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sobees web upgraded to Silverlight 4

09 September 2010

Here is a sobees web update – and a meaningful one: our application has been moved from Silverlight 3 to Silverlight 4. This new version of Silverlight enables sobees web to both run in any browser window and be installed on the desktop, and this for Mac and Windows users. But we also brought lots of improvements and brand new features to the app!

The general performances of the application have grown a lot better, and so has the user experience (most particularly out of the browser).

We also worked on the connection to services in order to integrate it directly into sobees. This is a major addition which you will resent right away when using sobees web out of the browser: from now on, it will be possible for you to connect to services even after you installed the app on your computer!

There has been a great deal of improvements in terms of design, since we had to catch up with our successful desktop version. The application is now neater, clearer, trendier!

Smaller changes include the possibility to get either a tabbed or a column view, the availability of different themes and the drag and drop support to reorder the columns.

We hope you will enjoy using this new version! And don’t hesitate to tell us if you come across any bug or issue, we’d be happy to help…

N.B. 1: MySpace has not been integrated in this first release. Should you be a MySpace user, we therefore recommend you to move to our desktop application or to go on using the Silverlight 3 version, which remains available here: http://sobeesweb.cloudapp.net/.

N.B. 2: Please make sure that you run the latest version of Silverlight 4, which has been released on September 1st. If not, simply update it (Windows users: head to the "Windows Updates"; Mac users: it should be suggested automatically when loading sobees web).

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sobees Mobile version 0.8 – the Facebook integration

02 September 2010

We are really pleased to announce this new release of our Android application sobees for Twitter/Facebook. Not only have we brought great new features and improvements to our already powerful Twitter client, but we also integrated Facebook, making it possible for you to manage both your social networks in a single application!

Let’s take a closer look at Facebook, the major change of this version…

Our Facebook client lets you easily:

Read and react to your home feed
Keep up with your friends
Comment and like their posts
Update your status and upload pictures

What’s new apart from that?

sobees for Twitter/Facebook now includes notifications for both your Twitter and Facebook streams. We have also added a cool, brand new widget for you to update your status on multiple services simultaneously!

Please note that the ads have been temporarily removed from the application and this until the release of a premium version of the application.

In addition, we went on improving the general performances and design of the application and fixed a few bugs you had pointed out. So thanks for your help, and enjoy this new version!

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sobees My Friends gets an update

25 August 2010

Our iPad application for Facebook sobees My Friends has just been updated!

This new version retrieves more Facebook videos for you to have a look at on your home page. Also new is the fact that the application now refreshes automatically (you can set up the time in the settings).
In addition, we truly improved the overall performances of My Friends and fixed all the bugs you users had reported!

While we go on developing the app to provide you with even more features (very soon!), we hope you will enjoy these improvements!

sobees Social Media – the first iPad application managing both Facebook and Twitter

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!

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My Friends – Our new iPad App

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.