SocialAV Gets An Update
A few months back Agriya launched a brand new, never seen before service to help people who have computers infected with viruses and can’t get rid of them because their AV software doesn’t know how or it hasn’t been updated to remove the infection.
After getting feedback from the small community that has joined the site we have released an update which addresses many User Interface aspects of the site. The changes include:
Improved Menu Styling
We have cleaned up the menu styling to make it easier to navigate around the site. Previously we used some icons in the main menu but this confused some people as to what it was meant to do. We also added the useful “How It Works” option so that people can find easily find out how SocialAv.com works for people like you and me.
The Menu Style Was Improved To Aid Navigation
Removed the search button
We found that most people were simply hitting the Enter button instead of clicking the search button, hence there was no real need for the button to be there. We have replaced it with the magnifying glass icon which is an internationally recognized symbol for search.
New search icon
New Special Virus Icons
There are thousands of different viruses listed in the SocialAV.com website but unfortunately not all of them have an anti-virus solution yet. To make it easier for people browsing through the site we added a new icon which indicates whether the virus has an anti-virus solution yet.
Icon Indicates If Anti-Virus Solution Is Available
Top Contributor
To grow the sense of community on the SocialAV.com website we have added a new feature called Top Contributor which showcases the person who has contributed the most by way of new virus additions and anti-virus solutions. The link on the homepage goes to the users profile page so that they can get more popularity and reputation within the anti-virus community.
The site now shows the top contributor
All New How It Works Page
To be honest we don’t think people really understood the concept of SocialAV.com when we first launched it back in December. People weren’t too sure what it was meant to do or how the user generated anti-viruses worked. For this reason we added a graphical guide to how SocialAV.com works and how you can become part of the community to help report, identify and neutralize computer viruses as and when they are released.
New How SocialAV Works Page Has Been Added
New Press and Media Centre
Given that SocialAV.com is a new and innovative website aimed at helping computer users around the world it’s not surprising that it has generated something of a ripple amongst various media websites. We have set up a new Press and Media centre which showcases all the sites which have referenced and mentioned SocialAV.com
New Press and Media Centre
If you have any suggestions for future improvements to the website, please let us know in the comments below, we really appreciate your thoughts and involvement in this project!
Get Your Hands On Agriya’s Latest Products
Do you consider yourself to be at the bleeding edge of Internet trends? Are you able to capitalize on new ideas to build profitable businesses? Do you want to get access to the latest tools, platforms and solutions well before the competition?
If you can answer Yes to these questions then you’ll probably be very interested to hear what we’ve got to tell you.
The fact of the matter is that we are launching more and more platforms and products but are being held back by number of resources available. If we had it our way we’d be launching new products every month, but we need a whole team of people just to maintain and update our current line up of solutions, which means we can’t invest as much time as we’d like in R&D and testing and bug fixing.
This is where you can step in. We are interested in working with people that want to be first to the market in the latest web trends, often setting up a site and going ‘live’ months before any other similar solution is available on the market. This is a true partnership where we provide the technical backup and you help us by offering advice, suggestions, features, feedback, bug reports, comments, questions and more.
You will get completely free access to all the scripts that are in our incubation development teams, test the hell out of them and shape and guide the future development – go ahead, be selfish, guide the product development in a way that suits your own needs, we’ll back you up with a highly trained team of developers…and yep, it’s all for free!
So who is the ideal person for this?
- You want to access Agriya’s products and use them WAY before they are launched to the public
- You have the time to provide feedback and suggestions
- You understand that the software is pre-Alpha and probably riddled with bugs which need to be reported
- You love systemizing and documenting processes
- You want to be able to shape the future development
- You want to be able to access a team of developers to do your work for FREE
- You are fine with Agriya promoting and showcasing your site to our customers
We don’t want tyre kickers, we want people who are serious about building an online business and are able to put in the time and effort to help us develop the best products on the market. In return you get to launch your site well before any one else, you don’t have to pay us a dime and you can help ensure that Agriya develops the products in a way that suits you and the market.
To get started, comment on this blog post, get in touch with us on the contact page or give us a call on the number below. Let us know why you are interested and what you can bring to the table.
