The reason behind doTogether

This is a must read post.

http://www.webguild.org/2010/02/the-coming-decade-part-2-social-media-what-every-business-needs-to-know.php

Introducing "doits"

Happy New Year to all of you.

Our new Facebook application has been very well received. Facebook is such a great platform for friends to come together and hang out. With our application, we extended it further to make it a "do Together" platform.

Introducing "doits". Just like Twitter tweets, Facebook pokes, you can have DoTogether "doits".

What are "doits"?
doits are short simple activities where friends are working with you online to find something you are looking for by giving you relevant links. Simple! Then the comments starts, discussion starts and you really know you are getting the right thing.

e.g doits : List of Netflix movies to watch, books to read, home decor, online shopping, planning a travel getaway etc.

Everything these days starts with a search, but we are all at the mercy of the keywords we use. Wouldn't it be nice to ask friends to help along? Their choice of keywords and ideas can produce some refreshing results that we alone would completely miss out on.

So this new year, don't do it alone, start a "doit" with your facebook friends. Have fun!

DoTogether Team.

OblinQ -> DoTogether.com

We are happy to announce that OblinQ now has a new name to reflect what it has become.

Welcome to DoTogether.com.

Please stay tuned.

New OblinQ is Here

We are happy to announce the beta launch of our new look.
There is lot more functionality now and the navigation has been streamlined to make it more intuitive. We know we are not there yet. Hence we need your feedback to improve upon this even more.
We dont want to talk about all the new features but instead want to leave it for you to discover them all by yourself. This will tell us if the new design is effective.

So go ahead and have fun.
Nothing's is stopping you from Window Shopping. Not even this economy.

We have been working hard

We have not been timely in updating our blog, but the reason is we have been busy working on some cool stuff around Social Recommendations.

The beta is now just out.

Starting today, you can get recommendations from friends and make recommendations to them. We want to complete the "inbound" and "outbound" cycle of recommendations, so that our community/social circle gets fully involved.

And we achieved this through a unique concept of shared-bookmarking, where you can share some categories of your showcase with your friends in the form of a question or recommendation request. e.g What to wear this summer on budget?

Then your friends can add stuff to your request with Add to OblinQ.
It's a *true* social shopping experience where you can team up with your friends.

Lots of usability tweaks and fun features.


Hope you guys continue to enjoy and provide feedback.

-Rahul

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Widgetize your recommendations...

Here's the latest addition to our box of tricks. Now you can widgetize your recommendations and publish the widget to your blog, facebook, etc.

Here's an example ...