Fosimo.TR 0.5.1 is available for download

This is the 1st publicly available version of Fosimo.TR — free twitter client for windows ultimate tool which will help you keep track of your twitter account without browsing through twitter.

Please visit Fosimo.TR download page for more details. You need to have an account on Twitter to make it work :))

Fosimo.TR key features

• Tweet :))
• Be updated instantly with your Twitter friends status updates.
• Synchronize Twitter friends with matching OUTLOOK contacts. For windows mobile devices owners - you should be able to see your contacts photos on your phone display.
• Autoupdate (Fosimo.TR autoupdates each time a new version is available).

In addition

We will never ask you for your Twitter password and you don't need to enter one on Fosimo.TR (because Fosimo.TR fully supports oAuth authentication technology). Your Fosimo.TR will be updated automatically each time there is a new version of the product. There is no need to download uninstall and reinstall the tool each time.

Another screenshot

Follow updates on @fosimo and stay tuned.

Hope you enjoy it, your feedback is much appreciated :)

Fosimo is expanding to Twitter

We'd like to introduce a new awesome tool for Twitter, which is called Fosimo.TR and will be available in a couple of days for the public! It will change the way you tweet today and get updated with Twitter friends status updates.

In case you are not familiar with Fosimo yet. Fosimo is a free Facebook client tool for windows which helps you keep track of your Facebook account without browsing through Facebook.

Fosimo.TR is a free Twitter client for windows which is doing virtually the same but on Twitter. You can tweet, be synced instantly with friends status updates and much more including features that are not on the core Twitter.

Screenshot

As I mentioned: 1st version will be available shortly. We are already in the testing stage :)

Stay tuned :)

Facebook opened vanity urls to the public for free and during the landrush last Saturday over a million urls were taken.

What did you get?

I agree with techcrunch that the coolest personal url taken last week is default.aspx. LOL.

I got my first name: anatoly. Just the same as I own on twitter and on linkedin.

The rush will continue on June, 28th when Facebook pages urls will become fully open. Right now pages need more than 1000 fans threshold to be able to get vanity url.

It has been nearly a month and a half since I made a post sharing my opinion on MySpace dev. platform status and here come some bad news for Myspace (and for the platform) :/

According to techcrunch Myspace reduced its staff this week by 480 people.

The bad news is that many of them are key employees and had contributed a lot to Myspace during the years. Including people from Myspace dev. platform.

We are quickly approaching 1 million users on Friendster. Going to hit 1 million users mark next week or so. It will be our 1st platform so far where we reach 1 million installs.

x2line has 7-8 applications on Friendster with over 50K users each. And still growing.

Go, Friendster!

I'd like to introduce Baby Toys application which is connected to Facebook via "Connect". Means that this version of Baby Toys is a standalone application while users need to have Facebook account in order to authorize on and use this application. See Chocolate Lovers app which has the same concept.

Still a kid at heart? Send baby toys to friends or put on your profile!

Baby Toys is available inside Facebook canvas as well — Baby Toys on Facebook.

On Baby Toys you are able to send toys to your friends on Facebook, attach toys to your Facebook profile and attach toys to your Facebook emails.

Enjoy :)

In April I gave a short interview to IDG sharing my opinion on MySpace dev. platform here:

MySpace app dev platform still a work in progress.

Participating: Gerardo Capiel, who was recently hired to be vice president of product management for the MySpace Open Platform, Gartner analyst Ray Valdes plus my 2 cents.

"Developing for MySpace is tough because the platform is still not stable; it has many issues and bugs which remain unfixed for months, Lubarsky said via e-mail. In its current state, the platform doesn't give enough confidence to developers."

IE is still the most popular browser today.

IE7

IE7 is an absolute and utterly humiliating failure. It was very sad to see it fails over time taking into account that I'm usually a Microsoft fan when it comes to products and tools. It introduced some good usability features which already existed in FF but not in IE6 because IE6 development was frozen for quiet a while. The short list of features includes tabs, Ctrl-Enter, etc. The IE team should not have touched IE engine though. The browser became unstable and buggy. I use it only due to the fact that the majority of my users are on IE7.

IE8

IE8 is more solid than IE7 at a first glance. I installed it because Microsoft has moved it to the high priority updates last week. Too early. IE8 has many issues and I was forced to uninstall it. It needs service pack ASAP and I can't recommend to install it yet. In addition to some severe connectivity issues it causes many popular sites not to work properly with it. It has severe back compatibility issue.

Twitter got some hype recently because the site has become finally more stable and succeeded to reach some critical mass of valuable users/connectors. Many celebrities have joined Twitter recently. You can follow one of them here:

@anatoly

LOL

I'd like to introduce Chocolate Lovers application which is connected to Facebook via "Connect". Means that this version of Chocolate Lovers is a standalone application while users need to have Facebook account in order to authorize on and use this application.

Love chocolate? Stick chocolate to your profile and send to friends!

On Chocolate Lovers users are able to send their favorite chocolates to their friends on Facebook, stick chocks to their Facebook profile, view their send/receive stats and even more.

Enjoy :)