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CircleMe’s Best Profile, Announcing our New Video and Last.fm integration

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You know what happens when we go quiet for some days. that’s right: It means there’s cool stuff to come! We’d hate to disappoint you, so we made our best to add some great new features to CircleMe and surprise you! Take a look at our fresh updates from CircleMe:

The Best Profile Contest

If you wander around on CircleMe it is rather difficult not to stumble on some amazing user profiles. We thought you might enjoy a nice reward for making your profile the “fairest of them all”, so we prepared some nice gadgets and cool CircleMe T-shirts as prizes for the 10 most inspiring profile, ranging from cool CircleMe T-shirts to an iPad (yes, we’d prefer the T-shirt too!). What you need to do is to play cool and share your profile with your friends so that they vote for you. Then lay back and wait for the votes to increase! 😉

Best Profile Ranking on Thursday just after the start of the contest

Our brand NEW CircleMe Video

As you all know, we’ve been working hard these couple of months to make CircleMe the best place to connect with the things you care about and to people who share your passions. Since we want everybody to be able to make the most out of CircleMe, we created a short video explaining the main features of CircleMe, both on the web and on the iPhone app. Turned out really well, don’t you think?

Add your musical likes from Last.fm

We all know how important music is in your lives, right? Here at CircleMe we also think that you’d love bringing all your likes to CircleMe in an easier way. So it was only fair to help you guys out by adding Last.fm to the list of services from which you can import your interests. Ramble on and rock our world!

Now that April’s secrets are revealed, we would love to hear what you think about our latest updates. Feel free to share them with our team! You can share them with us via Twitter, Facebook, as a comment on our blog or email!

Media coverage round-up of the CircleMe launch and iPhone app!

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Dear Circlers,

As you will know, just a week ago, CircleMe went from closed to open beta and we released an iPhone app! We are happy to say that we’ve got great reviews from the press, and what is most important for us: good reviews from our users.

Why did we launch publicly? 6 months after starting our private beta, we reached a point where we thought that CircleMe was a great product and ready to be enjoyed by all users (as opposed to the closed beta users!). Therefore, we opened the gates to new users!

However, this does not mean that we will stop innovating and launching cool stuff 🙂 We’ll continue working hard (or even harder!) and make CircleMe more fun, social and innovative.

We’ve compiled some of the articles written about us that you can find below 🙂

Direct URLs to the articles:

TechCrunch by Mike Butcher @mikebutcher

TheNextWeb by Nancy Messieh @nfm

Wired.it by Silvio Gulizia @silviogulizia

Journaldugeek.com by Christelle D. @melhancholy

Genbeta by Guillermo Julian @gjulianm

TechTudo by Thiago Barros @tbarros89

isole24ore by Luca Tremolada @lucatremolada

Betakit by Darrel Etherington @drizzled

Fredzone by Fred @fredzone

Antyweb by Kamil Mizera @kamilmizera

Geekissimo by Andrea Guida @naqern

Bnext by Anon.

Fanpage by Claudio Gagliardini @cla_gagliardini

CircleMe needs your vote!

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Hi CircleMe’rs,

That’s right, we need your vote! We found out that were amongst the top 150 companies to be nominated for Top European Start-up at the London Web Summit (People’s Choice).

We’re in the top 9 so far and voting ends on Wednesday the 14th, so we can do it 🙂 If you want to support it, you can vote for us here: http://www.websummit.net/nominee/vote/ (it only takes one click and no registration is required!)

On behalf of the CircleMe team, many thanks!

Making what works… well, better: Announcing the Activity Page & Endless Scroll!

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They say if something works, why break it? Well, we disagree and think that if something works, why not break it and make it even better? We launched the Activity Board some weeks ago and we got some great positive feedback. The Activity board allows you to easily keep track of the activity related to your interests as well as the activity of your friends.

However, that is not our only new feature this week: we also implemented a endless scroll so that it is easier to navigate likes!

The new Activity Page

Yes! We decided to take that great (but perhaps hidden) feature and create a page for it on it’s own. So what is new in the Activity Page?

Out with the old…

In with the new!

The new Activity Page will allow you to easily read updates about the things you care about. And in case there are 2 or more activities for an item, you can easily click on the icon of the second person to see the activity!

Endless scroll

However, that is not all! We’ve also changed the different pages to show all your likes and to dos and now once you reach the bottom of the page more items will be loaded!

Endless Scroll

We hope you enjoy these new features and do not hesitate to leave your feedback! As usual, you can comment on this entry, on our Facebook fan page or on Twitter.

Announcing the Reach Score, improvements to our To Do’s and more!

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Since February is a short month, we thought we had better make the most out of it by launching cool new features as soon as possible, so let’s get on with it! This week we’re announcing the launch of the Reach Score, wine.com integration, improvements to the “To Do” activity and a new homepage.

Announcing the Reach Score

CircleMe is all about True likes, interests and passions. You can suggest these to other users and they might find a new book, artist or even drink thanks to your profile, and if people trust you, they will be influenced by your tastes. Wouldn’t it be great if we came up with a way to measure how influential people are? Well, that is what we thought and so we came up with the Reach Score.

