The Kutano Team has had an awesome time developing the Kutano Twitter client as well as communicating with our users and collecting some very valuable feedback. As a result of much of this feedback, we have decided to pursue an exciting new direction :-).
As is the case with all start-ups, though, our resources are limited and so in order to offer the new service we would like to, we will need to free some resources by decommissioning the existing Kutano client on March 26th.
That said, we would like to extend an invitation to all our users and anyone else interested to join our “Alpha test group” and be one of the first invited to try our new product. Please let us know if you are interesting in joining by emailing us at feedback@Kutano.com.
For those of you who still want to use a Twitter client for your browser, here is a list of some other available ones to check out:
Chromed Bird – “A Twitter extension that allows you to follow your timelines and interact with your Twitter account”
Chrowety –“A twitter client for Google Chrome”
Echofon– “Echofon (formerly TwitterFox) notifies you of your friends' tweets on Twitter. Syncs with iPhone.”
We’ll keep all of you posted on this blog and through our Twitter account so please keep in touch with us as we announce new developments and future product releases. We’d also love to hear from you if you have any questions. To get in contact with us just email us at feedback@kutano.com.
Cheers and until sometime very soon :),
The Kutano Team
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
Monday, February 22, 2010
USA/Canada Hockey Game: First Kutano Olympic Game Prize
Tickets to last night’s hockey game (awarded to @KyeGrace) were the first of two draw prizes being offered in the Kutano Olympic Game. It was also a particularly exciting hockey game for Vancouver locals in general: the Olympic USA/Canada hockey game. If history and general opinion is any guide, the expectation was that Canada would win. After all, the USA has not beaten Canada in Olympic hockey since 1960. There was also some voiced lack of confidence about some American hockey choices as seen in these tweets (collected through Kutano's "Tweets on a Page" feature):
Of course, for all those that watched or heard, Canada didn’t quite make it leading to some impassioned and shocked reactions:
Of course, for all those that watched or heard, Canada didn’t quite make it leading to some impassioned and shocked reactions:
And while perhaps not our best night of hockey, there’s still the hope of the tomorrow and the Coca-Cola assurance that this is, in fact, “our game” that “they’re playing”.
We're hoping to prove it soon enough! #CanadaFTW
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Boost your chances of Winning Olympic Tickets: Kutano Olympic Game Update
Before “tweeting your score” got you an automatic 100 entries into the prize draw. But with just 3 days until the first prize draw, we’re giving the ambitious of you a chance to win BIG entries fast.
Now when you tweet your score, the number of entries you will get from tweeting it will be ten times however many entries you’ve accumulated since the last time you tweeted your score. But as a special 3 days to the hockey prize draw bonus, the first time you tweet you’re score you’ll get 10X however many entries you’ve accumulated in TOTAL.
Happy Olympics!
Happy Olympics!
Kutano Olympic Game- The No Mercy Guide to Winning (or getting the best chance of it anyway)
Counting today, there are only three more days until the first draw for Olympic tickets in the Kutano Olympic Game! What can happen in three days? A LOT. Currently the leading tweeted score in the Kutano Olympic Game is 5775 entries. A lot, yes. Hard to catch up to? Well that just depends on one thing… YOU.
Lesson 1: Tweet like the Canadian’s Women Hockey Team Scores
So if your friends aren’t delivering on the little, it might be time to fire them in search of a new invite ;P.
Good luck!
Lesson 1: Tweet like the Canadian’s Women Hockey Team Scores
A lot but with little to no mercy ;P. Tweeting from the Olympic version of Kutano will earn you 10 entries/tweet and 20/entries a tweet if you attach the most recent #KutanoOlympicHashtag. What does that mean?
Mathematically speaking, if you tweet an average of once an hour in a day with the hashtag (24 tweets/day) you could earn 480 entries a day just from tweeting!
Lesson 2: If you got it flaunt it. If you don’t, fake it cuz you’ll make it.
Mathematically speaking, if you tweet an average of once an hour in a day with the hashtag (24 tweets/day) you could earn 480 entries a day just from tweeting!
Lesson 2: If you got it flaunt it. If you don’t, fake it cuz you’ll make it.
Every six hours, you have the opportunity to tweet out your score (the number of entries you have) from the client. That gives you 100 easy entries so that in a day you can earn 400 entries, just from pressing a button four times! Flaunting your score, whether it starts small or high is one of the easiest and fastest ways to get it to be very high.
Lesson 3: There’s a quote- “Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.” ~Author Unknown
Lesson 3: There’s a quote- “Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things.” ~Author Unknown
More specifically, in the Kutano Olympic game it is “a million little tweets” from friends that will help boost your entries. If you give out all five invites to friends who are doing the above and thus earning about 900 entries a day, you can earn 2250 entries just from them. If each of them has five invites doing the same thing you can get 5625 entries from the invites of your invites! That’s an average total of 7875 entries A DAY just from friends!
