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Soocial is down now while upgrading

January 18, 2010 – 18:39

Screenshot of connected friends.

UPDATE: We are back up and running for ALL users.

We have recently upgraded our database in order to be able to release our long awaited connected friends feature.

Connected friends enables you to automatically get the newest contact details from your friends. In all address books. Near immediately. And mostly without doing anything.

We will post more about it once it has been released and tested more extensively but feel free to play around with it.

Most of you will see a screen like the one on the right for now but start connecting with users or inviting new friends and you’ll be start to get the hang of it soon.

For those of you unsure whether to use it, just ignore it for now and we’ll be writing more here in the coming weeks.

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Sync across multiple Gmail accounts

December 30, 2009 – 22:23
Soocial now supports syncing of multiple gmail accounts

Soocial now supports syncing your contacts across multiple Gmail accounts

After many requests we have enabled the possibility to add more than one Gmail account to your Soocial connections. That means that from now on you can add up to three of your Gmail accounts and keep them all in sync using Soocial.

Go to your connections page and add an extra Gmail connection. It should sync reasonably fast but just in case you get impatient you can schedule a sync manually in which case it will happen within a few minutes. Remember that this is still beta but let us know what your experience is and we will act swiftly if you manage to find bugs or unwanted behavior.

Enjoy!

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Windows Mobile client available now

December 23, 2009 – 14:31

Windows Mobile phone

We are very pleased to announce the immediate release of the Soocial Windows Mobile sync client. This means that Soocial can now be used as an alternative to Microsoft Exchange to synchronize your address books. Hooking up your Windows Mobile phone to Soocial means you can sync it with Gmail, Yahoo! mail, Macs and all our other supported devices. This has traditionally only been possible for the adventurous or tech savvy crowd, Soocial now also makes it easy for those with Windows Mobile devices.

 

Download client by browsing to soocial.com/wm

Download client by browsing to soocial.com/wm

How to install

Browse with your Windows Mobile to www.soocial.com/wm and pick your phone type (see below) or alternatively follow the more detailed instructions on your connections page (after login).

 

 

 

Supported devices

There are two kinds of clients, depending on your device choose one of the following:

  • Devices with touch screen, based on Windows Mobile 6, 5 or 2003 with or without built-in phone (like many HTC, iPaq, Qtek, MDA, XDA, SPV-Mxxx models and Windows Mobile Palm based Palms like Treo 700w and 750)
  • Phone devices without touch screen but with keyboard, based on Windows Mobile 6, 5 or 2003 (like for example HTC S710, MotoQ, BlackJack, SDA, QTek, SPV-Cxxx, but not Palm 700w or 750!)

 

Feedback welcome

Let us know how you find the Windows Mobile client on twitter or on our community support pages. Feel free to drop us your thoughts, let us know of bugs you find or anything else you might need.

 

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Update: Easy configuration messages back online!

December 2, 2009 – 09:36
Connecting your phone to Soocial

Soocial displays an easy interface for you to pick you phone.

New updates to Soocial

We’ve just added some exciting updates to Soocial. The quick list of updates is:

  • Configuration messages are back online
  • iPhone application is available
  • BlackBerry application is available
  • Coming soon: Windows Mobile application
  • Better support for pictures
  • Added support for SyncML 1.2

 

Fill in your phone number and instantly receive your configuration for Soocial

Fill in your phone number and instantly receive your configuration for Soocial

Configuration messages are back online

After months of being disabled we have since today switched the easy configuration service back on for Nokia’s, SonyEricsson’s and a whole lot of other phones (see the full list here – after login). This means no longer having to browse the million different menu items to be able to sync with Soocial but use our easy online form, fill in your phone number and voilà your phone is ready to go.

 

 

Soocial's new iPhone app

The updated app has a better scrollbar indicating the progress of the sync.

iPhone application is now available

After some confusion regarding the release of our iPhone app it is now fully available in the AppStore. Just point your iPhone’s safari browser to http://soocial.com/i and install the application. We have also submitted a new version that includes a few bug fixes and depending on Apple’s review speed it should be online in the next few days.

