June 2011 News update coolness

June 1, 2011 – 13:16

Exciting stuff going on here at Soocial and we’d like to share the news with you.

New homepage

Soocial's new design for the homepage

Soocial's new homepage design

We finally decided to upgrade our web page. 
It’s not quite there yet, but we wanted to give you users a sneak peak before anybody else.. 
It’s in the screenshot attached to this post and guess what – we want you to write your feelings about it!

Post your thoughts on our Facebook wall or tweet about why you love Soocial and get the chance to win a 1-year premium subscription! 
Soocial Premium accounts are up for grabs to the 3 best expressions of Soocial love.

Don’t be subtle about it, we love appraisals for our hard work!
This offer ends on the 6th of June, so hurry!

For businesses

Business accounts are about to be public in a short period of time. Our beta testers are doing the hard work of getting them running smoothly for you, and once they are public your Company Address Book will finally come to life!

Get those contact details you want to the people in your oganization that need them, on their Soocial, in their Outlook, in their emails and on their phones!
Sign up now at the Business Accounts signup form and get them free until the beginning of July, with premium support to set them up from our Business Monkey directly via email or skype!

Did you know?

New iPhone app for Soocial

New iPhone app for Soocial

New iPhone app

Our new iPhone app is on the market (second screenshot). If you haven’t already downloaded it, make sure you do so by checking it out at the App store or upgrading your older version on your iPhone.

Deduping your contacts?

Our deduping tool can quickly and efficiently clean up your contacts. To revive your Address Book and get rid of those annoying duplicate entries, just go to http://www.soocial.com/tools and click the Deduper tab.

Cleaning and formatting tools

You can also clean your contacts by removing weird formatting in numbers or other entries of your Address Book. Go to http://www.soocial.com/tools and click on Cleaner.

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Connected Friends – Share your most recent data and stay in sync

April 6, 2011 – 16:00

Connected Friends Soocial Address Book contact sync
We’ve been tweaking away at a new feature and it’s finally usable.
Connected Friends allows you to share your most recent contact data directly with the people you want, and get their most recent updates at the same time.

Choose a contact with an email and you can connect to him.

All you have to do is connect browse your contact normally and if the contact has an email you will have to option to connect with him or her. After you’ve sent the connection request they’ll show up in the ‘Connected Friends’ group on your Soocial Address Book. As soon as the contact has accepted your request you’re connected. From that point on, anything you change will appear directly in their Address Book and vice versa.

So no more excuses for not being called for coffee because your friend didn’t have your new number, just connect on Soocial and your most recent contact data syncs with all his different Address Books anywhere!

By Stefan Fountain | Posted in Home | Comments (2)

Soocial makes editor’s Choice!

March 29, 2011 – 16:07

Editor's Choice

Micro Mart magazine in the UK featured a review of cloud syncing services at the beginning of March. Soocial was among them and we managed to win the Editor’s Choice award for overall performance. The magazine mentioned our comprehensive services, our active development and the good pricing as our key factors to success (although they said we also do calendar syncing, which we don’t!).

We’re glad to be acknowledged for offering a good service in the contact syncing business.

Let us know what the reasons for you are to use the Soocial Address Book, we’ll be happy to hear them

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Versioning for your contacts

January 13, 2011 – 15:05

Review changes made over time to your contacts

Yes, we’ve done it.

Silently, but we have.

We’ve just added individual history to your contacts.

Versioned contacts: you know, for that time you accidentally deleted someone you didn’t meant to.

Of course in Soocial you’ve always had your whole address book safely stored in a backup – but now you can also view, restore and revert individual versions of contacts.

We’ve just added a way for you to review changes made over time to your contacts. This is a big step towards creating a time machine for your address book. We’re not 100% there yet but close.

You can now view the history of changes made to any contact. Whether that contact has been changed on your iPhone, via Gmail or in our webapp – you can see what changed, when and via what device. Also you are able to restore to any version of the contact.

