SocialGO Owners

Hi All,

Today we are commissioning the new video servers and to do so we have had to suspend video playing for a few hours.   You can still upload videos during this period. 

Please check back in a few hours for the latest update.

Hopefully you will enjoy much better speeds when these servers are in place.

Alex

Hi there :)

For the last few weeks there have been complaints of blogs not showing in the Magazine and Magazine Categories; after some investigation it was found that the problem was related to the way in which the system was handling TimeZone information.

After the investigation, some time was spent fixing the timezone system to allow for greater control by network owners and by the network users themselves.

The Upgrades are as follows

1. Network Owners can set the default timezone for their networks in http://my.socialgo.com: This will be the default timezone that the user is given should the have an invalid country selection - Otherwise the Country selected defines the Timezone.
2. When a New User signs up; the system now approximates the timezone based on the country selected. (The US like Australia and Russia are all fairly large *cough*, so New York is the default TZ in the states and the same for the larger continents as defined by the ISO2 standards)
3. Blogs Publish Date; will now default to the actual time in your personally selected Timezone.
4. The User is able to select their personal TimeZone from their "My Location" section, this then directly affects what they can and cant see in the magazine.  Unfortunately this was causing too much confusion and potential for confusion; and thus was removed. By default, the network now uses the TimeZone that is defined by the owner in the admin system.
   

If you have any questions; please feel free to post them in the forum here at owners or on http://getsatisfaction.com/socialgo. and rather not PM me, that way we can deal with your questions in the open and thereby helping other Network Owners.

Regards

Ross C

We have been busy dealing with feedback from our BETA networks and we are thrilled with the response we have had so far. We are moving into open BETA soon and are working hard to ready outselves for that.

We pushed an update today to the networks which includes :

• A revised forum. One piece of feedback which came from of our owners' was regarding the forum both from an aethetic and functionality point of view. We have spent the past week working on these and have pushed an update to all networks today which will give you new forum functionality.
  
• You can now differentiate between summary and full view in blog posts by pressing the little Page Break icon. It is the last icon in the second row on the blog edit screen.
  
• Notifications now display correctly in Profile and Notification inbox view.
  
• The search engine has been upgraded to include more content types. This will continue to be improved in coming months.
  
• Members now have individual RSS feeds which other members can subscribe to.
  
• The public activity on the homepage is now available an RSS feed on all networks.
• Several tweaks have been made to the network design template. In order to take advantage of this, you will need to login to the admin center and re-submit your design.  (They are not major so this is completley optional)
  
• We now support WMV format video files.
• + 100's of other little tweaks.....

As we are still in BETA we still very much rely on your feedback so keep it coming. We are also on Twitter now so please follow us -> http://www.twitter.com/socialgo

If you are interested in trying out the API then message me through here.