Ever since we opened up the doors to the Skribit beta, we kept hearing that widget customization is a must. Today we pushed out a working widget customizer along with the ability to change the title of the widget. You can change everything from font, font size and border width to colors.
These widget customization features are just the first steps on our way to completely revamping the widget as well as offering other ways of interacting with Skribit. As usual, feedback is always welcome.
We registered ourselves today on Get Statisfaction. Get Satisfaction is a service that creates a place where users can ask questions, request features, and just plain talk about companies and products.
Because our service offers functionality very similar to Get Satisfaction, we did discuss the possibility of re-purposing our service to do this as well. We decided against this because 1) we wanted to open ourselves up to receiving feedback from a larger community, and 2) we want Skribit to be the best service for bloggers to build conversations with their readers, and stretching our service to do this additional thing only dilutes that message.
So our Customer Service site is open for business, please visit the site and leave us some feedback!
What better way to wrap up April than with a few Skribit features? Let me be the first to say that these features are just the tip of the iceberg. We have a lot planned and are happy to announce that Erik Peterson has joined the Skribit core team, which also consists of Calvin Yu and myself. Below are some of the changes in this release. You will notice the widget has undergone a few changes. As a sidenote, we plan on heavily reworking the widget so if you have any thoughts to impart, please drop us a comment.
No longer do you have to wait for someone to approve your account after registering for Skribit. We’re ready to take on more people eager to give Skribit a whirl! All you have to do is signup and either add a blog if you’re a blogger, or just use the account to interact with other Skribit-enabled blogs.
If you’re making a suggestion via Skribit, the main benefit of registering for an account over being an anonymous suggestor is that you’ll be able to track your suggestions and see if they were blogged. It also gives the blogger an idea of who suggested each suggestion and therefore some incentive to write on the topic compared to writing for an anonymous user.
Along with Skribit’s leap into a public beta, there are a few new features such as email notifications for new suggestions and comments for suggestions. Skribit is still hopping and we have a bunch of ideas and features in the works. If you have any feedback, we’d love to hear what’s on your mind. Stay tuned.
Are you a hip & hoppin’ blogger with a nice following of readers? If you’d like to see what your readers care about, sign-up for the Skribit beta and let us know where to find you.
Yes, Georgia is in a drought, but we’re ready to grow the size of our pond!
It hasn’t even been a month since Atlanta Startup Weekend took place and Skribit has gone from an idea to an engineered application ready for deployment. After Startup Weekend, Skribit was in a closed beta for the co-founders to squash bugs and slap on a new design. As the guy who has been harboring the idea for Skribit for a very long time, it’s glad to say that we’re ready to let others test our app and take in some helpful feedback.
If you’re just joining us now, you might be interested in hearing what problems Skribit solves and what it can do for you, regardless of whether you’re a blogging maven or just a casual blog reader. First off, let me tell you where I’m coming from. To put it conservatively, I’m a blogging enthusiast. I love technology, sharing my knowledge with others and gaining wisdom from those that comment on my articles. The only problem being what to write about. Coming up with a truly original piece takes great effort and only happens once in a blue iPod.
As a blogger you can use Skribit to get feedback from your readers as to what they want to see you write about. Your readers can register to use Skribit or provide you with suggestions anonymously. Suggestions can be voted upon and a myriad of magical algorithms displays the hoppin’ suggestions, or what we like to call skribits.
Readers get to keep track of suggestions they’ve made across all Skribit-enabled blogs and websites, discover related blogs and find other readers interested in the same topics. When a blogger posts an article from a reader’s suggestion, the post is linked to the suggestion.
Here’s a teaser screenshot of the My Blogs management page.
Sponsor plug: Skribit would not be possible without great help from Media Temple webhosting. I gave Alex at Media Temple a call in the middle of Startup Weekend and we had a production server that night. When our development team wanted to switch to another Linux distribution, Media Temple was right there with us and promptly set us up another box. Thanks guys!