See the below screenshots for more examples:

Contact version history

Choose the history button to view changes made to a contact
(Click to see larger screenshot)

View an old version of a contact before restoring

By Stefan Fountain | Posted in Home | Comments (7)

Frog Driven Development

December 22, 2010 – 13:05

Last weekend a guest post about Soocial went up on 24waystostart.com. 24 ways to start is an advent calendar for Entrepreneurs – they’re having 24 different background stories and motivational pieces about startups and running internet focussed companies. 24 ways to start is setup and by @davestone, @joshr and @aegirthor and there are some pretty interesting articles to read.

The story about Soocial is called Frog Driven Development have a read and let us know what you think. The post outlines our efforts at developing our Outlook plugin and gives an honest outline of what we’ve gone through to develop this. It’s not exactly flattering to ourselves but think it’s a nice way to reflect on what we’ve developed and how we’ve managed to get things back on track.

Go to the article to read it: Frog Driven Development

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New picture tool in contact editor

December 9, 2010 – 18:05

We’ve just released a new tool in our web application that allows you to edit and crop images for your address book. This has been a much requested feature and we’re happy to be able to announce this.

Adding photos

Now you can easily add photos to contacts in your address book. Right now we are storing one photo per contact with a maximum size of 160×160 pixels. And we also provide an easy way for you to select a contact gravatar (if available on the contact’s email address).

How it works

You can upload pictures from your computer or choose the contacts gravatar image (What’s Gravatar?). If you choose to upload a picture you can grab a file from your computer and then you can crop and choose a particular area of your picture to use as the photo for that contact.

Image upload now in Soocial's contact editor

Contact editor let's you crop and select your photo for your contacts

Try it out!

Hop over to Soocial.com, login and browse through your address book and add your contacts gravatars or upload pictures for them.

Next steps

Of course this is a work in progress and we are looking into adding the following:

  • Adding twitter images
  • Automatically grabbing gravatar or twitter images (and adding it to your address book)
  • Saving the versions of images per contact (so have multiple images over time)

Please let us know your thoughts and what you would like to see in our contact editor.

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New Soocial Outlook client for Office 2010

November 18, 2010 – 16:34

Soocial Outlook sync client adds support for Office 2010.

We’ve been supporting Outlook contacts sync for quite a while now but it’s been a real struggle to support all the platforms we’ve wanted to. We’ve recently released a new Outlook version that supports (nearly all) the desired versions of Office and Windows. The one platform we are still working on is supporting Office 64bit.

System requirements

The new client works nicely with Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (Both 32 and 64 bit) and Outlook 2003, 2007 and 2010 (32 bit).

Fixes / upgrades in this version

In addition to the extra platform support of course many other bugs and issues were fixed as well:

  • Support for Outlook 2010.
  • Support for Windows XP, Vista and 7 on both 32 and 64 bit.
  • Fixed the 20010 error which was triggered when contacts had distribution groups within their list.
  • Fixed an issue where the application would in some circumstances create duplicates or replace contact data with wrong information (when updating contact’s info) or deleting the wrong contacts (this was a problem with the previous algorithm).
  • More stable integration with native Outlook contacts store.
  • Fixed an issue that the application wouldn’t allow Windows XP to shut down.
  • Fixed a rogue “Already running” error: when prompted to restart the application, the application will restart in the background.
  • Many other small bug fixes and subtle UI changes.

Download

The current version is 1.2.3.0, please use the update button in your existing Outlook client to download or for new installs use this link.

Feedback

Feedback as always is possible through the application itself, our support email or use Soocial’s community support site for more help.

Known issues

Warning: Some users that have Outlook connected with Exchange report (major) duplication of their contacts. We do not recommend using Soocial if your contacts are stored on or synced with an exchange server.

Some users have also reported a minor bug that the Soocial client will throw 20015 errors – asking you to restart the app. We are working hard on narrowing down this problem and will be fixing it ASAP.

By Stefan Fountain | Posted in Home | Comments (5)
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