Weeknote 119
We got a new logo this week, by Jason Permenter. Jason also designed a suite of document templates that will make all of our paperwork shine. We are very pleased.
MediaBugs is now available nation-wide, so you can now file bugs on news reports from any publication or news source, no matter where they are located. In addition, much more information is now available about publications, including information about their correction policies. Mediabugs' launch was covered by BoingBoing!
We've been working for a few months on a big enhancement to the dooce® Community, and it is finally live: dooce Groups! Members of the community can now join together in small groups and participate in conversations outside of the main question-and-answer site. This addition to the site happened in response to how quickly the site grew, and how active the membership is. When we noticed that members were struggling to group together and organize themselves using the existing software, we knew it was time for an upgrade!
In case you missed it, we released a new version of our social SDK, PeoplePods. The new version features a redesigned and enhanced command center, as well as new plugin capabilities. Also, PeoplePods now ships with Twitter, Facebook and OpenID compatibility! We're putting lots of work into PeoplePods, and releases should now happen on a more regular basis. The latest and greatest code (and info on every change as it happens) is available on the PeoplePods Project Page at Google Code.
And finally, our awesome intern Damien has been working diligently on a Chrome version of SendTab. If all goes well, SendTab 2.0 will be released sometime this month in both Safari and Chrome versions with some much requested new functionality. Hooray!
Announcing SendTab
Today, we are releasing SendTab, a Safari extension that lets you send tabs from your laptop or phone to your living room computer.
We live in a connected household, where laptops and iPads outnumber residents. Our living room TV is connected to a Mac Mini, which we use for all of our media consumption - we stream a lot of video from all over the web. However, we do most of our browsing and discovery on our laptops and iPads, and right now, the process of sending something from a laptop to the big screen is really annoying.
That's why we built SendTab. Now, with a single tap, the current tab we're viewing will appear within seconds on the big screen. Any page can instantly be sent from Safari, Firefox, Chrome and any iOS device to the big screen.
Of course, not everyone has a computer connected to their TV. SendTab is handy for all sorts of other things:
- Quickly send a tab from one browser to another...
- Send tabs from your iPhone or iPad to your laptop...
- Send tabs to your girlfriend!
SendTab also has an easy to use API, so developers can send tabs from within their apps. Neat, eh?
Many thanks to XOXCO's #1 intern, Damien Bell, for his hard work on SendTab, and to all of our talented designer friends who helped us design the SendTab button, and to our computer-tv having friends who helped us test. Thanks, dudes!