MobJet

Annoucing Communities!

2010-08-03T21:27:00.000-07:00

Dear Jetters!

Have you wanted to jet about a specific topic to a certain group of people? Your hankering has now been satisfied by the MobJet development team with Communities. Create a community around a topic, event, group... and then start a conversation! Add your photos, videos, audio, or documents just like you would with any other jet.

You may also notice a few other cool features - when you hover over an avatar you'll see a quick bio, follow/stop following, and private message options. Rejetting has been moved to the function gear and a translation bug has been addressed.

Jump into communities and start a buzz today!

A Place for Conversation

2010-05-13T22:54:00.000-07:00

MOBJet has recently taken a turn for the better and become A Place for Conversation! If you haven't had the chance yet, take a minute and explore all the fun and most recent features such as:

* Footprints
* Widgets
* Tips (Cool JETTING)
* New Faces
* Chatmates
* Hot STUFF
* Background
* Profile Data
* Direct jets
* JETstream counter
(Deep breath!)
* Private comments
* Color wheel in post/comment boxes
* Jet tab
* Updates in MOBIKura and gadgets
* and much more!

So many fun things to do and talk about on MOBJet! Invite your friends and start a conversation!

Drum roll, please!

2010-03-15T17:02:00.000-07:00

If you haven't noticed yet, MOBJet has a whole new look with great new features... and WOW has this most recent release been a fun one!

The latest features include...
* Color picker: Customize your MOBJet colors! Other users see your colors when visiting your jetstream and your colors are effective in your email updates
* Real-time refresh in comments and in the jetstream
* Attach media in comments
* Mobikura
* Discussions (jets you're involved in)
* Emoticon picker

So much to see and do on the new version of MOBJet... what new things have you discovered?

MobJet in Millionaire Asia

2010-02-02T01:15:00.001-08:00

Post from the Web

2010-02-01T15:51:00.000-08:00

A big round of applause to our development team... you can now post directly from the web! Whether on-the-go from your web-enabled device or while you are "working," post at your leisure!

Hooray!

Updated Emoticon List

2010-01-25T16:11:00.001-08:00

New: Sign Up and Rejet!

2010-01-22T15:48:00.000-08:00

The MJ developers have brought us a few more great features today.

You'll notice that now you have the option to sign up from the homepage -- we're hoping this will make the account creation process even easier. Tell your non-jetter friends!

Check out the Rejet feature: when logged in, mouse over any jet and you'll see the Action button appear. Press it, then click "Rejet." I'd say that it was "Easy as pie," but I never found pie to be this easy...

In the Settings > Account area, you'll notice that our developers have added the option to capture your user image right from your built-in cam. Press the Take Photo button and capture this moment forever for all Jetters to see! ;)

Watch for more to come! Email support if you have any issues!

new version

2009-12-29T09:25:00.000-08:00

The latest features added to the site include:

Create a profile -- go to Settings > Account to add/update your name, age, gender, location, one line bio, etc.
Private jet stream -- instead of your jets showing in the global jet stream (on the homepage), tick the Make Jet Stream Private box in Settings > Account. Only your followers will be able to view your jets!
Invitation feature -- fill in your friends' email addresses in Settings > Invite and press Send to invite friends to follow you.
Follow/Stop Following right from the jet stream (hover over the jet or picture to see the link under the profile pic).
We've also made some improvements to media viewing and cell phone navigation.

More to come!

Exciting New Features

2009-12-10T03:38:00.000-08:00

We know you've been anxiously awaiting a few new features, and today our team pushed some of these live. Among the fixes and features is the capability to post to one jetstream no matter from which email address you're sending. To access this feature, click the Email Posting tab within your Settings. Set your email code and send all your jets to that address. Hooray!

You can also link to a YouTube video within a comment and it will expand (like it would if it were a jet), comments show upon jet expansion, link directly to a jet change... and for those of you with email signatures please add "=/=" in your post, and anything below will not appear! Voila!

Emoticons!

2009-12-10T03:35:00.000-08:00

The MobJet team has added emoticon capabilities... see below for the codes!

Keep 'em coming

2009-11-07T11:08:00.000-08:00

Our developers have pushed some new features live. Now you can:

View the settings page in tabs
Change your email frequency to "Never" (Settings > Account)
Edit and delete your own jets by hovering over them... see the icon on the right
Press the "Follow" button and not be pushed to another page.

From tweets to jets

2009-11-05T10:42:00.000-08:00

MobJet in The Business Times, Saturday Oct. 24th. Under Top Stories!

Made-in-S'pore 'Twitter' has no 140-character cap

2009-11-05T10:25:00.000-08:00

An interview with James Skinner, Senior Adviser to MobJet. Compares MobJet with Facebook and Twitter.

See the article in it's entirety, here. By Dawn Tay.

MobJet in AdWeek

2009-11-05T10:18:00.000-08:00

"MobJet, a So-Called 'Twitter Killer,' Expands"

See the whole article here.

