he still wanted to congratulate both the ...

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, ...

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 ...