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		<title>useKit&#8217;s Latest and Greatest</title>
		<link>http://blog.useKit.com/2012/01/30/usekits-latest-and-greatest-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:16:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Neues Video Unser neues Video zeigt eindrucksvoll welche Vorteile Architekten durch ProBindr.com erhalten. Mr. ProBindr löst seine Email Flut und arbeitet mit der Online Plattform effizienter und produktiver. &#160; Neue Möglichkeiten: Vielen Dank für die vielen Rückmeldungen. Wir haben einige Wünsche umgesetzt: Ordner können nun im Regal beliebig platziert werden. Die Ordner zeigen ausserdem bereits [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Neues Video</strong></p>
<p><iframe width="500" height="281" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LZyZ36cerNc?fs=1&#038;feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Unser neues Video zeigt eindrucksvoll welche Vorteile Architekten durch ProBindr.com erhalten.</p>
<p>Mr. ProBindr löst seine Email Flut und arbeitet mit der Online Plattform effizienter und produktiver.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Neue Möglichkeiten:</strong></p>
<p>Vielen Dank für die vielen Rückmeldungen. Wir haben einige Wünsche umgesetzt: Ordner können nun im Regal beliebig platziert werden. Die Ordner zeigen ausserdem bereits von aussen an, wie stark sie gefüllt sind.<strong></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://blog.useKit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/shelf.png"><img title="shelf" src="http://blog.useKit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/shelf.png" alt="shelf" width="625" height="268" /></a></p>
<p>Innerhalb des Ordners haben wir das Versionen Handling weiter vereinfacht. Mit Drag’nDrop können in der Detailansicht neue Versionen hinzugefügt werden und alle Beteiligten sind auf dem aktuellen Stand.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.useKit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/versioning.png"><img title="versioning" src="http://blog.useKit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/versioning.png" alt="" width="669" height="379" /></a></p>
<p><strong>Verlängerung des Angebotes für Vereine und non-profit Organisationen</strong></p>
<p>Und wir dehnen das Angebot für Vereine und Organisationen sogar noch aus:</p>
<p>ProBindr kann in der aktuellen Version für CHF 30.00 / Monat für bis zu 60 Personen genutzt werden. Darin enthalten sind 20 GB Datenspeicher, automatische Volltext Suche, verschlüsselte Datenübertragung und vieles mehr.</p>
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<p><strong>Entwickler gesucht</strong></p>
<p>Wir bauen weiter aus und freuen uns über Unterstützung unseres Entwicklungsteams. Angebote bitte an <a href="mailto:sven.rizzotti@usekit.com">sven.rizzotti@useKit.com</a>.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:15:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New Video Our new video shows impressively the advantages of ProBindr for architects. Mr. ProBindr solves his email flood and works more efficient and more productive with the online platform. &#160; New Features: Thank you for all the input over the past weeks. We have implemented some wishes: Binders can now be rearranged on the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>New Video</strong></p>
<p><iframe width="500" height="281" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LZyZ36cerNc?fs=1&#038;feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
<p>Our new video shows impressively the advantages of ProBindr for architects.</p>
<p>Mr. ProBindr solves his email flood and works more efficient and more productive with the online platform.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>New Features:</strong></p>
<p>Thank you for all the input over the past weeks. We have implemented some wishes: Binders can now be rearranged on the shelf. And the folders also show right away, how much they are filled.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.useKit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/shelf.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-505" title="shelf" src="http://blog.useKit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/shelf.png" alt="shelf" width="625" height="268" /></a></p>
<p>Within the binder, we have simplified the handling of different document versions. New versions can be added with Drag&#8217;nDrop and all parties stay up to date.</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.useKit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/versioning.png"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-507" title="versioning" src="http://blog.useKit.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/versioning.png" alt="" width="669" height="379" /></a></p>
