November 2008
14 posts
“It could even drive a few people to rethink their lives - I can’t help but...”
– TechCrunch (having authored a B-grade competing blog for the last few years, it gives me uncanny pleasure to finally feel what it’s like to be TechCrunch’d.)
October 2008
13 posts
For those interesting characters
This one’s for my international friends: UTF-8 support has been added. You can now enter characters from almost any language! This means Polish, Japanese, Hindi, Mandarin, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, and the gazillions of non-English scriptures out there. Additionally, some of you are fond of Twittering these: ☂ or or ☜. You think it’s cool. Well, we’re now...
It's 'memory', thanks
Since the decision of changing the name to Memiary, I have been debating endlessly with myself over its pronunciation. In their natural state, I have seen friends and family members refer to it in various different ways. A lot of people pronounce it ‘mem-yer-ee’. A whole bunch — on my initial insistence — ‘mem-aiy-ree’ (like a diary). Some are left speechless,...
Memories to the Past
A lot of you wanted to be able to edit and add events to past days. Including my mom. What if you miss a day? What about suddenly remembering you forgot to enter your favoritest part of yesterday? And of course, if you’re a late-shifting-12-am-home-comer, you’ve been wanting this from day one.
Your wishes have been answered, my friends.
Dating back to eternity, you can now edit any...
Revamped.
The whole ‘memory entering’ process of Memiary has now been revamped and rewritten in AJAX. What do this mean for you? A few things:
You can now enter up to 160 characters, as opposed to the previous 40, which was admittedly a little ridiculous.
After something is entered (literally, or the green tick is clicked on), it automatically jumps to the next textbox! Small, but...
Any AJAX developers who are BOSS at jQuery and...
Drop me a line.
Basically, I need this translated to ‘real’ AJAX: http://memiary.com/memiary/item/two
“Little services like this might not turn the world upside down, they might not...”
– There were a lot of things in Marshall’s post I found parallel with my philosophy and why I created Memiary, but this has to be one which resonated the most.
ReadWriteWeb →
Marshall from ReadWriteWeb — one of my favourite blogs — was kind enough to give Memiary a worthy mention. Some great suggestions also, almost all of which I’m following up.
Usernames + Pipeline + Press
You can now sign up with a username instead of an e-mail address. Two reasons converged to enable this:
first, since e-mail activation is not required anymore, having it mandatory would be stupid.
second, to prepare for the ‘public diaries’ feature, which is in the pipelines and will enable you to publicize your diary so that it is accessible by anyone via...
Timezones zones zones zones zones....
Memiary now supports your timezone. This was one thing I missed while building it, and it caused people to wonder, ‘is my clock wrong?’. When you login to Memiary now, it should automatically pick up your system date and work along with it.
Travel a lot? You’ll be writing in the visiting country’s time, not your own. This means when you look back at stuff, you’ll...
No. More. Activation.
Since launching, a lot of reports were received about the activation e-mail going into the spam folder. I can’t change Gmail’s spam filters, but there are some things I can change, so no more activation is required (but shhh, don’t tell the spammers!)
The lurker is now only a password away from being transformed to Memiary.
Rememark is now Memiary.
One day after launch, and the name ‘Memiary’ occured to me. It’s a play on ‘me’ + ‘memory’ + ‘diary’, which fits more to the service and its purpose. It’s also much easier to say and spread. After asking a few people, I concluded it’s never too late to change a name. Or early. Update your bookmarks!
