Cylive Team Blog

We’re back with more updates at our end. A new build was deployed last night which has several notable features, the biggest of them being the capability to log in using your facebook credentials. We also import your profile from Facebook. We are really excited about this feature. If the users log in via Facebook, they are just like a regular Cylive user - they can create their own content, rate content, comment on content and profiles…etc!

Here is the link to log-in using Facebook

Another addition is Email Subscription to Feedburner powered Cylive Updates. Simply enter your email, and leave the rest to Feedburner. You will receive an email every time content changes on Cylive.

Stay tuned for more updates!

Until the midnight of June 29th Pacific time, Cylive is running a best content contest. Users are encouraged to create interesting content, and the winners will be decided based on the unique views on their published content.

1. 1st Price of $250 cash to the Cylive user who posts ANY content between May 15, 2007 and June 30, 2007, which is FIRST to receive 10,000 views.

2. 2nd Price of $150 cash to the Cylive user who posts ANY content between May 15, 2007 and June 30, 2007, which is SECOND to receive 10,000 views.

3rd Price of $100 cash to the Cylive user who posts ANY content between May 15, 2007 and June 30, 2007, which is THIRD to receive 10,000 views.

More details with a message from the CEO here

The latest build (4/22) has support for flickr photoset imports. Just click ‘Import from Flickr’ when creating the photo album, and leave the rest to Cylive. Once you permit Cylive to access your photos (do not worry - we will walk you through these steps!), Cylive will pull all the photosets, and the photos which are not in a photoset for you to import. One click and your Flickr Photos are now in Cylive. We copy photos, so even if you happen to delete the photos from Flickr, your copy at Cylive will be unaffected.

 We have also added SnapShots service on the web snippets. When you hover on ‘go to current page’, you can see a SnapShots rendered thumbnail of the page that is bookmarked. It is a great service (like addThis!) and we’d recommend it to anyone who has similar requirements on their site.

 Happy Cyliving, and stay tuned for Yahoo Photos Import!

Now cylive supports uploading MP3 audio as a content type, and it uses flash player for playback. Check out this organizer using audio - Burger King 911 Call.  Tonight we will be adding a tour to the site, helping our users get more information on how to use Cylive as a platform for all their digital content needs!

Finally, you can create, structure, organize, share and publish any content using a single site!

The new build supports categorization of published content. The contributer can optionally pick the most approrpriate content category while creating the content, however, the category is mandatory when publishing the content. This helps the users and vistors locate information quickly and accurately.

To check out the categories, click here.

With the kind of growth (pageviews, unique visits and pageviews per visit) we’ve seen over the past few weeks, content categorization helps us manage the growing content in an efficient way, and providing the users a much friendly experience when searching for published content.

We have also increased the number of related content links to 10 for a wider content match.

Watch out for more updates and features coming soon!

We’d like to thank all our users who have contributed a large amount of content, helping us grow as well as helping themselves stay organized with all the heterogenous digital content!

Thanks to the growing number of our users whose contributed content has made us hit the biggest day in Cylive’s history. Saturday the 24th marked the day with the highest traffic on Cylive.

We had 10,000+ pages served to 4,000+ unique visitors in 16 hours.

We are proud to mark this day on our calendars, and look forward to such traffic on a regular basis. A Big Thanks goes to all the users who helped us reach here by contributing content that is not only useful to them, but also to so many internet users across the globe.

Keep contributing!!

Update (03/06/2007) : As of the new build, we are migrating the social bookmarking links to AddThis. We found AddThis to be an ideal fit for a site like Cylive, and extremely simple to integrate. We encourage our users with similar requirements on their sites to check ‘em out!

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Cylive Content can now be bookmarked to the following social sites in just a click -

• Del.icio.us
• Digg
• Furl
• Google Bookmarks
• Yahoo MyWeb
• BlinkList
• BlogMarks
• Ma.gnolia
• Netscape Bookmarks
• NewsWine
• Ning Bookmarks
• Reddit
• Rojo
• Windows Live
• Technorati
• TailRank

We will be adding more site in the near future - please do comment if you would like to see your favorite site added, if not listed above.

Happy Cyliving!

We have added video encoding to Cylive. Users can now upload their video content which will be encoded as flash video and played as a flash-movie from within the browser. Most of the common video and container formats are supported including AVI, WMV, MPEG1/2 and MOV.

With the new build, we have improved upon our search functionality - the new search is lucene based (vs. MySQL Full Text earlier). This build also features some changes to the look and feel of the home page, as well as post login (My Cylive and My Content) sections. We look forward to more enhancements down the road, and ensuring best user experience.

This new functionality rocks! you can now share your content with people who you know but are still not a member of Cylive. Once they follow the links sent on the email and view your content, they have an option to signup. Upon signup they are automatically marked as your connection and you become theirs. Cool huh?

The next step is to allow this “unregistered yet” user of Cylive to invite his own set of friends and share the content he or she is looking at. This will facilitate viral growth of Cylive and get the word about the services offered to everyone.

Way to go development team!