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Rusic adds moderation, UI tweaks and Webhooks

by Mark P. Filed under: Products

We’ve just put live a few sweet little updates to Rusic.com.

We’ve improved the “discuss” button from the previous orange link. It’s only a little change but the improvement is big. It’s much more obvious now what is expected of the user.

We also improved the footer and more importantly improved stability. You also no longer need to log out to view the buckets on the home page. Expect a big update in this area soon…

The PRO version (coming soon) is awesome

Check out the lovely new moderation area for the yet to be publicly released PRO version. It enables quick moderation of comments and ideas within a bucket. Nothing is deleted it’s just deactivated.

There’s also a new webhook system for firing events to external services, meaning integration with mailing providers is pretty straight forward amongst many other cool things.

Also GoApe is the latest PRO user for their summer campaign as you can see Rusic is fully skinnable… We’ll save that for another post.

link goodness – 26th july

by Julia Filed under: Products

Interesting posts, advice and tips! Here’s another batch of the links we’ve been looking at this last week.

Enjoy.

Contests

Should you add contests to your marketing strategy? Here’s 4 reasons why you should!

What is quality?

How do you define what quality is? Seth Godin explains.

qTranslate 

If you’re looking for a way to setup a multilingual site in WordPress try the qTranslate plugin.

Super easy to use!

Rack-webconsole

An awesome way to interact with Rack applications from your browser. Perfect for local development and staging environments.

Check it out!

Agile development

Learn and improve agile development through Tetris. A cool presentation by Mark Daggett

OpenStack 

OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing technologists producing open source cloud computing platform for public and private clouds. Join their global community!

Mentor SME scheme: “Rejected”

Mentors in new government network “prevented from giving bespoke business advice”. Find out why.

Last weeks link goodness

by Julia Filed under: Knowledge

To start the day at SimplewebHQ we  have a sort of “show and tell” to chat about things that we’ve discovered online. Nothing too heavy, usually geeky and sometimes just a bit of fun. We share our ideas, and then share them with you, simple.

This weekly post will feature our favourite links of the week. Feel free to join in and share any thoughts or links you think we’ll like.

Enjoy.

GameSalad

Interested in designing games? GameSalad creator does just this, and for ease of use the visual, drag and drop based style means no coding whatsoever is needed. Now with HTML5 love included as standard.

Simple, rapid and versatile.. try it out!

Golden ratio.. the ancient secret to perfect design?

See how Apple have used this age old method to design the iCloud Logo. Check out Mark’s post.

Balsamiq Mockups

Wouldn’t recommend for large projects but great little tool to help build quick website or application layouts (without the code and colours) that look like hand drawn screen diagrams. Go see for yourself.

http://balsamiq.com/products/mockups

Fourframes “The smart way to make yourself look stupid”

Bored? This will keep you amused for a while..guaranteed laughs! Not much more to say, but check it out.

Museum of me

Intel’s Museum of Me is a visualisation of your Facebook “life”, exploring who you are through photos, wall comments and etc. Based on a museum exhibition, you go through the tour seeing all the info pulled from your profile.

Reviewed as fun, emotional and even “ego-stroking”. Definitely worth trying out at least once (ED: if you haven’t already)

The Realtime Simpleweb

by Mark P. Filed under: Company

Our site has been down for a while. We put up a simple holding page in the meantime (which has been far more effective than we predicted). This “down time” has given us a chance to reflect on who we are as a company and who we want to be.

We’ve always focused on combining technology and marketing. This has been traditionally hard to explain to people and to manage expectations. Then “Social Media” came along, the catch all phrase that has generated a thousand and one gurus and experts. The very words send a shudder down my spine, in the same way that “SEO” does. I won’t get into wealth of meaning banded around the intertubes for this phrase. I will however say that it has got us closer to being able to describe what it is that we do…

Now finally, we’ve reached that comfortable place that enables us to easily explain what we are, what we do and where we want to be. It’s all about REALTIME.

Everything is realtime now. Online conversations, measurement, taking action, technology. When we execute a project we want to get it out before the world changes, we want to listen and act on what people are saying about it, we want to be able to understand how it’s being used, enable users to communicate with each other in a way that suits them – all in realtime.

It’s only now that this is all coming together, socially and technically. We are very passionate about this, we want to be square in the middle of this revolution. For our clients and for our own products.

So here we are. A new ethos, a new website, a growing team, great clients and some great products.