So if your friends aren’t delivering on the little, it might be time to fire them in search of a new invite ;P.
In summary:
Remember the movie “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory?” Charlie had only a couple Wonka bars in the movie and won. But he was the exception. The other winners were people that had gone through A LOT more, whether it was through competitive chewing, Wonka addiction or just systematic Wonka consumption.
You may be the “Charlie” that wins, but more likely you’ll be the “Augustus Gloop” that does
;-).
You may be the “Charlie” that wins, but more likely you’ll be the “Augustus Gloop” that does
;-).
Good luck!
Monday, February 8, 2010
Win Tickets to Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics!
Today we’re excited to announce the start of the "Kutano Olympic Game" which will give anyone in and around the greater Vancouver area a chance to play and potentially win one of two pairs of Vancouver 2010 Olympic tickets!
Entering the draw is easy: just retweet the game announcement tweet which can be found on the @Kutano feed. Or just click here to get to it :).
However, this isn’t just a random draw. In the spirit of healthy Olympic competition, we have decided to launch a game that will give participants the opportunity to increase their chances of winning just by... tweeting. The catch is that to win entries for tweeting, you need to tweet from the (invitation-only) "Olympic version" of Kutano. To request an invite you can use the following hashtag: #KutanoOlympicInvite.
The game is also speckled with different ways to get "big-n-easy" entries or boost your entries
earned per tweet. Here’s the scoop:
How to double the number of entries you get per tweet:
- Using the Olympic version you will get 10 entries per tweet. HOWEVER, @Kutano will periodically tweet out a new #KutanoOlympicHashtag that you can include in a tweet to receive twenty (20) entries. You need to be using the newest hashtag for it to count!
How to get entries from other people tweeting:
- You can invite a friend to the Kutano Olympic Game and their tweets will help earn entries for you! For every friend who accepts your invite:
- You get half (½) an entry for every entry a that a person you invite earns
- You get quarter (¼) an entry for every entry a second level invite earns (people that your invites invite)
The Big-N-Easy entries:
- As a reward for Vancouver pride, simply changing the location in your Twitter profile to "Vancouver 2010" will earn you an instant one hundred (100) entries!
- Use the "Tweet my Score!" button in the Kutano client to publish your current score in the game and you will receive one hundred (100) entries. You can do this every six (6) hours. This is also the only way to see your updated score.
Here's a short video summary of the different ways you can earn entries into the prize draw:
Please don’t hesitate to contact the team with questions. Have fun and good luck!
Friday, January 29, 2010
What's Happening Between the Tweets: Dictionary Ban
First there was "the word" and then there was the "tweet". Of course, "the word" I'm talking about is not the famous "good" one, but rather the very, very "bad", "sexually explicit" one found in a book read by children as young as nine!
The definition: probably too sexually graphic to mention here.. but click to view the banned source and find out!
The book: Merriam Webster's 10th edition
This dictionary (yes, dictionary) was recently banned from a number of schools in the Menifee Union school district (Southern California) when one of the students' parents complained after learning of their child's newly broadended lexicon.
This has been a controversial ban and one that has received both praise (or so the article claims), disbelief, outrage and laughter. What do you think of this ban? Applaudable or laudable?
Here's what people are saying about it... 'between the tweets':
Tweets about the page collected using Kutano.
A Summary:
In Hashtags-
Some hashtags you'll see in relation to this story: #wtf, #Americagetsdumber, #humanstupidity, #FAIL, #nocleanfeed, #idiocy, #openinternet, #facepalm, #nottheonion, #moralityfail
Some hashtags you'll see in relation to this story: #wtf, #Americagetsdumber, #humanstupidity, #FAIL, #nocleanfeed, #idiocy, #openinternet, #facepalm, #nottheonion, #moralityfail
The overwhelming consensus: Read any tweet shown above.
The silver-lining: We still have Twitter. And the internet in general. Hopefully the kids won't find anything too graphic there ;P.
Monday, January 25, 2010
Extensions, Twitter Add-ons and more for Google Chrome
Today Google announced "a new stable release of Google Chrome for Windows, which includes two of the browser's most frequently requested features: extensions and bookmark sync". In fact, for those of you who have Chrome but the normal (non Beta version) you will need to upgrade to Chrome's newest version in order to try out extensions like Kutano.
So for those interested:
Where to go to update to the "extensions" version of Google Chrome if you already using the older version -
Where to go if you want to download and try out Google Chrome for the first time-
And, where to go if you have the newest version of Chrome and want to try out the Kutano Twitter add-on ;)-
In related news, Kutano on Chrome is now available for Macs! Try it out and enjoy!
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