Thursday, September 13, 2007

No acid, but plenty of stuff in the pipe!

Yesterday evening, just as we were making final plans for the wis.dm release, which happened early this morning, we asked wis.dm’ers if they’d like to guess at the new functionality we were about to roll out. The question Hey wis.dm: are you ready? received 160 comments with some accurate predictions. For all of those who participated there’s a wis.dm T in it for you - check out the comment stream for more details. For those who guessed correctly, we’ll throw in a little something extra!!

Regarding the responses we received which didn’t quite match to today’s release, 9 themes emerged. I’d categorize them as: ‘live’, ‘comments’, ‘Maybe’, ‘media’, ‘my wis,dm’, ‘subscriptions / communications’, ‘points and rewards’, ‘search’ and ‘general usability’. A great group of topics and much aligned with all of the categories we have outlined in our “backlog” or schedule of work - perhaps with the exception of Maybe, which we're kinda not into. We will address each of these categories in the fullness of time and in the next few weeks we will be ticking off "subscriptions / communications" and putting significant effort into 'Points and rewards'. At least, that's how it looks for now! At the same time, we will always be attempting to improve functionality and general usability. We call this ongoing project “suckage”.

Thanks again to everyone who commented. We'll analyse post release feedback tomorrow and over the weekend and update you early next week.

Oh, one last thing... sorry Jefe.... couldn't quite deliver on the "acid".