hellotxt user guide
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User Guide Copyright © 2009 Buongiorno S.p.A. hellotxt was designed to meet a specific need of Internet users, especially “mobile” users: the evolution of the Net, and the proliferation of social networks has made organising your online presence increasingly time- intensive. Most users want to communicate with all their social networks, or groups of them, in a single operation. IntroductionTRANSCRIPT
User Guide
Copyright © 2009 Buongiorno S.p.A.
Introduction
hellotxt is an Internet service accessible via PC, browser or mobile phone.
It is a fast, simple way to update your own status and read the status of
your contacts on most social networks and microblogs.
hellotxt was designed to meet a specific need of Internet users, especially
“mobile” users: the evolution of the Net, and the proliferation of social
networks has made organising your online presence increasingly time-
intensive. Most users want to communicate with all their social networks,
or groups of them, in a single operation.
hellotxt allows you to update your status on all social networks, using a
browser, a messaging program, emails, text messages or a smartphone. Of
course, the updates can be selective, and confined to a single social
network or a group of social networks or microblogs. You can also upload
photos and videos to make the update more immediate and effective.
Last but not least, hellotxt also lets you access your page online, to read the
updates published by your contacts.
Registration
First, you need to create an
account by opening a window
to enter your email and
password (the password must
be more than five characters
long).
Once the account has been
created, the user name should
be changed (hellotxt
automatically creates a
numerical name), and you
should check the other profile options including the type of notifications
you want to receive.
Finally, you need to link the various social networks to hellotxt, enabling
them one by one from the screen shown below.
How to enable the best-known networks:
• Click on the Facebook Connect logo and access Facebook (if necessary).
• Click on "Enable".
• Enter the HelloTxt application code.
• Go to the Facebook page for HelloTxt settings
(http://hellotxt.com/settings/service/facebook/add).
• Click on each authorisation.
MySpace
• Click on "MySpace Apps" and access MySpace (if necessary).
• If already registered, click on “Continue”.
• Set up the MySpace applications, at this address:
http://profileedit.myspace.com/.
Enter your Twitter user name and password, then click on Send.
FriendFeed
• Enter your FriendFeed user name and remote key.
• You can find your FriendFeed remote key at this address:
http://friendfeed.com/remotekey.
Plaxo
Enter your Plaxo user name and password, and click Send.
Jaiku
• Enter your Jaiku user name and personal key.
• You can find your Jaiku personal key here: http://api.jaiku.com/key.
Peoplesound
Enter your PeopleSound mobile number and password.
Bebo
Enter your Bebo user name and password.
Enter your LinkedIn email and password.
Tumblr
Enter your Tumblr email and password.
Facebook Pages
Install the HelloTxt Facebook application
(http://apps.facebook.com/hellotxt/).
Once you have enabled your social networks, you should return to the
hellotxt dashboard where you can configure your tags or enter your status
by sending it to the selected networks, and add photos, videos or music
tracks.
Configuring tags
Tags allow you to organise your status updates more accurately by sending
the message to a single social network, or a group of them. The
configuration window will open when you click on Tag, to the side of the
list of social networks.
Once the tags have been defined, all you need to do is enter the #TAG(s)
chosen for each social network or microblog, in front of the text of the
message. This way it is easy to select your updates, and separate work-
related messages from recreational ones.
You can use several tags at the same time, separating them with a comma
(for example: #fun,biz). The same applies to emails, text messages and all
other tools.
hellotxt automatically generates a “gateway” email address that lets you
share status updates, photos, audio or video content by sending a message.
By sending a message to this address (formed of a sequence of letters and
numbers), hellotxt publishes the body of the text as a status updates, and
saves any attachments (photos or videos) on the server, creating a link to a
short URL. To prevent the signature from being published, just enter two
hyphens (--, i.e. the standard separator) in the body of the text, before the
signature.
Instant Messaging
hellotxt allows you to send status updates using the main Instant
Messaging applications: Google Talk, MSN and Yahoo.
To use this service, you need to enter the bot of hellotxt in the list of
contacts, and send the verification code.
Photos and videos
hellotxt allows you to enhance your status update with photo or video
content, either generated by a mobile phone or downloaded from a PC. On
some social networks (such as Facebook) the photo will be published
directly, but if this function is not available, hellotxt creates a link to the
image inside the status update.
You can add a title and description of photos sent to Flickr by entering "^"
in the message. For example, if you write "@John How are you?^This is
my new motorbike" the following title will be added "This is my new
motorbike". If no description is given, the default description is "Sent by
HelloTxt".
Facebook pages
Facebook pages can be updated as follows:
Users who have not installed the HelloTxt Facebook application
• Install HelloTxt for Facebook (http://apps.facebook.com/hellotxt/)
• Click on "Enable", then enter a user name and password
• Click on "Enable" to request permanent authorisation
• Click on "Enable", then on “Enable”, then on "Enable Status Update"
(the screen will move to the HelloTxt Facebook application)
• Click on "Manage your Facebook pages" at the top of the screen (a list
of Facebook pages will come up) and select "Add" next to the name of the
Facebook page you want to update
• Click on "Permission Grant"
• Click on "Add HelloTxt" to add the application to the selected page
• Click on "Enable Status Update" (a list of the pages will be displayed,
and the same process must be repeated for each page)
• When all the pages have been enabled, click on "Finish"
Users who have already installed HelloTxt for Facebook
• Click on "Manage your Facebook pages" at the top of the screen (a list
of Facebook pages will be displayed) and select "Add" next to the name of
the Facebook page you want to update
• Click on "Permission Grant"
• Click on "Add HelloTxt" to add the application to the selected page
• Click on "Enable Status Update" (a list of pages is displayed and the
process must be repeated for each page)
• When all the pages have been enabled, click on "Finish"
Links
hellotxt makes it easier to send links to the status updates, and
automatically shortens them to leave more room for the text. Links with
less than 20 characters will not be abbreviated, and to avoid the automatic
abbreviation you must enter an asterisk (*) as a prefix.
Read your friends’ status updates
hellotxt not only allows you to publish your own status updates – you can
also read those of your friends in the section “Recent Friend Activity”, for
the social networks that already allow this function: Facebook, Identica,
PeopleSound and Twitter.
API
hellotxt provides a set of APIs (application programming interfaces) that
allow independent developers and software houses to create status
reading/updating applications for smartphones or other platforms.
Information about APIs for hellotxt is available at
http://new.hellotxt.com/developers/documentation.
About twenty applications are already
available, including those for the iPhone
(right) and Android (below). hellotxt can also
be found at the Vodafone Application Store.