Monday, August 9, 2010
mirmie02 on the big board
Monday, May 31, 2010
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. Sunday, May 9, 2010
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
Saturday, April 17, 2010
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.
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.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
New Website Design!
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.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Ode to Quiksand
Saturday, March 6, 2010
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.
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.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Android Client 0.6.6.27 Released
Its on marketplace and it has a new, simpler approach to tattling and the ability to search venues.
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Scores Week Ending Feb 7 2010
1 claytantor 1,385
2 sgraham 380
3 quiksand 370
4 ewbrophy 285
5 thedroidguy 245
6 irishsniper 235
7 rain411 165
8 sdesmond 150
9 eesiv 140
10 nmv5985 135
Here are the scores for the week. Looks like the core group maintained their positions on the network. @quiksand has discovered that Mickey Ds is now presenting 50 piece platters and is willing to wait an HOUR to get them. Now he really deserves some type of comp from them IMHO. @sgraham has been sure and steady and managed to have a Belgian pub throw down at Luca's. I also want to thank @thedroidguy for more kind tweets...
Monday, February 1, 2010
Threading The Needle
So as promised we are trying to do some work towards making the user experience better. One of those things is improving the "threading" of the application. That basically means to create background activities for some of the things that make the application block and feel laggy.
So we just released v0.6.6.25, and hopefully this is the first in many small improvements over the next three weeks to make your experience better. There is a lot of technical details we would love to talk about, but it doesn't really matter if your experience isn't improved.
So here is what we expect...
Black screen from network latency shouldnt happen as much, true? When viewing the leaderboad we made image loading backgrounded, is this better?
tell us
UPDATE: Feb 6, 2010
We added even more threading in 0.6.6.26 to make the avatar chooser and the compliments screen better. Hope this helps.
So we just released v0.6.6.25, and hopefully this is the first in many small improvements over the next three weeks to make your experience better. There is a lot of technical details we would love to talk about, but it doesn't really matter if your experience isn't improved.
So here is what we expect...
Black screen from network latency shouldnt happen as much, true? When viewing the leaderboad we made image loading backgrounded, is this better?
tell us
UPDATE: Feb 6, 2010
We added even more threading in 0.6.6.26 to make the avatar chooser and the compliments screen better. Hope this helps.
Twitter Follow Growth
We have had a bunch of new followers on twitter, which we are really happy about.
If you are a servicetattler user you really should follow us. Its a great way to get up to the minute updates on whats happening on the tattler network.
If you are a servicetattler user you really should follow us. Its a great way to get up to the minute updates on whats happening on the tattler network.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Scores Week Ending Jan 31 2010
We have a ton of new tattlers this week, so we are hoping all of you will get a profile pick up so people can know what you look like, unless you prefer the incognito look.
@quicksand has been catching up on @sgraham and just passed @ewbrophy, who I think should exchange burrito info in FL because they both know the best places to go. We have alot of FL users, dont know exactly why.
I want to thank @thedroidguy for his kind tweets:
@servicetattler makes @thedroidguy list of top 5 #android apps for the week http://tiny.cc/CeLYd
Finally @irishsniper seems to consistently inch his way up the leaderboard.
Friday, January 29, 2010
More Better
So I just went out tonight and didn't have a horrible servicetattler experience but it wasn't awesome either. I think most of the problems are associated with network latency but I think there is more we can do to make the user feel like the application isnt hung up ie. "the black screen".
Its difficult to balance the quality of experience with features available, I guess its the balance between getting new users and loosing existing ones, but I don't want to loose you people, its too fun to have you around!
So for a little time (about 2-3 weeks) I wont have any new features, I will just try to make the features I already have... better.
What do you think about this? tell us
Its difficult to balance the quality of experience with features available, I guess its the balance between getting new users and loosing existing ones, but I don't want to loose you people, its too fun to have you around!
So for a little time (about 2-3 weeks) I wont have any new features, I will just try to make the features I already have... better.
What do you think about this? tell us
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Scores Week Ending Jan 23 2010
Looks like some of you tattlers were right, our scores we off in some places. We have spent some time getting a score reconciliation system together and you will probably see it incorporated into the player profile page in the next week.
Last night we ran a reconciliation on the scores, so you may have seen some changes in your score. These scores represent correct calculations. Here is how we are scoring as of tonight:
Joining Network: 100
Tattling: 10
Compliment Sent: 5
Compliment Received: 5
Scores Top 20 Week Ending Jan 23 2010
Thanks for playing!
Last night we ran a reconciliation on the scores, so you may have seen some changes in your score. These scores represent correct calculations. Here is how we are scoring as of tonight:
Joining Network: 100
Tattling: 10
Compliment Sent: 5
Compliment Received: 5
Scores Top 20 Week Ending Jan 23 2010
Thanks for playing!
