I announcing the new Yrn.me tweet button yesterday on twitter:

" Click to tweet, launched today by http://yrn.me checkit out, simple button for your browser to tweet web sites ;) http://yrn.me/jt13i "
- @mukoshy

With the Drag and Drop simplicity, It takes 2 seconds to install the new tweet button to your browser. Once installed, you simply click on it while browsing any web site to tweet it in a short format eg. http://yrn.me/jt13i

If you are registred on yrn.me, every link you tweeted will also be automatically added to your account provided you were logged in.

The transition is swift, clicking on the Button at any time will quickly take you to twitter in lessthan a second with the shortened link. ;)

More to it coming as yrn.me still lives in the lab.

Thank you.
Yrn.me is a mini-url shortner, built by @mukoshy

Yes, I decided to go underhood with the Yarnable developement. In my own ways, I believe it will be more impressing to the users and above all more secure for the platform, since idea scarvengers have begun to emulating it.

While Yarnable will continue to have series of minor updates, a major system upgrade is under developement behind the scene. Hopefully in less time than you can image, we would launch a bigger platform called Yarnable 2.0.

The Yarnable 2.0 will have additional features, services and above all more user friendly ;)

Thank you.
Ahmad Mukoshy
Founder, Yarnable.Com

In the past 24hrs, yrn.me has experienced series of updates in an attempt to better the services and build more features on to it.

I am more than pleased to write about its new features.

Earlier on, yrn.me was a typical url shortner that can shorten any link. Providing its users with tiny links that are more social friend for tweeting, sharing on facebook and almost any thing.

But today, yrn.me will shorten your links and keep a statistics of visits. Though this data compilation is still been cooked, at present it will allow you to see how many visits your link had and also from where the visits came from as well as the date and time of visit.

To view the statistics of any link, simply add a hypen to its end such as http://yrn.me/yarnable- (this will show the statistics of http://yrn.me/yarnable)

We have also added a user account feature, which allow registered users to manage their urls from their accounts and also keep up with their link statistics. The registration is free and will remain so, infact more features will come for registered users. ;)

A user account will allow you to create customized links, such as http://yrn.me/{anything}, making your shortened links more descriptive. But this feature is available only to registered members.

Added to the services also includes a browser Bookmark Button, which we call Shrinklet, simply the diamond of the new updates.

The Bookmark Button is easy to install by just dragging it to your browser bookmarks. It allows both registered and non registered users the ability to shorten any page they are viewing and would like to share it with others.

Once clicked, it will automatically generate a short link in 2 seconds. For registered users (with accounts logged in on their PC) it will also add the link to their account simultaneously.

Another key thing to note is that, the yrn.me Home Page now shows 5 top ranked links. It will allow yrn.me visitors to have a peep on the hottest links on the system.

More will be coming soon as we develop the system better, enjoy shrinking your links

Yarnable... Yarnable.... Yarnable... The hype kept on moving both online and offline, but for a month we restricted access to invitation from selected web sites.. That was pretty mean, but it was for the good.

During the private beta, we identified so many bugs on the platform which kept us debugging for month. Thus, the private session ease our stress towards ensuring the platform works perfectly and effectively. This is because, the platform is being built from scratch.

Last Saturday, Ahmad Mukoshy was in Lagos (Nigeria) to release yarnable.com to the general public at  BarCamp Nigeria 2010 event which held in University of Lagos at CITS Building. The event was successful and yarnable was opened to the general public on that day.

Part of the key notes of @mukoshy's speech include:

1. Yarnable is here to stay, with innovative ideas to follow its development over time.
2. Yarnable will link you to major social sites, auto connecting your activities in real time.
3. Mobile communication will be added to yarnable to make on the go yarning interesting and catchy.
4. An intelligent command-line system will be developed to easy interaction with the yarnable platform.
5. Yarnable will also build an advance search technology which will pull information (when need) related to your yarns from across the web.

More features were also highlighted at the event, such as ability for users to subscribe to yarnable upcoming channels and much more.

During the event, yarnable users were following the trending keyword yarn #bcnigeria aside twitter. The keyword was the official tag for the event chosen by the BarCamp officials to tag discussions about the event on social sites, more especially Twitter.

Though yarnable is still running on a core php-apache technology, in time we will improve both programming technologies and probably even jump to a framework to easy the development sessions.

