Sometimes it’s hard to keep track of who knows what about who. In the digital age it’s even worse. And have you ever accidentally posted something on Facebook and wondered how bad the damage was? Well quub wants to be clear and transparent about everything we do. So when you post your micro-presence you control the groups that it goes out to. Those groups are made up of contacts with whom you have made a connection previously.
Well what about conversations? If you make a comment about someone else’s micro-presence, do you know who’s listening in? On quub you do. Click on an open message thread and at the top you’ll see a link like “14 people viewing this thread” . Click on that link and see exactly who is in on the conversation. Those are the only people who can see your conversation through quub.com
We have recently added the ability to “tag” a contact or a conversation with a star. You can do this by clicking on the gray star on the right of the contact or on the left of an open discussion. When something is tagged, two things happen. First you can filter the contact list and discussions so that you only see the tagged items. The second thing you can do is enable notifications for tagged items. The notifications can be set by looking under “Settings” -> “Notifications”. This helps you to rapidly reconfigure and refocus on the conversations and people that are important to you at a given moment.
The quub.com web team has just completed IM integration. Through this service you put “quubie” on your IM buddy list. When you want to update your status on quub.com, send quubie an IM. If it is formatted like “at home, watching TV, :American Idol” then quubie will look for the commas and try and separate out your information into “Where,What,Whatever”
We currently support GTalk, AIM, Yahoo! and MSN. You can find more details by logging in to quub.com, going to “Settings” -> “Instant Message” and following the instructions there.
We have recently added the ability to import contacts from GMail, Hotmail, Yahoo! and AOL to your quub.com account. Look under “My Contacts” -> “Network:Add Contact” -> “Import”
The quub web team is excited to announce an upgrade to the web site application. In this update we are introducing a number of new features and bug fixes. We’ll describe them one by one in this and subsequent blog entries.
Future Tabs
So here’s the way future tabs work. Future tabs are where you are going to be in the future – not just physically where, but socially and mentally as well. You can schedule a future presence in your future tab. When you schedule a future presence you indicate which groups in quub will be able to see this presence. You can also indicate if it should be automatically set to your presence when the time comes. Any people that will see your future presence when its scheduled time arrives, can also see your future presence before it is set. If they like it, or are going to be in the same place, or whatever, they can add it to their own future presence schedule as well. Think of it as a shared social presence calendar.
1) Make sure that under “Settings” and then “Services” the services that you care about have a green check by them. This confirms that we were able to get your credentials to work.
Screen shot of four successfully set up services (twitter, myspace, facebook, linkedin)
2) Make sure that when you update your status you check the button next the service to which you want to broadcast.
3) Finally, if you are using a mobile client, only the BlackBerry client currently supports broadcasting to services while mobile (using a similar interface on native client). This is something that will change as we advance our mobile presence,. Because we are encouraging micro-presence, as opposed to micro-blogging, we thought it was better to not broadcast than it was to broadcast it everywhere. Mobile clients currently broadcast within your quub contacts.
We are continuing to work on our UI to make this easier to do, but here are the basic instructions. First a couple restrictions. During the private beta phase you can only invite 10 people. Once we go completely public then that restriction will be lifted. Second when we say “invite” we mean to send an email to someone asking them to register on quub. It is possible that your contact is already registered with quub. In that case, you might want to “search” for them first and the “request” to be their contact.
Regardless, if what you want to do is send an email to get someone to register, here is what you do:
login to quub using your account. https://www.quub.com
In the bottom left, click on “Add Contact” under the “Network” heading.
This will display a new pane just to the right of where you clicked.
Click on the newly revealed “Invite” tab. (If you want to search for a friend first you can do that on the “Search” tab.
Fill out the email and hit “Submit”
When your friend joins they will show up in your contact list automatically.