<p><strong>We are extending our special conditions for clubs and NGOs</strong></p>
<p>ProBindr can be used in the current version for CHF 30.00 / month for up to 60 people. This includes 20 GB of data storage, automatic full-text search, encrypted data transfer and much more.</p>
<p><strong>Developer Wanted</strong></p>
<p>We continue to expand and look forward to support our development team. Offers please to <a href="mailto:sven.rizzotti@usekit.com">sven.rizzotti@useKit.com</a>.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<link>http://blog.useKit.com/2011/12/21/490/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:53:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sven</dc:creator>
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		<title>Manage Clubs without email</title>
		<link>http://blog.useKit.com/2011/12/15/manage-clubs-without-email/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon.siegenthaler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special offer for the first 200 clubs to 31/01/2012 Manage your club efficiently and easily with ProBindr. Reduce unnecessary emails and phone calls and simultaneously increase the visibility and easy access to your documents. Sports clubs, cultural clubs, reading groups, wine enthusiasts, political connections, carnival cliques, and many others can simplify their communications with ProBindr. Without training and [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><a href="https://usekit.com/product/binder" target="_blank"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/8e8c702ef9590927cc079fc68/files/clubs.png" alt="" width="480" height="176" /></a></div>
<div><em>Special offer for the first 200 clubs to 31/01/2012</em></div>
<p>Manage your club efficiently and easily with <a href="https://usekit.com/product/binder" target="_blank">ProBindr</a>. Reduce unnecessary emails and phone calls and simultaneously increase the visibility and easy access to your documents. Sports clubs, cultural clubs, reading groups, wine enthusiasts, political connections, carnival cliques, and many others can simplify their communications with <a href="https://usekit.com/product/binder" target="_blank">ProBindr</a>. Without training and without additional program installation, you can access your information from anywhere.</p>
<p>10 users (board, treasurer, secretary, etc.)<br />
250 external users (users, who only read and comment)<br />
1GB of data storage<br />
20 free customizable folders<br />
<strong>30.00/Monat CHF (70% discount for Clubs, NGOs and non-profit organizations.)</strong><br />
<em>Until 31 January 2012 you can register your club with up to 250 members.</em></p>
<p>Please, send us an e-mail at <a href="mailto:info@usekit.com?subject=clubs%20newsletter" target="_blank">info@useKit.com</a> and we will give you immediately access to your new virtual clubhouse.</p>
<p><a href="https://usekit.com/product/binder" target="_blank">ProBindr</a> - The club shelf for everyone.</p>
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		<title>Vereine verwalten ohne Emails</title>
		<link>http://blog.useKit.com/2011/12/15/vereine-verwalten-ohne-emails/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 17:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon.siegenthaler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sonderangebot für die ersten 200 Vereine bis 31.1.2012 Verwalten Sie mit ProBindr effizient und einfach Ihren Verein. Reduzieren Sie überflüssige Emails und Telefonate und erhöhen Sie gleichzeitig die Übersicht und den einfachen Zugriff auf Ihre Dokumente. Sportvereine, Kulturvereine, Lesegruppen, Weinfreunde, Politische Verbindungen, Fasnachtscliquen, Tierclubs und viele andere Vereine können die Kommunikation mit ProBindr enorm vereinfachen. Ohne Einarbeitungszeit und [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div><a href="https://usekit.com/product/binder" target="_blank"><img src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/8e8c702ef9590927cc079fc68/files/vereine.png" alt="" width="480" height="176" /></a></div>
<div><em>Sonderangebot für die ersten 200 Vereine bis 31.1.2012</em></div>
<p>Verwalten Sie mit <a href="http://usekit.com/" target="_blank">ProBindr</a><a href="https://usekit.com/product/binder" target="_blank"> </a>effizient und einfach Ihren Verein. Reduzieren Sie überflüssige Emails und Telefonate und erhöhen Sie gleichzeitig die Übersicht und den einfachen Zugriff auf Ihre Dokumente. Sportvereine, Kulturvereine, Lesegruppen, Weinfreunde, Politische Verbindungen, Fasnachtscliquen, Tierclubs und viele andere Vereine können die Kommunikation mit ProBindr enorm vereinfachen. Ohne Einarbeitungszeit und ohne zusätzliche Programminstallation können Sie von überall auf Ihre Informationen zugreifen.</p>
<p>10 Benutzer (Vorstand, Kassier, Protokollant, usw.)<br />
