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sobees beta 0.7 - an all new version

23 February 2010

We are really excited to announce that sobees has now reached the beta stage. For this brand new version, we rewrote the application from the ground up to make it faster, more reliable - to make it short: sobees is now better than it has ever been!

This beta version provides users with an enhancement of services accessibility and management, including all the popular social networks ( Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn) , as well as search engines such as Factery Labs, One Riot and Twitter search.

More intuitive and easy to use, completed with numerous functionalities and performances and a brand new design, implemented with a tab view and very low on memory, this new version aims to supply users with a full package:

  • Possibilities are now broader and much simpler to execute. Light and trendy, the design will help you to feel better with the application.
  • As for new features, you can now drag and drop your services columns as well as open a service in full screen mode, translate your tweets within sobees, display factery data and open previews of maps, pictures and conversations.
  • Scrolling and memories issues have been resolved. Your navigation throughout the services will resent these changes right away.
  • The aggregation of the web services is now much neater and smoother, including all the current trends and specificities of the most popular social networks.

Flexibility, totality and efficiency are what we aimed towards while developing and improving the new version. Download sobees beta to enjoy these enhancements and, as usual, do not hesitate to send us your feedback!

With the beta version, we now have a very good basis to go on developing the application and we will be adding great new services in a few weeks time, so stay tuned!

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N.B: If you’re using sobees alpha, we encourage you to try the beta. You will therefore need to download the application from our website again (we will not make an automatic upgrade), but don't worry, you will recover your settings in sobees beta! The alpha and the beta versions can coexist on the same machine, so you can decide if you’re ready to make the switch. However, please note that we will not go on developing the alpha version anymore.

Issue with Firefox 3.6

15 February 2010

The web version of sobees (which is built on Silverlight) does unfortunately not work properly with the latest version of Firefox (3.6). Since the previous versions of Firefox were, in certain cases, sending wrong mouse coordinates to plugins like Silverlight (the iframe apparently being one of them), Microsoft had implemented a workaround in their code in order to solve the problem. However, Firefox fixed the bug in their latest version (3.6), breaking Microsoft's workaround and creating the issue some of you encountered.

Microsoft is aware of this issue and is working on a solution. We will inform you as soon as we get new information. Sorry for this inconvenience!

sobees web update adding lists and more (0.5.1.0)

11 February 2010

A new version of sobees web has just been released! Along with lots of small enhancements, particularly regarding the MySpace and Twitter modules (we added the possibility to report a tweet as spam, to block a user, etc), this release brings three important new features.

Firstly, we have added the Twitter lists! No need to worry about creating groups every time you launch the application anymore: you will now find the exact same lists you created on twitter.com directly into sobees web!

Secondly, we implemented the official Twitter retweet APIs. They will automatically be used as long as you do not click within the text entry field (simply click on “Retweet” and hit “Send”). If you do click within the text, you will recover the old way of retweeting (displaying the “RT @username”).

Lastly, here is a piece of information that will please our Spanish users: the application is now available “en español”!

Thanks to these improvements and new features, sobees web now perfectly matches our desktop application sobees lite again.
We hope you will enjoy this new version and, as usual, we welcome your feedback!

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Refreshing social media with the America’s Cup

08 February 2010

The current development of social networks progressively alternates the ways and means information is treated, selected and regarded. The platform sobees comes in as a practical and easy-to-use tool that allows interaction between the social networks, the mass media and your own discovery of an event. It will enable users to follow their chosen events throughout the multiple media vehicles that can be found on the web. Our application sobees gives you the tools and means needed to follow, interact and participate on a regular basis to the events. It has been built with modules that can be put together to provide a singular and rich experience around any events, topics, brands, or people.

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sobees is being developed on the EPFL campus. Since the EPFL is also a scientific partner of Alinghi, we have chosen the America’s cup for our first implementation. Regarding this main event, here are the functions/advantages our application can offer:

 

  • Aggregation of the best photos, videos, news and Twitter messages around the event. Allows global and at the same time customized visibility on the events, as sources of information are various and multiple, going from official news (RSS feeds from the teams and from the official America’s cup website, Twitter messages from the Teams and from the organization) to personal and underground ones (what your friends and social entourage knows or tweet around the event).
  • Possibility of retrieving tweets containing keywords as well as Google news, with the opportunity to change the keywords in the settings. The information and what revolves around it can be selected, depending on the media type you are seeking.
  • Connection to your Facebook and/or Twitter account, so you can lively interact and participate with what is discussed around the event. Therefore, you will get practical and efficient Twitter and Facebook applications with all the functionalities you get on sobees. Resulting from these possibilities and after you have connected to your account, you will also have a status update field at the top of the application.
  • The best of both official and social community information combined in an easy way.

 

We hope you will enjoy this new application! http://americascup.sobees.com


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Introducing sobees search and discovery platform

22 January 2010

We are very happy announce the launch of the sobees search platform, a brand new application which will help you discover the real time web together with images, news, videos and let you browse the trending topics of the day. We wanted this search platform to look and feel like our social clients and have therefore configured into modules. In addition, it offers you all the following functionalities:

  • Real time search (Twitter, Friendfeed, Facterylabs and OneRiot)
  • Image search (Bing, Flickr, Google and Yahoo!)
  • Video search (Bing, Google and Youtube)
  • Web search (Bing, Google and Yahoo!)
  • News search (Bing, Google, New York Times and Yahoo!)

sobees search is developed using Silverlight technology and is available directly from the search box on sobees.com or http://www.sobees.com.

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