April 30, 2008

New Feature: Share This Wine

posted by Chris in Snooth

Thanks to a little graphic design work, and a lot of code monkey love, you may have noticed some new links under the images on the wine detail pages.

Share links

The top link will add/remove wine images, as usual. But what about those new links below? Looks like there’s a discussion going on about this wine. If I check it out by clicking the green link, I go to the official Snooth Talk post about the Razor’s Edge Shiraz vint. 2005. If a discussion hasn’t been started, the link is grey, and you can be the one to kick off the party.

Right between those links is another button, “share this wine.” I think HondaJohn might like this one, so I can send him a Snooth message with the wine as an attachment!

Share Wine Bubble

The wine attachment in a message has a special style that looks like this:

Wine Share Message

You can click on these sharable objects to go to the pages they reference. We will use this style to allow you to share other things in the future. As we say here, the Snoothabilities are endless!

Chris Carpita is a software engineer at Snooth, Inc. He makes sure the trains run on time, whilst building new tracks and improving the cleanliness and service features of existing lines. He also likes K2’s, DP’s, Coney Island, and Indy films.

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April 4, 2008

Calling all Contacts

posted by Chris in Snooth

This week saw the release of a new site feature: Snooth’s Friend Importer. This works very much like you would expect from websites like Facebook, Linked In, Orkut, etc. There are some enticing buttons in the sidebar of a few relevant pages that look like this:

Invite Friends Button

There is some contention about this, but I love this image. The little smiling Yahoo guy looks like he’s ready to party, and he can go all night long, then have a big diner breakfast and shoot some hoops. You can almost hear your friends clamoring for your attention. Don’t be shy, click it!

So then, you go to the usual invitation form, but who has time to type email addresses? There are four buttons to the right, representing the four most popular webmail services. Then you can do the time-honored web 2.0 routine of putting in your name and password, which is done over secure https protocol, and we’ll grab your contacts for you. If all goes well, you see something like this:

Friend Importer

Whoa, looks like I had some Snoother friends I didn’t even know about! (I should probably friend my boss). So I can do that, and then select a bunch of people below to invite to Snooth. After I scroll down and submit, a message gets sent out, and if they join, we get friended automatically.

I was a bit skeptical about these invitations myself, but I send out a small batch yesterday while testing the feature, and I got two people to sign up. If you want to spread the word about Snooth, now’s your chance!

Chris Carpita is a software engineer at Snooth, Inc. He makes sure the trains run on time, whilst building new tracks and improving the cleanliness and service features of existing lines. He also likes K2’s, DP’s, Coney Island, and Indy films.

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