Coming soon: Windows Mobile app

Another exciting thing is that in the next few weeks we will be releasing our own Windows Mobile client. We cannot commit to a hard deadline yet as we are still going through the last tests but it is looking like it is ahead of schedule!

 

Other updates

BlackBerry application is already available

Although the latest version of the BlackBerry client has been out a while, we haven’t seen the same amount of uptake as the iPhone version. However those users that are using the BlackBerry client have been syncing happily for quite a while and we think it’s good to repeat that we are seeing good results with the BlackBerry. plus it has a nice feature that the iPhone doesn’t have: it syncs in the background!

Better support for pictures

Another pretty important update is that Soocial now has much better support for pictures. They are fully supported for the iPhone, the upcoming Windows Mobile client and GMail. Other clients will support this in the next version.

The rest

Also we’ve done many performance improvements (including a new queueing system based on Redis en Resque) and many many more bug fixes.

Don’t forget to let us know what you think, and you should follow us on Twitter!

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Soocial iPhone app, out or not?

October 27, 2009 – 20:36

We’ve caused a bit of confusion today and I’d like to set the record straight. Is the Soocial iPhone app out or not?

Technically the app itself is ready and works nicely, however our sync server has proven not to be ready. So we have decided to block syncs from the iPhone for a few days. This is very unfortunate because we’ve been anticipating this release for a while. But we find it more important to not cause damage to your address book and thus have made this decision.

So what happened?
In short the syncing will break on photo’s that are attached to contacts. We could leave it up and let the users decide but the bug is major enough and we care a lot about your address books that in some cases it will replace contacts and thus leave you stranded without them. This is totally unacceptable and we are deeply sorry this has been a hassle for any of you affected.

We are working very hard on a fix and will let you know here when the issue has been solved.

For those of you that have experienced problems and missing contacts, rest assured your contacts _are_ safely stored in Soocial and once we have this issue fixed a simple sync will restore everything correctly.

UPDATE: The Soocial iPhone application is back in the AppStore and syncs well. However the initial sync can take a while (especially if you have many pictures), so long in fact that it can time out and then the sync can fail. In some circumstances this can also cause loss of data.

For this reason we advise only the adventurous to try it out for now, until we give the go ahead that it is safe.

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BlackBerry Beta sync client now available!

October 20, 2009 – 21:21

We are very excited to be able to release our BlackBerry sync client as a public beta today!

After many months of hard work, bug searching, finding and fixing we have decided to release the BlackBerry client as a beta today. For now it will work on BlackBerry devices that run OS 4.6.x, we will now focus on getting it to run perfectly on 4.2 and higher. Please go to your connections page (after logging in) and see how to setup your BlackBerry with Soocial.

Please let us know what you think of the client and how it performs for you. If you are using a different BlackBerry OS than 4.6.x then be careful but feel free to install it and let us know if it works for you. We know there are a few devices that will work with this client even though they don’t run OS 4.6.x. However we would like to hear if you find that the client runs on your non-4.6.x BlackBerry device, so please let us know here.

Other updates to made public today include:

  1. Signup flows for adding Gmail, Windows Live Hotmail and Yahoo! Mail have been improved
  2. Added a signup page for our upcoming businesses accounts
  3. Added a public page with a list of supported phones

Stay tuned for more exciting news in the coming weeks!

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New homepage and usability fixes

October 5, 2009 – 21:59

Soocial's new homepage

We’re very excited to be deploying a big release today to our web application. They are mostly cosmetic fixes and some new guides how to use Soocial. We’ll be adding more content in the next few days and have some more exciting things in the works.

One of the main area’s of improvement are the setup pages for Mac and Outlook, both have gotten a much easier too use interface that we believe will make it much easier to add Mac or Outlook connection. We’ll be adding the same setup screens for Gmail, Yahoo! Mail, Windows Live and all phones in the next weeks as well.

Also you can see our homepage has a new video of what Soocial is, and there is a 3 minute demo on our tour page. In the demo you can see a preview of our iPhone app that is going to be released in the next few weeks. We also mention the Blackberry as a connection and we are very close to releasing our BlackBerry client very soon.

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