danielkan,
July 29, 2009 – 9:46 pm
Whatup Los Angeles,
Daniel here, just checking in from Hollywood. For those of you who don’t know me, I just graduated from Claremont McKenna College and joined UserVoice a couple weeks ago. It’s really good to be a part of the team (take that economy) and we are going to take it to a whole new level. But enough about me, on to something more exciting…
UserVoice just touched down at LAX and is getting ready for a big day tomorrow at Twiistup 6, where Rich will be speaking. After the trek down to SoCal and a nice ride to the Universal Hilton, we are ready to hit up Twiistup. Being back in LA is excellent and an 80 degree weather break from San Francisco is exactly what the doctor ordered (yes, I am used to the heat, having gone to school in Claremont).
This conference is going to be awesome, with 12 companies showcased, us included, and discussion topics with a lot of relevance to young entrepreneurs. With so many cool companies down here, we are looking forward to getting to meet the next generation of promising startups.
If you are going to be there, come find us! We will be setting up a table and Rich will be the one in orange. Also, shout out to Francisco and Jeremiah for setting this up. It’s gonna be great.
- Daniel
Richard White,
July 20, 2009 – 1:05 pm
I’ve heard people caution fledgling entrepreneurs that building a business is a marathon, not a sprint.
There’s certainly some truth to that, but I believe it’s more aptly described as a relay race, an especially grueling relay race where the course itself changes dramatically with each hand off of the baton. Each leg brings new obstacles, and demands that the runners develop skills they didn’t even know existed.
It’s with that in mind that I sit down to write a farewell note to my friend, co-founder and eternal optimist Marcus Nelson as he leaves the UserVoice team to pursue his next dream.
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thomasknoll,
July 6, 2009 – 7:16 pm
It always feels so good to hear from excited customers! =) We LOVE listening to our users, and have been busy working on new features and improvements to make it easier for you to listen and respond to yours!
Below are many of changes we made in June based on your feedback :
Translations
- Added: Japanese & Chinese Translations (read about our trip to Japan)
- Improved: French Translation
- Improved: Nederlands Translation
- Improved: German translation
API
- Fixed: Suggestions api call
- Fixed: API returns both SSO display name and guid
- Fixed: XML fields return guid when appropriate
Admins
- Added: Admins now receive email notifications for new suggestions. These can be turned on/off in your profile settings (view)
- Added: Admins can now set the default translation on a per-forum basis
- Added: Search/filtering in suggestion view for admins
- Added: Admins can now define the default feedback sort (popular, hot, new, accepted, declined) for each forum (view)
- Improved: The interface for managing admins–including the ability to search through existing admins, add new ones, or promote to account owner (view)
- Improved: Interface notification after adding admin
- Improved: The users table now displays all SSO and active users
- Improved: more info links on http://[account].uservoice.com/upgrade
SSO
- Improved: ‘Account owner’ parameter added to SSO
- Improved: Added ‘logout’ feature for SSO users
- Fixed: bug related to associating SSO accounts to 3rd party accounts
Notifications
- Added: Status emails now include avatars beside comments
- Improved: More informative notifications when deleting an account
- Improved: Interface notification for posted comment
- Improved: Links in live-update emails
- Improved: Interface notification for posted comment
End-User
- Added: Forgot password link for users who signed in using 3rd party, now returns specific 3rd party service in error message
- Fixed: bug resulting in 404s on password reset link
- Fixed: bug when attempting to login using a non-existent account
- Fixed: widget display bug in Chrome
- Fixed: bug related to atom feeds
Marcus Nelson,
June 8, 2009 – 10:07 pm
The last 48 hours have been quite a whirlwind adventure traveling to Tokyo with Dave McClure and the fine folks at Geeks On A Plane.
Geeks On A Plane leverages the combined cross border networks of Dave McClure, Founders Fund and Web2Asia to offer attendees an opportunity to accelerate the process of meeting and connecting with key contacts in Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai’s tech and investment sector.
On this trip, UserVoice we’re meeting a slew of entrepreneurs and various start-ups to find out how we can better help companies with their Japanese and Chinese customers. To demonstrate our sincere interest in moving into the Asian market, we launched a Japanese translation of UserVoice today! We’ll be active to seek out opportunities to partner with local companies for a localized user experience on UV.
If you’d like to follow the action, please feel free to watch our activity on Twitter or the FaceBook fan page.
