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November 6, 2009

Introducing the Toobla Widget

Filed under: How to... — Apurva Patel @ 5:12 pm
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The Toobla widget allows visitors on your blog to view content in your Toobla folder interactively. Below is widget of our favorite social media blogs.

To embed this widget on your blog, click on the share icon.

See 12 Uses for Toobla for more ways you can use the Toobla widget.

November 3, 2009

12 Uses for Toobla

Filed under: How to... — Apurva Patel @ 3:42 pm
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You may already use Toobla to bookmark interesting websites and videos you come across while surfing the Internet. But what you may not know is that Toobla provides more than just bookmarking. People use Toobla for a variety of reasons, from promoting a business to landing a job. Below are 12 different uses for Toobla:

1. Share Collections of Funny Videos. Organize funny videos on Youtube into folders and share with friends on Facebook and Twitter. Here is a collection of funny Web 2.0 videos: http://toob.la/bpu

2. Display your Social Web Presence. Do you have an account on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn? Showcase all of your accounts using the Toobla widget on your website. Here is an example of Chris Brogan’s social web presence: http://toob.la/bpS

3. Promote your Small Business. Add your company website, blog, coupons, weekly specials, and advertisements to your Toobla library. Share your folders with customers through email newsletters, Facebook, and Twitter. Here is a portfolio for Custom PC Max: http://toobla.com/custompcmax

4. Showcase your Resume. Make an interactive resume on Toobla. Showcase the companies you have worked at, websites you have built, and public speaking you have done. An example: http://toob.la/bkC

5. Use as a Teaching Tool. As a teacher, use Toobla to organize videos, photos, and websites in folders relating to current topics of study. Share with your students. Here is an example of a Toobla folder for the topic “quicksand”: http://toob.la/bq2

6. Showcase your Press Mentions. Compile articles, video clips, and images. Here are press mentions about Toobla: http://toob.la/bpU

7. Showcase your Portfolio as a Blogger or Public Speaker. Organize your top blog entries, ebooks, videos of interviews, podcasts, presentations, books published, articles written, and websites of companies you work for. Embed your portfolio on your blog. Here is a portfolio for Brian Solis: http://toob.la/bpW

8. Promote a Charity. Promote awareness by organizing a collection of informational websites. Here is a folder for the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation: http://toob.la/bq4

9. Promote a Conference. Compile images and videos of past events, speaker information, and websites of sponsors. Here is an example of a tech conference, CIO Ohio, using Toobla: http://www.toobla.com/ciohio

10. Make a Collection of your Favorite Books. Create a reading list of books by category and share. The following is a list of essential books on Social Media: http://toob.la/bq0

11. Make a Collection of your Favorite Sports Video Clips. Compile video clips of unforgettable plays by your favorite sports teams and athletes. Here are some plays by Tiger Woods: http://toob.la/bpY

12. Showcase your Corporate Brand. Create a collection of images from fans, video clips, commercials, social media presence, and interesting press about your brand. Here is a portfolio for Southwest Airlines: http://toob.la/bji

October 8, 2009

Launched

Filed under: Uncategorized — jsaxbe @ 5:14 pm
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It’s been a long time coming but we finally launched!!  We’ve fared well in the press. I’m including some posts below:

(From this past week)
Lots of talk Toobla, and tech on the midwest” - MarkBeadles
What every entrepreneur can learn from Toobla” - Examiner.com
Toobla pushing social bookmarking into the future” - bub.blicio.us
Toobla - A great way to discover visual (video) content” - ReadWriteWeb
The Best Web 2.0 Applications for Education - 2009” - Larry Ferlazzo.
10 Amazing Tools for Sharing Visual Inspiration through Screenshots” - Inspired Magazine

(Older posts, in case you missed em!)
Toobla Takes Over Where Ma.gnolia Left Off‘ - TechCrunch
Still a Wonderful World of Web Widgets For Some Start-Ups‘ Wall Street Journal

More stuff is being written about us daily so please follow us on twitter (http://www.twitter.com/toobla) or become of fan of ours on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/toobla) to stay up to date with our progress.

And don’t forget to check out the site.  You can see my personal toobla library, here: http://www.toobla.com/jake. If you like a particular folder on my page, sign up for an account and ‘copy’ the folder to your own library.  This demo video can also help you get started: (http://toob.la/bhO)

The site should be working in all major browsers on the PC and Mac.  However, you may have to update your browser if you experience trouble. Contact me directly with any problems or leave a message through the ‘feedback’ link on the site.  We are constantly working through bugs and updating features so that they’re more user friendly. Your input is appreciated!

