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October 20th, Significant Kevo updates

October 20th, 2006 · 1422 Comments

For more than the last month and a half the Kevo tech team has been working on continuing to execute our grand vision of creating the best place for people to find and share information about famous and prominent people.

Today, we’re one step closer.

We’ve just uploaded a significant update, but let’s get right to the point:

  • news feeds from around the web

you can add a feed from any news source or blog about a person and have Kevo syndicate and compile that information

  • new design

we’ve visually simplified kevo , increased the accessibility of the information and lots of other user interface enhancements in all sections

  • customized user updates

for any profile you’ve selected as your favorite, you will not receive a list of recent updates, pending updates, and news related to those people. You also can organize and categorize your favorites with tags.

  • channels sorting by tags

you can drill down in each channel with a tag cloud specific to that channel

  • profile tagging has been moved to the user pages

The success of del.icio.us and its tags is because it makes tagging a selfish activity. A user will tag things with more quality because its how they organize their own collection of links. We’ve applied the same philosophy to kevo and now your favorite profiles are tagged and categorized in your user pages, then on all other pages you can see tag clouds which were created by many users tagging profiles.

Categorization has been renamed and simplified into just channels. The sub category functionality has been replaced with the ability to tag things and create folksonomies

  • addition of multiple page types

A user can now create blog and feed type content on any profile. A blog syndicates its own RSS feed of its content.

  • Significant enhancements to see recent and pending updates

Our entire karma and rating system was upgraded and integrated into the overall site architecture better. Its now very easy to see items , rate and comment on them in one single page which is now called “recent updates” for approved items and “pending updates” for pending items.

Each profile, profile page, image, and user has their own “recent” and “pending” sections so you can keep a keen eye on everything that is happening within kevo, rate and comment on it.

(in a cool ajax fashion)

  • Topics

Users are now able to create a general topic about any profile in the community section of that profile. Let the gossip commence! Additionally, topics can be seen in the main community tab and comments made on any contribution are related to the profile of that contribution.

In the next week we will begin doing marketing of the site and releasing a “launch” press release. Keep tuned and would LOVE to hear your (yes you) feedback.

Tags: Feature Updates

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