As many of you already know (and the rest are about to find out) we’ve been hard at work here at Zukmo over the last few weeks. With just a month’s passing since our last major release, we’re pleased to announce the release of several major enhancements to greatly improve your Zukmo experience. These changes aim to significantly improve the number and quality of content sources that Zukmo can import and handle, and further extend user account management abilities. If you’re just interested in the raw information regarding to the update (TLDR), feel free to browse to the table at the bottom of this article, otherwise, read on!

Notes and Web Clippings:

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Until today’s release users needed to import whole content sources to their libraries, even if only a small portion of it was of interest to them. We recognized the need for something more adaptable and that’s why we’re pleased to announce one of our most exciting new features: notes and web clippings. Users browsing through web content who are interested in only select portions can now simply highlight the desired content and use the right-click menu to import it to Zukmo as a note. Notes can also be made from directly within a user’s Zukmo library. Play with it. Learn to love it! These tools aim to make your library more useful, and your life a lot easier.

RSS and Atom Feed Handling:

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Speaking of easier, how about those RSS feeds? They do the job of aggregating content on the stuff that’s interesting to us, but what if we follow more than one? For that, we’re pleased to introduce our new RSS feed handler. Think of it as your RSS feed for your RSS feeds. It’s a brain-full, but that’s what we’re here to help alleviate! Users can now subscribe to up to 10 of their favorite RSS feeds directly from Zukmo. This can be done by either by right-clicking the RSS feed button and selecting “Add this link to Zukmo”, or by inputting the feed’s link into the Zukmo library’s bookmark tool.

RSS feed content (title and description) is stored to the RSS section of the library. The option to go a level deeper and store an entire article is also available by simply bookmarking the article itself once it is opened. This permanently saves the article as a separate bookmarked item.

Twitter Changes:

With the way we handle RSS feeds, we’ve chosen to make a few changes to what users can do with their Twitter accounts. On the Twitter website you might find yourself overwhelmed looking for old tweets, but count on avoiding that with us! The latest 1000 of a user’s tweets, and 1500 of a user’s following tweets are now saved to the user’s library, and are indexed for searching. We decided to take it a step further and created an option to add any tweet URLs displayed in a tweet, as an indexed bookmark if desired.

Enhanced Account Management:

In an effort to provide you with better control over your account, we have integrated new areas for users to enable/disable/re-activate their linked accounts. By clicking on an activated service in the upper portion of the screen, a pop-up window will provide the option to disable the service and to additionally retain or delete indexed content associated with the account.

In addition, we have implemented an account usage stats area in the “My Account” profile page.  This will display various data regarding a user’s account and the composition their stored data

Changes to Delicious Integration:

With the acquisition of Delicious by the founders of YouTube, there have been several changes to the way Delicious feeds their data to us. Rest assured that we’ve worked to make this transition period as seamless as possible. As it stands, users can continue to import Delicious bookmarks to Zukmo with a linked Delicious account, as they are slated to disable servicing of Yahoo! accounts soon.

Miscellaneous:

Always last, but rarely least, we’ve also done some housecleaning to improve the way Zukmo looks and feels. In our official releases, you can always look below to see a list of the things we’ve changed if you’re interested. Of course, as we always like to remind our users, we rely on your help to improve Zukmo.  If you have any feedback, comments, or questions, feel free to contact us at feedback@zukmo.com. We look forward to hearing from you. Happy Zukmoing!

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Feature Details
Notes & Web Clippings
  • Users can choose to highlight specific text in any webpage and then add it as notes to their Zukmo account.
  • Users need not save an entire webpage but add just a portion of it as a note.
  • The ability to add notes by simply right clicking on the highlighted text.
  • The ability to add a typed note with title, tags and note description from within Zukmo using the “Add Notes” link on top of the left panel.
  • All the saved notes are indexed in Zukmo so that it can be searched and retrieved.
  • Ability to share note with user’s Facebook and Twitter accounts and Email to friends
RSS Feeds
  • Users can add their favorite RSS and Atom feeds by simply right clicking on the RSS feed icon of a webpage and using the “Add link to Zukmo” menu item
  • Alternatively one can add the RSS feed URL as a bookmark by using the “Add Bookmark” link in the landing page and Zukmo processes the Bookmark as a RSS feed.
  • All of the feed information such as title, description and published date are indexed in Zukmo and made viewable.
  • In terms of listing of feed items for viewing purposes, all of the user’s feed listings are displayed, indexed and available for searching. However, there is a maximum limit of 10 feed subscriptions.
  • The feed items are listed by subscriptions and is fetched periodically multiple times a day.
  • Ability to save a specific feed as a bookmark to save the bookmarked content for posterity.
  • Ability to add and remove subscriptions using representative icons has been incorporated in the left panel listing the subscriptions.
Account Management
  • In the “My Account” Profile page, user based space utilization details can now be viewed for each of the Services.
  • The stats on the number of items stored as well as the size of the content stored is displayed along with the status of the services. The total storage quota is also captured.
  • New facility to enable/disable Service Account for a single account has been made available.
  • Upon clicking the activated services, a pop-up window will display to help disable the specific service. Options are presented to either delete or retain the existing indexed content along with the disabling of the service.
  • There is also a link at the bottom of the screen to view other service configurations, which will redirect to My Account settings page available for the service.
  • Any disabled service will be listed at the bottom of the “My Services” page and can be re-enabled by clicking on it provided there are no other enabled accounts corresponding to that service.
Twitter Changes
  • All user tweets are indexed and available for searching later.
  • However, in terms of listing of tweets for viewing purposes, the latest 1000 of user own tweets are displayed.
  • In terms of listing of tweets for viewing purposes, the latest 1500 of user’s following tweets are displayed.
  • We have provided an option to save tweets permanently as Notes.
  • We have provided an option to add any tweet URL as a bookmark. This option should be displayed if the tweets contain any tweet URL. In this case, the bookmarked content is also indexed.
Delicious Support
  • Users must now log in with their Delicious accounts to import bookmarks from Delicious, as Delicious no longer provides support for associated Yahoo! accounts.
Other Changes
  • Login window now includes CAPTCHA registration.
  • Revamping of the My Services and My Account pages.
  • “Refresh” Button provided in the Landing page below the search bar to help with listing of content items up to date and to clear any caching issues. This will only refresh the listing and not the entire page as in case of a browser refresh button.
  • Multiple bug fixes have been implemented to correct some pending issues,
    • Fixing Alignment of the “Add to Zukmo and Share” popup window in IE
    • Fixing IE9 browser hang while asking confirmation for automatic update
    • No tag label for “Untagged” bookmarks
    • Fixing fetching of unmodified documents in Google Docs
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