Comments on: Sharing Media From Your Mobile: Why Twango ?

By: Benish

Benish — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 04:30:51 +0000

Pakistani social website also becoming visible, I think we pakistani too have our own social localized culture website for our youth. like http://www.circle.pk Social networking should not be considered as all about making friends.

By: Riaz Haq

Riaz Haq — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 23:04:57 +0000

A good overview of Twango as mobile social medium.
I’d invite you to take a look at PakAlumni Worldwide, a social network set up initially for alumni from NED Engineering University but expanded to include all Pakistani Alumni to connect, share and collaborate.
There is a very large Pakistani universities alumni that wants to connect with other alumni and current students at their alma mater for the purpose of alumni giving. It’s driven partly by concern for the state of science and tech education in Pakistan that needs attention and help to remain competitive in the modern world. We have seen how the IIT system in India has helped catapult India into a great emerging power in economic and political terms. We in Pakistan need evolution of a similar system out of the various UETs in Pakistan. I believe the Pakistani diaspora can help in this effort.

By: Shaheer

Shaheer — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:18:38 +0000

@Babar: You’re welcome :)

By: Babar Bhatti

Babar Bhatti — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 16:41:52 +0000

Shaheer - thanks for the detailed review, you mentioned out some important points which were not in the post.

By: Shaheer

Shaheer — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:38:52 +0000

I’ve used Twango for over a year now, and here’s my two cents. I hope all readers will find it very useful.

The signup is very clean and simple. Agreed. However, the interface might take some time to get used to. But here’s a tip: there are no folders, rather, they have tags (or as Twango calls it, channels). Of course, you can use channels as folders. But in short - if you want to make things a little easier for yourself, first create a channel, then upload media into that channel. You can upload otherwise, without making a channel first - but you might get a little confused there.

There are multiple upload methods: basic (5 per instance), multiple (java required), Windows XP Publisher (or whatever… it’s on the side of the My Computer etc windows), and email. Email is VERY VERY flexible - you can dispatch photos straight away, without having to sign in to Twango at all. See their help for more info - you can send it, add tags, add geo-locators, make the pictures/videos private or public etc).

You can upload files other than video or pictures - you can even upload MS Word files - around 40 types or so are supported.

Their site is speedy, oh yes. And - for those who use GPRS like hell (I don’t, since I can’t be bothered to recharge my account now and then), they have a mobile version of their pages (m.twango.com, I think it is).

Images can be downloaded in different sizes (including the original size/resolution) but as for videos, only the owner can download them (correct me if I am wrong, but this was the case before Nokia bought it, then they allowed video downloads temporarily as their video protocol wasn’t working, and now, since the videos are back up, I’m not sure).

There’s an upload limit of 250MB/month, and 100MB per file. For the average user, I think this is more than enough, since DSL in Pakistan for the average home user doesn’t exceed more than the average 3GB (exceptions expected).

I don’t work for Twango, but I rave about them now and then. They’re former Microsoft Employees (as per some news resource I read but forgot to bookmark), and they’ve made a fine product. Yes, it doesn’t contain the bells and whistles of an image editor - but then - we have Photoshop and Picasa, don’t we?

Hope people found it useful.