250 externe Benutzer (Mitglieder mit Leserecht und Kommentarfunktion)<br />
1GB Datenablage<br />
20 frei gestaltbare Ordner<br />
<strong>CHF 30.00/Monat (70% Rabatt für Vereine und non-profit Organisationen)</strong></p>
<p>Bis zum 31.Januar 2012 können Sie Ihren Verein mit bis zu 250 Mitgliedern anmelden. Schreiben Sie uns eine E-Mail und wir werden ihnen umgehend die Zugangsdaten zu ihrem neuen virtuellen Vereinsheim zukommen lassen:<a href="mailto:info@usekit.com?subject=Vereinsanfrage" target="_blank"> </a><a href="mailto:sonderangebot@useKit.com" target="_blank">info@useKit.com</a>.</p>
<p><a href="https://usekit.com/product/binder" target="_blank">ProBindr</a>– Das Vereinsregal für alle.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a title="ProBindr - Das Vereinsregal" href="http://blog.useKit.com/2011/12/15/vereine-verwalten-ohne-emails/vereine-4/" rel="attachment wp-att-473" target="_blank"><img class="aligncenter  wp-image-473" title="Vereine verwalten" src="http://blog.useKit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/vereine3.png" alt="Vereins Regal" width="539" height="456" /></a></p>
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		<title>Announcing useKit ProBindr!</title>
		<link>http://blog.useKit.com/2011/11/23/announcing-usekit-probindr/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.useKit.com/2011/11/23/announcing-usekit-probindr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon.siegenthaler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your office truly extends to be everywhere We are glad to announce to you our new product which will simplify your daily work: With ProBindr we offer you a virtual shelf to store, share and collaborate on all your projects and documents, and easily organize all in virtual binders and tabs. Join the dozens of [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Your office truly extends to be everywhere</h2>
<p><a style="color: #17488a; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" href="https://usekit.com/product/binder-signup"><img style="width: 400px; height: 180px;" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/8e8c702ef9590927cc079fc68/files/shelf.jpg" alt="Keep everyone on the same page!" width="400" height="180" /></a></p>
<p>We are glad to announce to you our new product which will simplify your daily work: With <a href="http://usekit.com/product/binder">ProBindr </a>we offer you a virtual shelf to store, share and collaborate on all your projects and documents, and easily organize all in virtual binders and tabs.</p>
<p>Join the dozens of companies who increased their work efficiency and helped us a lot while participating in our closed beta. <a href="http://usekit.com/product/binder-signup">Sign up</a> today for a test drive or profit from <a href="http://usekit.com/pricing/binder">70% discount</a> during the early subscriber period.</p>
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<h2>Business solutions for your needs</h2>
<p>Our<a href="http://usekit.com/solution"> business solutions</a> optimize collaboration and reduce emails and telephone calls. ProBindr is an intuitive platform for architects, teachers, researchers, consultants, and others who work in virtual teams or across company borders. Comprehensible versioning, access from everywhere and an environment without need for maintenance or administration, simplify also your project organization. Bank level security is implemented to protect your corporate knowledge.</p>
<p>ProBindr extends your well-known office to a team space. Shelves and Binders offer understandable, well-structured hierarchies and still give you the flexibility to suit individual needs. Your communication is integrated in the same way as your file system and your online resources. A sophisticated notification system keeps you up to date, highlighting modifications that are already filed for you at the right place.</p>
<p>The real life appearance reduces the boarding time for new users to zero!</p>
<h2><a href="http://usekit.com/product/binder-signup">Sign up</a> now to save time and efforts on collaboration!</h2>
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		<title>useKit ProBindr ist da!</title>
		<link>http://blog.useKit.com/2011/11/23/usekit-probindr-ist-da/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:13:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simon.siegenthaler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Noch nie war ein virtueller Projektraum einfacher Schluss mit stundenlangen, teuren Telefongesprächen, überfüllten Mailboxen und Kommunikationschaos! Mit ProBindr wird die firmenübergreifende Kommunikation ganz einfach und effizient. Mit ProBindr gewinnen Sie Zeit und schonen Ihre Nerven. Denn effizienter kommunizieren bedeutet effizienter arbeiten. ProBindr ist eine Plattform für Architekten, Berater, Lehrer, Forscher und andere, die in virtuellen Teams zusammenarbeiten. Mit [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h2>Noch nie war ein virtueller Projektraum einfacher</h2>
