To animate and fuel social conversations, we developed an automatic RSS sharing module that will leverage content created by bloggers and companies.
It’s very simple now to push your news from your blog into your Stribe communities and give to your visitors opportunities to share their opinion.
But there is more. In the next version of our service (coming next month… don’t tell anyone!), you will be able to invite any other website involved in the same topics than yours and display their content through their RSS feed. Your own feed entries can as well be pushed to their visitors. All these visibility settings will be customizable in your administration interface.
These news can be read, commented and liked with any Connect like Facebook or Twitter.
Take advantage now of this content sharing and join a Stribe community!
You can now sign into Stribe with your Facebook, Twitter, Google, or Linkedin account. It’s so easy! Write a message and when you post it, a login popup appears to invite you to create an account, sign-in if you have already a Stribe account or use a third-party social account like Flickr, Blogger, Aol or Yahoo!
How to share with your friends & followers
When you leave a message in the Stribe newsfeed, you can share it easily with your friends and followers on Twitter or Facebook. Just tick the Facebook or Twitter checkbox and the message will be visible in your wall or tweets.
We are looking forward to present you other new and exciting features!
More than 3000 websites have received an invitation to beta-test Stribe since LeWeb. Our Community Network has been visible in more than 10 million web pages talking about media, gaming, blog posts, shopping…
We’ve got many feedbacks telling us to simplify and improve the user experience and that’s what we have done! “Less is more” so we kept redesigning Stribe and focusing on the core features. In the same time, some important features were missing like Twitter Connect, RSS push, or user points and badges… but we will talk about that later.
A New Newsfeed:
The first big thing to do was to redesign the “Public Chat Box” into a simple “Newsfeed”. People were using this module like a news feed and needed a better way to understand and follow different conversations.
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To ease Stribe integration, we redesigned as well the “docked” toolbar. Webmasters can now use Stribe and another toolbar at the same time. They can as well choose the location on the screen: top/right or bottom/right. We also added notifications and visual indicators.
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A New Administration Interface:
The administration module to moderate the community and customize the Stribe look and feel was available inside the Stribe bar, which was pretty confusing. Many webmasters and bloggers asked us to turn this module into a dedicated administration website, so we moved these functionalities into the back-office.
A New User Experience:
We rethought and redesigned all the user experience to put forward social activity and simplify the Stribe navigation. All modules have been put on the top of the sidebar to see better where you are and what you can do.
We are very excited to show you the new features and cool things that we designed for you!
Stribe Wins LeWeb’09 European Startup Competition Launching Facebook Connect and White-Label Availability
Breaking news: Organizers of LeWeb’09 just announced that Stribe is the winner of the 2009 European Startup Competition. This is an amazing recognition of all the hard work of Stribe team. This motivates us to further improve Stribe by listening to your feedback!
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!
Stribe got a lot of attention following our presentation at TechCrunch50 two weeks ago. We were prepared for this, but did not expected to get so many invitation requests! Seems like more than 2000 websites want to get social with Stribe, and this number is growing steadily each day.
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
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!
Stribe has recently made some moves to better suit our international audience:
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.
Hi there!
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?