http://www.chatsum.com/blog All the news on the development of the Chatsum Firefox extension. Mon, 10 Jul 2006 11:14:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Photo by aslakr licensed under a Creative Commons license So here's the really big news from the show, at the end of the month the mighty Yahoo! will be flying me out to San Francisco to show Chatsum in their 2006 Design Expo. I'll be at the Sunnyvale campus from 29th ... http://www.chatsum.com/blog/2006/07/10/coming-to-america/ Now that the thank yous are out of the way, I thought you might like to know how the show went. In a word: brilliantly! There were over 1,000 visitors per day with VIPs including Prince Philip, Gordon Brown, Terence Conran, the Duke of Gloucester and the venerable Tom Coates. I got ... http://www.chatsum.com/blog/2006/07/06/chatsum-gets-regal/ I just want to send out a very big thank you to everyone that uttered even the smallest bit of chat during the RCA show - I passed and can now write MA (RCA) after my name! Extra big thank yous go out to Lee, for providing the longest stints of ... http://www.chatsum.com/blog/2006/07/06/thank-you-chatsum-i-passed/ If you're wondering where I've been these last few days take a look at the photo above. We're exhibiting Chatsum in this year's Royal College of Art Summer Show so I've spent the last week painting, sanding, painting again, lugging equipment, mounting banners and testing software. As the photo above was ... http://www.chatsum.com/blog/2006/06/18/chatsum-the-royal-college-of-art/ Tell your family, tell your friends, Chatsum has gone open beta and now absolutely anybody can join in for free. We've had a great response from our closed beta testers who've been nagging us to open it up for everyone so that's exactly what we've done. Please bear in mind ... http://www.chatsum.com/blog/2006/05/29/chatsum-beta-now-open-to-the-public/ Today we're releasing some hot new Chatsum features, and for the first time, they're not just for beta testers! We have just rolled out our Chatsum user profile pages which can be viewed by anyone. Check out mine: http://www.chatsum.com/members/George Every Chatsum user now has the ability to publish their browsing history, weekly ... http://www.chatsum.com/blog/2006/05/22/hot-new-features-and-hot-new-users/ Pictured left is another way of viewing the Chatsum dataset that we've been playing with here in the lab (Click the image for the fullsize version over at Flickr.com). Each favicon represents a unique web address added to the database of visited urls. The timeline reads left to right, top ... http://www.chatsum.com/blog/2006/05/01/chatsum-favicon-timeline/ As we inch closer to the Chatsum Public Beta we've been trawling through vast amounts of data trying to get a better understanding of our users. We've been looking at the data, both live and archived, from lots of different angles but sometimes the simplest analyses are the best, so ... http://www.chatsum.com/blog/2006/04/28/the-chatsum-top-20/ Well, with a simple logout, close and reopen of the sidebar, you'll find that Chatsum now comes with an all new and exciting sound effect engine. If you're one of those people that hates sound effects, don't worry, there's a preference to turn them off in the 'Places to Chatsum' ... http://www.chatsum.com/blog/2006/03/24/so-what-have-we-got-for-you-today/ At last, spring has arrived in London and slowly Team Chatsum is beginning to emerge from its bleak February hibernation. We're hoping to go live with a couple of minor improvements tomorrow whilst the work on member pages and OS X widget continues. Until I post about the new features tomorrow, ... http://www.chatsum.com/blog/2006/03/23/daffodils-and-baby-rabbits/