April 2012
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Readable RSS for Safari →
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What is Readable RSS? It is an extension for Safari. It enhances Safari’s RSS feature. Beyond making RSS feeds easier to read, you get a fresh, uncluttered experience. Enjoy it in full-screen mode. Indulge with bigger text. Everything works beautifully.
I’m a big fan of using the built in features if at all possible. Safari’s built in support for RSS has thus far been far from...
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SGPlus => Streamified
You may already know, especially if you’ve been reading our blog, that what started as a product called “Start Google Plus” is now evolving into something new. What was originally a simple browser extension to transfer photos from Facebook to Google+ quickly grew to a full-fledged service that combined multiple social networks into one simplified stream. This service ultimately became the...
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Streamified iOS 1.3: Notifications, oGraph,...
We just realized there’s a bug in the release that affects push notifications. Everything else is functional and we’re already submitting a 1.3.1 release to fix the problem. We’re sorry for the inconvenience and we’ll let you know when it’s available!
If you haven’t already seen the news on our social networks, our latest iOS update (1.3, for those of you keeping...
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Introducing the Streamified Digest
One of the Streamified team’s favorite features is our in-app support for reading great content. Whether it comes to our iOS device via Google Reader integration, a stream created from a supported blog, or a link shared from a friend on Twitter or Facebook, we love finding cool stuff to read. In fact, you might be able to say we’re a little addicted.
This Friday, we’re launching the Streamified...
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Streamified & oGraph - An Upcoming Partnership
Last week, we submitted our Streamified iOS app update to the iTunes App Store! We’re very excited about this update and we think it has a lot of new, great additions.
One special feature is our new integration with Facebook’s Open Graph (oGraph). You may have already seen posts on Facebook profiles and the news feed from social readers; one popular application is the Washington Post...
March 2012
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What Is This Frame?!: An Apology, & An...
Last weekend, we introduced a new toolbar that was intended to help you and your friends share interesting content more easily. However, in our excitement to get it up and running, we forgot a key step in the process: telling our users about the toolbar itself, which appears whenever you share a link or a photo from Streamified or Start Google Plus. We should have let you know about this in...
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What I Learned: From World Traveling Programmer...
As I sit down to write this it comes as a surprise, even to myself, that it has taken me so long. The truth is, I simply have not had the time. The last 6 months have been a journey of epic proportions, taking me from a shared flat with a French roommate in the sunny Mediterranean, to living out of a car in Ireland, to an office in South America, and finally into San Francisco. During this time, I...
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Clarity of Vision: Reflecting on Leading a Startup
I never quite understood the idea of a “company mission” before. Those trite water-cooler phrases seemed to have so little connection to the real world. They always brought to mind the movie Office Space, where the easy-to-hate faceless corporation Initech is represented by a workplace banner: “is this good for the company?”
In the tech startup world, there seems to be this unspoken code of...
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Changing Newsreading with Streamified
You may have noticed that in the iTunes App Store, we’re listed under the “News” category and not “Social Networking,” like you might expect. After all, our application did have its roots in Zane’s SGPlus browser extension, which integrated Google+ with Facebook and Twitter. So why this categorization?
In today’s increasingly mobile society, the way that we get our news is significantly different...
February 2012
6 posts
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Using Analytics to Pinpoint Errors
Streamified is a large, multifaceted app that can be different things to different people. For some, it is a way to keep up with Facebook and Twitter. For others, it is an effective social reader. Other users find themselves utilizing the application primarily for posting new content. Using Flurry analytics (which lets us see the usage of the app), what we have been looking to maximize is...
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The State of Streamified - 1.0.0 and Beyond
Streamified began as a one-person operation with a vision for what could be. However, it quickly became clear that no one person can be artist, designer, coder and more all wrapped into one. Any good app must, by the very scope of the idea, be the result of more than one person. As we grew, the app grew with us.
Part of my role as the founder of Streamified is to manage the way that this project...
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A Tale of Two Devices
Even as we continue to work with Apple to get the iOS version of Streamified in the App Store, we are asking Android users to be a little more patient. Here’s more on our development plans for the Android platform and why we have made the decisions we have. It is impossible to jump onto any mobile technology-related blog without witnessing an iPhone vs. Android discussion. It seems as...
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Being Penny Poor
Monetization. Everybody, from users to investors, wants to know how an new app is going to make its money. If an app throws in advertising to cover its costs, it degrades the quality for users. If it sells premium content, it can come as an unpleasant surprise. If it costs an upfront fee, then users are taking a risk by downloading it.
In our opinion, all of that hides the more important thing:...
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Streamified in App Store Review Queue
Yesterday we submitted the universal (iPhone + iPad) Streamified app to Apple for approval. If this process goes smoothly, we’ll be shooting for a Feb 14th launch date. We hope you’re as excited for the impending launch as we are. There are still so many things we want to build and implement in Streamified, but it is time to release our creation into the wild and see what all you mobile users...
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A Stream By Any Other Name
When we first settled on the name “Streamified,” many months ago, it was the result of much discussion between us and a number of posters on my Google+ page. We wanted to capture the many different personal and interesting things around the web as “streams” within a mobile application. Still, it begged the question: what exactly is a “stream,” in this sense? We’ve seen much talk of timelines,...
January 2012
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Enter Streamified, Stage Right
Here in San Francisco, mecca of the tech industry, it is prudent to be able to package your idea into a single buzzword-laden sentence. “Streamified is a mobile social network aggregation app coming out of stealth and onto the iOS platform first,” I hear myself saying. It sounds so neat and tidy, yet it hardly captures the story behind the app.
Why does the world need more social network stuff?...
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