Release 1.1
Lately we’ve been working hard on some major changes and improvements. Lots of stuff is rewritten completely to be faster & better. Have a look at what’s new, then dive in to try it out.
Search
In a Google era we expect to be able to search anything, and find the answer in no time. We’ve worked hard to get the right feeling of the contact search. As you start type, the list of contacts filters away the contact that does not match what you write. If there’s no one in your own list of contacts that matches, you can search the global directory. Just give it a try, and please do come with suggestions of how we can make it even better.
Life Stream
Get the latest updates from your contacts. We start of with the twitter flow. A simple thing as a few status updates can make a whole lot of difference when you contact someone. It might make you call instead of email, or text instead of calling, and works well as an ice breaker if you haven’t been in touch for a while.
Speed
It may be one of the most, of not the most important aspects of an address book. Something that you use so often have to be fast. The time it takes from you think ‘I should call him/her’ to the action should be minimal. Everything is now loading with ajax which makes every page load much faster than before.
Favs
We all have some people we contact more than others. As the contact list get longer it’s even more important to have quick access to your favorites. Right at top of the list you have access your favorites so you can easily switch between all contacts and your favs.
Profile
In a try to create a better overview and faster access to the way you want to communicate with a person we compressed the profile, with icons at the top instead of headlines and lots of scrolling. This also makes better place to the very cool life stream :)
The Wizard
Something we’ve wanted for quite some time but never got pushed all the way, a step-by-step introduction, that goes through everything from adding stuff to the profile, finding people on social networks and so on. The essentials. Think this will help to get a better understanding to get started.
Login For Everyone
ambadoo is here for everyone, and while we’ve been pushing for letting people use their existing facebook account to sign up, in the belief that it would be more convenient we now change to old-style email/password to enabling anyone to use ambadoo, facebook user or not. You can then connect to facebook later to easily find friends and more. So welcome everyone onboard. Sign up below.
Other good stuff enhanced.
- html5 input-types, which gives you an adjusted keyboard.
- privacy switch, big and visible.
- icons in the menu, to please that eye.
- account center, for settings and connections.
- maps on addresses + links to google maps, for fast directions.
- add all, when adding friends from networks.
- email notifications when someone adds you. So, that’s what we’ve been up to lately. Go check it out!