Close on heels of our recent major release, we indulged in a series of minor enhancements in an effort to marginally broaden the scope as well as improve the quality and crispness of our services recently launched. In addition, there are changes that will enable us to set and state measurable parameters to help define operational boundaries from a capacity standpoint. Rest assured, all our services are FREE for our users and there are no constraints when it comes to indexing and searching for content that our users are interested in preserving and perusing.
The following are some of the choicest improvements and changes implemented in this release.
Multimedia Inclusion:
We have added popular video sharing site Vimeo.com to the list of supported sites from which we can agglomerate embedded videos/presentations in addition to currently supported YouTube.com and Slideshare.Net. We hope to extend the number of supported sites based on the popularity of the sites, volume of videos/presentations available and and specific user feedback requesting for inclusion. Work has ensued for adding Scribd and a few other popular video sharing sites into the mix. We will also venture into adding popular audio sharing sites and warmly welcome suggestions from our users of their favorite multimedia sites.
File Size limit:
We have an upload file size limit for a single piece of content that is being added to Zukmo and this limit differs depending on the type of content. The limit is of 10MB for desktop documents, 10MB for all Google document types except spreadsheets (which is 20MB) and 10MB for web content. There is currently no limit for tweets.
Icons for content sources:
Representative icons for each of the content sources have been included as identifiers and symbolic pointers to the listing of entities for each of the services. In addition, these icons are featured among the mix in the search results to visually distinguish between the service categories.
Retain Search Keyword:
Search convenience has been improved by ensuring that whatever the user types in as a keyword for conducting a search in any of the listed services will be retained in place even if the user browses other service categories. In this case, the related matching results for those corresponding categories will be displayed as the user moves from one service category to another in the left panel on the landing page.
Other Tidbits:
In order to make a provision to contextually fetch on demand for users availing Google docs and Google Apps Docs services, there is a Fetch now link provided in the landing page below the search bar to fetch on demand streams of content from these sources. This provision has already been made for twitter streams.
Quality Assurance:
We also indulged partly in grunt work in squashing some non-critical bugs in order to ensure continued consistency and reliability of our services. In this, we would also like to seek the active participation of all our users to inform and interact with us on incorrect or inconsistent behavior as and when it is discovered from them. Such a feedback will be quite valuable from our perspective of being able to deliver a high caliber product that not only suits the need but the expectations of our quality conscious customers.
With our development strategy shifting gears towards an agile methodology, our users can anticipate, on an intermittent scale, a slew of amendments entailing efficient packaging and swift roll out of much desired features and new services. We eagerly want to hear from all our users on both the current enhancements as well as preexisting features and avidly encourage them to participate in our forum for any discussions or respond to blog posts or simply just drop an e-mail to us.
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