Archive for May, 2005

Screencast tutorials

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

Having finally got to meet my all time favorite tech writer, Jon Udell at the Syndicate conference last week, I said how much I enjoyed his screencast tutorials. In light of that am putting together a some screencasts of how to use Wists.

This one is the most simple, showing how to add a bookmark […]

bookmarklet proposal

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

Here’s my thinking for possible bookmarklet enhancements:

ability to set bookmarklet in advanced or simple mode depending on whether you are using for simple bookmarking or weblog posting in parallel.

ajax style dynamic lookup for tags, and possibly internal links within posts (this is tricky to explain but will mockup).

better thumbnail creation and ability to create thumbnails […]

post to blog

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

We are in the process of developing tool to post titles, images, descriptions and tags to your weblog, at the same time as adding to wists.

At the moment I find that it takes 10 clicks to create a thumbnail for a weblog post and that I wanted to be able to include thumbnails in most […]

javascript wizard

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

We’ve added a Wists javascript wizard which allows you to publish and of your Wists linkrolls on your site, matching the look and feel, rather like Flickr’s badges or the headline feeds we used to syndicate at Moreover.

You can choose to show Thumbnails and text links, just thumbnails or just text.

To fire up the wizard […]

contacting wists

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

We’ve put an email Wists form up by popular request, since most people were contacting me via my weblog, davidgalbraith.org.
The only reason we hadn’t done that earlier was to keep all discussion around new features etc. open. The plan is to simply use the comments in this blog, which we’ll monitor, and then when […]

updates - ui changes - item counts

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

Item counts are now shown in top , left and right hand menus showing:

The total number of public and private items in your Wists.

The total number of public and private items in any user’s Wists.

New items in the last 24 hours, from the users or users and tags that you are subscribed to (see subscriptions).

The […]

updates - bugfixes, minor changes

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

Problems with truncated titles and slashes appearing in posts should now be fixed.

Image resise error - when bookmarking the ‘image resize’ error that showed when images had corrupt header etc. should now degrade gracefully, capturing a screenshot by default, if selected images cannot be made into a thumbnail.

Better titles in pages for search engines - […]