Blog Posts From Active Product Development Tagged With beta

Searchbeta.active.com Released

JeremyGThomas — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:10:58 GMT

I'm happy to announce the release of searchbeta.active.com! We've been working for many months to improve upon our "Alpha" and today we're ready to open the new Search to you. Keep in mind it's still in beta and there are a few kinks. We're hoping to gather a lot of user feedback so that, when it comes time to replace search.active.com, we've built a product that you will love to use. Check out this screencast for details:

Active Classifieds new on Labs

JeremyGThomas — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:52:47 GMT

We've just released our newest project to labs.active.com, Active Classifieds. Have you ever wanted to assemble a group of people to block wind for you on a weekend ride or sell an old baseball glove?

Active Classifieds is a simple app designed to make it easy for you to sell your old sports stuff or meetup with like-minded people.

Dive in and let us know what you think.

Search Beta - Looking Good

JeremyGThomas — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:55:11 GMT

We now have over 100 users in our Search Beta, and the feedback we've received so far has been positive. One user has asked:

"I would love to see something interactive where I could quickly access different multimedia from past events. It wouldn't necessarily be official race photos (I'd actually prefer that they weren't) but even links to a search results page for the event's name in Flickr or YouTube would be great. Even a search OUTSIDE the active network, bringing me to different bloggers who have posted about the events or written race reports from past events would be great to see."

I couldn't agree more. There's a ton of interesting, relevant content out there in the cloud that would add value to search. We're working now to implement this feature, pulling in photos from flickr, videos from youtube, tweets from twitter and blog posts from technorati (a blog search engine).

update: we've just rolled out integration to Twitter, Flickr and Youtube!

Evolving Search on active.com

JeremyGThomas — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:43:16 GMT

We've been listening to our users, like bikehugger, who asks "Possibly not enough coffee, but has anyone else just stared at Active.com wondering how to register for an event?" (http://twitter.com/bikehugger/statuses/998940596). Our users want to a) find the events to register for and b) run through a no-hassle registration process.

Here we're addressing "a" - making it easier to find stuff to do.

So we've been working to make search a bit easier and a bit more relevant. I'm happy to invite you to our highly experimental, closed search beta. The first 100 users can sign-up at http://labs.active.com/users/new, using the invite code "blogsearchinvite".

Watch this screencast to get a better idea of where we're headed.