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  SocialAdr v2.05 Released

  Kane 11:48 pm on December 17, 2009 | 0 Comments Permalink
  Tags: bookmark4you (2), delicious (2), quick share (5), setup wizard (9), share queue (9), warrior forum (3), wso (1), yahoo (3)

  Yesterday we released version 2.05 of SocialAdr.   This release included our final enhancements prior to the new WSO we’ve been planning for a while.

  Here’s everything that was modified:

  • Delicious <-> Yahoo OAuth integration is complete.  Everyone using their Yahoo account to sign into Delicious can now set it up.   I’m pretty sure I gained a few gray hairs working on this
  • The social bookmarking service Bookmark4You now has a hyperlink to the user pages on the History – My Bookmarks and History – Shared Bookmarks pages
  • Bug fixed on Share Queue and Quick Share pages which was setting a limit of 10 “I prefer not to share this” bookmarks.  Users who had clicked the button more than 10 times would still see the additional bookmarks.
  • Setup Wizard enhanced so the flow was more sequential…Share and then Add Bookmark
  • New registration pages added for the WSO
    
   

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  Tuning Up, Tuning Down – Part 2

  Ben 12:47 pm on November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments Permalink
  Tags: account type (3), available shares (1), awesome account (1), customers (1), free account (2), potential shares (1), share queue (9), shares (2), spam (3)

  One of the items that we want to tune down is the amount of sharing that our customers need to do in order to reap the full benefits of their account type.  In particular, those customers currently on the ‘Awesome’ account have the potential to have their links shared a lot, but it requires a ton of sharing on their part.

  To bring that more into line with how we’d like things to work, we’re going to actually tune up the ratio of shares received vs shares given.  Some of you that have been around since the beginning may recognize this as a leap backwards – we used to offer share return ratios greater than one on some account types.

  One element of tuning down that goes along with this change is that we will be reducing the number of potential shares per day for all account types to 5.  The biggest motivating factor here is to keep things at a level that the bookmarking sites won’t consider spam.  20 shares per day is an awful lot, especially if they are happening every day on a number of accounts.

  By tuning down the number of available shares per day, but tuning up the return on each share for our customers with higher accounts, we’ll be able to play a little more nicely with the social bookmarking sites while simultaneously delivering more value to our customers.

  A side effect of these changes should be an increase in the size of everyone’s share queues.  Since you will be going through fewer shares per day, you won’t have as easy a time exhausting the available share queue.

  In part 3 I’ll be addressing some important changes to our free account.

   

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  Tuning Up, Tuning Down – Part 1

  Ben 10:33 am on November 14, 2009 | 0 Comments Permalink
  Tags: free users (3), more links (1), share queue (9)

  One of the things that we’ve heard from a few users is that they wish the share queue would stay more full.  That’s a reasonable request, since our most active customers can share up to 20 links per day, and they need to if they want their links to be shared in return.

  We’re faced with a pretty basic challenge though, which is that our most active users are the ones most likely to be pumping new links into the system.  On top of that, our free users can only have a couple of links going at a time, and can only have them shared twice.  Those two items plus a couple of others makes for a difficult situation.

  So how do we address this?  There are a number of directions we’re going to tackle this from, and in combination we’re confident they will eliminate any issue.

  First, in the tuning UP department, we’re going to be increasing the number of links that people can have in the system, especially our free users.  And secondly, we’ll be tuning up the number of times that each user’s links can be shared.

  These two items will result in more links being available to share, both because there are more going into the system in the first place and also because they will stick around longer once they get there.

  But that’s just the beginning.  There are even more changes coming in the ‘tuning down’ department.  I’ll explore some of those in Part 2.

   

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  SocialAdr v1.12 Released – Performance Updates

  Ben 3:28 pm on November 8, 2009 | 1 Comments Permalink
  Tags: bloglines (2), dashboard (2), multiply (1), share queue (9), simpy (2)

  We released version 1.12 of the site last night.  The upgrade included the following changes:

  • Redesigned history system, optimized for performance and growth
  • Updated Share Queue (performance)
  • Updated History pages (performance)
  • Updated Dashboard (performance)
  • Updated History – My Bookmarks logic (wasn’t showing complete details)
  • Updated History – Shared Bookmarks logic (hyperlinks now go directly to external bookmarks)
  • Added ability for social bookmarking services to be either temporarily inactivated or fully disabled
  • Updated Bloglines interface (to handle changes on their end)
  • Updated Simpy interface (better error reporting)
  • Updated Multiply interface (to handle changes on their end)
  • Updated Edit Accounts (fixed issue with duplicate accounts appearing)
   

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