Licorize' Blog

A blog post by Pietro about curation and Licorize: http://pietro.open-lab.com/2010/09/28/curation-beyond-social-media/

In today’s Licorize update the most “spectacular” update is the addition of a gaming aspect when doing the weekly review. And also:

- All tags are always visible – those in use are outlined.

- Better project booklets.

There are also many small usability improvements. Thanks to Mark Boas for many usability improvement suggestions; these are some of his notes already implemented:

- Explanation on checkbox on strip rollover.

- Explanation on bulk actions.

- Rename Kanban for non experts.

- Alert when booking twice about the time of first booking.

- Remind me later do some notification on the bookmarked page.

Finally, at the end of the review, visibility has improved

In this minor update:

- better handling of “remind me later”, and also the bookmarklet and scripts for this action – see here.

- iPhone / iPod (and iPad) “compatible” instructions for Safari bookmarklets

- provided scripts to add a “send to Licorize” button to your pages – see here

- improved the web site illustrations

- improved actions speed

- bug fix on import of very long notes from Evernote

And hundreds of other little improvements… .

LAST MINUTE UPDATE: New filters! The filtering system has been revised and simplified.

Latest Licorize update includes a powerful “Kanban-like” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanban) page that lets you distribute “strips” (bookmarks, to-do’s etc.) between teams and people by simply dragging and dropping the strips around, as you see in the picture below.

You can access the Kanban page from the team editor, and also from the actions combo on the home.

Today’s update has some considerable improvements:

- added LinkedIn integration

- web site thumbnails are preserved and generated also for non bookmarks strips, and also Twitter and LinkedIn status updates

- projects now have also a description, which will be sent in invitations

- invitation manager has been simplified

Have fun!

Evernote is a great tool capable of receiving information from an amazingly wide spectrum of devices. As Evernote corporation has an open program (“trunk”) for integrating with applications, we worked to obtain all the public information sent to your Evernote profile in the Licorize timeline – without any effort from the user.

Then all your Evernote notes can also be distributed in projects and be part of the build up of new ideas, and can be shared in Licorize.

Today  we updated Licorize so that it now supports Evernote integration. To enable it, just go to settings, a little window will ask you to login to Evernote and authorize Licorize.

All notes from public notebooks will be imported, at the date of their last update.

Images will be appropriately resized, mp3s will be associated with a player, and so on.

So if for example you take a picture of a text from a mobile (a typical Evernote usage), Evernote will synch with your mobile and extract the text. You will find the picture and the text in your Licorize timeline, without doing anything!

We wish to thank Evernote and their development team for support.

A new Licorize release is now online, the major features are:

- You can now enable Twitter synchronization.

- You can “pin” strips as sticky: they will remain on top until unpinned.

- Progress on public projects, i.e. “booklets”.

- Licorize runs also in HTTPS and gives no warnings when bookmarking HTTPS sites (update your bookmarklet if you are using that and not the plugins/extensions)

Several bug fixes and small feature requests, as from the community site.

We just released the beta version of Licorize. The main updates concern:

- the enroll process – simplified

- team editing and inviting – more powerful and friendly

- bookmarklet for Opera

- defined the free and premium versions, and prices (see here)

There are also hundreds of small, local improvements.

New features that are almost there

There are some features that should be out really soon:

- Public project “booklets”

- Evernote integration

- Twitter integration

Features that will take a bit more

- Google (and generally, iCal) integration

- LinkedIn and Facebook integration

All feedback is welcome as always on the community forum:

http://community.licorize.com