Archive for April, 2008
More! More! More!
Okay, getting a tad overwhelmed by our own pace of development this week, tomorrow should see the addition of:
Importing in RSS for blogs on profiles – no need to write a new blog, just suck in your old one into BookRabbit.
New upload for any size of photo for bookcases.
New search results – with social aspects.
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Counting down the days
We’re a mere couple of weeks (well maybe three) from the public launch now – and a lot needs finishing/tidying and thankfully not too much needs actually fixing. The list is quite wide ranging and includes completely new home & interact pages – more along the lines of Facebook/Plaxo with lots of updates for friends [...]
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Stories of books and shopping
One of our 8views for Retail8 that we developed as a team was that of Stories
“Your experience of shopping with one of our brands should be so good that you cannot help but tell other people what happened.”
So I was pleased to see that the, ever excellent, Trendwatching briefing for this month also talks of [...]
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Books and the wider audience
Two things this week have underlined what sometimes appear to be difficult opposing forces within the book trade. The first was evident when I attended (thank you Bowker) the British Book Awards on Wednesday night. The red carpet was there, it’s televised on Channel 4 on Sunday, and it was arranged very much around that [...]
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Chomsky & plums
It seems almost shameful to admit that when producing a paradigm breaking new book web site I didn’t ever discuss personal book interests with my boss. So it was both pleasant and surprising to get notification on BookRabbit of a bookcase match with Charles on a book by Chomsky – the very book I had [...]
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Yes we are a dotcom
Tomorrow (Friday) we’re having a knockout competition in the office on Wii tennis – can’t get more dotcom than that. I haven’t decided on the prize yet, but I don’t think I personally stand a chance, despite buying a Wii from Woolworths on the way home. I now have a sore arm and have lost [...]
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.tv & a few updates
Very, very scary seeing yourself on film, the presentations from the trade launch are up on BookRabbit.tv I can’t look at it. I look very cross indeed which isn’t great either.
We sent out about 400 invites today to the beta so I’m bracing myself.
We have a Facebook fan page so sign yourself up! It’ll make [...]
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