Continuing small improvements

May 27, 2010 – 15:28

We’ve just deployed a few more upgrades and bug fixes to Soocial.

New features and bug fixes include:

  1. Fixed a bug in the contact editor (focus of fields when creating new fields was sketchy)
  2. Download your address book as csv
  3. Download a csv version of any soocial backup
  4. Pushing changes instantly to Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo are now premium only

Most of these are self explanatory, however the last one, might need a bit more explanation. Up till today we pushed a change you made to any contact (on any device) directly and instantly to Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo! mail. We still continue to do this for premium users.

Our free users will still have their address books synced with these services every 8 hours. For premium users we check these services every 4 hours for changes and push changes instantly. In the future the intervals might change depending on performance and load but these are the times we are aiming for. Free users might see their sync interval grow to 24 hrs but premium users will always get priority syncing and sync more often.

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Various new updates

May 20, 2010 – 18:50

We deployed a number of updates to Soocial last Tuesday. The updates are:

  1. Added refresh authorization reminder for Windows Live Hotmail users
  2. Added group renaming and drag ‘n drop in the webapp
  3. New restore to date function

Windows Live Hotmail allows for longer access duration

Windows Live updates

Windows Live Hotmail just changed the duration period and now allows for access for up to a year. When next your Windows Live access expires we will send you an email reminder to refresh your authorization with Windows Live so that your syncs can continue.

Group rename and group delete now available in the web app.

Group editing fixes

We’ve also added the possibility to be able to rename and remove groups from within the web app (see screenshot left). Also what’s even niftier is that you can also drag ‘n drop groups to add contacts to that group. You can also drag contacts onto a group, even pick multiple contacts and drag them to your desired group.

We recently added contact filtering based on the group a contact is in, these updates are part a push to make the contact filtering more useful for our premium users.

Restore to date screenshotRestore to date

The other nice feature that has been added due to popular request is the restore to date function. This allows you to pick a date in the past and restore your address book to that state. This feature is available only to premium users and is pretty self explanatory. We do check for your time zone and it’s important that you make sure the displayed timezone is correct before you restore. (Of course if you pick the wrong time or date you can just keep doing it until you get it right. ;-)

These are a few of the ongoing improvements we are making and hope that they make it even easier for you to keep your address book sane.

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Adding contact filtering for Gmail, Yahoo! and Windows Live.

April 14, 2010 – 18:33

 

 

Screenshot of filters on properties

You can filter contacts per connection based on the contacts' properties.

We’ve just added contact filtering for Gmail, Yahoo! and Windows Live. This means that you can choose to only sync particular contacts to these connections. For example if you only want contacts that are in a group called ‘Private’ to sync to Yahoo! you can now do that.

 

You can choose to filter based on having a contact in a particular group, or based on the contact itself having particular fields. For example if you only want contact that have a phone number to be synced to your phone you can add the filter you phone connection to only sync contacts with phone numbers.

Go to your connections to see the options for the filters on the connections. Please keep in mind that this is still in beta and even though we have tested it extensively it might still have certain unexpected side effects.

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Now supporting PayPal and iDeal

April 12, 2010 – 16:43

Paypal and iDeal logo

Soocial adds PayPal and iDeal support

We’ve added PayPal and iDeal (for you Dutchies) as a payment option and you can grab the lifetime and yearly using these payments methods. We haven’t added them as option to our monthly payment option as the transaction fees are not worth it on the small amount.

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New lifetime accounts

April 12, 2010 – 16:19

After the last lifetime accounts went within 1 day or so last week we’ve decided to offer another 250 to our beta testers. Many of whom emailed us and we gave them a heads up last friday to grab their lifetime accounts.

UPDATE: Lifetime accounts are all gone. We had two runs and they were both gone quickly. We will not be offering any more lifetime accounts but you can still get a good deal with our yearly account. Click the button below to upgrade your account to yearly (if you haven’t already):

Get the yearly account!

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Unlimited Gmail accounts for premium users

April 8, 2010 – 12:20

 

Multiple gmail accounts can now be synced

Unlimited multiple Gmail accounts for premium users

We have just deployed a fix for our premium users: you can now have unlimited multiple Gmail accounts.

Following the release of our Premium accounts yesterday we are now fixing one of the bugs we discovered. Gmail accounts were still limited to 3 per account also for premium users. From now on you can add as many as you want and we will sync them (with priority) to all connected Gmail accounts. In practice the amount of connections you can add is capped at 50 but this is a sanity limit and let us know if you ever reach it. ;-)

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Soocial launches premium plan

April 6, 2010 – 18:22

Today is a big day for Soocial: we are introducing premium accounts.

Premium accounts? What?!

Partly because we also like to eat – fortunately we are not robots – but mostly because we think it’s fair: we are starting to charge for parts of our service. You know, paying the bills and all that jazz. The cool thing is that you get a whole lot extra for paying us the equivalent of a cup of coffee per month*. Our premium service is going to be just €3 per month (or €29 per year). The extra’s you get with our premium accounts are: more connections, more contacts, priority syncing, premium support and filtering options. Upgrading is easy, safe and handled by our trusted and officially certified partner. There are no contracts to sign or anything like that. You can try it and decide it’s not for you and you won’t be charged again.

One-time special deal

Everyone using Soocial until now has been very cool to us and without your help we would never have come this far. We’ve decided we want to give you a special deal. We are offering a one time deal where you can get lifetime access, including all future features in one great deal limited to existing beta-users:

UPDATE: Lifetime accounts are all gone. It was very successful and had two runs of Lifetime accounts. We will not be offering this deal anymore.

From Iceland?

Iceland is having a hard time financially.
But we love Iceland, so we are offering our support by offering our premium service to our Icelandic users for free until further notice. If you are from Iceland signup for the premium service using your credit card and we will refund your charge immediately.

I’m from Iceland, sign me up!

* Depending on how much you pay for a cup of coffee.

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