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Network Hippo Update

May 26th, 2009 by Scott Annan

We’ve been pretty quiet lately on the blog as we’ve been down in the Mercury Grove cave working away at building the new interface and features for Network Hippo. It has been a long process working through all of the usability issues and focusing on core features that will drive a lot of value for startups, small businesses, and independent professionals.

But it’s getting very close.

I’m really excited about how we’ve been able to streamline the application to make it more intuitive and really easy to use, and I think all of our work doing usability tests is really paying off.  We’ve had tons of great feedback from users, which we have incorporated in this new launch, and we also used the service usertesting.com – which is an amazing resource that I recommend for anybody developing web-based applications.

Some of the new features:

  • Fixed the auto-email import so it runs daily
  • Feedback on your network (quality and size)
  • Collaboration with people in your network
  • Ability to send emails from within the app
  • Allow your contacts to update their info
  • Better social network integration
  • Smart notifications sent weekly by email
  • MUCH easier to add contacts, deals, activities

We’re getting really close to launch and I’m excited about how everything is coming together.

Below is a teaser screenshot of the new reporting which I think is much more useful than other CRM-like products.  More details on launch to come!

Dex goes live!

January 19th, 2009 by Scott Annan

Earlier this morning we launched Dex with a formal press release and emails to everyone who signed up to be part of the beta program (if you didn’t get one, please contact me!).

We’re hoping to get some great feedback from everyone so that we can improve dex over the next few months. If you haven’t tried dex out yet, and didnt get an email check it out here.

We hit the road tomorrow for a meetup in Toronto, then back here in Ottawa tomorrow night, and Montreal on Thursday. If you’re in any of those towns and interested in joining us to talk startups and hear more about the dex story, please signup by clicking on the city names above.  We’ll be posting ongoing pics and videos from the world (northeast americas) tour throughout the next couple of weeks!

Thanks to everyone for your ongoing support and collaboration – you’ve been awesome.

Shirts will soon be on their way (in time for spring), and we’re still chewing on new names…

 

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