Latest improvements include:-
1. Twitter/Email tab on bookmarklet is sticky. If you use Twitter more, you will see that as the default tab from now on.
2. Dashboard view for 1 line / 2 line is sticky so it remembers your preference.
3. Contact list is paginated for better usability and search.
4. Email / Twitter icons to show method of share.
5. Email sharing limited to 20 recipients at a time to prevent spam.
6. Account and settings page redesigned for better usability.
Others areas include performance improvements on the backend, and bucket loads of bugs crushed. Enjoy!
Colin
CEO of Sharein
Posted June 3 2009 @ 3:46pm
Earlier today, we detected an attempt to use our service to spam a large number of unsuspecting people. We acted quickly to contain the incident and stopped it from doing further damage.
As a result, we are taking an immediate measure to temporarily disable sharing to your email contacts until we introduce safeguards to prevent this from happening in the future. Sharing to Twitter is not affected by this change.
Be assured we’ll re-enable it pretty soon — we love that feature too! Follow our twitter account to be the first to know when it’s back on.
Kamal Fariz
Engineering Manager
Posted May 19 2009 @ 10:23pm
You can now “star” any link you sent, received or bookmarked. Use it to track favorites or a dropbox for shares you want to read in the future. Just another way of managing your discoveries.
Colin
CEO of Sharein
Posted May 19 2009 @ 1:32pm
Last week we launched two new features in Sharein.
The first is Twitter integration. You can now share links not only via email but also via Twitter. We’ll take your link and shorten it using our URL Shortening Service at tr.my. So anytime you see the tr.my link you’ll know that it’s a Sharein link. What we like best about sharing via Twitter is that you can get more insight into how people are consuming your discovery. We track total views, retweets and mentions of your posting and help you better understand how viral your discovery is.
The second is inline email commenting. Previously you had to go to the content and access comments via the ShareBar at the top. Now you can reply to comments directly from within your email client. For example, if you received a share at your GMail account, you can respond directly by clicking on Gmail’s “reply” button.
There are plenty more features coming including Facebook integration. We postponed this just a little bit further on account of Facebook’s new Open Stream API. We are anxiously waiting for the API to get out of “beta” before we launch it. Stay tuned.
Colin Wong
CEO of Sharein.
Posted May 5 2009 @ 5:32am
Earlier this week we rolled out SSL protection to pages that handle your password. This is part of our committment to make sure your information is kept secure.
In other news, we are getting ready right now to roll out some bug fixes so stay tuned!
Posted April 3 2009 @ 5:26pm
Since our launch we have rolled out quite a few new features and fixed some bugs while we were at it. We are working hard to continually update Sharein and provide you with a great sharing experience. Here is what we have fixed since our launch.
Features
- New tag cloud implemented (http://www.sharein.com/tags)
- Time and dates with proper time zone implemented across Sharein
- Sharein Sharebar redesigned
- Invite your friends to Sharein when importing contacts
- Share popularity algorithm enhanced
- Navigation rearranged, contacts now easier to get to
- Bookmarklet speed improved
- Bookmarklet improved to handle long URLs, titles and descriptions
- Comment length increased to handle up to 1,000 characters
- Correct room automatically appears when opening comments tab in Sharebar
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed security issue
- Fixed error resetting passwords
- Bookmarklet: Only circles with contacts will be shown in the To Field
- Thumbnail in Sharein notification emails is now a link
- Duplicate tags no longer shown in User Profile
- Comments interface fixed with Safari
- Imported contacts fixed to handle email capitalizations
- Emails come from Sharein <noreply@sharein.com> instead of noreply@sharein.com now
- Activation link in email fixed to appear as a link in across all email clients
- Comment notifications readability improved
- Edit button for contacts moved closer to the contact email
- Fixed bug when sharing after logging in through the bookmarklet
- Comment notifications now only sent to those who have commented on the share
- Suggest tags link in Bookmarklet done page easier to find now
- Fixed duplicate comment email notifications
- Fixed association emails from showing the same emails, now correctly shows the primary email and associated email
Jason Winn
Posted March 26 2009 @ 10:17am
We have decided to push out new features and bug fixes on a more aggressive schedule. The plan is to do a deploy twice a week so that we don’t sit too long on launching useful new features and bug fixes. This translates to you receiving constant enhancements and fixes as we gather feedback from you. Continue sending them in at support@sharein.com.
Today’s downtime will approximately be for 30 minutes. I’ll update this blog post when we start the actual deployment.
Update 11:00PM PST: The deployment has started.
Update 11:06PM PST: The deployment is completed. That was quick!
Posted March 19 2009 @ 4:53pm
We’ve had an incredible amount of feedback since we launched last weekend. Our team has fixed a bunch of bugs and made some changes to the site that we think you’ll like.
We’ll be rolling it out this Monday at midnight PST so hang tight. I will post a follow up entry after the maintenance is done with the details of what’s new on the site.
As always, we look forward to hearing from you. It’s easy - just email us at support@sharein.com. We read and respond to each and every email.
Update: We’re running a little behind schedule by about 15-30 minutes.
Update 2: The maintenance went by smoothly and the site is now up.
Posted March 15 2009 @ 1:20pm
Welcome to Sharein.com, sharing content on the web made easy.
This is our first private release. While it’s got only a small subset of all the features we want to release, we think you’ll enjoy it. In the next weeks you will see plenty of new features including connectivity to Facebook, Twitter and more.
We look forward to your feedback (support@sharein.com) on bugs or features you’d like us to build/improve on. You can also send your feedback or just chat with our friendly staff at help.sharein.com.
Sharing is caring. So share your favorite discoveries to the people you love and God bless.
Colin Wong
CEO, Sharein.com
Posted March 10 2009 @ 10:22am
