Bookmark 1.0.9 Released

It’s that time again. Our super-speed release code-octopi have turned out the latest iteration of the Bookmark.com browser sync application. Once again we’re ever grateful to our growing team of happy beta testers. We’re happy to see people from countries across the globe merrily syncing with Bookmark, and without your feedback we wouldn’t be improving so fast.

So, to the nitty gritty – what have we managed to roll out in the just-over-a-week since last release?

  • Internet Explorer 9 support!  10 million beta testers can’t be wrong (their number, not ours…yet!). We’re really pleased to see the increased web standards support from Microsoft, and the competition in the browser market has never been stronger.
  • Finding the upgrade process too ‘clicky’. We’ve streamlined it now, so you don’t have to keep answering the same questions every update. This should make life easier for our awesome beta community.
  • History Sync is now tied to your auto-sync schedule. Don’t ask me why it wasn’t before, but sometimes decisions just make themselves, and have to be unmade.
  • Close button now minimizes to tray on Windows. One-too-many people (myself included) kept accidentally killing our sync. If you want to exit (why would you?!) you can right-click the systray icon.
  • Other stuff: crash reporting improvements, algorithm speed increases, graphical tweaks, and all the other good stuff you never see that makes the Bookmark.com experience that little bit slicker.

So – that’s about it for this time. If you’re interested what’s coming down the pipeline, our mobile app polishing process is in full swing – expect big things in the coming week or two on that front. We’re also working to add add add features to the Web Application, and development of new platform support is steaming along the tracks.

Thanks for all the support, feedback, tweets, love and everything that helps the team here know we’re working towards something awesome.

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Bookmark 1.0.8 Released

So it’s been a full week since we released 1.0.7 and we’ve … hold on … it’s only been 2 days since we last released.  Well, as is the way sometimes with a beta product, we found a fairly large bug that was significant enough to release a quickfix version update in time for the weekend.

Your data was never at risk (it never is thanks to our backup systems and easy restore process), but a perfect storm of certain elements could lead to your bookmarks being wiped every time you sync. Pretty annoying.

Just for clarity, it required the following: Bookmark 1.0.6/7, Firefox 3.6, A malformed URL in a bookmark, other browsers synced on the same machine (IE, Safari).   When you had these things, a cascade *sometimes* happened where Firefox sent some weird data and everything disappeared. Shazam!  We didn’t catch this in our QA process as it happened randomly. Software’s like that sometimes.

So, here it is, new and shiny. Bookmark 1.0.8.  As a bonus for our Mac users we’ve given you a nicer background in the installation package, so you don’t feel so bad about the rapid updates.

As always, feedback is more than appreciated, and let us know any and all thoughts on the (rapidly) evolving Bookmark.com

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Bookmark 1.0.7 Released

Our team of development ninjas have been toiling away for the past week to bring you the latest updates to Bookmark.com’s cross-platform browser sync.

We’ve been listening to the awesome feedback from our beta users, and we’re super happy to report that we’ve fixed lots of the issues that were troubling you.

Here’s a quick summary of the changes so you know what you’re getting:

  • Fixed Mac-specific problem connecting to Firefox and Safari. Was a biggie, but we’re confident it’s running smoothly now.
  • Successfully updated some handling that was making multiple copies of bookmarks. Wow, we’ll admit that was annoying.
  • We now DO auto-synchronise when you ask us to after installing for the first time. The app was rather rudely ignoring that request.
  • Made the colours prettier on Mac application. We apologise for bringing some ugly to your beautiful OS.
  • Added a bunch of nicer icons for functionality. We firmly believe that ‘looks nicer’ also means ‘works better’ (at least it feels that way)
  • The update notification now runs at synchronize time rather than on startup. Modern laptops spend most of their time sleeping (like our devs!), so we find the application is rarely restarted. Should help you with quick updates through the beta period.
  • A whole bunch of technobabble to do with ‘exception handling’, ‘registry order’, ‘UTF8 tag handling’. It’s great stuff, I assure you.

So, there you have it. Not bad for a week’s work. You can either restart your Bookmark desktop app and it will kindly notify you of the upgrade, or head on over to the Beta site and download the fresh release.

Happy syncing, and thanks again for the feedback.

Team Bookmark.

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Hello world!

Welcome to the shiny new blog for Bookmark.com (pending the shiny, namely a new theme).  In case you’ve just landed here, Bookmark.com is a cross-browser, cross-platform bookmark sync service.  What does that mean? Well, if you have more than one computer you can access your bookmarks and browsing history across all of them, even if one’s a Mac and one’s a Windows PC.

Great! I hear you say. Well, we do more. We have native apps for iPhone&iPad, Android, BlackBerry and Symbian, meaning you can have your bookmarks at your fingertips wherever you are. To round it off, you can login at Bookmark.com to access and manage your bookmarks and profiles – on holiday in an internet cafe for example, you can still access your data.  Oh, did we mention – it’s Free.

We’re really enjoying the beta period at the moment. When you’ve been slaving on something for a long time, out of the critical eyes of the masses, your feedback circle tends to be pretty small.  We’re at the point where we’re really happy with the state of the service, we’re confident in the security and integrity of your data, and it’s great to be getting the feedback from Real People™.  We’re extremely grateful to our beta users who are helping us shape the service and putting up with a few wonky edges.  For our part we’re trying to keep the ridiculous but progressive pace of fully QA’d weekly releases. Can you say ‘Agile’.

We’re doing all we can to make sure this is a 2-way thing, and hence the blog. Here I’m going to try and keep you up to date with what we’re working on, what we’re hearing and anything else of interest in the bookmark sync arena.  We love to see comments, and we’re also really open to suggestions on topics you’d like us to write about.

Remember, if you have a problem with the service (software, mobile apps, website, etc), head on over to our support group where you can rant, praise or otherwise discuss what’s on your mind.

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