Friday, January 22, 2010

New! E-mail Submission

Hi everyone,

We're happy to announce that you can now post Udorsements on the go, by sending them in via e-mail! Everyone has a private e-mail address they can send their udorsements to. You can find yours by going to the settings page and scrolling down until you see this:



You create a new udorsement by sending an e-mail to the address listed.  Put the udorsement text in the Subject line and add the picture as an attachment.  Mark #hotwords and @usernames with # and @, just like you would on udorse.com:



If your phone can send picture messages, you can use that too. They'll show up on udorse.com and be shared exactly like udorsements you make from the website:




Have fun!

New Tag Interface!

Hi everyone!

Over the past week we've rolled out a newer, slimmer version of our web Add a Udorsement interface that should run more smoothly on older computers and older browsers.  It should be noticeably faster and less jumpy.

Rather than marking hotwords in pink in the entry field and requiring users to select them with our Make it Hot button, we're adopting the shorthand conventions we use on Twitter. So you can mark a #hotword by putting a # in front of it, and mark a user's name by starting with an @.  So an entry like:



will become:



where @Trevor is a link to my udorsements and #EmpireStateBuilding is a link to all the udorsements of the Empire State Building.

Of course, we know you liked the Make it Hot button, so it still works:



becomes:



Hope that makes things a little easier for everyone.  Have fun!

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Welcome to the Udorse Blog

Here is the part where we say things.