New browser tools: search bookmarklet & search plugin

Just a quick message to let you know of two exciting new features that have been added to folowen recently:

1. folowenThis: is a simple tool to easily submit a search to folowen from any webpage you are browsing:
   1. Simply highlight the text of the name you want to search for,
   2. then click on the folowenThis bookmarklet on your browser.
   3. For installation instructions go to http://folowen.com/folowenthis
2. Install Search Plugin: now works on Internet Explorer as well as Firefox

Thank you for all the great feedback and continuous support, we want to hear more on what else would you like folowen to do!

A very exciting week!

We’ve had a very exciting week or 8 days so far since we launched the beta; the feedback was amazing and encouraging all over.

Thanks to all the people who took the time to check folowen out and write about it on their blogs:

Moh’d Marwen Meddah @ StartupArabia: Folowen Releases Public Beta With New Features

Ghaith Saqr @ ArabCrunch: Folowen Goes to Public Beta Adds Direct Follow

Jane Hart @ Jane’s ELearning Pick of the Day folowen

Abhijeet @ MakeUseOf: Folowen: Quick Social Profile Search

Charles S. Knight @ AltSearchEngines: Just search my name and I’ll folowen you anywhere.

Charlie @ Intersting Pile: neat sites

And of course thanks to all people who tweeted folowen’s launch!

folowen now in public beta!

We are very excited to announce that we have just released folowen in public beta earlier today!

folowen is a social media search tool that aggregates social profiles of people and organization’s on several social media sites into one search result.

It simply makes it easy for you to follow a person or organization’s social web; be it a Facebook profile, page, group, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn profile, a YouTube channel…etc.

Currently, folowen uses Google AJAX Search API to find  user profiles in 20 social media sites.

Thanks to all of our private beta testers and their great feedback the past month; we have added extra features to go along with the public beta launch!

Public beta new features:

• Now search is open without sign up, and sign up is open without an invitation!

• Now your search results will list up to 4 links for each service for you to browse through, this has been a repeated request by many of our private beta testers!

• The most exciting new feature for signed up users is Direct Follow where you can follow the person/organization you searched for directly from the search results page. This is enabled for four services at the moment which you need to connect folowen to from your Settings/Direct Follow page:
  1. Twitter
  2. YouTube
  3. FriendFeed
  4. Facebook : (folowen will tell you if you are already connected to that person or organization and will enable you to open a pop-up to add them to your friends since Facebook API doesn’t support adding people directly from outside applications.)

Looking forward for more feedback from everyone to help us make folowen even more useful.

Hello world!

Hello world, folowen is alive!

folowen is a social media search tool that aggregates social profiles of people and organization’s on several social media sites into one search result.

It simply makes it easy for you to follow a person or organization’s social web; be it a Facebook profile, page, group, a Twitter account, a LinkedIn profile, a YouTube channel…etc.

Currently, folowen uses Google AJAX Search API to find  user profiles in 18 social media sites.

Private beta invites will be sent shortly as we will be working closely with our beta users to make folowen smarter as we go along. (You can request an invite by joining our mailing list here.)

Check our news and announcements through our blog, follow us on twitter or email us at: info[at]folowen[dot]com

that’s it, happy folowen!

Razan, Alma & Hassan – the team that started Questler in 2007