August 22, 2009

Big Week

Filed under: Uncategorized — jsaxbe @ 4:24 pm
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Wow. It’s been a big week for the Toobla team. We had a great story published on CrunchGear and TechCrunch yesterday. Lots of thanks to Jay Donovan for writing the piece.

Currently, we’re giving away 1,000 codes to users who can help us test the site. If you have not gotten your code yet, click here. We appreciate all those who’ve signed up and provided feedback.

Opening up the site is to the outside world is an eye-opening experience, to say the least. Fortunately, fears of a total server meltdown, especially following the TechCrunch post, did not materialize! We’re alive and well, and special thanks has to go out to our development team of Matt, Mike and Tony. Keep it up dudes.

But there’s a lot of polishing left to be done - we have a couple new features, namely Facebook Connect and Gnip integration, on the horizon. Plus there’s a number of bugs and performance issues that need to be tackled before the September public beta launch. Ill be addressing some of these issues and our approaches to solving them in future blog posts.

If you have any feedback, please let us know via the website feedback form or email me directly (jake@toobla.com).

Toobla on TechCrunch!

August 11, 2009

Roll Out…

Filed under: Uncategorized — jsaxbe @ 3:26 am
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We’ve circled the week of September 14th as launch week! And what a week it will be… Im gonna watch the Buckeyes beat up on USC, celebrate the launch with the Toobla crew in Columbus and then Brian and I off to the Pittsburgh for the 3 Rivers Venture Fair.

In the meantime, it’s testing, testing, testing. Thanks to all the friends who’ve helped us identify bugs.

We’re intent on making version 1.0 of the site work everywhere. I’m happy to say that all libraries and folders are viewable in Firefox, IE and Safari. We’ve heard of one bug in IE where the toolbar at the top covers up part of the library.  We’ll be addressing this soon. In the meantime IE users can work around the problem by selecting ‘zoom out’ from the ‘view’ menu.

We’re also trying to make Toobla as easy as possible to understand. There’s been some confusion on how to get content into one’s library. Right now this can only be done by copying a folder from another’s page or by installing the bookmarklet. For the former, check out the Sherpa’s page to start copying some cool stuff: http://toobla.com/sherpa. For the latter, watch this video to see how it’s done:

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More features will be coming soon. Keep the feedback coming! Thanks again to all those helping out!

March 23, 2009

SXSW

Filed under: Conferences/Trade Shows, Cool people — Tags: , , , , — jsaxbe @ 2:54 am
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Thanks to everyone who came to the Belmont for Toobla’s SXSW After Hour Party - It was a great night!

Guy with blinking shirt

Guy with blinking shirt

Thanks for all the Radiohead covers

Thanks for all the Radiohead covers

Courtney, Carrie, Microsoft Dude

Courtney, Carrie, Microsoft Dude

Brian & Jake

Brian & Jake

Ohio contingent: Paul, Chris, Brad (Ustream), Andy, Mike, Jake

Ohio contingent: Paul, Chris, Brad (Ustream), Andy, Mike, Jake

Bob, Mike & Andy

Bob, Mike & Andy

Toobla Party! Belmont #SXSW

Toobla Party! Belmont #SXSW

March 13, 2009

Toobla SXSW After Pary

Filed under: Conferences/Trade Shows, Cool people — Tags: , , , , — jsaxbe @ 3:07 am
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Any of our fellow SXSW-ers should come by our swank after party Saturday night at the Belmont Lounge. We’d love to chat and pick what’s on your mind over a few drinks, and maybe talk just a little Toobla. Come stand on our tab for awhile!

March 12, 2009

Crazy Toobla Development Methods

Filed under: Cool people, New stuff in the works — Tags: , , , , — myoho @ 3:09 am
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Collaboration

Creating Toobla is a collaborative process, regularly involving the efforts of developers, designers, dinosaurs and Spider-Man, as well as other crucial stakeholders.

March 11, 2009

Really excited about SXSW this weekend…

Filed under: Conferences/Trade Shows, New stuff in the works — Tags: , , , — blink @ 3:11 am
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we’ve had some big code pushes to the site and some really cool design tweaks over the last couple of weeks in preparation. Can’t wait for some feedback!

- Matt, toobla developer

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