Upates on Stickis….Coming soon.
December 8th, 2006 by marc
Thanks all for helpful observations and suggestions. A few of you mavens have made some pretty substantial efforts at using Stickis in innovative ways. Lisa Whelan of Socialmedia.vox, makes a number of suggestions in her excellent blog post here.
New Features on Stickis
There’s some new things at Stickis (every day), and here’s what’s just gone live or is about to. Feedback on all of these is welcome.
Profiles
You want to know about people you are subscribed to or are considering subscribing (your read their notes) or connecting (you read each other’s notes) to. Now you can. In Settings and in Your Notes, you can edit and create a profile for yourself.
Put into Your Profile whatever you like:
- the language you Sticki in,
- the city where you live,
- your interests,
- anything else that you’d like people to be able to see about you and be able to find in a search on Your Network
- pictures, links (your LinkedIn profile, for example)
Profiles are editable from Your Notes, and Settings. They’re visible many places where your avatar image appears, including any Notes page, and in the entrires for people in Your Network.
Full Names
As more people join Stickis, we need to be able to find our friends to connect to them and share notes. We don’t usually know the nickname someone’s chosen, nor the email address with which they signed up. So, we’re adding a full name field to the initial Registration and Settings. You can still have a nickname which we’ll show people, but they’ll be able to see your full name as well when they connect to you, so they can make sure you’re the person they want to connect to. When you want to connect to someone, you can also be search for them by email address, and we’ll tell you if there was a match and what the full name, but we won’t offer up your email address.
Inheriting Sources on Connect
When you invite someone to Connect, they will get a chance to subcribe to all the people you are subscribed to if they accept, and you get a chance to subscribe to their subcribers. Its kind of like adding all their friends. We put this in to help people build up their networks to start to see other people’s notes. Never fear, you can always delete your subscribtion to someone’s note very very easily. The first picture shows you how you get to adopt someone’s network, the second how easy it is to remove someone later.
You can remove a subscription from the button which appears when your mouse enters the tray. You can also hide the individual note from there. Delete subscription is also available from the menu on the open note.
Anti-social Restrictive tags
We’re also revamping how restrictive (renamed from anti-social) tags are created so that you can also find people from your network to add into your restrictive tags using nicknames, real names, or email addresses too. The way that’ll be done isn’t yet finalized, but we’ll let you know when we deploy it.
As always let us know your reactions and thoughts, thanks.
I’m not getting it.
I’ve subscribed to Ajaxian.com, my subscriptions page shows the first three notes as:
1) http://ajaxian.com/archives/ajax-cookbook-helpful-javascript-tips
2) http://ajaxian.com/archives/microsoftcom-is-updated
3) http://ajaxian.com/archives/phobos-and-dojo
But if I go to each of these pages, there’s no notes.
Additionally, when I go to the Ajaxian home page there are two notes, neither which is listed in the subscriptions page:
1) http://ajaxian.com/archives/microformats
2) http://ajaxian.com/archives/may-ajax-conference-schedule
Also, both of these pages have no notes when you go to them.
To me it seems like everything is random, notes seem to be picked out of the ether with no consistency, and you list notes that don’t exist when you visit the pages they’re supposed to be on.
What gives?
Hi Rick. Good questions. We\’re not being clear enough it would seem as to what\’s to happen. I\’ve posted a longish answer on feedback, and will do a quick post in the next little while clarifying as well:
My answer is at:
http://www.stickis.com/notes/marcmeyer/post-769958.html
Basically: notes (from people and blogs to which you subscribe) appear on pages mentioned in the note. If you subscribe to a blog, the blog\\\’s posts will appear as a note on any page mentioned in the post.
It IS NOT the case that you get to see everyone\’s notes about the blog as you read it. That would be nice. We\’ll see what we can do about that in the future.