Blackberry, Viigo and Twitter
As some of you know, I am an admitted Blackberry addict. It wasn’t too bad until I got the Bold 9000. This is the next best thing to a laptop, and in my opinion, kills the iPhone if you like to type. The downside is have to talk with a toaster up against you face, but that the price of admission (oh, and $250 bucks).
Then I installed Viigo, and TwitterBerry and my BB really turned into the “adult soother”. If you haven’t tried Viigo for your mobile phone, then stop reading this and install it. Viigo must be an excellent company because they beat my company, Filemobile for the honour of the Canadian New Media Awards Most Promising Company of the Year, for which we and B5 Media were also nominated. Congratulations, by the way!
I very frequently, after reading an article, like to send it to potentially interested parties. Since email is so 1900’s, I prefer to tweet my URLs. I can’t do this directly, and have to go through some ass-pain to get the URL (especially the Google reader feeds), copy it, and paste it into my Twitterberry. In fact, it completely discourages the action.
So I sent a feature request to Viigo via their feedback function in the app to allow me to send articles to Twitterberry in the same way as native BB apps do. I got a friendly, “Thanks for your feedback!” email. I then tweeted the fact that I made a feature request. I got a response from Matt Bogart via Twitter:
Ability to use #Viigo as your mobile Twitter app is close at hand. Send articles, updates, replies and more directly!
For those of us who read a lot of articles, and like to tweet URLs, this will be extremely cool!
I am now following Matt, and plan to have that upgrade installed as soon as its available. Hopefully, their Ops team will have there servers ready for the load….
