Storyz

Storyz has undergone a Facelift!

wolfatthedoor — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:10:20 +0000

A cleaner, fresher look has been achieved with:

The homepage completely reshifting with the carousel removed and recently updated storyz and relevant posts are visible which you can also post to. The ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘wow!’ tabs have been removed and all navigation has been shifted to the right hand side panel. User profiles are also only visible when clicking their name though a story.

Storyz have a different style with the speech-like bubble removed and posts broken up with a single line

The slideshow now pops up onto the screen, rather than directing you to a new page. You can also a post on the same screen, again without waiting for a new page to load

Storyz are now displayed in a larger grid formation when browsing, however storyz in the inbox are displayed as they were previously one underneath the other, to display new posts added.

View these all these changes and explore for yourself at http://www.storyz.com

Storyz Widget Is Here!

wolfatthedoor — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:59:03 +0000

Go to http://www.clearspring.com/widgets/4a10f136209ab818 for the new Storyz widget!

The Storyz widget has very simple and stylish usability which is very similar to the Storyz web page. The difference, however, is that less functionality is available so it becomes faster to perform simple tasks, such as adding a comment to a story and viewing a story or profile.

The widget also provides quick clickable links to the Storyz site itself when you want to create storyz, view specific posts or add images and video.

You can easily download the widget which can be added to various locations, including:

Email
Facebook
iGoogle
Windows Live
Various Blogging Sites
Typepad
Vista Sidebar
Digg
Twitter

And many, many others.

So simply go to http://www.clearspring.com/widgets/4a10f136209ab818 and produce the specific code that you desire, copy, paste and simple, a Storyz widget.

Nielsen spot on

JT — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:15:28 +0000

Nielsen, the research agency, is spot on when they say “Advertising must be a conversation rather than a push model”, in their latest research report on social media entitled “Global Faces and Networked Places“. Could not agree more guys! Welcome to Storyz

Who are the real influencers?

JT — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 02:05:08 +0000

Although the Storyz blog is mainly intended to provide updates on features and functions of our service, we do come across some interesting research etc, and will provide update on this from time to time as posted by JT Klepp, the COO of Storyz. Find below an excerpt of the latest article, “Who are the real influencers”, as well as a link to the full article.

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Lots of people on the East Coast US have been busy looking into word of mouth marketing lately. “Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?” presents and in-depth study based on Cyworld, a popular social networking site in Korea. Cyworld is a great base to study, due to it’s abilities for members to “scrape” or copy other friends home page contents.

To learn more about the relevance this has for marketers, including some interesting facts on Twitter usage, follow this link.

A New Way To See Storyz

wolfatthedoor — Fri, 15 May 2009 06:37:00 +0000

New functionality and a changed appearance in Storyz means that navigating has been made much simpler!

A navigation bar has been added to the top of the page which you can see in the image below

This allows you to sort the storyz in many different ways without having to return to the home page, with “Popular Storyz” being the newest addition.

Popular Storyz are sorted by the number of views they receive from users.

Another change is that the most recently updated story is now placed first in the list, rather than at the end, making sure you can keep up to date more quickly.

Hello Android!

JT — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 06:06:18 +0000

Storyz has just released and Android version to the Android market. Funny enough only visible through the market place on the actual device and not on the web (Google is not quite there in terms of catching up with Apple), but it is there nonetheless. You can also download it from Mobango and pretty soon a few other sites.

The cool thing about this app is its direct access from the camera. I.e. you can take a picture, then hit the share button, and then you get directly access to creating a story from there. I.e. no need to fire up the app first. We hope you enjoy it and will send us your comments.

Not a Gravatar fan? No worries.

JT — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:19:56 +0000

Your profile picture is currently linked to Gravatar, a free site that is intended to save you time when you register. We have had a lot of request for people to have the ability to upload their own picture – and your wish has been granted. We have now added profile picture as a feature.

Reply via e-mail

JT — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:59:40 +0000

If you have been invited to a new story lately, you may have noticed a really cool new feature we call “In-email Reply”. Essentially you will see the latest post in the email with an image (if one has been posted), and you can type a response directly into the box and click ‘Post’ and it will initiate a process to post directly on the site. You can see how it works in the screen shot below:

The cool thing about this is that you never even have to leave your email program to contribute to storyz! We have also made it smart, so if you have not logged in to Storyz, you are taken to the log in screen when you hit ‘Post’, and the text is grabbed and posted correctly. If you are logged in, simply clicking ‘Post’ will post your comment and take you directly to the story.

Note that whether or not this works for you mainly depends on the security settings in your email client. We have tested it on a wide range of email clients, but in the end individual settings determines whether it works. Feel free to share your experiences with Comments in terms of how to adjust settings for various clients.

Check out the new iPhone app!

JT — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:22:07 +0000

We have kept busy and created a really cool new version of our iPhone app. Not only is it 6x faster than the original version, it is not a lot easier to use for browsing Featured or Big Storyz, as well as seeing who the Big Userz are this week. Below are some screenshots of the app:

Storyz in the news

JT — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 00:03:38 +0000

Celebrating the launch of our web site, we issued a press release about it. Along with the site, we launched the ability for brands to challenge users to a game of “storyz telling” where Storyz is used as a tool for people to participate in a campaign where you can win prizes, fame, etc. An example could be a competition like “Share your holiday” sponsored by a travel company, where you can use Storyz to show your friends pictures and video clips from your holiday, while your Storyz Pointz can actually be used for possibly winning a prize from the brand etc.

Here are some links to the articles that popped up:

The Next Twitter?
Storyz Launches Cross-Platform ‘Conversation’ Social Site
Storyz Beta-Launches Mobile Media-Sharing Service
Film news brief (search storyz)

I especially like this quote: “The iPhone app is very well done and it may be an early secret to its success if it can reach a critical mass. Being able to send photo messages to anyone on your friends list is a compelling offering that should interest marketers, who can involve the community with simple challenges that go out as branded viral messages. “