Emad Ibrahim

Yonkly Making Progress

I have two reasons to celebrate.  Yonkly’s team has doubled in size.  That is 200% growth.  Yes, we are two people now.  Scott Scheper has joined Yonkly and will be bringing a whole lot of experience, strategic planning, vision, direction and eventually a lot of money. The second reason to celebrate: we finally popped the cherry [...]

Marketing Your Services Using Affiliate Programs

I just launched a hosted microblogging platform (aka twitter clone) at www.yonklyapp.com and right now I am looking into different ways to market it. One approach to my marketing strategy is to use an affiliate program.  We have all seen affiliate programs for everything from selling t-shirts to selling domains.  The question I struggled with is [...]

Major Update to Yonkly: Widgets, Ads & More

I just released a new version of Yonkly with a ton of new features. Widgets If you are logged in, you can add a widget to your sidebar even place Google ads if you wanted.  Take a look at the widget in my profile at http://yonkly.com/eibrahim.  To add your own widget, go to settings and click the [...]

Backup Your Twitter Messages @ Yonkly

Yonkly is not a backup service but I just added a new feature that lets you import your twitter messages into your yonkly account, so try it out. Login then go to your profile page at http://yonkly.com/profile and click the "import twitter messages" link half way down the page. It is smart enough to not import the [...]

Yonkly Groups and new Look

We finally got around to releasing a new version of yonkly.  We have cleaned up the look and feel of the site and I think it looks better now. We added a new feature that allows you to create groups.  You can create a group such as “MVC Developers” or “My Soccer Team” where members [...]