Another Release

2009-10-27T13:29:00.000-07:00

The MobJet Team is working hard to deliver new features frequently. Today's release has included some user-friendly improvements and a little clean up.

You'll now be able to view a user's followers and followings... you're not just a number any more!
Receiving emails from MobJet has become more beautiful -- html emails instead of simple text
The Japanese user experience has been improved with some translation tweaks
Improved mobile version of MobJet
Streamlined comments feature -- now using AJAX so there's no more pressing "back" to find where you were before you made the comment

Enjoy!

MobJet Gets Noticed in Singapore

2009-10-19T15:56:00.000-07:00

Celebrity blogger Xiaxue has MobJet on her radar.

She's stoked about the flexibility MobJet offers, especially the ability to post anything to your jetstream. "I'm really impressed. When they say anything, they REALLY mean anything!" She raves about the mobile phone capabilities, conversions, and even refers to our developers as geeks. It's true -- they are the biggest and coolest geeks we've ever met. They're our geeks… We gladly claim them. Thank you, MobJet Geeks, for making our technological lives a breeze and all our dreams come true :)

Xiaxue likes MobJet so much that she'll be a special guest at our MobJet Launch Party on Oct. 22nd in Singapore. See the invitation for details on how to get a free ticket to this exciting event!

View Xiaxue's jetstream at mobjet.com/xiaxue or follow her by emailing get.xiaxue@mobjet.com. And don't forget to check out her full take on MobJet here!

New Features!

2009-10-19T13:08:00.000-07:00

MobJet has recently rolled-out a couple new and useful features!

Search -- You can now search jets for a user or content. No more scrolling and clicking... search and find what you're looking for quickly. Use the search box in the upper-right corner for zippy results.

Autopost -- We've combined the posting power of three into one! Post now to MobJet and it will simultaneously post to Twitter and Facebook. Just enable autopost (My Account > Autopost) to connect your accounts. Finally, life has become a bit more simple. Thank you MobJet development team!

Keep your eye open for more features being released soon... happy Jetting!

DNS Troubles

2009-07-30T13:55:00.000-07:00

A couple of days ago MobJet.com experienced some down time due to a DNS failure at the domain service level. This outage appears to have been a problem for many people and caused quite a stir on the Internet. Unfortunately, MobJet was affected by this problem as well. To read more about the outage, check out this TechCrunch article.

Everything is up and running today, we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

MobJet is Big in Japan

2009-07-25T02:54:00.000-07:00

We made it. The MobJet development team spent the last week in Japan preparing for a splash on the Japanese scene. After a sleepless night working in cramped hotel rooms in Kayabacho, near the financial district of Tokyo, the team pushed final changes to MobJet for a presentation in front of 2,000 Japanese.

With servers scaled and ready to handle posts from the 2,000 simultaneous posts to post@mobjet.jp, things went off without a hitch. The crowd took pictures from their mobile phones and instantly posted to MobJet. As a team we're excited for tomorrow where we're off to meet current and potential investors to tell them about our success in Japan.

MobJet is now in Japanese - MobJet.jp

2009-07-16T15:16:00.000-07:00

MobJet now works in Japanese. This past week or so, we launched the MobJet domain for Japan - www.mobjet.jp. Japanese users can now send their posts to post@mobjet.jp and follow users by emailing get@mobjet.jp. We're working to add additional language features as well as additional languages very soon.

The MobJet Player Can Now Be Embedded!

2009-07-14T17:00:00.001-07:00

Check out the MobJet player, now embeddable!

Release Day

2009-06-23T09:48:00.000-07:00

It's release day here at MobJet, so here comes the first blog post. With the new video recording capability on the iPhone, and with the recent events in Iran being shaped by the Internet and social media, we're feeling pretty good about the timing of the release of MobJet. We believe that multimedia microblogging will give people an additional voice to visually show the world the news and events happening around them. The world is changing rapidly and MobJet plans to be a part of the instant news movement. At MobJet, we want to make it as simple as possible to post your media to the web and allow people to follow you. Although it may seem primitive to some, posting via email is one of the simplest ways for people on any device to get their content to the web. When you take a video or picture on the iPhone, you have the option to immediately email the image/video you just captured. With MobJet, all you have to do is send it to post@mobjet.com, and we do the rest. We identify you from your email address and post it to your very own multimedia microblog or "jetstream" as we like to call it.

One of the guiding principles at MobJet is to allow anyone in the world to capture and consume media directly from any web-enabled device. As you may have noticed, our tagline is "When 140 characters just isn't enough." An obvious shot across the bow of Twitter, we also hope to "play nice" and consume Twitter's API to allow people to immediately notify their Twitter feed of new media posts they have on MobJet. You'll have pictures, video, audio, and documents instantly posted to your Twitter feed.

That's the quick scoop. Tonight at midnight, send an email to post@mobjet.com to create your account and your jetstream, it's that simple. Tonight is a "soft launch," not too many know about us yet, but look for us to quickly be in over 20 languages and hitting the world scene.