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
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.
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!
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.
Congratulations to the quub iPhone dev team for turning their v1.0.0 app to the iTunes Store for approval. Hopefully we will see it in the iTunes app store soon.
Also we made the backend of our site faster and more stable
