Happy Thanksgiving
Here is a fun post for you all.
Have a great thankful day.
Peace!
Last night we pushed out our .4 release of Treemo. We’ve fixed a bunch of bugs, tweaked some design and added ‘TreemoTXT‘ - our new innovative SMS feature. We just made publishing any media type anytime, anywhere even better.
Users can now SMS to Treemo (873366) and get right to our mobile application. Users can text ‘username’ to 873366 and will be taken directly to that user’s channel of content. Currently, our ’shortcode’ - our six digit number for text messaging (873366) is live on Cingular and Sprint and will be launching on other carriers soon. For more information, visit our ‘My Mobile‘ page. You can also text ‘recent’ for recent items, ‘featured’ and others. We will be adding more commands in future releases.
We know of no other application where you can upload any digital media form - video, photo, audio or text and it’s instantly available on the web or your mobile phone - one text message away, instantly. We transcode your video for the phone or the web, optimize your photos, convert your audio on the fly and right away. We make mobile video publishing a reality - just upload from the web or from your mobile phone, its done.
Other enhancements are a new ‘featured‘ page that has a new, improved design and some tools for us to feature content more easily. We improved our RSS feeds - we now have support for more readers and enclosures (photos) should be working on all major readers. We revamped the ‘My Mobile‘ page - now has information on TreemoTXT and a live simulator to what our mobile application looks like. We also made a couple minor fixes to our flash video/audio player. Lastly, we made our mandatory, ‘press‘ page which includes some of the press we’ve received over the last year.
Publishing Policy Changes:
We instituted a new rule for publishing content to the web. Users who create accounts on their mobile phone are required to come to our website, give their email address and login, before we will post their content publicly to the web site. Mobile users’ content will appear in their channels on the web and mobile right away, but will only appear on the ‘recent’ page on the mobile application going forward.
We are in the process of editing our Terms of Service to be stricter in terms of overt sexual content and conduct and trafficking of pornagraphy through the Treemo site. Our goal is to provide a safe place to share content, with your friends and family privately, or publicly. We are continuing our goal of promoting freedom of expression, but with this expression, comes responsibility. We want all our users to express themselves but users need to be sensitive to other users. Our goal is to be a postive force in the community.
In the last few weeks, we also have launched our second digital photography class with Arts Corps. We have another 10 or so students who are learning digital photography and posting photos to Treemo. Treemo donated more than 10 digital cameras to this cause.
We appreciate any feedback on this update or any other comments.