Aug 19
Posted by djp3 under howto, improvements
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
An open message thread
Checking to see who can see this thread
Aug 18
Posted by djp3 under improvements, releases
Activate Google Calendar Suggestions
One of the exciting new ways that we’re trying to integrate “micro-presence” into your everyday life is by connecting quub to Google Calendars. In order to do this, click on the “Settings Tab” on the upper-right of the web interface, then activate your Google Calendar Account by clicking on the link above the “Save” button. This will start a wizard on Google’s site that allows quub to access your calendar data. If you change your mind in the future, just return here to disable the calendar link.
But what can this do for you? Well basically it allows quubie to give you suggestions from your calendar. So, if you are already using Google Calendar (or something else that syncs a desktop calendar to Google Calendar like “Spanning Sync” on the Mac) then you don’t have to do anything new to get really accurate suggestions from quubie. Here’s an example:
I put “seeing District 9″ in my Google Calendar for tonight at 8:30pm, and use the location field on Google Calendar to enter “at the downtown theater”. Sometime around 7:15pm or so I pull out quub on the iPhone. “Great Hera!” What does the iPhone quub app suggest that I send to my quub groups and my Twitter Feed? “at the downtown theater seeing District 9″
Easy, schmeasy.
Jul 24
Posted by djp3 under improvements
The quub team has been hard at work bringing new features to our community. The most recent feature is sms notification of status changes of your contacts. You can really quickly activate sms notifications in the “Settings” tab. Then whenever you are watching someone, just hit the star next to their info. Whenever they change their status you will receive a text message. Cool, no?
Screenshot of SMS notifications
May 20
Posted by djp3 under improvements, releases
Here are a handful of other updates that we’ve made recently
- Link to profile is publicly available as a restricted profile.
- What this means is that now you can cut and paste the link from your contact page, mine for example is:http://www.quub.com/profile/djp3, and share it with someone. From there they can login and invite you to be a contact.
- You can manage your notifications by looking under “Settings” -> “Notification”,right now it helps you control your email flow. More to come….
- Auto-accept contact requests If you want to allow everyone to connect with you as a contact you can check this box and you don’t have to approve new contact requests. Good for the people who like to have huge lists of contacts. (Oprah are you listening?)
Then there were a bunch of small changes that you won’t even notice they are so natural. 
Also we made the backend of our site faster and more stable
May 19
Posted by djp3 under howto, improvements
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.
Tagging a contact with a star
Tagging a conversation with a star
May 18
Posted by djp3 under howto, improvements, releases
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.
Give us your feedback if you have any!
quubie will update your status through IM
May 17
Posted by djp3 under howto, improvements
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”
Import Contacts
May 16
Posted by djp3 under howto, improvements, releases
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.
The Future Tab
May 13
Posted by djp3 under improvements, releases
The quub team has successfully completed an internationalization push from end-to-end through our system. While it may seem obvious that we should have had this ready to go from the start – we didn’t. Fixing this touched almost every aspect of our infrastructure and required an all hands effort. However, it’s fixed now. Let us know if you see anything wacky that we might not recognize because we don’t use cyrillic characters (for example). Especially on our mobile clients as they begin to roll out. Thanks!
International characters supported in quub
May 8
Posted by djp3 under improvements, releases
The quub BlackBerry team is proud to announce the release of v1.0.3 mobile native client for the BlackBerry.
We are now supporting:
- Storm
- Bold
- 8800 Series
- Curve 8300
- Curve 8900
Download the apps from the BlackBerry App World (once they approve us – yawn!) or directly from here, or by going to www.quub.com on your Blackberry’s browser.
As always, we’d love your feedback!