<p><a style="color: #17488a; text-decoration: underline; font-weight: normal;" href="https://usekit.com/product/binder-signup"><img style="width: 400px; height: 180px;" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/8e8c702ef9590927cc079fc68/files/shelf.jpg" alt="Keep everyone on the same page!" width="400" height="180" /></a></p>
<p>Schluss mit stundenlangen, teuren Telefongesprächen, überfüllten Mailboxen und Kommunikationschaos! Mit <a href="https://usekit.com/product/binder">ProBindr</a> wird die firmenübergreifende Kommunikation ganz einfach und effizient. Mit ProBindr gewinnen Sie Zeit und schonen Ihre Nerven. Denn effizienter kommunizieren bedeutet effizienter arbeiten.</p>
<p><img style="width: 227px; height: 171px;" src="http://gallery.mailchimp.com/8e8c702ef9590927cc079fc68/files/sheet.jpg" alt="" width="227" height="171" /></p>
<p><a href="https://usekit.com/product/binder">ProBindr</a> ist eine Plattform für Architekten, Berater, Lehrer, Forscher und andere, die in virtuellen Teams zusammenarbeiten. Mit ProBindr bieten wir Ihnen ein virtuelles Regal, mit dem Sie Ihre Projekte und Dokumente speichern, teilen und bearbeiten können. Virtuelle Ordner und Etiketten machen es ganz einfach, die Projekte und Dokumente zu organisieren. Regale und Ordner bieten gut verständliche, klar strukturierte Hierarchien. Die authentische, realistische Optik garantiert eine selbsterklärende, intuitive Nutzung und reduziert die Einarbeitungszeit auf null.<br />
Eine leicht verständliche <a href="http://usekit.com/product/binder">Versionsverwaltung</a>, Zugang von überall und eine wartungsfreie Umgebung vereinfachen die Projektorganisation.<br />
<a href="http://usekit.com/product/binder">Sicherheitsfeatures</a> auf dem allerneusten Stand der Technik schützen Ihre Firmendaten. Ein ausgeklügeltes Benachrichtigungssystem hält Sie stets auf dem laufenden. Bei jedem Zugriff sehen Sie sofort, welche Ordner und Dateien seit Ihrem letzten Besuch verändert wurden.</p>
<p>ProBindr macht aus Ihrem Büro einen virtuellen Konferenzraum für das ganze, über den Erdball verstreute Team.</p>
<h2><a href="https://usekit.com/product/binder-signup">Registrieren</a> Sie sich noch heute für einen gratis Test oder profitieren Sie bis zum 31.12. vom 70 Prozent günstigeren <a href="https://usekit.com/pricing/binder">Einstiegspreis</a>.</h2>
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		<title>useKit Search with Elasticsearch and Elastica</title>
		<link>http://blog.useKit.com/2011/08/25/usekit-search-with-elasticsearch-and-elastica/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ruflin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Search in web applications is not a feature anymore, it is a basic navigation system. As Google shows us, to navigate to specific sites, users do not try to figure out which domain ending a company has, but just type for example &#8220;useKit&#8221; into the Google search and click on the first link to navigate to useKit.com. When [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h1><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: 13px;">Search in web applications is not a feature anymore, it is a basic navigation system. As Google shows us, to navigate to specific sites, users do not try to figure out which domain ending a company has, but just type for example &#8220;useKit&#8221; into the Google search and click on the first link to navigate to <a href="http://useKit.com/">useKit.com</a>. When we started to build useKit it was clear that we need a good search engine to allow our users to retrieve the content in an efficient way, but also for navigation. A good example for this is our auto-complete context navigation in useKit knowledge.</span></h1>
<p><img src="http://blog.useKit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/autocompletion.png" alt="" /></p>
<h2>Solr vs. Elasticsearch</h2>
<p>We evaluated different systems but it was soon pretty clear that we will choose a solution based on <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/index.html">Lucene</a>, as Lucene offered all the features we needed and was under active development. Since most of our application is written in PHP, we needed a solution based on Lucene which allows access with PHP. The final decision was made for <a href="http://lucene.apache.org/solr/">solr</a>, which is scalable and offers a REST interface with a JSON API. For more then a year our search was powered by solr.</p>