Friday, January 22, 2010
Tattler Tattle 20090122
Shouts!
Want to shout out to a few tattlers who have been so great and have created incredible tattles, first @quicksand who has won the Hemmingway award, also @rain411 representing Chicagoland, and finally our old friend @ewbrophy near Orlando.
A few things we think should be in 0.6.6...
Foursquare Checkins
We love what @foursquare is doing and we feel like its totally complimentary to our mission, so over the next month we are planning a push to make a number of improvements related to @foursquare integration, both in our client app, and on the website. We have started with @foursquare check-ins which will be available in the 0.6.6.24 version of the client. This is just the beginning.
http://corp.sightlyinc.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181
Scoring Reconciliation
Hey all we found out that scoring needs a little reconciliation, in fact we are thinking that the ability to actually see the specific audit trail for the score is something we want to provide, we may just make sure everybody score is right first, which is isnt, so expect some people to change position in the leader board when that happens.
http://corp.sightlyinc.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183
Tattle Improvements
There needs to be a readjustment in the criteria for tattling, really the yays
and boos should be additive and subtractive from the base opinion, also the
base opinion should be on the publish page. Finally tip basis should have min
and max values.
http://corp.sightlyinc.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185
agree? disagree? feel free to send feedback to claytantor@servicetattler.com
Want to shout out to a few tattlers who have been so great and have created incredible tattles, first @quicksand who has won the Hemmingway award, also @rain411 representing Chicagoland, and finally our old friend @ewbrophy near Orlando.
A few things we think should be in 0.6.6...
Foursquare Checkins
We love what @foursquare is doing and we feel like its totally complimentary to our mission, so over the next month we are planning a push to make a number of improvements related to @foursquare integration, both in our client app, and on the website. We have started with @foursquare check-ins which will be available in the 0.6.6.24 version of the client. This is just the beginning.
http://corp.sightlyinc.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=181
Scoring Reconciliation
Hey all we found out that scoring needs a little reconciliation, in fact we are thinking that the ability to actually see the specific audit trail for the score is something we want to provide, we may just make sure everybody score is right first, which is isnt, so expect some people to change position in the leader board when that happens.
http://corp.sightlyinc.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=183
Tattle Improvements
There needs to be a readjustment in the criteria for tattling, really the yays
and boos should be additive and subtractive from the base opinion, also the
base opinion should be on the publish page. Finally tip basis should have min
and max values.
http://corp.sightlyinc.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185
agree? disagree? feel free to send feedback to claytantor@servicetattler.com
Sunday, January 17, 2010
0.6.5.23 Android Client Patch
Bug 182
Summary: Login dialog should be dismiss
Product: sightlyinc-tattler-android-service
Reporter: Clay Graham
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Severity: major CC: claytantor@gmail.com
Priority: P1
Version: 0.6.5
Hardware: HTC G1
OS: android
Description From Clay Graham 2010-01-17 21:25:10
Currently the login dialog is popping up when the activity lifecycle resumes.
This is causing the login dialog to pop back up even though the user is logged
in. This is annoying.
------- Comment #1 From Clay Graham 2010-01-17 21:36:00 -------
This really will need to be tested in the field, it happens because of
application lifecycle with long time periods.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
v0.6.5 alpha client now on android market
We are really happy to announce that we have successfully promoted the new version of our android client to release on android market. This release has a ton of new features that we hope our users will love. Local search with check ins, scoring, awards, real user accounts, and even a community feature we call compliments.
We have re-aligned the application because we were having problems with the old packaging name working with some of our future goals, so we re-released. That means if you are a legacy user you will want to do the following:
1. go to preferences and write down your username and password.
2. uninstall the old version
3. goto android market and search for Service Tattler. (you dont want the legacy version)
4. download the new version of Service Tattler
5. use your user name and password as Existing User
From that oint on we hope you will join the tattler network and become a part of our community.
I want to give a special thanks to some of our active testers @thedroidguy, @TattierPub, @okcnyyfan, @Quiksand. All the testers helped make this a better release and are truly friends of tattler.
As always please feel free to provide feedback, we cant do this without your help.
We have re-aligned the application because we were having problems with the old packaging name working with some of our future goals, so we re-released. That means if you are a legacy user you will want to do the following:
1. go to preferences and write down your username and password.
2. uninstall the old version
3. goto android market and search for Service Tattler. (you dont want the legacy version)
4. download the new version of Service Tattler
5. use your user name and password as Existing User
From that oint on we hope you will join the tattler network and become a part of our community.
I want to give a special thanks to some of our active testers @thedroidguy, @TattierPub, @okcnyyfan, @Quiksand. All the testers helped make this a better release and are truly friends of tattler.
As always please feel free to provide feedback, we cant do this without your help.
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