During the public beta release of yarnable in Lagos, we also launched a basic search to the platform which will also be improved in no time.

Users also reach their profiles from the yarnable pretty url syntax. (http://yarnable.com/username) eg. http://yarnable.com/mukoshy

Thank you, follow yarnable on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/yarnable

One of the main objectives of Yarnable is to provide its users with reliable and easy communication features that will allow them to discuss in short messages of one or two sentences.That was why, Yarnable was born with a status updates feature within it. However, that was just a simple typical status update with nothing attached to the conversion. (Doh!)

This week, part of our upgrades include the new @mentions feature.

We understood the difficulty of following your yarns, you wish to get away from the computer, get out there and do something. Like, telling your friends about the new site called yarnable.com and not miss a single yarn related to you when you get back.

Well, that is exactly what we have for you. From your yarnable home page, just click on Mentions to see who has made a reference to you at time. Not just that, we have also added a Reply button so that you may reply to your mentions or any yarn without hassles, I bet you love that.

Next, we would be working on #hastags. which will give you the ability to trend topics, if you are on twitter you know what i mean. (I'd explain when launched).

On the issue of messaging also, users can now delete their message threads at any time except for the parent message which we hope to allow deletion of it, soon.

Keep yarning, lets make it happen.

Today, I am more than pleased to announce the release of Yarnable. The long awaited 140 character based micro-discussion site that allow users to do more than just a typical conversation.

Yarnable has come to stay with new standards to internet conversations. We set out to also deliver unique and inimitable services with innovative virtues to social media and communication industry.

However, we are live with a private beta session that will last a month. The public release will be held at BarCampNigeria2010 on 22nd of May this year in Lagos, Nigeria.

So, presently we only allow registration through selected media. This is so because, we will be on a test-run and bug fixing session till 22nd May. We sincerely apologize for any inconveniences this may cause you.

Signup Code providers:

1.    LoyOkezie.Com – http://loyokezie.com
2.    TechMasai.Com – http://techmasai.com
3.    Icodom.Com – http://icodom.com
4.    StartupsNigeria.Org – http://startupsnigeri.acom
5.    Aimtechng.Com – http://aimtechng.com
6.    WebTrendsNg.Com – http://webtrendsng.com
7.    Facebook.com/Yarnable – http://facebook.com/yarnable
8.    Twitter.com/Yarnable – http://twitter.com/yarnable

Each of these providers is entitled to only 20 invites, making 160 rooms only. Hopefully, after our public beta release; signup will be open to all.

The present release, comes in simple with Status Updates, Private Messaging, Discussion Boards and Topics, Private Board, User Profile and some extra additional features.

Thank you,
Ahmad Mukoshy

The plan was to launch private beta by March '10, but fortunately we could not meet the deadline. However, we added some more features in the beta phase which we hope will go live this week or next. During this time, we have also received some pre-released reviews from tech blogs which we wish to share with you.

Loy Okezie.Com: - http://yrn.me/?100okn
“Already, there are indications that it will look different and unique especially with the categories you can create for different topics. Again, with a lot of issues around privacy (especially on Facebook), it would be nice to actually engage in private discussions with your network of friends without any third party interference. ”

Tech Masai.Com: -  http://yrn.me/?5oz3t
“The great thing about the new wave of Nigerian not to mention African entrepreneurs, who are emerging now is that these guys are taking the route of making custom made services instead of using open source stuff, as was popular a few years back. ”

Some of our plans for the launch include our already running Twitter page, http://twitter.com/yarnable/ and Facebook Fans page http://facebook.com/yarnable/

We're counting down to our private beta lauch.

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Thank You
Ahmad Mukoshy,
Founder, Yarnable.Com

Quite simple, Yarnable is a free micro-discussion site that allow you to create and share short topics of interest in under 140 characters. It comes with great number of social features such private messaging and friend list.

Yarnable, founded in mid January, 2010 comes in handy for your real time status updates answering the one simple question "What is happening".

All topics created by users are neatly organised under related categories such as Sports, Movies, Business and even Technology.

Because privacy setting on social sites is often crucial, you can always set your privacy limit from your profile settings allowing you to block or allow public access to your topics. Simple, you can even host private discussions with your network of friends without thirdparty interference.

This impressive web site is coming out soon, will have the 1st private beta release around 1st March 2010.

Thank you.
Mukoshy, @Yarnable