<p>After a year we added the feature to upload files to the useKit system, and our users started to heavily use it requesting soon that these files are full text searchable too. We started to look around for solutions to do this in solr. It looked like the <a href="http://tika.apache.org/">Apache Tika project</a> offered the features we needed and we started to integrate Tika into our Solr setup but we were facing several problems. These problems caused us to reinspect our search solution and we stumbled over <a href="http://www.elasticsearch.org/">elasticsearch</a>. At this time elasticsearch, developed by <a href="http://twitter.com/kimchy">Shay Banon</a> was still a young project, but looked promising. After some testing of the general search and especially the mapper-attachement plugin, we decided to move our search to elasticsearch. The decision was less based on the speed, scalability or features of elasticsearch, but more on its simplicity to setup, deploy and its access of the REST interface.</p>
<h2>Elastica</h2>
<p>As the existing elasticsearch PHP clients did not quite meet our requirements and were not expandable, we started to develop our own elasticsearch PHP client, with the support of <a href="http://cargomedia.ch/">Cargo Media</a>, which was open sourced in october 2010 in github under the name <a href="https://github.com/ruflin/Elastica">Elastica</a>. Since then both, elasticsearch and Elastica heavily evolved. The speed of elasticsearch improved and its automatic sharding and replication allows us to simply run elasticsearch on multiple machines to index all the files uploaded by our users. Also the development of Elastica moved forward with the support of more then 30 external contributors, making Elastica now one of the standard clients for elasticsearch in combination with PHP.</p>
<p>Elastica leverages the REST interface of elasticsearch and data is transfered in the JSON format. We were already familar with REST and JSON as our own service API is also implemented based on REST and JSON. As we implemented Elastica in combination with the Zend Framework, Elastica has a similar structure. Elastica was built with the idea in mind to make it extensible. Elasticsearch evolves fast and with every release new features like query, filter or facet types are added. To extend Elastica with a new query type, only an object has to be added which extends Elastica_Query_Abstract.</p>
<p>To have an elasticsearch instance with file support up and running, only 3 simple steps are needed:</p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.elasticsearch.org/download/">Download elasticsearch</a></li>
<li>Install the attachment plugin. Uncompress the elasticsearch package, go into the elasticsearch directory and type: <code>./bin/plugin install mapper-attachments</code></li>
<li>Start elasticsearch: <code>./bin/elasticsearch -f</code></li>
</ul>
<p>With Elastica it is simple to add a file to your search index and search trough it.<br />
Replace in the code below the file path to a pdf through your own pdf and you&#8217;re ready to search.</p>
<pre>	$client = new Elastica_Client();
	$index = $client-&gt;getIndex('useKit');

	//Creates new index
	$index-&gt;create(array(), true);
	$type = $index-&gt;getType('file');

	// Creates a new document
	$doc = new Elastica_Document();
	$doc-&gt;addFile('content', 'path/to/your.pdf');

	// Adds the document to the index
	$type-&gt;addDocument($doc);

	// Index needs a moment to be updated
	$index-&gt;refresh();

	// Searchs in the index and returns the results
	$resultSet = $type-&gt;search('useKit');</pre>
<p>The development of Elastica will go on as we want to deliver the best search solution to our users, so the user has always the results at his finger tips. If you have questions using Elastica, post your questions directly in the <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/elastica-php-client">Elastica Google Group</a>.</p>
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		<title>Is Google+ worth 20bn?</title>
		<link>http://blog.useKit.com/2011/08/08/is-google-worth-20bn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 07:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within the first week after the release of Google+, Googles next attempt to enter the social network field, Googles market capitalization went up by roughly 20bn dollar. This is more worth mentioning  then the 100bn valuation currently seen for Facebook on secondary markets. Not only this caught our attention and we had a closer look [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div>Within the first week after the release of <a href="https://plus.google.com" target="_blank">Google+</a>, <a href="http://www.google.com" target="_blank">Googles</a> next attempt to enter the social network field, Googles market capitalization went up by roughly 20bn dollar. This is more worth mentioning  then the 100bn valuation currently seen for Facebook on secondary markets. Not only this caught our attention and we had a closer look at Google+.</div>
