`Yesterday’… and Today

July 16th, 2008

Yesterday was hectic — We hung out with Entrecard community (ate same some virtual Pita & chips while we were there), and saw some conversations coming from SocialSpark & CreativeWeblogging bloggers.

We saw good amount of traffic coming in — new users, new issues, new ideas and some fresh perspectives. For the code rollout which happened yesterday, we added some ‘happy’ features and inadverently added some unhappy bugs. We ignored Joel Spolsky’s Step #5. (Though, I wanna put the blame on the loss of quietness; you know, tweets, phone calls Skype, FriendFeed, Google Reader, Starbucks, and interruptions for lunch :))

To the list, here are the issues we found (most of them fixed):

  • Layout issues when using custom UI (or custom CSS). While in the Entrecard chat room I advised folks to stay away from custom UI, rescinding that, this is FIXED now
  • Blogspot script snafu. Due to a bug, we were just sending a key and not the scriptlet. This was happening to only a segment. This is FIXED now. We’ve resend the emails with the scriptlets to the affected users
  • Profile Image upload. This was a technical issue where our local Linux system clocks were out of sync with Amazon S3 server clock. S3 allows a delta of 15 minutes. We found that our NTP server got misconfigured and was reading the wrong time zones. This is FIXED now
  • WordPress 2.6. We were taking it easy on this release as it was supposed to come out early next month. To our surprise the release came out a month ahead of schedule. We are releasing a beta version of SezWho plugin for WP 2.6 (Download here)
  • Blogspot latency. Our blogspot plugin has been slow in syncing up the comments and posts. We’re still working on this. Please bear with us if your published comment/post does not show up with the SezWho functionality right away. IN PROGRESS

Here are the features we’re going to work on:

  • Support for multiple blogs in the same database
  • Filtering out comments from the same site. Right now, you have to manually suppress them one at a time
  • Merging of accounts
  • Easier configuration of custom UI components like rating throbbers, stars, and boxes
  • Rating layout issues. There are some themes where the layout gets all skewed up

If not for the issues, we did wanna sing some Beatles, today, but we are reserving that for Friday evening. A big thank you to everybody for their comments, conversation, and participation!

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    Bond (Who am I?)

    OK, here is the thing…I use Blogger but the old blogger as I hate widgets and things and prefer to work in HTML

    Can I still use SezWho and where exactly does the script code I was sent need to be placed within the HTML code for my site?

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    Indus Khaitan (Who am I?)

    @Bond,

    Follow the instructions as per http://sezwho.com/install_bg.php

    Let us know how it goes.

    Indus

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    Bond (Who am I?)

    OK, well I see that by pasting the script code there…I have Sezwho…now, how long does it take before you recognize my login and PW…I registered over at Entrecard…do I have to do so again here?

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    Babs - beetle (Who am I?)

    I have installed it on three blogs. I did have problems but I think I have sorted those all out now. My problems now are with my SezWho account page. There are lines of code causing the layout to go off the page. Also one of my blogs is missing and I can’t add it. It says it’s been registered by someone else. I don’t know if this is the place to post this, but I have had no answers to my requests from the support forum.

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    Indus Khaitan (Who am I?)

    @Babs,

    We have been busy responding to queries coming to forums, support@sezwho.com and other blogs. Apologies, for the late response. I’m continuing this thread in a separate email to you.

    Indus

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    Jakob Montrasio (Who am I?)

    I’ve installed the SezWho plugin on my blog yesterday after reading on Entrecard about it. Works like a charm and it’s really interesting to see what other blogs my commenters visit. I am happy I found your service!

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    Indus Khaitan (Who am I?)

    Hi Jakob, Cheers for that! Indus

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    shaun (Who am I?)

    I am contacting you through this contact form as there was no email address available.If you are in interested in getting a animated banner/ logo/ header/ footer/ icons/ templates/ mascot Designs for an exchange of a text link from your site http://www.sezwho.com.Please get back to me using the email address I have entered if you would be interested in discussing this further.

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    anzhen (Who am I?)

    i was installed sezwho yesterday and it was a good for helping me as a new bloggers.. thanks.

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    Roger (Who am I?)

    Just wanted to say thanks guys. I really dig the SezWho program I sign up through Entrecard, I added it to my two blogs Creative Photography and Idaho Photo. I really like the concepts that you have going on here.

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    Momto4kidsny (Who am I?)

    I have it installed now and everything seems to be working great on mine! Though I do have a question and not sure where to ask so I figured here would be a good start.
    Do our readers who are not signed up with Sezwho have to sign up in order to rate comments/have them rated? It’s a question a reader brought up to me.

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    Babs - beetle (Who am I?)

    I have had a few comments about something similar. People who are not part of SezWho have said they are upset by having their comments shown, and being rated by everybody. I also am not sure if I am supposed to rate people who are not part of SezWho.

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    Jitendra Gupta (Who am I?)

    Momto4kidsny, Babs,

    SezWho enables rating of comments on site that are using the service. Now if a user leaves a comment on those sites, the comment is indeed ratable…It kinda makes sense that if a site has rating enabled, then the content on the site is going to be ratable.

    Now rating of the content, does not mean the contributor needs to sign up with Sezwho…They can sign up if they want to manage the display of their profile but its not necessary.

    Essentially, what SezWho is doing is that we are working with site owners, who provide public forums for conversations, to enrich the conversation with the inter and intra-site context of users. Of course the users fully control their profiles. If a user does not want the context across sites, they should do what people do in the real world - talk privately rather than public forums, or use different identities or manage their interactions. We really believe that having context in public conversations will not only increase the conversation but also reward people for engaging well.

    Thanks,
    Jitendra

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    Babs - beetle (Who am I?)

    Thank you for answering so clearly. I do have one other question. Will you be providing the ‘Red Carpet’ widget for the Blogger platform?

    Thanks again
    Babs

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    Harry (Who am I?)

    I’ve just added SezWho in my Wordpress site. I must say it works like a charme!

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