We have some more new features and changes to the site to show you guys this week. Most awesomely, you can now upload Word documents to our editor! To see what else is new, you can watch this video walkthrough of all the changes that we deployed on Wednesday:
More new stuff coming next week!
-Team Libboo
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Sometimes the job has perks! It’s a sunny day and Chris is enjoying an afternoon of baseball at Fenway park. OK, he had a great time watching the ballgame – beer and hotdogs…. The next batter is on deck and here is the pitch!
Baseballs were not the only thing being pitched last Tuesday – Team Libboo was on deck for the MassChallenge PitchFest 2011. MC PitchFest is the time for the finalists to show off and ‘pitch’ their company to the world in only 60 seconds. All the finalist teams did an awesome job during this friendly competition. And, like at Fenway park, there was plenty of beer and snacks!
So, it’s the bottom of the 9th and Chris is on stage ready to deliver the Libboo pitch – the clock is set for 60 seconds and…. Chris bring his guitar….! He delivers a homerun – singing…..Yes, singing the pitch to an audience of MC finalists, mentors, and visitors from around the Boston area. Afterwards, everyone was talking about the only pitch that was a song..Wow!
We are also very happy to introduce our newest team member, Dan Zuch. Dan is from Buffalo, New York and will be working with our development team. You will get to know more about Dan in our upcoming podcast.
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-Team Libboo
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With the mercury pegged at above 90F for the last week in Boston -things are sizzling for team Libboo at MassChallenge. Having survived business bootcamp, our mentor board officially selected, along with our team goals submitted to MC- we are executing our projects, goals and plans to make Libboo the hottest writing community on the planet!
Our first exciting news of the week – Richard and Anna tied the knot and were married on Saturday. Congratulations to the newlyweds!
While in the UK, Chris met with best selling author, Professor Richard Wiseman – and talked about his latest book Paranormality, recently released in the US. I’ve just downloaded my copy and its proving to be awesome and intellectually stimulating seeing how Professor Wiseman debunks paranormal behavior and brings it into the context of our every day. Time to throw away that crystal ball!
Richard Wiseman is also co-author and generously helped us start The Great Libboo Experiment: ‘PARADOX: The curious life and mysterious death of Mr Joseph’ Wheeler’ – A shout-out goes to our members currently working on ‘Paradox’, You guys rock!
In the meantime, while a bit lonely in the Cube, Fernando has been working away on developing new projects for our community. We’ve planned a few things:
- Summer Writing Expos: We would like to feature content from our members: for example poetry, BBQ recipes and short stories. We’ll be announcing the first of our Expos this coming week!
- Libboo Interviews: Every two weeks, we will interview one member from our community and feature one of their libbooks on our blog.
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And now, this week’s photo:
-Team Libboo
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We’re always tweaking and adjusting Libboo, and today we released a small update which should make Libboo a better place.
We have improved our spam filtering processes, so all Libboo content should now be spam free.
Material now gets manually checked by the Libboo Team so we can weed out all suspicious users and material before it ‘hits the shelves’. If something does get through our Libboo-dar then there are ‘Report Spam’ buttons all over the place. If that button gets clicked, Libboo-Busters roar into action and take whatever steps are necessary.
We’ve just upgraded some of the features on Libboo, so, what have we done?
We have re-written our editor, it’s now more intuitive, easier to use, and has all the information you need to write collaborative books in one place. It also updates in real time so you can see what others are doing as they are doing it.
Copying/pasting from popular word processors like MS Word is now much smoother. We have also reworked the finished product for all Libbooks, making them more like real publications you find in shops.
The way you manage a Libbook has changed. You now have an Events panel telling you everything that changes in real time. You can run multiple Actions at once, send and receive messages via email.
Libboo is now fully integrated with Twitter! You can add as many twitter accounts as you like to integrate with Libboo, selecting which events you want to be posted to the site.
We’ve been hard at work over the last 24 hours, working through the day and night (we’re in different time zones) to upgrade the site.
We’ve added several new features and done some serious bug fixing, to make your Libboo experience much smoother.
So, what have we actually changed?
- New and improved email alerts
- A new style front page for published Libbooks
- The ability to see exactly how your Libbook will look before it’s published
- Automatically add your published Libbooks to the Libboo Twitter feed
- Better support for Internet Exploder
- Smoother operations on Libboo Tasks
- Increased support for non-English characters in names and usernames
- Improved chapter tags in Libbooks
We have also upgraded our backend system, making our lives here at Team Libboo that little bit easier.
There’s still a lot we want to do with Libboo – it’s just a matter of getting the features made, tested and deployed.
We hope you like what Libboo is becoming – and hope to see you soon!
Team Libboo.
So, from the state of the blog it looks like all we have been doing lately is making badges and stickers, and forcing people to wear them… we have been doing that, but we’ve been up to other things too.
We’re putting some serious time into developing some extra features for Libboo, some large and some small. I can’t tell you about the big ones yet, those we are keeping under our hats until we launch them, but I can tell you about some of the smaller features, and fixes.
You will soon be able to preview your Libbooks before you publish them, that way you can see what the finished result will look like before making it available to the world.
Whenever anyone publishes a Libbook it will be automatically posted to out special twitter account – libboopublished, that way you can easily keep track of new Libbooks.
Libboo will now remember your sign-in name (unless you un-tick the ‘remember me’ box), making it easier and quicker to sign in.
We have increased the quality of book pages, so reading books on Libboo.com should now be easier. We’ve also designed a new book front page, making it cleaner, and easier to read.
As for the big features… watch this space…