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Mashable are showing us some love. Again.

alon — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:19:01 -0400

Mashable.com, one of the biggest & most important web 2.0 blogs out there, wrote about our new version and said that 8hands' new tweaks "improve its overall service and make it more useful as a profile aggregating and media-sharing tool".

Of course, this isn't the first time Mashable wrote about us. Back in April, Mashable's Kristen Nicole wrote a post about us, saying "I really like the 8hands concept, layout and design", among other kind words.

Thanks Mashable. We love you too, and we can't wait to show you all the little surprises and huge add-ons we've got up our sleeves!

Mashable launched a social network

Goldi — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 12:03:55 -0400

Anyone who’s someone on web 2.0 reads Mashable - one of the world's most popular blog focused exclusively on social networks. After achieving a huge amount of readers (over 3 million monthly page views) Mashable.com launched yesterday a new social network called my.mashable.

The new my.mashable network is a natural progression for Mashable that slowly but wisely became the authority regarding social networks, blogs and general web 2.0 news and reviews. Let’s just say that if an alien (or maybe just my mom) lands on earth today and wants to catch up on web 2.0 updates, then Mashable is probably the best place to send it to – when it comes to social networks Mashable is always on top of the game.

my.mashable Network is placed on the Mashable.com homepage, which gives it an easier opening point. Considering the fact that probably 99% of the Mashable readers are also active social networks users (or at least active enough to open an account), it's an almost obvious move. On the other hand – why should an active user open another social network profile?

my.mashable doesn’t offer any special or unique features yet: for now it only features a general profile system that lets you fill up links to all your social networks profiles & blogs around the web. Some new features are coming soon, but this network's essence is probably the user's various profiles. Mashable, just like your loyal servant - 8hands, understands that social networks aggregation is the future.

But why should I open yet another new profile on the web you ask? Well the answer is simple – to be famous: My.mashable is the perfect place to actually “meet” and “know” the hard core of Mashable's readers. Most of them are bloggers, high-tech professionals, network founders etc. instead of trying to promote their product on a mashable post comment, they can now just open a my.mashable profile and get the desired stage to spread their word.

What I like about my.mashable is that it’s not trying to imitate the other networks around – The Mashable people know their users very well, they are the web 2.0 experts and that’s why I believe that the my.mashable features will grow and become useful and practical.

My.mashable is not just a place to hang out and socialize – there’s no option to upload videos, pictures or write blogs. It’s all surrounded by the profiles you already use plus the Mashable latest posts, on a small shoutbox on the right side of the page.

My.mashable joins the list of social networks aggregators who offer a part of what 8hands is offering (Tabber, LinkMyBox). 8hands, unlike these web-based aggregators, gives you more control over your content and also provides real-time notifications on your desktop, without having to open a browser in order to know exactly what is happening on your various social network profiles.

The fact is that most of Mashable's readers are the people “behind” the web 2.0 world and are not common users, begs the question whether this is just another manifestation of the web 2.0 bubble. This is definitely not a network for the 14 year old girl or for the self-observed hipsters: it's a small niche community for the people who live for web 2.0, and you can trust Mashable to make a good home for them.

Don't forget to add us at my.mashable.com/my8hands

8hands is getting some public attention! Respect yo!

Goldi — Wed, 16 May 2007 13:23:58 -0400

For those of you who are not following our media section very carefully, here’s a sniff shots of the recent blogs and websites that already installed 8hands and were kind enough to tell the world about it.

The buzz about 8hands has really got us by surprise, and not because we don’t think 8hands is the best thing happened to web 2.0 since tags, but because we are still on Alpha and still working hard to get all of the cutting-edge features that will make 8hands the finest application we've all been dreaming of.

So, just yesterday Deborah Schultz, the marketing director of six apart, posted an interesting post about a new term “Continuous Partial Attention” that basically talks about how “We manage our time. We don't manage our attention” (you can read more about this interesting theory here) and how 8hands helps you make your time spending on social networks to become more efficiently. We totally agree with Schultz about the necessity of a Mac version for 8hands and we swear by the octopus’ gods we want it even more!

Prior to Deborah’s post we were on the Download.com homepage! Probably the biggest site for downloadable application.

Here’s the link to download 8hands from their site. You can even add your user review about 8hands.

And then we had the lovely somewhat frank to write about us, and off course Mashable! And many others.

Finally, don't forget you can subscribe to the 8hands blog and get all the latest news about our application. Obviously the easiest way of keep you updated with our latest news is to add the RSS feed straight into your 8hands tool!

In all I really like the 8hands concept and design...

Goldi — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:52:44 -0400

Yey! 8hands love Mashable and Mashable loves us back!
here's a review taken from the world's largest blog focused exclusively on social networks - the massive Mashable!:

"8hands is a new social network aggregator that has just launched in public alpha...The 8hands service is a downloadable desktop application that will aggregate all of your social network's information, showing stats like overall traffic rank and your number of friends...In all I really like the 8hands concept, layout and design..." full review here