24 August 2010

Tired of switching between several applications and browser windows just to follow your online communities? Aggregating the top leading social networks, sobees Social Media is the one application you need!

Closer to the desktop version of sobees than our previous iPad application (My Friends), Social Media is an easy-to-use, feature-rich app that allows user to easily follow and interact with their online communities, both on Facebook and on Twitter. Social Media aggregates these two social networks in an attractive interface which offers the following functionalities:

• View my Twitter and Facebook feeds
• Read comments posted on Facebook
• Comment and like Facebook items
• Reply/DM/Retweet/Quote/Favorite a Tweet
• Manage my Twitter lists
• Get quick facts on any link thanks to Facterylabs data
• Post something on both services simultaneously
• Upload pictures
• And search Twitter

sobees Social Media is now available on the Apple App store. Enjoy!

23 July 2010

After the success met by our first iPad application sobees lite, we are pleased to announce the release of My Friends. We wanted to provide our users with a complete experience. This is why we have developed My Friends: by bringing together the world’s most powerful social network Facebook and a cutting edge product that is going to revolutionize the way consumers live, we achieve our goal to allow people to remain connected and involved, no matter where they are.

My Friends by sobees is the iPad application consumers need to interact with their friends online. Developed in collaboration with Easybox Technologies in Switzerland, My Friends is a full-featured, easy to use application that allows people to view information retrieved from Facebook while interacting with their community, the whole experience being enhanced by the cutting edge, newspaper like interface. The first version of My Friends is built on sobees lite, with the addition of the following features:

• Facebook Chat
• Facebook Notifications
• Choice of homepage (sobees magazine view or traditional stream view)
• Picture viewing (Friends' profiles) and uploading
• And many small upgrades enriching the experience

As we want to constantly improve My Friends, we are already working to add filtration and more social networks. sobees lite will remain for a while and get the My Friends updates in a couple of days.

22 July 2010

Since Fall 2009, we have progressively migrated all our Web services and Silverlight applications to Windows Azure Platform.

We decided so to ensure the scalability of our application for our users all over the world and for users of our application My Social Networks, integrated within Yahoo! Mail. Windows Azure is THE Cloud Service for .NET applications such as Silverlight and WPF.It is perfectly integrated within our publishing processes and offers reliability and performance, which matches our requirements by maintaining our costs under control.

We are also very excited about the future of Azure and plan to release data as API using Windows Azure. We took part in a Microsoft Case Study which you can find here . If you are interested in getting additional information or if we can help you with Windows Azure, e-mail us at info (at) sobees (dot) com.

25 June 2010

We updated sobees desktop to integrate Facebook new permission. If you experience and issue with Facebook service, please delete your Facebook account in the application options:

Then add again Facebook (“Add a service” menu on the top left of the application). You will be asked to validate the new permission and you should be all set once the new permissions have been granted.