mirmie02 on the big board

well it looks like one of our favorite tattlers just made it up on the big board! mirmie02 just moved into the fifth position just overtaking ewbrophy. mirmie02 favorites are RangDong, Super Duper Burgers and La Piñata. Congrats!

Update on Pygmailion

Latest News on Beta

We are working hard to make the first beta available, and while we don't have a specific date for availability yet we are very close. What we are trying to do is line up some businesses who will provide offers as part of the program so that we can properly test the consumer to business experience as part of the program, so until we have enough businesses and consumers to play the game we are going to wait. Hang in there though!

If you know a business that would like to participate in this revolutionary program please tell them about us, we will make sure it is worth their effort. If you do know a business that would be interested in partcipating in our beta please send them here.

Watch our new commercial!

OK, its not on TV or anything, but its on You-Tube! It walks through the android version of the beta and talks about how we are doing offers and awards. Its a great way to learn a little about Pygmalion without actually being able to download it. Watch it now on You-Tube. 

Public API coming

If you are a developer and have an idea on how to integrate tattles into your application we would love to talk to you. We use XML based RESTful web services, and if you know a little about web development its easy to use. If you are interested becoming a developer just email claytantor@servicetattler.com.

Beta Signup Now Available

Limited Beta Now Available!

Since you are a old school tattler we wanted to offer a first chance at being included in our limited beta. We are currently only accepting applications for the limited beta for our consumers, that's because we want to make sure that you have a chance to participate in shaping the future of Service Tattler. If you choose to be part of this pioneering effort you will have  a unique chance to make a difference and influence the community.

Receive Rewards

You are an expert who is helping businesses improve their products. Be rewarded for sharing your experiences with others. Businesses benefit from your feedback so why shouldn't you receive recognition? You have a relationship with your favorite businesses.

Participate in Events

As a contributor to our future you will have an opportunity to take part in local "Beta Tattler Crawl" events in your area with local businesses. Make sure to tell your friends to sign up so we can plan an event in your area. These events will be a crafted to be super fun with food and drink where you get a chance to use our products before anybody else, and start a direct relationship with businesses that participate with our program. Why shouldn't you receive special treatment?

Check out our new beta site!

We just made our beta site available check it out and tell use what you think. We really need your help shaping out products and would love for you a and your friends to be a part of our beta program.


http://beta.servicetattler.com

Gearing Up for Pygmalion

The codename for the relaunch of servicetattler is "Pygmalion". Pygmalion was a Cypriot sculptor who carved a woman out of ivory. According to Ovid, after seeing the Propoetides prostituting themselves, he was ‘not interested in women’, but his statue was so realistic that he fell in love with it. He offered the statue gifts and eventually prayed to Venus (Aphrodite). She took sympathy with him and brought the statue to life. —wikipedia

LBS has really heated up, and we think we are on to something big, because we are going to allow businesses to give special offers directly to their best customers. You can always opt out, but we think that what facebook did for friends we can do for businesses and customers by giving them access to customer sentiment in the real world in real time, and then providing a way for the two to improve their relationship over time.

So we are creating tools that let businesses track that sentiment, and if they are screwing up, they get instant feedback on when and where it happens. If they are doing good, they can use our service to reward their best customers. Like a frequent flier program, but for the small businesses. More to come soon.


We are trying to do some things to take advantage of cloud computing architecture, loose coupling, EC2 scalability, rolling releases, and ETL as a way to insulate schema changes from release to release.

We plan to use this staging area as a place for us to test the new application base to both our consumers and businesses. More to come on this in the next couple of weeks, but to give a hint we plan to create an opportunity for people to have fun tattling with each other in groups to test the new software, and hopefully get free stuff for doing it.

Hopefully this approach will result in long term flexibility and a great customer experience. Which really is the goal.

New Website Design!

Ready for a new website? We are very proud to announce that we are currently working on integrating our new website design paradigm.

Its not going to happen right away, we really care about design at servicetattler so we want to do it right. That means we are going to be busy, but not rushed, in bringing this design to you the users. So don't ask for a date, it will be coming soon we promise.  This is just a taste.

This new design means alot of things, it means we are starting to think about an iPhone client (another thing we want to do right). All this points to a relaunch, which will include our business services as well. We are almost ready to call ourselves 1.0.

We are seeing some really interesting things starting to develop in  mobile location based services, and we plan to be one of them.  Hope you are a part it.

Ode to Quiksand

Quiksand I dub thee Duke of Tattler. Your epic tattles telling the tales of Chik-Fil-A are equaled by no one. You are truly *awesome*.

Updates and Initiatives 2010_03_06

Sorry I haven't been able to post in a while, basically I have been juggling chainsaws once a gain and got a little out of the flow. We wanted to provide an update on what is happening lately and what we are working on.

1. Tattler Rewards - We wanted to reward some of our best members of the community who have participated in making servicetattler a better place to be. These are the "friends of tattler" we so often talk about @quiksand, @nomo4me, @ewbrophy, @thedroidguy all received gift cards to restaurants they tattled on for helping advise us on where the consumer product should go, thanks so much and we hope you enjoyed! In the future we are trying to work with the businesses you love to provide simillar awards, so keep on tattling it may result in rewards.

2. Business Product - Since we are a micro startup we have to prioritize what we work on, that means when we have a new initiative that's all we do. We use SCRUM processes at servicetattler, so we have one feature we will be iterating on while we work it out. This is the business product, and while we cant go into too much detail, it basically is the other side of the coin on what we are doing at servicetattler. Keep an eye open over the next 4 weeks we plan to launch a preliminary version by the beginning of April.

3. Client Improvements  - We are hoping we are going to be changing the slider bar behavior and making twitter posts a preference option instead of a pop-up in the next week. 

If you are reading this that means you care, please help us grow by tweeting about us, blogging about us, telling your friends. We are micro and need help from our friends to succeed. You can also follow us or be a fan.