User Guide
Copyright Š 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 timeintensive. 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: Facebook • 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/. Twitter 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. LinkedIn 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 workrelated 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. Email 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.