What's New?
July 19th, 2007
A lot of random things have been happening in MobIncentive land. We've got a couple external projects and issues going
on right now, but we're still working on the site. New stuff since the last update:
- A new $100 fame game contest. Congrats to venulia on winning the one!
- Expired ideas now remain open for judgement. Expiration means that contributions and solutions are closed.
- Daily activity reports on ideas that you have created, contributed to, or commented on. Let us know what you think.
- A sent messages view on the messages page.
- Links in messages on http://mobincentive.com don't link to Facebook anymore if you've associated your account.
- An expiring ideas tab for sorting ideas
- Various little bug fixes
Also, if you're bored and have a Facebook account, check out our Advice application.
July 2nd, 2007
Whew, it's been a busy week, but we've finally got our Facebook application up and running. Check it out here. Current users can associate their MobIncentive
account with a Facebook account here. If you've got a Facebook account, let us know how it goes.
Thanks again to everyone for using the site - let us know if you want to see any new features/changes/etc.
June 25th, 2007
To further support the fame game, we just added a fame earnings breakdown. Click on the number next to someone's
fame earnings to see the details. I hope everyone's enjoying the updates that
we're making to the site.
June 22th, 2007
Well, we've been mostly working on generating traffic for the site. We managed to get a write-up in Mashable.
The traffic generation has been somewhat successful, but the site
definitely seems to be lacking some stickiness (not a lot of registrations or contributions). So we're in the process
of making some changes to make things a bit stickier and friction free:
- Facebook login and friend import - no need to create another login if you have a Facebook account
- Completely revised fame points system - you earn fame from contributing to the site (rules are here).
- Small tweaks to some of our verbiage to improve understandability
- A contest: Win $100 if you earn the most fame in the next two weeks! Details here
.
- Make it more obvious that someone is commenting anonymously.
Thanks to everyone who came to check out the site!
June 19th, 2007
We expanded the audience a bit yesterday with another round of email to an extended network of people. Thanks to
everyone who checked out the site! We've also added a couple small updates:
- Idea tagging
- Reduced page size of the messages page
- Some validation of media links
- Minor bug fixes
We're now working on getting a real write-up from one of the bigger bloggers - wish us luck!
June 14th, 2007
Well, after a pretty exciting friend and family trial period, we're about to broaden the audience of this site. We did a round of testing last night and added a couple more updates:
- Users now get a fame point every time someone rates up his/her comment
- Small usability tweaks
- Some more popup help
- Lots of minor bug fixes
We're going to start sending email out to various groups that we associate with - it'll be exciting to see
what kinds of people sign up. Please help us out and tell everyone you know about the site.
June 12th, 2007
Yet more updates based on feedback:
- Added stars in front of labels of required fields on forms
- Added a 'More...' link to the end of truncated idea descriptions on the front page
- Birthday/Age display options
- Grouping of ideas and solutions on a user profile page (active/completed/closed, open/accepted/rejected)
- A few bug fixes
Still trying to figure out how to get through the Hotmail spam filter...
June 11th, 2007
More updates based on feedback:
- Added some inline help (check out the [?] in the pile on dialog)
- Comment editing
- Social news links (Digg, Slashdot, Reddit, etc)
- Searching now looks at content in comments and solutions
- 10 ideas per page!
- Select all/none of your friends on the invite page
- A couple styling tweaks
- A couple bug fixes
We really appreciate everyone helping out with the site! Stay tuned for an upcoming public launch...
June 8th, 2007
A couple more things:
- Added next/prev to solutions within an idea
- Comments with a rating below -2 will be hidden by default
- Timestamps now have time zone specifiers
- A couple small bug fixes and style tweaks
June 7th, 2007
We've done some more updating:
- A new popularity algorithm. Check out the breakdown here.
- Changes to the way idea outcomes are displayed
- Pile on confirmation
- A better flow for friend requests
- You can now invite your MobIncentive friends to any idea (click on the 'invite') link
- And of course, various bug fixes
Let us know if there's anything else you'd like to see.
June 5th, 2007
Our first update since the Friends and Family Trial started. Here are some of things that we pushed up to the site today:
- Adding tooltips
- Allowing anonymous comments and contributions (very small ones)
- Email preferences
- Pledges/Payment tracking for completed ideas
- Letting users enter birthdays instead of entering their age (duh!)
- Fame points refill/bleed (250 at the end of the week if you logged in, -10 if you didnt)
- Accepted solutions are now inline with the idea (check it out)
- And of course, various bug fixes
We really appreciate all the comments and feedback that we've been getting. Thank you and keep it up!
