Today we have proudly announced two new major features, requested by many of our customers:

• Stribe, now, integrates seamlessly with Facebook accounts via FB Connect, which improves the end user experience and dramatically increases the user acquisition ratio in your community.
• Stribe is now available in White Label configuration. You can have your own community fully branded, with custom design matching the look and feel of your website. Single sign-on process integration is naturally available, as well.

We would like to thank all the people, partners and customers who supported us so far. We are committing to work even harder to match your expectations. Stay tuned for 2010 as it will be a very exciting new year for Stribe!

We will announce tomorrow morning on stage two new, significant features that many of our customers asked us. Support us on Twitter #stribe and check out the live video feed for the startup competition room!

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We will be listening very closely to your feedbacks, and plan to integrate them in (almost) real time. We are eager to see how webmasters and visitors are using the service and, most importantly, how we can improve it to fully meet their social needs on any website.

We started today to send invitation codes to a few websites, and we will extend the invitations to more websites each day during the next weeks and months. This process will ensure that we can dedicate time to each webmaster in order to provide the best service quality and support, and help you grow and manage your online community. Of course we are very flexible so if you have any special/urgent needs, do not hesitate to let us know so we can accelerate this process.

We would like to thank you all for your trust, understanding and help in making Stribe a new, innovative social layer for all websites!

No doubt about it, creating online relationships, like we do in real life, is important. Those connections become channels to obtain and exchange information and share interests and ideas.

In the same vein, creating and fostering the community and visitors to a website is important to retain them and engage them.

Today, Stribe is proud to announce our instant social networking service. With Stribe, you can easily create a branded, customized social network for any website. For more details, read our press release.

We announced Stribe at TechCrunch50 in San Francisco, where were were chosen as one of the 50 participating companies to demo on stage. See us rock the demo here.

We’re looking forward to seeing which sites and more importantly, what their communities, do with Stribe. If you want to get increased traffic and visitor stickiness, sign up for the beta.

Thrive to Stribe!

- The Stribe Team

]]> http://blog.stribe.com/2009/09/connected-communities-matter-introducing-stribe/feed/ http://blog.stribe.com/2009/09/big-announcement-stribe-is-going-to-launch-on-september-16th/ http://blog.stribe.com/2009/09/big-announcement-stribe-is-going-to-launch-on-september-16th/#comments Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:11:02 +0000 Kamel http://blog.stribe.com/?p=52 Dear friends, followers and beta-testers,

After several months of intense and exciting  development and marketing understanding, all the team is very pleased to announce you that we are going to launch and open Stribe in few days! :)  Thanks to you, we have been learning so much : all your feedbacks, advices, challenges made us to work better and faster!

We are ending currently the last coatings: last performance and technical improvements to give you a great user experience, last design integrations in the website and last wording to explain all features as clear as possible..
Internet projects never end and everything is perfectible so we are closing this chapter to begin a new one.

The countdown has started! (D-12)

September 16th, you will be able to stribe your website to create our own branded social network for your content:  Blogs, Corporate, casual or an e-commerce sites…

All details of first features will be in the next post!

Stribe regards and thanks for your support!

We moved some servers to the US, in order to provide a full-speed Stribe experience for US users. We will accept some private beta testers in the US this week who will help us with their feedback.

We implemented automatic language detection, with English and French locales supported for now. If no user-defined setting is set, Stribe first detects the language of the web page, so webmasters can be sure that if their site is for instance in English, their community tools are also in English.

And it’s now official, we have a position open for an agile senior developer. We would love if this was an international hire! The details are posted on CrunchBoard Europe.

Thanks to our private beta testers we now get high quality feedback from real-life use of the Stribe service. It’s really cool to see real people sharing and interacting on Stribed websites!

We released this week a new version of Stribe with some of the most-demanded improvements, including (among others):

• “Remember me” functionality (aka “persistent cookie”) - if you check that box, you will be identified automatically at browser startup,
• Instant loading of the Stribe community bar when browsing to a new web page,
• Automatic detection of hypertext links  in ChatBox messages,
• Community interaction tools are now loaded only when needed (you still can choose to auto-load them at startup), so we don’t have any performance hit even on slower computers like Netbooks.

Dear customers and users, thanks a lot for keeping sending us feedback through Stribe, and telling us about your needs… What would be the coolest feature you would like Stribe to provide?

The last week was very intensive, we had so many customer feedbacks that we had to focus all the team. We’ve just released a new version of Stribe to provide better performances and many enhancements to our beta-testers, including:

• Online presence indicator,
  
• Automatic detection of the website width, with the Stribe docking automatically on the right to avoid hiding website contents on low-resolution screens,
• Better speed and usability of public and private chat,
• Division by ten of the number of network requests at startup (we will continue to deploy more performances improvements in the next days),
• And many details.

We are currently working on User Experience with our partner Use Design to improve usability of Stribe components. Our goal is to provide an optimal, friendly and Plug & Play experience to all users. We will keep you posted about it.

Very exciting and freaky moment, cause all the team worked very hard for so many months… We hope so much that you are going to like and use Stribe.

Keep following us on Twitter @Stribe and give us your precious feedbacks!

By the way, this blog will be “stribed” very soon of course… when we are ready for prime time ;o)

All the best and stribe with you very soon,

Stribe Team