Jul
2011
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Coming off the heels of our Hashable 2.0 release, we’re excited to announce that we’re a featured app in the Android Market! Our developers (Joe and Aaron) have been working hard to create some of the great new features, and we can’t thank the Android developer team enough for their advice and support.
In addition to all the great Hashable 2.0 features, we’ve taken advantage of the latest Android design standards to make the posting and contacts navigation interfaces much more intuitive. And for you early adopters, we’ve leveraged Near Field Communication (NFC) technology to make connecting even faster. Simply place two NFC-enabled phones back-to-back (currently Nexus S, but more coming soon), to exchange contact information or to save a connection. No more typing means no typos, and you can hash people at record speed!
We’re excited to see what Android users have to say about our app. If you are already using it – feel free to rate it and/or add a review on our Android Market page. If not – what are you waiting for? Download, use, enjoy.
-Team Hashable
Jul
2011
Welcome to Hashable 2.0! We’re very excited to bring you the brand new version of our Hashable app on iPhone and Android. Download it now! Go ahead, we’ll wait.
The new version builds on the core utility of Hashable: making networking easier, more efficient and more useful for everyone. When we came out with Hashable 1.0, we wanted to create a service that would allow people to track their true connections and ongoing relationships in the real-time world. We wanted our users to easily save and remember everyone they met, keep track of meetings and interactions, and send virtual business cards to kick off relationships, quickly and paper-free.
Hashable 2.0 builds on that. After letting the service take hold amongst our community (you!) we let the feedback roll in – and listened to what our users wanted. You clearly wanted to connect – but what we learned was that you wanted to anchor that connection with notes, reminders and a sense of how those connections build into your larger network. You also wanted a personal, private tool - great for public connecting, when it’s convenient.
So, with that in mind, here are some of the new features we added to our mobile app:
See a list of your reminders
- Reminders – Add follow-up reminders for each contact. Schedule them in advance and integrate it with your smartphone calendar. Use our reminders list to manage your day based on the connections you need to make.
- Messages – send quick follow-up messages (thank you, meeting notes, etc) while you save the details of your meeting.
- Default Privacy Settings – Keep your network private. Every person you hash will default to a private connection. Anything you opt to share will only be made public to your Inner Circle, and no tweet will be sent without your opt-in.
View integrated contact details
- Integrated Contact Information - Email, tweet, call, text or hash anyone directly from the Hashable address book.
- Private Notes – Add a private note about your contacts, to remember and keep track of key details.
View relationship history
- Relationship histories – A quick tap on any contact will show a history of your interactions with the person, dated and with all tags and co-connections. (Incredibly useful for those “Who the heck is this person?” moments)
- Tap-free Networking – For those of you with Android phones that can support Near-Field Communication (NFC), you can now exchange contact information with people by just putting your phones together back-to-back.
- Send business cards at any time – You no longer have to tag a connection as a “Just Met” to send a business card. Anytime you hash someone – with any type of connection – you can send them a business card.
Hashable is still a very social app – after all, networking is all about personal connections – and we have still retained all the non-app functionality that many of our users rely on day-to-day. But the social layer has to be built on the utility layer, and that is what we have strengthened in Hashable 2.0.
We welcome you to download the latest version of the Android and iPhone app and check it out. And as always, please keep the feedback coming. We want to know what you think!
-Team Hashable
Jul
2011
Hashable has spent some quality time up north these past few months – our Toronto Hashy-Hour, our event with BNotions/Third Ocean, our CEO Mike Yavonditte being featured at SproutUp – and we noticed something: You guys really, really like Blackberries. No doubt that’s hometown pride – shout-out to RIM, a great Canadian company – but it raised the inevitable question of: “Can I use Hashable if I don’t have an iPhone or Android?” And so once again we must shout to the rafters: Yes, yes a thousand times yes! (And also “oui” because we know that Canada is bilingual.) So – to mark the magical occasion of Canada Day – let’s talk about Hashable and Blackberry.
Canadians are obviously not the only ones who use and love the Berry. In fact, I (Hasher Rachel Sklar) joined the iPhone ranks only when I joined Hashable; I have always been a steadfast Blackberry addict, and still am. Yes, I am also Canadian, but still – they don’t call it the Crackberry for nothing. Why? Blackberry’s killer app, put simply, is typing. While iPhone and Androids may be flashier (and certainly app-ier), Blackberry users always cite easy, accurate typing as the Berry’s main jam.
Here at Hashable we’re not taking sides – we love all our users equally, and love even more the various ways in which they are making Hashable their own – but we did feel it was time to remind you all about how Hashable can be used happily, if not appily. See below:
(1) TWITTER – Back when an iPhone app was just a twinkle in our Dev Team’s eye, Hashable launched on Twitter. You may recall how in September 2010 your Twitter feed suddenly blew up with people cc-ing @Hashable or saying #thanks for #breakfast or #lunch, having a #meeting or throwing back some #beers. To some, that seems like long ago, now that Hashable can live in your pocket on iPhone and Android – but Twitter is still where we were born, and frankly, we’re a little sentimental about it. So here’s how to Hash a friend up on Twitter:
(a) Use a recognized Hashable hashtag: #justmet for new contacts, or remember what you did with whom using #meeting, #breakfast, #lunch, #dinner, #meeting, #call, #beers or the all-inclusive, utilitarian #with.
(b) Send a thank-you for the above, or anything else, using the #thanks tag (good manners beget good Hashcred!).
(c) Simply add @Hashable to your tweet, and we’ll pick it up.
(d) Never Hash alone! Invite your friends to join with the #invite tag, and introduce people who ought to be besties with the #intro tag. There you go, that should keep you busy.
You can do this when you’re using Instagram, Soundtracking or any third-party apps that you want to push to Twitter. Foursquare users: Hashable will automatically pick up your friends with the #with tag whenever you push that checkin to Twitter.
(2) EMAIL – Twitter is a great and easy platform for Hashing – but it’s also public. What if you want to keep your Hashing private? That option is available using email – include or don’t include it to your Hashable stream using one of two options:
(a) To make an email check-in PUBLIC: cc the email to post@hashable.com
(b) To make an email check-in PRIVATE: cc the email to dontpost@hashable.com
So easy, and so effective! A quick way of keeping track, without getting bogged down searching endless email chains or multifarious folders.
(3) WEB – You know you can use Hashable via the web, right? Go here. It’s ridiculously easy.
Er, you can use all of these on a computer, too – but you’re busy and on the go, so know that when it’s you and your Blackberry against the world, Hashable’s got you covered. And we’ll have you covered even more in a few months when our Blackberry app goes live – we are on it, fear not. But in the meantime, on this Canada Day, we just wanted to remind our Blackberry users that we care. Oh Hashada? Never mind, that totally doesn’t work. But have a great Canada Day and a great long weekend!