July 29th, 2008 Joe
We did it! Last night we finally launched the new version of iubo as a public beta. Anyone who wants an account can now get one without needing an invite.
I hope you all like the new features, remember to send us any thoughts and suggestions to feedback@iubo.co.uk
Cheers
Joe
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June 6th, 2008 Joe
Work is continuing on the next update to iubo. Things are going smoothly with it and it should be released in the near future! We have a rough internal release date, but I’m not making any official public dates yet just in case. Its starting to look pretty cool already.
On the Business side of things, we’re still getting everything up and running, dealing with banks etc. We’ve entered iubo into a couple of business / entrepreneur competitions, i’ll let you know if anything ever comes of them.
Finally, we’ve set up a twitter account for iubo, go on follow @iuboteam you know you want to! You can tweet us any questions or report bugs to us that way as well. If your question requires more than 140 characters you can always get in touch through the usual email: feedback@iubo.co.uk
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February 29th, 2008 Joe
I want to take some time to let you all know what we’re currently working on, and where iubo is heading. We’re taking a big leap forward with our next release; you’ll still be able to use iubo the same way you can today, but we’re adding a major new slant to the site. Sharing and community, all based around the wonders of search and getting organised.
Each user will also have their own public page, this is where all their public items are viewable/searchable from. These will be accessible from http://yourusername.iubo.co.uk, its basically one page with your entire digital life on it (depending on your privacy settings of course!), or your own personal search engine about you!
Here is some screenshots of what to expect:
These are the main things that you can expect in the coming months from iubo.
Cheers
Joe
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February 10th, 2008 Joe
A lot of people have been asking for the ability to import data since day one. We have be planning to do this from the start, it just took a little while to get everything up and running enough to be able to do it. Well today is the day, we’re excited to announce that you can now import data directly into iubo from a number of sources.
When you import data, it subscribes you to that source as well, therefore iubo will automagically update your index whenever there is something new. The following can be imported:
- vCard files
( Import your contacts from gmail / most other address books in only a few steps!)
- Flickr
( Always have your latest flickr photos available when you need them)
- Digg
( Everything you’ve ever dugg, and will digg gets added to your index!)
- RSS Feeds
(Subscribe to the latest blogs, podcasts, news…anything with an RSS feed.)
If you subscribe to a podcast, you can even watch / listen to them right within iubo!
We’ll be adding more sources to pull data from in the near future. ( Delicious, Youtube, Vimeo are all in the works) If you have any other suggestions of places you want to subscribe to, let us know in the comments.
In this release, as well as importing data we also updated our design. I hope you all like it, we feel its a lot fresher looking and will allows us more flexibility for future features. There are now default saved searches as well, these will hopefully make it easier for new users to find their stuff quicker. Search has also been greatly improved, you can order your searches, search by specific type etc.
I’ve also completed a lot of back-end work on release #2, a lot of optimization, a whole new way of storing our data in the index and a few other things that will help with future development. We also moved to a better host (Media Temple), this will allow us to scale up as required in the future.
There were a few things we wanted to get into this release, but didn’t manage to; you’ll see most of these in release #3.
We’ve got massive plans for release #3, there is a lot to come, I wish I could tell you but you’ll just have to stick around and see.
Any bugs you find / suggestions you have let us know!
Cheers
Joe
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January 14th, 2008 Joe
Hey all,
The first release of iubo has been out a few weeks now, user up take seems to be decent for our current state. We’re loving hearing back from everyone, all the suggestions and support has been great! Keep it coming. Good to see people spreading the word about iubo, we really appreciate it.
Now that my exams are finished (last one was this morning!) I can get properly stuck into the next release. A lot of it has already been done since the start of the new year. So we’re on track to have it ready to roll out live in the next few weeks, so stay tuned. Quite a few cool features in this one, most of you know that importing is coming, but we’ve got a few other things we’re keeping a surprise 
Now that I am working on release #2 we’re starting to plan for what features will be in release #3, so keep your ideas coming in and we’ll see what we can do to get them into release #3.
Keep spreading the word!
Joe
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December 21st, 2007 Joe
Hey all,
We just sent out the first wave of invites. Check your spam boxes just in case we got caught up in the net!
More invites coming soon, so get your name on the list if you didn’t make this first wave.
Remember to give us lots of feedback on what you think at feedback@iubo.co.uk
Enjoy
Joe
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December 7th, 2007 Joe
We’re getting very close to opening up the beta now, we’re hoping sometime within the next week or 2. ( we want you guys in before Christmas!). Just pulling together the last few things now.
See you around
Joe
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September 16th, 2007 Joe
Welcome to the iubo blog!
Let me introduce myself; I’m Joe Finnigan, the lead (and only!) developer here at iubo. At iubo its only me and my partner Lynne McCormick, yup thats right its just the 2 of us who are running things around here. Lynne is the site administrator and support master ( If you’ve got any problems with anything to do with the site, send her off a wee email and let her know!), while I take care of keeping the site up, developing new features and squishing bugs when needed.
The purpose of this blog is to keep you all up-to-date with what is happening in the world of iubo (feature releases, updates etc). We also want to provide a platform for you to voice your ideas and suggestions! Anything you want to see, drop us an email at feedback@iubo.co.uk or simply leave a comment on one of our blog posts. We believe that iubo should become whatever our users need it to become, so we want to hear anything and everything you’ve got!
So at the moment I’m working to get iubo in a state where we can start letting users in to try it out. We’re getting pretty close, just got a few more things to get done and ticked off the list before we let you loose on it. Right now the best thing you can do is put your email address on the invite list, and we’ll let you know when you can get in and start playing about with iubo.
We’re gonna try get a video demo put up in the next few weeks probably, so you can all see a sneak peak into what iubo is actually like to use, and give you a better idea about what it actually is. It’s really hard to explain it all in words, because you can use it for such an unlimited amount of uses, we’ll try to give a wide range of examples in the video.
We’ll keep you updated!
Cheers
Joe
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