A new concept of miniblogs was introduced by the TOProfile project ( www.toprofile.ru ), which was released in the spring of this year.
The project not only makes it possible to collect all your social profiles into a single TOProfile, but at the same time it is a new word in organizing online diaries.
It would seem that you can come up with something new in this direction? In the Russian segment of the Internet, it would seem that there is everything your heart desires. Depending on the writer’s loquaciousness, you can choose both small forms (Twitter, FriendFeed) and large ones (LiveInternet, Livejournal). You can talk about yourself in pictures, share music, videos... Indeed, everything has already been invented.
TOPprofile came out with the idea of not just posts, but posts with a mood. In this case, the mood is conveyed by the status “I’m sad” or “I’m happy”, but by the image! The service is built in such a way that when creating a diary entry, the user is asked to visualize his post and select a cover image. Image selection is carried out by searching the Google and Flickr image databases. You can also upload an image from your computer if the proposed series does not satisfy you.
In terms of the amount of information in the message, TOProfile is a mini-blog. The amount of text in a message is limited to 1000 characters. In addition to illustrating the mood, you can place photographs inside the message, which will be viewed through a convenient interface.
In parallel with the web version of the project, a free TOProfile application for iPhone was released. You can also use it to create posts, comment on other readers, and edit your data. In short, if a user communicates more often with an iPhone than with a computer, he can easily monitor the project from his mobile device.
Who might be interested in the project? We hope that everyone will find their interests here. Ordinary users will be able to express themselves in a new way, and, for example, companies will be able to hold various kinds of competitions and simply communicate on behalf of the brand in a new format.
The authors of the project still have many ideas about modernizing the project and its development. Therefore, stay tuned for the news!