nomee makes it easier for brands and businesses to better connect with their fans. Business categories as diverse as sports teams to recording artists, travel industry to packaged goods are using nomee to stream all of their social networks and online content to customers in easy-to-use application.

But it’s extra-special when an energetic start-up, right in our own backyard, agrees to partner with our team.

That’s why we’re so proud to announce that Plano, TX based Sticviews, a creative & entrepreneurial band of good business people, is now using nomee.

Why is Sticviews using nomee? Sticviews community manager @katfarmer says, “Sticviews offers users the ability to interact and exchange creative ideas with one another through the social community on our site.  We’re also active on social networks like facebook, blogs, and twitter. So nomee makes it easy for us to stream all of our content through one simple portal.”

See – Sticviews people are smart too.

nomee uses Sticviews products at events, tradeshows and for many other marketing projects. We love Sticviews because they create reusable adhesive stickers that can be moved and reapplied in a variety of places. That cuts down costs and helps the environment.

Download the nomee Sticviews card here.

Thanks, Sticviews, for joining the nomee family of brands. We wish you a healthy and prosperous 2010!

Exciting News

As you likely saw from the post last week, we are excited to launch nomee version 2.0. Whether you’re a new user or have been using version 1.2, you’ll find a lot of exciting new features in the newest build. From new ways to follow your friends to enhanced interactivity with comments and ratings sections on outside Web sites, nomee version 2.0 gives you the power to manage the things you care about most – the people, the passions and the issues – within one single application.

New Features

It is my belief that version 2.0 more fully realizes and delivers on the promise to deliver a single tool that gives you control of your digital life. Version 1.2 was a great start at pulling in information from across more than 120 Web sites, but version 2.0 takes things a step further. Now, you are able to immediately import all of your Twitter or Facebook friends, search for them on additional social networks and instantly receive updates when they post new content. Not only will you get the new content updates, but you can also share more of yourself through tweets, posting status updates and interacting with other social media sites’ feedback functions – all from within nomee.

Your Feedback
I want to hear from you! We’re constantly refining and adding to the application so we are always interested in your feedback. Feel free to leave a comment here on the blog, or look us up on Twitter at @nomee. Let us know what you think of the new features, and we’ll keep working to tame the chaos of online social networking by allowing you to focus on why you network online in the first place – to connect with people, not sites.

See the official press release here.

Download nomee version 2.0 here.

At nomee, privacy and security are very high priorities. That’s why we architected user protection into nomee from the design up.

To give users both simplicity and privacy simultaneously, nomee chose and integrated the OAuth and OpenID protocols for enabling users to sign onto nomee using their credentials from Google, Yahoo, and others without ever showing those credentials to nomee’s software or staff. If you’re not familiar with how OAuth performs this transaction, study up here. When users log into nomee with the credentials from one of their favorite websites, those credentials are processed not by nomee, but by the original credential issuer, passed securely by OAuth and similar services.**

To date, Twitter has not yet fully integrated OAuth. The nomee application does ask for and use your Twitter credentials to communicate with Twitter, but your login information is encrypted and stored only on your local computer and never leaves it except to talk to Twitter.  At whatever point Twitter finishes integrating OAuth, nomee will update its processes so that along with the other ID providers, Twitter credentials will also be processed using this powerful privacy tool. 

nomee also participates in community events and discussions to discover emergent technologies for making all of nomee better, including its fundamental security and privacy aspects. Feel free to communicate with us on GetSatisfaction or here on the nomee blog.

nomee, the first and only application to manage the most important aspects of one’s digital life, today announced the launch of nomee version 2.0. The new version of this game-changing social media application now allows users to connect and interact with friends on Facebook, Twitter and more than 120 additional social networking and Web sites – without ever leaving their custom nomee dashboard.  In minutes, users can import some or all of their Facebook and Twitter contacts and begin following them in a single, sleek user interface.

nomee 2.0 also lets users post status updates and tweets directly to their Facebook and Twitter accounts, as well as share their thoughts via replies, re-tweets, comments to YouTube videos and blog postings, and ratings and reviews, all within the nomee application. Free for download at www.nomee.com, nomee is the only software available to offer complete content integration and sharing for the people and ideas that matter most, centralized in one place on users’ desktops.

“Networking online is about connecting with people and information, not about the sites where those things happen to reside. And with the proliferation of communities, blogs, and sharing opportunities, that fact has been lost in the current social media fire hose,” said Kevin Mokarow, founder of nomee. “nomee changes everything and makes social networking what it should be – about people. Unlike our competitors, nomee celebrates following friends, families, colleagues, celebrities and other passions from hundreds of content destinations on the Web, not just simply a few select sites.”

nomee 2.0 offers:

• Access to more than 120 sites and feeds in one place, delivering news and rich media wherever and whenever it posts, 24/7.
• The ability to instantly import and follow Facebook friends and Twitter followers, connecting to the people that matter most.
• Search functions for each friend, enabling instant access to their content on more than 120 sites.
• The ability for brands and power users to publish their public nomee cards on their Web sites and blogs, giving their fans one-click access to their complete digital footprint.
• Streaming video in one sleek user interface.
• Group aggregation to filter and control the often overwhelming amount of information from the social web, enabling/empowering users to access only what they want, when they want.
• Power to control social media identity and share information through customized nomee cards, creating the “me” users want to share with others.
• The ability to control and interact through multiple social media sites – all in one place.

