Monthly Archives: June 2010

June release: Text notes, useKit mobile and more.

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Today we released the “June release” of useKit.com. Although it was mainly a bug fixing release, we could add some great features to the useKit platform. Personally I was really looking forward to a small feature that in my opinion is very important: The possibility to write text within useKit. Further we could add two plug-ins (Safari and Chrome) and a mobile version of useKit (useKit.com/mobile) making the usage much more convenient.

Further features are:

  • Text Service. Add text that is treated as normal content.
  • A mobile version: useKit.com/mobile.
  • An improved version of our CrunchBase Mission. Lookup company profiles and people from the CrunchBase database directly from your bar.
  • RSS feeds for every Context.
  • The ability to create a Context directly from the bar.
  • A condensed list view for content.
  • Many bugs were fixed and improvements and again, we could increase the loading speed of the bar and platform.

Safari Plug-in released

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Most of the user feedback were dedicated to the wish for another plug-in  (Firefox and Chrome already exist). After Apple recently released version 5.0 of Safari including extensions, we immediately started to develop the useKit extension for Safari. And thanks to our hard working team, we were within the firsts to release a Safari 5.0 extension. I also wrote about it on startwerk.ch.

With this extension it is possible to keep the useKit bar always active. This allows direct access to Missions, Content and annotations on websites are directly visible. For us extensions, and plugins make useKit even more powerful.

The Safari extension and plug-ins for Firefox and Chrome are available on useKit.com.