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Finding A Home For Your Podcast

" There are lots of sites that offer limited free podcasting services but the best site on the web for posting audio has to be Twango.com. Its’ an emerging Youtube style site but allows you to post video, photos and most importantly audio. Twango is like a youtube meets flickr with an added audio function – it’s free and like youtube offers you free server space for limitless storage and enough bandwidth (uploading time) to post at least an hours worth of quality audio a month."

"When you’ve created a channel, uploaded your audio you will then see that twango has a very handy set of tools on the right hand navigation bar. These will allow you to embed your audio in your blog and create a feed for your podcast."

Record, Embed, Share, Comment – Online Video Only

by Svetlana Gladkova

"The widget automatically recognizes webcams from popular hardware manufactures (Creative, Logitech, Apple). It has a very simple and user-friendly interface to make video sharing as simple as email."

"And comments is actually what makes the new widget something unique - I would even use the word "revolutionary" here, no matter how hard I try to avoid it usually. The thing is that your readers can leave video comments to your embedded video - right in place."

Twango launches webcam widget

by Chris Van Patten

"Like Flixn, Twango’s widget does not require membership for use of the widget. Twango does add the ability to save video to a Twango account if you are a member though - making it a great way to easily create short videoblogs."

"...a quick and easy way to get your message across to family, friends, and co-workers!"

Introducing the Webcam Video Widget

Record and share instant videos from your webcam. With our new webcam video widget anyone with a webcam can instantly record videos and share them via email and embed them in blogs. The widget provides a video url and html-code for you to copy and paste into email or your blog. The widget automatically recognizes webcams from popular hardware manufacturers such as Creative, Logitech and Apple and allows users to record a video with a single click.

Add video comments in-place. Other people can add their own webcam video comments right in place. Have your friends leave video greetings for you on your blog. Send video email to a group, and get video replies.

The webcam video widget is free and Twango membership is not required to use the basic features. However, Twango members have the advantage of storing their webcam videos in their Twango account, and managing video comments left by others.

Got a webcam? Give it a try now!

Bookmarking, Share to Mobile, GPS metadata, and more..

A whole raft of new useful features for this week. You can now bookmark your favorite Twango pages on Digg, del.icio.us, Technorati, Reddit, FURL, Blinklist, and SPURL. Just click the button of your choice in the 'bookmark bar' at the bottom of the page actions.

Share to mobile. Want to share your photos to someone who's on the go? Click the 'share' command on any media page, then enter a mobile phone number in the addressee box. Twango will send an SMS text message link to the recipient(s) so they can click and view photos directly on their phone, or enter the link later in their web browser to see a full size image.

GPS metadata support. Speaking of phones, does your phone includes GPS location data in its photos? Now Twango will recognize that GPS metadata and render its location as a map beside your photo after you've uploaded it.

Most popular members. Who's the most popular Twango member today? Well our popular member page now breaks out popularity by today, this week, and all time.

Rotate videos. Are you one of those people who insists on holding your video camera in the vertical position?!? (Hey, we've all done it.) Well it's time to give your friends' neck a, er, break. Click the "rotate arrows" beneath your video to make it upright! Who said videos had to be horizontal?

Congratulations to our "Share Your Life" holiday contest winners

A big thanks to everyone who shared Twango media with your friends during our sharing contest last month.

Congrats to our prize winners:

1st prize: danishgirlbc won a Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX01

2nd prize: Samantha07 won a 2GB iPod Nano

3rd prize: Tess won a Logitech 1.3 megapixel USB 2.0 webcam

4th prize: 6 other members each won a 512MB Twango memory stick

Stay tuned for our next contest!

Twango Mobile Site Launches!

Now you can enjoy your Twango media on the go. We're very excited to officially release our mobile site: mobile.twango.com.

Anyone can access the site, view media and share it to anyone via an email address or mobile phone number.

Members can share their own media as well as enter comments and send private messages.

Using Twango's unique email upload features, members can upload media to Twango without any special software.

Give it try now by pointing your mobile phone browser at mobile.twango.com.

Twango has moved to greener pastures

We did done it. We moved our servers to a new colo last night. It was a multi-pronged endeavor that took us several hours to accomplish. We're in the wee hours of the morning now and (this author at least) is near passing out from a mixture of exhaustion and too much caffeine. But it looks like the move was successful, all the pieces seem to be communicating well and all the pages loading fine.

There is actually one little snafu that we've encountered, though. It looks like we're having a wee bit of a problem with the multi drag-drop uploader. If you try to upload using this method, you will be redirected to the basic upload. We will be working our hardest to get the multi drag-drop uploader back up and running and will update this here blog as soon as it's done.

Cheers, you all. And good night.

Twango will be down tonight as we move to our bigger, better datacenter.

Twango is getting supersized. To keep up with the growing appetite for Twango media, the site will be temporarily down as we upgrade our servers and move to a bigger datacenter tonight: 12 midnight to 6am Pacific (0800-1400 GMT). Check back here for status updates.

Twango offers an elegant, easy media sharing experience

By Dennis Sellers

"Twango is a relatively new company with a service that I highly recommend."

"Twango offers an impressive list of “actions” for each photo, audio file or video clip. You can email it to a friend, add it to your favorites, subscribe to the channel, add the user to your contacts and create an instant slideshow. The service also offers a range of options for posting to social networking sites; you can link to the file, create a thumbnail or grab some custom code to embed in your profile page."

"Heck, you can even use your iPod as a way to carry around media of your friends as well as more pro-oriented podcasts."

"My experience with Twango last week was flawless. I defintely intend to use it for upcoming Macsimum photo galleries. Macsimum rating: 10 out of 10"