After an initial free launch in May, and as we already informed you back then, our iPad application sobees for Facebook will now have to be bought. You will be able to get it at the special price of $ 0.99 until our next update, which should be released in July (we are already working on it). Getting the application now will ensure you a free upgrade to the above-mentioned next version, so make sure you don’t miss this limited offer!
We are really proud to announce the release of a brand new application: sobees for Facebook! This really is the one iPad application that you’ve been waiting for!
Developed in collaboration with Easybox, sobees for Facebook is a rich, full-featured and easy-to-use application which retrieves all your important Facebook information in a gorgeous interface.
We’ve been working hard on the design to provide you with a neat and trendy application. And the result is cutting-edge: you can now get all your Facebook information in a newspaper-like home page!
Regarding the features, this application lets you:
View friends’ status updates, wall posts, pictures, videos and links
See all of your friends pictures on one page and browse by profile picture, like a real face book
Access and view friends’ profiles and walls
View your friends’ recent photo albums
Manage events and birthdays simply in a month calendar view
Update your own status, and post comments and/or like your friends'
You deserve the best applications possible and we truly hope this one will improve your Facebook experience on the iPad!
Great news for sobees: today we are releasing our first mobile application!
After having developed a desktop social client, a web-based one as well as applications for you to follow various events, it seemed natural to move on to the mobile world.
sobees does not primarily focus on Twitter, which is only one service out of the many we provide. We started sobees with the vision of consolidating information and social networks in a client, making it easier to interact with social media. Regardless of the device or service sobees helps you find the most relevant, important and interesting information from your world. With the web becoming a stream and all the services providing activity streams, our initial vision is becoming reality.
We recently started developing applications for events to help you combine official and relevant pieces of information with your social networks – a new way to follow an event. Today, we are launching two of these applications: sobees for SXSW andsobees for MIX10 .
Our sobees event application aggregates:
Flickr photo stream
Google news
Twitter real time search
Official RSS feed from the event
Official Twitter messages from the event
And your Twitter / Facebook account(s), so that you will be able to update your status on your social networks directly from the application!
However, we wanted to do more than simply aggregate random information regarding the conferences: we wanted to add relevance, which is the reason why we partnered with SalsaDev for these new applications. Concretely, they help us analyze the most recent Twitter messages containing #SXSW / #MIX10 and provide you with the trending keywords of each conference. So, no need to be disappointed if you cannot come to the conference, thanks to sobees for SXSW / MIX10 you will be able to follow the event without having to leave you computer! And if you do attend SXSW, well, come and visit our booth, we’ll be happy to see you!
The web version of sobees (which is built on Silverlight) does unfortunately not work properly with the latest version of Firefox (3.6). Since the previous versions of Firefox were, in certain cases, sending wrong mouse coordinates to plugins like Silverlight (the iframe apparently being one of them), Microsoft had implemented a workaround in their code in order to solve the problem. However, Firefox fixed the bug in their latest version (3.6), breaking Microsoft's workaround and creating the issue some of you encountered.
Microsoft is aware of this issue and is working on a solution. We will inform you as soon as we get new information. Sorry for this inconvenience!
