There is a good chance over the course of our release today (September 29th) that we will encounter some down-time to update our servers in order to correct a few bugs, add some more functionality, and speed up the system.
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September 2008
New Feature: Email a Thought
We receive a lot of feedback from our users and one of the most asked for items was the ability to email a Thought found inside neemeeTM to anyone in or out of the software. Well, you asked for it and we made it happen, you can now email your Thought, or anyone else's to any email address you wish. We call it web 2.0, you can call it handy.
Simply click on the "email this thought", enter the recipients email address, type a quick note and hit send. People will be glad you sent them the Thought, and you can share great info with those who don't have access to the full neemee World Thought Bank.
New Feature: Drag and Drop Collections
It is now easier than ever to create and add to collections. The ability to collaborate with other users by using collections is now as simple as dragging and dropping. To view your collections go to the “Me” page and click on your “My Collections” tab. Within this tab is where you are able to view all the collections you are a member of, create a new collections, and activate collections.
To begin adding to a collection it will need to be activated. To do this drag and drop the collection from your “My Collections” tab into the gray holding dock at the bottom of the page. Now that one or more collections are in the dock, you can begin adding thoughts and users. Simply, drag and drop any thoughts and users into the appropriate collections avatar within the holding dock. The thought will automatically be added to the collection and the user will be notified of your request for them to be a collection member. To remove a collection from the holding dock, click on the “X” next to the collection’s avatar.
Remember with Collections, its always Stop, Drag, and Drop.
New Feature: Private Messaging
Part of our plan from the beginning of neemeeTM 2.0 was the advancement of the social networking aspect. What's better than connecting users to dynamic Thoughts inside the World Thought Bank? How about allowing them to be connected to each other. Following other users and Private (or direct) Messaging are key elements of the social networking that allow the users to be more closely connected around the information inside the software. Now Subscribers can send messages to other users inside the software for any reason at all. Connect with a friend, alert a co-worker to a change coming their direction, or just tell another person you like their Thought - whatever the need or reason feel free to connect with each other inside neemee.
New Feature: Follow a User, Thought, or a Collection
One of the features we always knew we wanted to include in this update to neemeeTM was the ability to follow a User, a Thought, and a Collection. This wasn't asked for by our general subscriber, but our testers were adamant about having the ability to follow another user. Seems the opportunity to see a particular user's Thoughts stream into their Activity Page was a coveted feature. Imagine Twitter on steroids!
Now you can follow other team members, Farmers, and maybe a WaveMaster or two. You can keep tabs of a particular Thought or Collection and see how they progress as they gather Thoughts or comments. Start following a couple of users and maybe a Collection or two, and a couple of folks will probably start following you.
New Feature: Advanced Search
While search inside neemeeTM has always been functional and offered lots of opportunity for juxtaposition, the new advanced search allows for the distinction of search by Tags, Titles, Tags & Titles, and date range date range as well. This means that you can specifically search for a term or title as well as the human element of Juxtaposition.
Click on the Advanced tab below the search box and you can detail your search requirements from the above mentioned to a specific date range. Welcome to the new world of Search within neemee 2.0.
Podcast: Flavor Wars
This podcast concerns the multi-sensory appeal of flavors, the challenge to big brands to test our taste buds, and themselves. Great questions from Locke "The Farmer" as he takes the flavors from Japan and brings them to the States with a couple of key questions to your taste buds...
Cucumber Soda anyone?
Tips for New Sites to Check Out
Want to thank everyone for coming to the Friday lunch today. It was great conversation, and lively dialog . As Bob stated, once you get the neemeeTM bug you are hooked...everything you read or watch and find interesting you'll want to capture and share it. Before you get to that stage though, you often need a little help getting out of the blocks. Here is a list of some of my favorite websites that are bountiful locations for information.
Popurls.com - the best thing about popurls is the simple design, the customizable options for how much information you want to receive and the sites they have chose to aggregate. It's my number one stop in the day after neemee.
Alltop.com - the latest site being hawked by Guy Kawasaki is great to visit due to all the different concentrations it gives you. Interested Mom's, Animation, Vegan, History, Kids, Podcasts, the list is literally endless you can bet that Alltop has an area dedicated to the finest blogs under that topic.
Delicious.com - new stuff that has been captured by multiple sources inside the popular site known as Delicious.
Loud3r.com - as they say on their site, great content is hard to find. Leave the dirty work to the folks at this great aggregation site, as you discover the fashion, sneakers, and environment sections.
For more access within the Noble Agency, contact Chad Harris as he can point you in the right direction to utilize the Noble RSS Feed.
Now for those times when you have a specific question to get answered:
IceRocket.com - great for getting a feel from the unwashed masses.
Technorati.com - the authority on all things blogging
Tweetscan.com - how does the twitter-crowd feel about a particular topic?
Quintura.com - is a great search tool as well. Little more detailed than some people want, but just right for those of us who are visually stimulated.
That's nowhere near a complete list of site-starters on the web, but a good enough batch to keep us going for awhile. Please let me know via this site, or direct contact if we can do anything to increase your level of bliss with neemee.
Neemee Highlight: Lick Your Way to a Better You
Saw a great Thought this morning on neemee and had to share it with the collective.
Yanko design has created Eye Candy to help change the way you think! Specifically; "Eye Candy uses a Sensory Substitution Technology to naturally send vibrant, emotive images to your mind."
In other words, the more you lick the lolly the better equipped you'll be to Relax, Socialize, Assert, Meditate, Confront or Focus. Whether you think it's a great idea or not, it was tagged beautifully, giving plenty of description, details, and even used the CultureWaves ontology - which we always find helpful.
"Andrew" also gave us a great perspective with this comment “eye candy is an extraordinary idea... imagine it in your life...after a long day at the office...an extra treat...a getaway... ”
All in all, a wonderful Thought...made me think, tagged exceptionally well, and the comment let us know exactly how the thinker perceived this evidence.