“One of the best ways to make money in the Web 2.0 world is through ‘intelligent aggregation,’” said David Coleman, collaboration industry analyst and managing director of Collaborative Strategies. “Not only do you need to aggregate things that are useful, but you have to make the aggregation easy to use. nomee 2.0 follows both of these principles.”

In addition to its focus on individual users, nomee 2.0 provides businesses and brands unprecedented opportunity reach consumers quickly and more effectively by centralizing their brand content. Brands and businesses can develop public nomee cards to easily share public information, while building loyalty for products and services. Brands can control the information they share by customizing and distributing cards with content for specific audiences, including relevant information and messaging, as well as targeted marketing and promotions.

Here at nomee, we celebrate social networking all across the web. So when @AdAge asked “Can Twitter Rake In Ads?”, we naturally felt inclined to help.

For @Twitter to become a billion dollar business, the trick will be empowering relationships that are valuable for both brands and fans. We @nomee offer a few creative thought-and-revenue starters for the beloved micro-blog.

5 Ways Twitter Might Make Money…

1. Sponsored hashtags. “#Healthcare” brought to you by Thera-flu. No editorial or content approval. Just brands helping facilitate conversations.
2. Presenter of the Day. One day a week, a single brand pays to “host” Twitter. Great brands like @pepsi or @SouthwestAir would compete to out-creative each other, seeing who could invent the most memorable, new, fun experience. Year-end, Twitter users vote on the best host.
3. Twax power users. C’mon – it’s not like Ashton or @Oprah can’t afford a penny a tweet. If you have over 1,000 followers, you’re obviously using Twitter for business yourself. So isn’t it fair to help cover Twitter’s expenses?
4. Twitter Digest subscription. Sure, tweets are only 140 characters. But there are MILLIONS of them. What if a guest editor – @Scobleizer or @CaliLewis – delivered the 100 most important site-wide tweets to you Fridays at noon? You’d pay a little for that, wouldn’t you? Or maybe some thoughtful agency like @McCann_NY would pay to present it…
5. Make a REAL Twitter store. If you have a brand involvement with tens of millions of people, why in the world aren’t you selling hundreds of thousands of mugs and t-shirts? Seriously. Personal fortunes have been made with schwag. Twitter needs to get on the ball here.

Most importantly, we’re all grown-ups here. (Well, according to the terms of service, anyway.) We know that, in polite commercial society, you have to make money to grow and evolve. Our view – Twitter should be neither shy nor apologetic about monetizing.

What do you think? Any other ideas about how Twitter could create revenue?

Matt Savage is @savageink, a proud writer for great brands including MasterCard, Sony, AT&T, Capital One, IKEA and nomee. A creative brand marketer, Matt encourages peers to profit by embracing more social persuasion.

nomee’s tech guru, Mike Nimer, will be presenting “Exploring ColdFusion Powered Flash and AIR” at the Adobe MAX 2009 conference in Los Angeles this week. In a recent blog entry, Mike shared why nomee chose Adobe AIR as our development platform and why it makes sense for customers and for the business.

Check it out at http://blog.mikenimer.com/.

How can a company, organization, or brand engage its community, fans, or consumers? For some great tips on how to be social on the Web, check out the recent blog entry by nomee’s own Mitchell Savage at mitchellsavage.com.

nomee, the first and only application to manage the most important aspects of your digital life, today announced an updated version of our signature software.

This latest version features group aggregation, OpenID support and rich, streaming media – all delivered to users’ desktops in a single, sleek interface.

With support for more than 120 of the Web’s leading networks, nomee version 1.2 reflects early-adopter feedback and offers users a better, easier way to live and enjoy their social media life.

Click here to view the entire news release.

Click here to download nomee v1.2.

We want to say a big thanks to Christina Warren and the team at Mashable for including nomee in its Spark of Genius series today. We can’t tell you how much we appreciate the feedback, and so we wanted to address a few of the comments here on our nomee blog.

nomee’s benefit to users is the simplification and control it provides over the escalating crowding and chaos we all see on the social web. Using the APIs from more than 100 social sites, nomee streams your personalized content in an interface you control and filter.

Using nomee, you can go directly to the information you want by starting with the person instead of a website. You can also send your friends links and streams of your specific feeds you want them to see. Best of all, you can publish yourself differently to groups like work, friends, or my hiking or Nintendo buddies.

We chose Adobe AIR because of the additional functionality it enabled us to give you, the speed with which it enables us to go cross-platform, and the exceptional level of rich content it let us stream. And it has been working very well, as your positive comments on the look and feel of nomee attest.

We continue working to deliver our promise of making entry as easy as possible, (even having the UI expertly redesigned to respond to user feedback since our beta launch last April at Web 2.0.) While we’re still in beta, we continue to concentrate on building a community by incorporating user feedback.

Thanks to Chris for the video shout-out. He likes what nomee is about and says there’s no better life stream out there. He also offers a couple of suggestions, which we’re incorporating into our ongoing UI polish.

It is exciting and gratifying to have people begin to see the promise in what we’ve all been working on. More good things to come!

Watch the video here.