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The NEW Digital Life Simplified Blog
Apr 23rd
Hi, everyone!
We’ve been really busy the last few weeks at meshtop. We are about to release a new version (details to come), which has required a lot of man hours! And we’re re-designing the website to better express the essence of MeshTop. As part of these changes, we’ve decided to take this blog in a different direction, one that you guys can relate to and will find beneficial.
The idea came from thinking about some of our favorite things. For example, a few of mine are Diet Dr. Pepper fountain soda, lollipops, and strawberry bubblegum (note: it must be bubblegum; chewing gum is not the same!). I realize that this may sound a bit silly to some of you, but it really proves the conclusion we made: Many of the things that make us happiest in this world are the simplest things around. This lead to our new blog concept: Digital Life Simplified.
We began thinking about how using computers and other technology is meant to make our lives easier. Unfortunately, things have been getting more and more complicated in some ways. For example, as an expat living in the big city, every time I leave the house, I need to have three things with me: my phone, my camera, and my mp3 player. It’s a real pain to have to carry all that around everywhere; even worse for guys because most have to try to fit everything in their pockets! Fortunately, Apple came out with the iPhone. Not only is this a phone, media player and camera in one, it has the capability to download translators, dictionaries and taxi cards in the native language. Having all these conveniences in one hand-held device is much easier: less to carry, less to remember when you leave the house, less to learn how to use.
This concept is exactly what we aim for at meshtop. Social Networking has become a huge part of the business world. Many of us rely on social networking concepts such as Twitter, Facebook and MSN to communicate with our customers and build leads. By merging the information from these sites into Outlook, you can quickly see status updates from your friends from all sites in one place, without logging into multiple websites and juggling several tabs or windows. meshtop matches the email addresses in your Inbox with your Facebook/Twitter contacts, so you can quickly check someone’s recent updates before replying to an email. Meshtop also automatically searches for an email address on Facebook to see if the contact has a profile if you aren’t already linked to that person (Note to Ye: does it do this with Twitter and MSN too? I only noticed Facebook before, but I think it probably checks them all. Please confirm.), helping you remember who you have forgotten to add as friends. As our new tag-line indicates, meshtop truly is Digital Life Simplified.
Over the next few months, we will be introducing some new products to make your lives easier. We will also bring you information through the DLS blog. We will tell you about new products and articles to make your life simpler through technology. We hope you like our changes, and as always your comments and questions are welcome.
MeshTop Features – Navigating Through MeshTop
Sep 7th
MeshTop has many different views: Network, Photo, Wall, Panel, Bar, Twitter Gadgets, Other Gadgets and so on, just to name a few. But it can get a bit confusing with so many views, so I wanted to highlight how to quickly navigate the specific features and views directly.
Navigating through MeshTop is quite straightforward – At the top of SidePanel view, there are five buttons for navigation. The first two arrow buttons expand or collapse MeshTop to the Bar view or the Network view. The following three buttons allow you to navigate to the three main views: Network, Photo, Wall.
At the top of the Expanded view are the same three visual buttons which toggle through the Network, Photo, and Wall features of MeshTop.
While in the Collapsed view, you can also navigate to these three main views using the navigational buttons at the bottom of the Bar view.
These are the three features that we’re highlighting in MeshTop at the moment, but we’re working on additional network and feature integrations as we finalize for our first release.
Stay tuned, and let us know of things you’d like to see in future releases by connecting with us through the feedback bar on the left, or through twitter!
@hellomeshtop!
Jul 20th
Hello and welcome, from MeshTop!
I’d like to give a short introduction to our company, and hopefully later on through the weeks I’ll also be able to introduce some of our team members here.
MeshTop is a software division of Minesage, the Business Intelligence branch of the larger SagesGroup company. MeshTop’s goal is to provide the next generation of free tools for social networking, and our current team of developers hopes to bring you innovative and exciting technologies in the areas of social networking and social media applications.
We started our MeshTop for Outlook project in 2007, and our initial idea was to provide a tool for Facebook users to communicate with each other, while also giving them a tool to organize their information quickly. At the end of 2007, we developed a tool called Visual-Sage, which was built upon Microsoft’s new WPF technology. Visual-Sage’s functionality gave users a chat client for Facebook, and also a visualization tool for their networks. However, as Twitter began to dominate the social network world from 2008, we didn’t want to miss out on this potentially huge network. This integration of Facebook, Twitter and Outlook, was later termed MeshTop.
Head over to our main website to browse around if you haven’t checked out MeshTop yet. We hope that MeshTop will be one of the leading social mashup tools for users.
Send us any feedback on MeshTop at:
hello@meshtop.com
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