Twango: Hoping for a Late Bloom

By Liz Gannes

"Have you been longing for a souped-up combo of YouTube, Flickr, Shutterfly, Photobucket, and Xdrive? Us neither…but a Redmond, Washington-based company called Twango is hoping to turn heads with a digital-locker/social-sharing hybrid for video, audio, images, and anything else."

"Twango adds a whole bunch of useful options to get content on and off its site in both public and private ways. Though the competition has already seen large-scale success, Twango comes nearly fully formed, like a professionalized version of the last five years of experimentation."

"Twango offers embedding, tags (including geotags), conversion to iPod-compatible files, mobile uploads (only for Windows Mobile right now), and a variety of widgets (an API is due by the end of the year)."