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Tiny relaunch: we’re getting better at Facebook.
Friday March 5th, 2010 0Thanks to Jeroen, We have finally cleaned up our facebook representation, which had been sitting there undisturbed much like sleeping beauty in her overgrown castle.
Time to wake up and stretch!The facebook page is the main jovoto representation on facebook. Become our fan to help us out of the misery of having so embarrassingly few!
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Karma Enlightenments
Thursday March 4th, 2010 2Ladies and Gentlemen, please fasten your seat belts:
Over the next couple of days you may experience some srange shifts and turbulence in the value we call Karma!We’re adjusting the Karma system, trying to determine the ideal factors to have the BEST of you lead the Karma position. And by best we mean: best for the [...]
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Cookie Monster
Monday January 25th, 2010 0Attack of the Cookie Monster! Some of you have experienced some ‘weird stuff’ with session logins in the past days – thanks for reporting in!
The problem has to do with an error in cookie/session management and somehow sneaked in via a back door during a major update of some backend features. Your experience of the [...] -
The contest glider is back – and more new features!
Wednesday January 20th, 2010 4It’s done, by popular demand, we have reinvented the Contest Glider, and have moved it to the place where it’s needed: onto your dashboard. The Glider now contains contest-updates right on your dashboard.
At the same time, important jovoto news now find their place in one separate box below the Glider.
What else is new :
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New Features: Filter, online status and more
Wednesday December 30th, 2009 5We didn‘t rest between the holidays and busied ourselves with fixing some minor bugs and deploying a couple of not so minor new features on the platform. Yeah, yeah, yeah! The five most important ones will be briefly introduced in the following:
1. Briefing improvement – vertical layout:The layout in two columns did have some deficits [...]
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3…2…1… Relaunch!
Tuesday December 8th, 2009 8The last exiting minutes (edit: errrr, hours) before we hit the relaunch-button: The team is huddled together in the coder’s den…
(For his own good, we sent Bastian off to London for the day)
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To rate or not to rate
Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 17It feels like it’s time to come up with another blog post on rating and commenting on jovoto.
The jovoto system is based on this two way mechanism of giving feedback and deciding which ideas are the best ones. It’s therefore essential that everybody understands the importance of ratings and comments and has the chance to [...] -
Sneak Preview internal Relaunch
Friday November 27th, 2009 8Yes yes yes, it’s true and it’s cool, we’re doing it again. After relaunching our external pages in September, it’s now time to relaunch all the community pages. We’re not yet having a fixed date nailed down, but it’s definitely gonna happen very… soonish.
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What’s the pink dot all about?
Thursday November 12th, 2009 4I guess some of you have been wondering about the newly appearing pink dot in their user image. Yes, correct, we’ve hired a couple of snipers. No, serious, that’s just a tiny new feature, showing who is online and who isn’t. This way we’re trying to make communication easier for everybody – for the community [...]
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More about Rating Criteria
Thursday October 15th, 2009 16One more day to go in the CreditPlus Contest! On this occasion, I want to take the opportunity to once again spark a discussion about rating.
Rating ideas is crucial to make the jovoto principle work. Now as contests with many many submission – like CreditPlus – have shown, it requires a lot of dedication and [...]