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Twango, a great sharing site that nobody uses

By Rafe Needleman

"Twango is a nicely put-together media sharing site. It's somewhat unusual in that it's not focused on a particular media type, like YouTube is for video and Flickr is for photos. Rather, you can upload any file into Twango -- video, photo, music, even documents like PDF files. For each file you get a YouTube-like page where others can comment on it."

"Twango also has a clever organizational structure. In addition to letting you put keywords on files, you can also put any file into a "channel." Channels are simply collections of files. You can have a family channel, a funny channel, and so on. What's cool is that you can put the same file in multiple channels, and each channel gets its own simple URL. Users can also add their own files to another user's channel (if the channel owner allows it), which makes channels useful for groups; you could set up a site for a group of travelers to collect all their trip photos. (Yes, you could also do this with Flickr and tags, but this is really much simpler.)"

"The service also has very flexible upload tools. You can upload using a Java-based drag-and-drop window, a downloadable Windows application, or directly via email (each channel even gets its own address)."

The Global Geek Podcast #016

Quotes from Podcast...

"Twango is offering a YouTube like media service, but they do pictures, video and audio in a much cooler Web 2.0 environment."

"A tight, slick site. Not like walking on ice, it's like watching ice skating, it's really slippery and cool and wonderful. Check it out!"

This is what flickr could be if was really, but really, sharing-oriented

"Twango is what flickr should have been, if conceived for sharing photographs with friends, family and the world. Welcome Twango, a free multi media hosting site, offering unlimited storage for videos, photos, audio, and other media."

"There are a lot of options for uploading and for sharing. Your photos can be public or private, by sending them to public or private channels (any photo can belong to more than one channel). You can contribute to public channels created by other users if they set you as participant, or create your own channels, public or private, and set them own managed or open for your chosen people upload participation."

"This is what flickr could be if was really, but really, sharing-oriented. Ah!, the slide show is very cool too!"

Twango is YouTube for Everything

By Sid Yadav and Pete Cashmore

"Although a paid plan may appear in the future, Twango is currently free for everyone. What’s more, storage is unlimited - if you can put up with 250MB per month upload bandwidth and a 100MB file limit, you’ve got yourself a deal. Furthermore, there are multiple options for getting your stuff into the system. You can email the files, use the web-based uploader on the Twango site or send images via your cameraphone. And since each channel has its own e-mail address, you can send along email attachments, too. Last but not least, there’s a bulk uploader for Windows XP users. Media hosting sites need to provide plenty of options when it comes to uploading your files, and Twango has all the bases covered (although a few users might appreciate a Mac uploader)."

"You can’t fault Twango on features - they’ve got everything. And the more you use the site, the more neat features you spot - like the fact that Twango maintains all the original files. The ability to be both a standalone site and a host for external is also smart."

Twango=Youtube+Photobucket+...

"与视频共享网站youtube不同，twango集合了视频、音频和图片管理，文件操作上也和她的竞争对手们大同小异，最大的卖点应该就是所谓的“上传流量不设限”

Twango: Media Sharing

By Dion Almaer

"Twango is a new media sharing site that is in beta. It allows you to share photos, videos, audio, and other files."

"From an Ajax perspective it has some interesting features:

Things that I haven’t seen elsewhere are the marquee highlight of thumbnails with right-click actions based on selection and a pretty slick timeline feature to filter thumbnails to certain date ranges."

twango, sistema de almacenamiento completo

By Cyberfrancis

"Hasta ahora hemos estado usando diferentes sistemas de almacenamiento según sea de imágenes, vídeos y audio, aunque audio creo que mas bien poco."

"Pues bien, twango es un completísimo sistema de almacenamiento de archivos multimedia, compartición y red social en el que disponemos de bastantes opciones a la hora de subir nuestros archivos, ya sea por móvil o por web (donde podemos subir archivo por archivo o subir varios archivos de golpe mediante una aplicación java), en el que tenemos dos canales, uno privado y otro de acceso público, donde podemos compartir no sólo nuestros archivos sino cualquier archivo y cualquier página a nuestros contactos mediante correo electrónico, etc.."

Twango un Youtube sur stéroïdes!

"Personnellement, je crois avoir découvert en Twango le service multimédia que je recherchais. Ses fonctionnalités nombreuses, simples, efficaces et l’utilité des Twidgets m’ont conquis."

Pretty URLs

In the latest effort to provide a better user experience, Twango now has pretty URLs.   Yes that's right. Whereas before links to pages were ugly beasts with nasty query strings with all sorts of icky parameters, now they are sleek, succinct and to the point.   

For example:
http://www.twango.com/profile.aspx?twangoid=jie

Yuck; what a mouthful.

Whereas now, you simply type:  http://www.twango.com/jie

If this does not simply blow your socks away, here is yet another example. Brace yourselves.
http://www.twango.com/media.aspx?channelname=jie.bellingham&media=jie.10514

Ugly (the URL, not the ladies)

But today, that same URL is now
http://www.twango.com/media/jie.bellingham/jie.10514

Sexy, just like the girls around my arms.    

Twango in the Online Photo Resource Guide

The Online Photo Resource Guide gave Twango a positive review and ranked us right at the top of the list!  Thanks to Dave Dyer of Andromeda Software to getting us in there.  Andromeda specializes in plug-in tools for Adobe Photoshop and InDesign.