Converging Media Sharing - Is It Needed?
By Brian Balfour
"Twango has done a great job at building an extensive media sharing platform to not only share within the site via social networking, but outside the site via embedding, emailing, instant messaging, etc. Twango's goal; a one stop shop for all of your media sharing needs."
By Allen Stern
"Twango is a lot more than just your average sharing site."
"My first reaction is that Twango is designed very well and the usability is top notch and is stronger than Flickr or YouTube. It's smooth and they really have polished the edges whereas I feel like Flickr is missing that polish. It is rare that I review a site that has such a welcoming design."
"I think Twango works well for the mainstream user. While I doubt my mother could easily navigate through Flickr, she could navigate through Twango."
Interview with Twango co-founder Randy Kerr
"Twango, which I reviewed in the past, is a great media hosting site that supports a wide variety of formats and is really focused on the sharing aspect."
Twango voted one of the top Social Networks of 2006!
Thanks to all of you who voted for Twango in Mashable's Social Networking Awards contest. Your votes helped Twango win the Photo Sharing Site category. Now, I know you're wondering why we weren't in the video sharing category as well. Who knows? We were nominated, but Mashable chose not to include us. Maybe they were worried that we'd sweep that category too!
Thanks again for your help and Happy Holidays from your friends here at Twango!
Comparison of 15 video sharing sites
"A very powerful and complete service with video, audio and picture sharing..."
"Twango succeeds in providing a minimalistic good-looking page without splashing it with too much color or making it too bland and plain. The interface is very efficient and you get the idea that you are using a very powerful service, which I indeed think it is."
"If audience size didn’t matter, Twango would probably be one of the most enjoyable media sharing services to use."
Share Your Media Files with Twango
Posted by Colbert Low
"Are you a fan of Youtube, Flickr and Napster all at once? Would you be happy if these applications were combined into a new application, with some feel of Myspace on top of it? That is exactly what Twango is, perhaps even a little better."
"Twango is a new service developed by former Microsoft employees. It enables you to upload photos, videos, and audio - in fact, any types of files - to be shared with your friends. After you sign up with Twango (email verification required), you are provided with your personal profile page. Neat and simple."
Twango: share your media (all of it)
"Twango though, seperates itself from other media sharing sites like YouTube or Odeo. It doesn’t just handle one type of media — it handles them all."
"Everything about this site is optimized not just for viewing media, but for passing it along to friends and family. Every page has a "Share" button, where anyone (registered or not) can easily send along their picks to loved ones. Further, each browsing page has a unique desktop-esque feature. Your mouse pointer is transformed into a crosshair, and you’re able to "drag and select", treating the audio/video/photo thumbnails as if they were desktop icons! These selections can then be added to your favorites. It may seem like a simple feature, but it’s one of the fantastic advances that Web 2.0 has brought us."
"Twango is YouTube, Flickr, and Odeo smashed into one application. It’s a site with an apparently active userbase and a committed developer team. The use of AJAX is sparse but effective, and the organization and design make the site easy from all angles."
"If you want one central locale to upload your pictures, videos and audio, then Twango.com is the place for you."
"The site lets you upload from your PC, Macintosh, mobile phone or any device that can send email. You are able to either share your photos or keep them private. Best of all, your guests are not required to sign up for the service to view the photos, even if it is shared to them privately."
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)."
Social Networking, Sharing Sites Debut at Demo Fall
By Michael J. Miller
"I wasn’t able to make the Demo Fall conference this year, but based on a number of products I’ve been hearing about, there seem to be a lot of companies trying to get on the social networking and sharing bandwagons."
"... Twango (www.twango.com) is a free service that lets you organize your photos, video, and audio."
