In preparation for the game’s release, Cando and Decon worked closely in creating a Twitter-based viral application called Tweet Battles. As one of the first’s of its kind, Tweet Battles lets users go toe-to-toe in 3 rounds of 140 character sparring. Announcements and votes are filtered through Twitter with each user going up (or down) in the ranking until one user wins. The app features real-time, on site notifications so users could accept/decline battles. Those not interested in battling, could participate as a voter only.

The activation was so successful that Tweet Battles was also launched in the UK, France, Germany and Spain localized in the respective languages with tens of thousands of users participating.

To define Runk is paradoxical. Runk is a movement, an attitude and expression that is born from deep within, mothered by love and yet the son of a thousand fathers. It is a boundary breaker, an anti-establishment rebellion with spiritual undertones.  There are no rules. Guitar riffs from rock, punk bravado, hip hop beats, classical piano, eerie voices of opera, high octane techno – it can all be there. It is born out feeling and not thought. It all comes together and represents the oneness that is inevitable in music and life. Runk on.

– Mams Taylor

When we first got introduced to Mams and Runk music, it was a little different for us.  Never having been exposed to this new mashup of genres, it seemed appealing and we here at Cando always like to be on the bleeding edge of anything we do.  Mams seemed passionate about his music and that helped him express his vision and creative direction to us.  That’s one of the great things about the projects we’re involved with, it usually entails dealing with the artist themselves and sparks great projects.

Originally launched in late 2008, Cando was tasked with bringing a new look to one of the quickest growing social networks on the Ning platform.  In addition to an all new design direction to enhanced the user’s experience, additional custom functionality was created to allow for the syndication of content from the MichaelBaisden.com site to the social network.

TwitrPix gives you, your friends, family and co-workers the ability to upload and post photos on Twitter using your mobile phone, desktop web browser or by email. Along with a photo of your choice, you can include a message that will get Tweeted with it.

Users can instantly share photos on Twitter using the TwitrPix web site, mobile phones, email and a number of Twitter-based apps and mashups with TwitrPix integration.  Currently, TwitrPix has been integrated into iPhone apps, JAVA 2.0-enabled mobile phones, Adobe AIR apps, and native applications for Mac, Windows and Linux.

Cando conceived, developed and launched TwitrPix as an internal project and as a natural extension to expand into the mobile and social platforms.

Recently Cando created the first ever Firefox add-on for directly sharing any photo from any website on Twitter called “TwitrPix Express for Firefox.”  The add-on has been download thousands of times and is it heavy use.