Blog
February 2008Feed your zannel to twitter and flickr
Zannel is all about sharing your mobile video, picture and text updates in as many places as possible with as many people as you want. Obviously, the embeddable zannel widget and the Facebook application are great ways to get your updates out there, but, like ice cream, sometimes you just want more.
That’s why we’ve launched zannel feeds. Now posts you make to zannel can automatically appear in your flickr or twitter accounts. If you post an update to zannel and you have zannel feeds active, twitter will display the text as well as a links your picture or videos, and Flicker just receives your mobile picture updates. You can append your feed to flicker with any tags you want and apply whatever flickr privacy settings you’d like.
To start your twitter or flickr feeds from zannel, log in and click on your “account settings” on either the wap or the web version of zannel. There you’ll find a section for “zannel feeds” where you can configure your twitter and flickr export options.
So, save yourself all those extra uploads and use zannel to instantly feed your updates everywhere.
Posted by Steve on 02.24.08 | Permalink |
Karenthe13th – A live love experiment
On Wednesday, Feb 13th 2008, a single San Francisco woman ditched work in favor of finding a Valentines date. Mind you, not just any sort of date, but one brought to her by followers on zannel, facebook, and a dedicated hoard of horizontal corduroy enthusiasts at cordarounds.com.
Here’s how the ambitious love quest began:
From there, the oh so sharply attired woman, Karen, got suggestions from eager event enthusiasts for potential Valentines Day matches. She zoomed around the not too foggy city on Segways and in Taxis in her quest to meet a nice guy to hit the town with.
The entire day was documented as it happened with instant mobile updates as well as with a few smartly edited video segments (compiled by Bill Bowles, creator of the infamous mynameisbill.com). Altogether it was a live, unscripted soap opera that folks followed on their phones and discreetly from their desks at work. Check out the Karenthe13th page on zannelto watch how the whole day unfolded.
Posted by Steve on 02.14.08 | Permalink |
