The task: build and integrate location services into Motribe so our Juggalos can find each other. Build and launch this service in six hours or less. 9:30 - 10AM The Briefing Tasks are allocated. Sean will do the code front-end, Nic will do the Facebook app and fan page, Ashley will do all the data [...]
It has been exactly a year today since Motribe went live to the public and let me tell you, it has felt like a carnival ride that alternates between overwhelming joy and paralyzing terror.
Find out more about this exciting new announcement from the Motribe technical team
This week we are happy to announce that site owners have a new mechanism to help assist with content moderation, called the Neighborhood Watch.
We are happy to announce the roll-out of Facebook Connect integration across all of Motribe’s mobile community sites, making it even easier for our users to join and interact using our community platform.
This week we rolled out pins across our publisher platform and all of our mobile social networks. Pins form part of a new rewards system that notifies users when they achieve certain goals in their digital communities. The pins that are available at launch reward community members for uploading and commenting on photos and blog [...]
Today Motribe launches a complete redesign of its web site and we’re really excited to have it out in the wild. The site, designed by Obox, is the result of several months of discussion and strategy formulation and, like most web sites, cannot be separated from the process we went through to create it. It [...]
The presidential elections this weekend in Côte d’Ivoire have sparked controversy with rumors that the country’s telecommunications regulator would ban SMS for the duration of the election period. One day before the elections the African Election Project and Motribe decided to work together to launch a social network that would enable Ivorians to chat, share [...]
The last 9 months have been some of the most interesting, dark, happy and motivating of my life. In 9 months Motribe has gone from an Idea in mine and Vincent’s heads to a business that we are proudly growing user by user and community by community. This week we presented together at the WTF [...]
Motribe is a month old today so we decided to share some of our experiences and statistics for those of you who are interested in our progress. This post is quite long but we have broken it up into sections to make it a little easier to digest. There are also some technical aspects to [...]