MakeUseOf Directory » status updates

Heello: Share Instant Updates With Your Friends

TehseenBaweja — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 23:01:53 +0000

Heello is the new venture by the founder of TwitPic. Think of it as a service similar to Twitter but with a better user experience. Heello allows you to share short messages (less than 140 characters) with the world along with a photo. If you authenticate your Twitter account, the status update is also reflected in your Twitter timeline.

On your home tab you can view your timeline and see which friends have posted new updates. A single click allows you to reply to any of the posted messages or echo them to your followers. You can also send and receive private messages and access them through your smartphone. Heello has almost no learning curve and serves as a good alternative to Twitter and similar sites.

Features:

Shares what you are doing with the world in short messages.
Automatically updates your Twitter and Facebook, if authorized.
Send and receive private messages.

Visit Heello @ http://heello.com

FunnyFacebook: Customize Facebook Status Update

Israel Nicolas — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 19:01:46 +0000

Unless you are living in a faraway cave, you probably have a Facebook account and are busy updating your status all the time. How would you like to update your Facebook status via your dream mobile phone – a BlackBerry perhaps? And no, you don’t need to spend a fortune buying that phone just to boast about it on Facebook. Simply visit FunnyFacebook to customize facebook status update for any device that you like.

Facebook Funny is a free web application which allows you to create your own “custom device” to update your Facebook status. You can think of any device you would like to make or use. It can be as posh as via Facebook for BlackBerry or as old school as via Facebook for Public Telephone, or even via Calculator. You can also create weird and funny device such as via Facebook for Loan Collector, via Lawyer Cars, and many others. Just let your funny ideas flow and you’ll surely enjoy updating your Facebook status more.

To have full access, just register on the site for free and you can start fooling your friends with your own custom device.

Features:

Free to use.
Fool people about where you are writing your Facebook status from.
No fuss sign-up process.
It has a good number of user generated devices already so you just choose from the list and upate your status.
Similar tools: SocialStatusGenerator and Generatus.

Check out FunnyFacebook @ www.funnyfacebook.tk

MySkyStatus: Auto-updates Your Flight Status on Twitter & Facebook

abhijeet — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 03:20:49 +0000

For the social network buffs who religiously update their status on Facebook and Twitter, they can now continue doing it even when they are at an altitude of 20,000 feet sitting in an airplane without internet access. MySkyStatus, a service by Lufthansa airlines does that for you.

Enter the carrier name, departure date and the flight number or the arrival/departure airport code. And then enter your Twitter and/or Facebook credentials. Now, at almost every hour your flight status will be updated along with a link to a map showing your current location. A good service to let your friends and family keep a track of you when you are flying.

Features::

Update your Twitter and Facebook status while you are traveling.
A free service by Lufthansa airlines.
Enter carrier name, departure date and flight number to get started.
Status updates also include a link to a map that shows your exact location.

Check out MySkyStatus @ www.myskystatus.com (by Abhijeet from Jeet Blog)

SocialStatusGenerator: Create Catchy Status Messages

abhijeet — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:55:54 +0000

With the advent of different kinds of social networks, a simple thing such as a status message has gained its own importance. Let’s admit it – we love impressing our social network friends with cool and catchy status messages, don’t we? Social Status Generator is a cool website which helps you do just that.

It helps you generate catchy status messages immediately using various keywords from the tag cloud it provides. Just click the tag you love and get the corresponding status message which you can use in your Facebook, Myspace or Twitter profile.

As you can see, there are various tags like movie quotes, funny, wisdom, travel, success etc. Hence you would never run out of choices. You could have an innovative status message each day.

Features:

Generates nice status messages for your online profile.
Simple and no sign up.
Similar site: Generatus

Go to SocialStatusGenerator @ www.socialstatusgenerator.com (by Abhijeet from Appscrazy)

Generatus: Cool Facebook Status Message Generator

Aibek Esengulov — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 05:02:01 +0000

How many hours have you wasted trying to come up with some cool, funny, impressive, creative, original …. status message for your Facebook or Twitter account? Enter Generatus, this simple website can generate a witty status message for your Facebook or Twitter page with a click of a button.

All you need to do is add your name and gender and click on a generate button.

Another nifty feature is the tag cloud where you can select the theme for your status quote. For instance, you can grab the quote from a movie, some famous song etc.

When you find soething you like, just copy and paste to your account. Done.

The guys from Generatus also keep a log of all cool status mesages that were generated on the site. You can check it out at facebookstatus.blogspot.com/.

Here are some of the latest ones:

Check out Generatus @ www.generatus.com