News sobees

Launched at Demo - Great Feedback, More Improvements

31 March 2009

March has been a great month for sobees!

First, and above all, we launched at Demo the most powerful social desktop aggregator (video and information available here). This version of sobees offers a greater level of flexibility and organization for a large number of internet services, such as Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, Digg, Flickr and Youtube. In addition, users can integrate news, photos, videos and other data from the Web.

We received lots of great feedback and reviews (PC World, PC Mag, VentureBeat ) following this release. Thanks for the support. Based on your feedback, we made two releases in March, mainly in order to improve the setup, which was creating some installation issues, to fix the Facebook connection and to improve the speed of some processes. We are currently working on a new release to address other feedback like the ribbon, which you tell us is taking up too much screen place.

In March we also attended two great conferences: SXSW and MIX09. We met lots of users and got direct feedback. MIX was also a good opportunity to discover Microsoft’s latest technologies, especially Silverlight 3.

March was, all in all, a very intensive and wonderful month. Our “takes aways”:

Tons of positive feedback. We are making the corrections and are moving in the right direction with the latest version of sobees.
The market for social network aggregation – on the desktop - is heating up
sobees is leading the market in terms of flexibility of the application, number of services and power. Our focus now will be on improving the user experience based on your feedback and making the application more robust.
We want to address the Mac users very quickly, and have started the development of a cross OS version.

Thanks for all the support!

© DEMO Conference

.NET Framework 3.5 SP1

28 January 2009

sobees runs on Windows 7, Vista and XP computers and requires .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. Since January 27th, .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is available in Windows update on Vista and XP (high priority update). It is already included in Windows 7 beta. If you have not installed .NET SP1 on your computer yet, we recommend to install it through Windows update prior to installing sobees. You can learn more about the content of Windows update here. If you want to check which .NET Framework is installed on your computer, just visit this website.

Windows 7 Beta

12 January 2009

Windows 7 is now publicly available in Beta. We have been using Windows 7 pre-beta on some computers since last October and it’s a great OS. The quality level of the beta is really impressive. But what makes us particularly excited about it is that sobees is compatible with Windows 7 and sobees installation experience is very smooth since .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 is included in Windows 7 Beta.
You can learn more about Windows 7 by visiting Windows 7 Team blog. Windows 7 public beta can be downloaded from the Windows page.

Are You a Celebrity?

12 November 2008

Type your name in our latest module "People & Celebrities" and check out? Or choose a name out of our list, and here is the result:

People

Of course, you can easily share news, videos, photos and tweets with your community. And next week there will be even more sharing possibilities.

Quantum Of Solace

31 October 2008

We just released a new module: Movies. It is pre-configured to retrieve information on the latest James Bond 007. But you can configure it to search any movie, film director, actor/actress… If you already installed sobees, just click “add” and you will see the new module in the list. Click on “run” to download and open it. Otherwise download sobees.

We will release a new module every week or so. Do you have a wish? Leave us a comment!