October 11, 2008

social networking in schmedley

dustin

I’m happy to announce that we’ve finally come across a “Web 2.0″ surveying and polling application that suits our needs…
PollDaddy - http://www.polldaddy.com.
It’s a really cool product that I know we’ll be making good use of.

So get ready, because we’re going to have LOTS of polls and surveys coming your way soon. This will help us get input from each and every one of YOU - the people who use schmedley - so that we can continue to build in the features and components that YOU want most.

We’ll be starting with this quick poll on social networking services. When we started building schmedley, we new we had to include “the big guys” (MySpace & Facebook) and Twitter. Now we’re ready to add some more schtuff, and we need your vote on what social networking tools would add more value or usefulness to schmedley…

 


 
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October 7, 2008

thumbnail screenshot services

dustin

Soon after our launch, it came to our attention that there are a lot of thumbnail screenshot services on the web (snap shots, websnapr, screenthumbs, thumbshots, thumbalizr, snapcasa, shrinktheweb, etc.) - and many of them do not provide a thumbnail of schmedley.com that is current. We noticed this after seeing more than a few thumbnails scattered around the web of our alpha-stage release (which isn’t nearly as cool-looking as our newly-released beta).

After some investigation, we discovered TONS of thumbnail screenshot service providers. Some had screenshots of our alpha. Some had screenshots of our “placeholder” pre-beta-launch countdown page. Even worse - some of them had “scrapers” that don’t seem to be advanced enough to take an accurate screenshot of a page like schmedley that is chock full of AJAXy Web 2.0 goodness.

So - we decided to make one…

schmedley screenshot

Well, actually… we made three. This one is 500px wide x 320px high - our “medium” size.

For our friends in the media, and for all of those thumbnail screenshot services out there,
below are direct links to the three new screenshots we’ve created just for you…

 

 
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October 1, 2008

welcome - from team schmedley

drew

We call ourselves “team schmedley” - the team that has built a web platform that gives you the ability to personalize your own “schpace” - a place to organize your digital world and make it what you want. Use our schmidgets for personal productivity or to enhance your online presence.

Soon you’ll be able to publish content that you can share with the entire world or just a few select individuals.

Imagine a personalized launch pad, where every tool you need to communicate, catch up with your online interests and friends, share digital content and express yourself is organized and integrated into one place; all your email accounts, social networking, IM accounts, etc., working together to give you one seamless experience.

There’s no need to imagine any longer…  Welcome to the schmedley™ BETA.

 
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