Archive for August, 2006
So I was able to squeeze onto the agenda and show Sutori off to my fellow particpants at BarCamp Vancouver this past weekend.
In the end I decided to abandon my slides and just show people Sutori and let their questions quide the discussion. They were a very smart and very forgiving audience, and before the day was done I had tons of great comments and suggestions to chew on.
Here’s a photo snapped by cathycracks of me presenting and making some sort of odd, bird-like hand gesture.
August 30th, 2006
I’ll be at the first BarCamp Vancouver tonight and tomorrow talking about Sutori to anyone who’ll listen.
I may be doing a short presentation about Sutori if I can get on the schedule.
I’m planning on wearing my Sutori tee all day Saturday so I should be easy to spot. If you see me, say “hello”.
August 25th, 2006
You can now upload a photo to complement your story. Here’s what I’ve added to my story about the shoes that kept falling apart.
Have a go an let us know what you think.
August 23rd, 2006
We’d like to thank everyone who took the time to write about Sutori on their blogs and send links our way during our short closed beta phase.
Tara at HorsePigCow
Pete at Mashable
Ben at The Consumerist
Rob Hecht
Hasan
Complaint Hub
Next Generation Internet (In Swedish, no less!)
Kaustubh Srikanth
Flying Seeds
John Cavacas
August 10th, 2006
The moment has arrived!
Our beta testers have kicked the tires and given us their feedback.
We’ve smoothed out some wrinkles and added lots of features. And now it’s time to pull back the curtain.
In other words . . .
Closed beta is over. Sutori is now open to the wide world at sutori.com!
Of course, while this is big step, we’ve still got a long way to go. And we need your help to get there:
- Sutori is NOTHING without your stories and comments.
- Please keep the feedback coming—things you like, things you don’t, buggy behavior, features you’d like to see. It’s all been incredibly helpful so far, so please give us more, more, more!
- And remember, Sutori is a work in progress. We’ve got lots more features planned. And there’ll be even more that we haven’t even though of yet.
August 10th, 2006
We’ve been running a “best stories” contest among our beta testers. The five winners, who will all receive a Sutori t-shirt, were judged according to an inevitably subjective combination of:
- Most agree or disagree votes
- Most comments
- Most views
- Highest overall level of zing, pizazz and chutzpah
Please realize that making these selections was very difficult. We love all of our beta testers equally.
But someone’s gotta win, so . . . the tees go to:
missrogue
for
u-Haul u-Suck
fmny
for
Ipoo on Ipod
cherylmin
for
I just want a hot dog at Yankee Stadium
robjuh
for
It’s LYING to you, don’t worry!
and finally . . .
barry
For the most stories by a single user!
Winners will receive an email soon with instructions on collecting their prizes. Once again, thanks to everyone who’s taking part in our closed beta.
We should have an announcement to make soon about the next phase of Sutori’s development, so stay tuned.
August 8th, 2006
We’ve been running the Sutori Beta since late Monday night when we first invited everyone at Blast Radius to join in, and then on Tuesday when we invited those of you kind enough to sign up on our beta list.
Just before we launched, we setup a new email address - hello@sutori.com - for you to send your feedback and to ask to join the mailing list. We even tested it. At least we think we did.
It turns out that it works fine - if you use an internal Blast Radius email address. In our haste to bring you Sutori we didn’t test the email from outside. We were wondering why only our internal Blast people were giving us feedback - we expected that the community as a whole would be the most vocal contributors.
Well, guess what? hello@sutori.com is broken. It don’t work. Baroken. Its. Dead. Jim.
Oops.
If you’ve sent an email to hello@sutori.com, please accept our very very humble apologies. We screwed up and we’re sorry.
We are working on it - hopefully it’s just a DNS issue - and we’ll let you know here as soon as its fixed. In the mean time, if you want to reach us, this blog is always a great way to get in touch, or use our backup address:
sutori@blastradius.com
UPDATE: This is issue is fixed. Hello@sutori.com is now good to go.
August 3rd, 2006
Thanks to Tara’s post about her first dip into the Sutori beta pool, we’ve discovered a wee bug: there are some ways to view stories that don’t confirm to the one story, one permalink rule.
This should be changed by tomorrow. In the meantime, keep it in mind if you’re posting or sharing links to specific stories.
UPDATE August 2: This issue has been solved. We now have universal permalinks.
August 1st, 2006
Okay, so somewhere along the road to Sutori-ville, we decided to make tags comma-separated rather than space-separated.
Jordan claims he lobbied for space-separated and was voted down. I honestly don’t remember the conversation but I’m sure he’s right.
So anyhow, we’ve already noticed a few of our super-savvy beta testers instinctively using spaces to separate their tags and ignoring our possibly wrong-headed request for commas.
So what do you think? Is it time to wise up and lose the commas? Leave a comment and let us know.
UPDATE August 4: Tags are no-longer comma-separated - they’re space separated instead!
August 1st, 2006
So those of you who dropped your email address in our sign up form will by now have received invitations to our closed beta.
This is big moment for us, and we’re really looking forward to your feedback.
And of course, we’re looking forward to reading your stories.
The interesting thing about a site like Sutori is that all we’re really creating is the frame. It’s up to you to fill in the picture.
For example, many parts of the site haven’t been switched on for the closed beta because they don’t really mean much until we’ve collected some stories.
So next to feedback, that’s our biggest request for you beta testers: Please help bring Sutori to life by giving it your stories!
Oh, and also please don’t try testing in it Internet Explorer ‘cause it won’t look too good. Firefox and Safari are good to go, though.
Finally, if you never got around to dropping us your email address but you’re interested in taking a look behind the curtain, leave a comment on this post or email us at hello@sutori.com.
August 1st, 2006