Ideas & Insight

Thumbdive on SCMP's Post Magazine

Thank you Bien Perez @ South China Morning Post for covering Thumbdive in the ‘Hot.com’ column!

Visit SCMP.com for the article online.

3.28 8:30pm Support Earth Hour in your community

Join Earth Hour by switching off your lights for one hour on March 28 @ 8:30pm

Thumbdive shows our support to this meaningful cause by featuring “Earth Hour” Infotainment. You can save the ‘Support Earth Hour’ theme, visit Earth Hour official website, watch Earth Hour video on Youtube … and most importantly, you can talk about ‘Earth Hour’ among your SharingPool friends & take action together.

Thumbdive – Speaks your mother tongue

For the many Thumbdive friends living in non-English speaking countries, they love to see Thumbdive speaking their own languages.

We have been working hard on this and as the first step – we launched Thumbdive in Chinese a couple weeks ago. It looks great.

What is the next language you’d like Thumbdive to speak?

Latest Thumbdive Enhancements after launch

What’s most precious in any Internet service launch?
“Users’ feedbacks!”, we would say.
Feedback from Vanessa: “I had a question about posts longer than 150 characters. Is this possible, or are there workarounds? For example, if I wanted to write something as long as a blog-type post… “
Which leads to ==>
Enhancement #1: Lifting the 150-character limit
Now you can post message of 1000-char long

Feedback from dotdean: “the last.fm feature is nice but it lists all tracks iam hearing and not all tracks i “love”. would be great if you can fix this”
Which leads to …

A happy and prosperous year

Lunar New Year is considered one of the most important celebrations in many Asian countries. It signifies a time for bringing family and friends together. This year, the first day falls on January 26, and marks the beginning of a series of festivities.

During this period of time, traditions such as passing out red packets, setting off fire-crackers, and putting up decorations are held. You may have seen the latest Lunar New Year theme on Thumbdive, which shows the following Chinese character:

This character is pronounced as “Fook” in Cantonese and “Fu” in Mandarin. It …

Tips & Tricks #6: Membership or SharingPool Invites – have it your way

In case you haven’t already noticed, there are 30 membership invites sitting in your profile page, ready to be sent out!  How are they different from regular SharingPool invites, you may ask?

A Membership invite offers a signup to becoming a Thumbdive member, whereas a SharingPool invites offers an exclusiveness to join a sharing space (on top of becoming a member).

Use them for your best interest. Give us feedback if you think 30 membership invites merely match your needs.

Tips & Tricks #5: Smileys for your message

We love smileys, don’t we?

Smileys are handy and they make our conversations more interesting. Use in different ways to create messages and comments.

Tips & Tricks #4: Knowing what your friends are up to

Your contacts’ profile pictures in Thumbdive provide a quick shortcut to their info pages. Besides their basic information, you also find their local time and profile updates. In that way, you wouldn’t find yourself calling your friends at weird hours. You can also see what they are up to from reading their blogs, or status updates.

This info page makes it simple and easy for me to stay on top of what’s going on in my friends’ lives. Now all their social updates are kept in one place. Sweet!