<div>When we first saw Google+ we were impressed by the technical &#8220;touchiness“ of the user interface. We realized this is something that could be big in the future – topic focus and noise reduction. While <a href="http://www.facebook.com" target="_blank">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://www.myspace.com">MySpace</a> and other Social Networks are centered around friends and connections between people, Google+ is build to differentiate between groups of interests or topics. This reduces unwanted, disrupting, and unimportant information while also allowing to better control who accesses what.</div>
<div>Here at useKit we have built <a href="http://www.usekit.com">useKit K!</a> around the combination of content+users, what we call a “<a href="http://usekit.com/faq#context">context</a>”. We think Google+ circles represent this combination of content and users. The difference between Google+ and useKit is Google+ was built to create an open space for discussions and flow of information, while useKit K! is built as a closed system that supports discussions and collaboration within closed user groups or companies.</div>
<p><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-172" title="Google+ invite" src="http://blog.useKit.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/google_plus1.png" alt="Google+ invite" width="569" height="230" /></p>
<div>Google+ has some very interesting concepts that we will keep watching and the most important in our opinion is the change in the way informations are distributed within social networks. While Facebook and others rely on symmetrical connections (established friendships) Google+ is more asymmetric like the Followers concept in Twitter. Users can be added to circles without their permission, which resembles following in Twitter, and interestingly and important for privacy one is not able to see in which circles one is being placed by someone else. On the other hand Google+ also shows how an established ecosystem of applications and users can boost the popularity of a new application with Google+ counting 20+ million users after a few weeks. And further how distribution can be build into a product, for example the deep integration with gmail and how not yet signed up people are commonly included in Google+ (see screenshot).</div>
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		<title>Usability and speed with our january release &#8211; win a premium account</title>
		<link>http://blog.useKit.com/2011/01/25/usability-and-speed-with-our-january-release-win-a-premium-account/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>eric</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[release note]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After the huge december release with many new features such as &#8220;google search integration&#8221;, &#8220;delicious import&#8221; or &#8220;one-to-one content&#8221;, our focus in january has mainly been on bug-fixing, speed and cleaning up the user interface. Our technical department was very busy rewriting most of the CSS and cleaning up code in general but they still [...]]]></description>
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<div id="_mcePaste">After the huge december release with many new features such as &#8220;google search integration&#8221;, &#8220;delicious import&#8221; or &#8220;one-to-one content&#8221;, our focus in january has mainly been on bug-fixing, speed and cleaning up the user interface. Our technical department was very busy rewriting most of the CSS and cleaning up code in general but they still found some time to work on usability and implemented a &#8220;contacts&#8221; page.</div>
<div>We would appreciate if you could help us to make useKit better by answering a little <a title="useKit survey" href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JX9ZVWC" target="_self">questionnaire</a>, which should not take you more then 2 minutes.</div>
<div><a title="useKit survey" href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/JX9ZVWC" target="_self">go to survey</a></div>
<div id="_mcePaste">As a little gift, we will provide 1 year premium subscriptions to 5 random users who answered the survey (please send us a mail if you are interested info(at)useKit.com).</div>
<p><br class="clear" /></p>
<div id="_mcePaste"><strong>The latest release includes:</strong></div>
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<ul>
<li>Speed improvements (big boost for IE7 users)</li>
<li>Layout cleanup</li>
<li>A new <a href="http://usekit.com/contacts" target="_self">contacts page</a> to find your co-workers</li>
<li>A all new <a href="http://usekit.com/help" target="_self">help section</a></li>
<li>New context selection</li>
<li>Views, sort and filter to find your data easier</li>
<li>Lots of bug-fixes</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
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