In fact, if you click on your reach score, it will show you how many tastes you influenced organised per category and how many people trust you on CircleMe. You can also see other users’ Reach Scores!

Expanding our Wine list

If you are a wine connoisseur, you might have been frustrated in the past that although some generic wines could be found, perhaps you couldn’t find those wines you really wanted to add on CircleMe. Yes, you could like “Sauvignon Blanc” but not your favourite brand and year. Well, we have now added an extensive list of wines from wine.com and you will most likely find exactly the wines you truly like on CircleMe.

Improvements to the To Do’s

Has it ever happened to you that after adding an item as a To Do you noticed you had already added it in the past? Then, you would have the same item twice in your To Do list. Annoying, right? Well, starting from today we’ve simplified this for you and when you check an item that you already added as a To Do, instead of showing a button to add it again, you’ll see a button to “Undo” the To Do.

New Homepage

You probably noticed some changes on the Homepage: We thought it would be great giving new visitors an idea of what there is to like on CircleMe and add a link to our “Stop liking, start circling video”

This is it for this first day of February that will certainly come full of cool new features for CircleMe users! We would really like to know your feedback about these updates, so feel free to share your feedback with us via Facebook, Twitter, commenting on this blog or mailing us to support@circleme.com.

CircleMe on Social Media

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As you might imagine, we are present on many different Social Media channels. However, you might not know exactly which channels we can be found, so we thought of writing a quick blog entry sharing the links to each of these channels and have a brief explanation of what you can expect from us in each one of these:

On Facebook: You want to relax on Facebook and keep in touch with things, right? Well, if you like us on Facebook you will find updates about fun stories you can find on CircleMe. You will also be able to participate in our contests and be part of the CircleMe community! Of course, we will update you of the release of important features on CircleMe

On Google Plus: Perhaps you use it to talk about things related to Social Media and be updated about the latest trends in this space? Well, if you circle us on Google Plus you will not only be updated about the latest CircleMe developments but we intend to have a more continuous conversation about these developments. Would you like to engage in a sincere conversation with CircleMe staff and influence the development of our platform? This is the right place for you!

On Twitter: You enjoy being updated about all the things happening out there, and you want to know as they happen? Following us you will find all this real time information from us: If something is happening on CircleMe right now, you can be certain you will be the first to know.

Of course, you might be interested in different kinds of information. Well, do not hesitate to follow the channels that interest you the most!

The “neighbours” moved, and that’s a story worth voting on!

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It’s Tuesday, which means the CircleMe team is bringing you cool new features to enjoy on CircleMe. Ah, yes… this blog post title sounds a bit odd. No worries, it will all make sense after reading this:

The “neighbors” moved!

No, we are not talking about our real neighbors (about whom we don’t have any complaints!) but those CircleMe users who have similar interests to you. As you might have noticed, there was a “Neighbors” section below the “Trusted” category.

The old positioning of the “Neighbours” section

As we said, they moved… but whereabouts? London? New York? Tokyo? Nope, nope, nope… the neighbors simply left the crowded “Me” page and moved to a more appropriate and spacious “Find friends” page.

New “Neighbors” location

Please take into consideration that in order to see this section of suggested CircleMe users, you need to have some likes!

Voting Stories

We believe that allowing users to express their preferences is fundamental. For this reason, we enabled voting features for views written on Item pages. However, those who enjoy this feature might have noticed that this feature was not available for other kinds of content, especially Stories. We are happy to announce that from today this has changed: you can now also vote up (or down!) stories shared about other CircleMe.

We think this will not only improve the CircleMe experience by allowing users to express their preferences, but also by allowing users to quickly see which stories related to a certain topic are the most liked by other CircleMe users.

We hope you enjoy these changes and please do not forget to share any feedback with us!

You say “New Year”, we say “New Features!”

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Happy belated new year!

At CircleMe we like traditions, and no, we aren’t going to talk about Christmas again but what has already become a CircleMe tradition: The Tuesday release of new features! We don’t plan on stopping coming up with cool stuff, so are you ready to try these?

Activity History

Starting from today you can enjoy your own activity history: Wouldn’t it be cool if you were able to track your activity on CircleMe? Yes, we mean every single activity including adding a like or to do, sharing or voting a story, trusting someone… Everything summarised on one page! You can find this new feature clicking on the Account Button on the CircleMe Navigation Bar as seen in the screenshot below:

Adding your website to your profile

We knew adding a website to the user profile was a common request amongst our users. This is why when we received this request five days ago from a user to add it, we couldn’t contain a smile of satisfaction knowing we would be delivering it straight away 🙂 That’s right, you can now add your personal website or any link you would like on your profile. Your blog? Your Twitter account? It’s up to you!

We hope you enjoy these new features and we would like to remind you that most of these improvements were implemented thanks to you: you inspired us and suggested us many ideas that helped make CircleMe better. This is why we can’t stress enough the importance of your feedback so if you have any suggestions or feedback, please share your feedback with us on GetSatisfaction, getting in touch with us via Twitter or Facebook or even directly via support@circleme.com.

CircleOn!