Archive for March, 2007

Jyte Cred Bubbles

It amazes me when we see users doing cool things with the data on Jyte.

This morning I stumbled across Jyte Cred Bubbles (warning: Java applet). This is a really cool application that takes the Jyte cred data and publishes it in an easy-to-read/navigate bubble format. Very cool stuff.

Jyte Cred Bubbles

This isn’t the only cool thing we’ve seen from our users … famed Jyte user Ryan Grove has also build the JyteBot. JyteBot allows you to track comments and claims that might be about you by watching Jyte Spy and then reporting back to you via Jabber. Very cool!!! I’m lovin’ these fun new applications of Jyte and some very exciting things are yet to come!

March-ing along with new features!

March is here in the beautiful City of Roses and with it comes (a little) more rain, great craft beers and of course new Jyte features!! Here is a brief list of some of the new features … more to follow soon!!:

  • See every voter: For the people who just have to know who voted on what we no longer truncate the list of who voted on what claims. Now you can actuallysee who voted on what (in this case who loves Portland craft beers).
  • Tag love: You can now view all of the users interested in a specific tag and have given/received cred for that tag. For example, you can see that there a several users that have beer cred (how am I #3 on that list?!). You can also see the different users that are interested in beer or have mentioned it in comments, etc.
  • Comment preview: That’s right, we can now preview comments! You don’t have to sweat getting it right the first time when you post a comment. Just “Preview” it first and you’ll never (rarely?) go wrong! :-)
  • Big Speed Improvement: This is from the will-always-be-in-the-new-features list because the Jyte team is constantly tweaking things to make them faster. Traffic keeps growing and with growth comes the need to go faster … we’re on the scene and making it happen!

One of the coolest things we keep seeing are people that make claims about how to make Jyte better. People will make a claim about a feature they want or a bug they have found and voila! Within days (hours sometimes) the feature appears on the site! So keep claiming about features and most importantly keep voting on features you want on the site!

Finally, last but not least, a big shout out to our top claimants Vynce (313), Ben Breedlove (309) and Oscar J Carlton IV (296) … without you folks Jyte wouldn’t be the fun and absolutely enthralling place that it is … thanks.


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