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UK Tel: +44 20 3287 556711th March Update: Wow! We have been taken completely by surprise by the number of people that have contacted us about this beta tester program. Infact the response has been so great that we are taking a step back and thinking about how we can make use of all the people that want to get involved. We have some exciting ideas on the drawing board but need to plan them out and think how to implement them first.
We have begun contacting everyone who asked about the beta tester program, we’ve asked for your location and any languages that you know about from English so that we can build bigger, better and more localized versions of our products. If you didn’t get an email, please let us know.
Crowdsourcing – Outsourcing to the Cloud
Dubai was reported to be in financial trouble recently; Iceland is practically in hock, and Greece is waiting in line. In all the countries around the world that have fallen to the financial meltdown, getting a regular job at a factory or at a newspaper office, or selling investments, is the dream that is best abandoned at this point. But people in poor countries still can get enough to get by on, if they have a computer connection at home, and don’t mind doing a little online grunt work. It goes by a more printable name, called Crowdsourcing. This is where you take company tasks that you would normally delegate to some tread- upon factotum at your office, and spread the cheer among a hundred unseen factotum across the world. And you would spend pennies on them for an hour of their time.Amazon.com ‘s Mechanical Turk and Live Work websites have been picking up freelance efforts in this way from all around the world for years now. But in the years it’s been around, it’s only lived on the fringes of the outsourcing business. For the last three years, the Californian start up CrowdFlower has really got into this business, to try to make it a regular part of the average major corporation’s outsourcing plan. CrowdFlower allows businesses to use Mechanical Turk and Live Work and allows them to verify the credentials of the online workers they list too;, and it will keep an eye on quality control in addition, in a way that ordinary freelance classifieds like Amazon’s ventures could never do.
This is quite a fascinating way in which to tap human resources. And it is reminiscent of the way cloud computing works too – with the cloud, you are supposed to not actually have any computing resources yourself; nor are you supposed to have resources earmarked for you at a remote location. You’re just supposed to trust that in all the pooled resources, somewhere, will be something for you at the right time. And it still always turns out to work exactly as if you had your own dedicated arrangements. Crowd Flower allows you to switch on or off an entire global army of qualified labor, and leave it to the managing companies to pick up the loose ends. You could hire your own full-time gopher to do your work, and micromanage and pay that person all the time, or you could farm the work out to a dozen people for a fraction of the pay. You get your results in a fraction of the time too. It isn’t just the small Internet businesses trying to make a quick buck that step into crowd sourcing either. Corporations like Microsoft and Oracle have discovered this as a way of simplifying their little jobs too.
At the opposite end of the crowd sourcing spectrum is the way companies try to harness creativity in the crowd. The French company Eyeka does marketing, or consumer engagement, as it is called, in this way. Companies and brands contact Eyeka to have innovative viral advertising campaigns dreamt up for them. Eyeka’s thousands of members pick up assignments they like and create videos or pictures for the project. If they get picked, they get the job. If it happens to be any good, some young kid out there who’s been putting out videos on his personal YouTube clone for free, suddenly gets a couple of hundred thousand dollars for his trouble. From pennies an hour to hundreds of thousands of dollars, crowdsourcing seems to be finding its niche.
User Driven Evolution-Twitter’s Whole Philosophy of Life
Twitter today is a great ear to the ground for most businesses and corporations. People love to vent on Twitter what they think about this or that company’s service or values; those companies have always seen this as a great window into their mistakes. Well, Twitter is a company with consumers too – and Twitter just happens to tune into Twitter like everyone else, to hear what the grapevine has to say about their potential to improve.Consumer opinion seems to have trended Twitter towards the creation of two new features for users now: one called Retweet and another called Lists. The thing about these ideas is, not only did Twitter not come up with it on its own, it is not even building them on its own: fanatic Twitter enthusiasts are doing it all for the company. While this is a fresh approach, it isn’t really unheard of. Bug Labs does something similar with its hardware products, giving informed consumers to design and build their own.
Where Twitter stands out is in turning this kind of innovation from an occasional departure to a regular feature of its plan. For instance, the popular way in Twitter of providing a link to the name of anyone who may appear in your post, is to put a “@” symbol in front of their name; this popular way came of a user idea. Twitter accepts features that users think up and popularizes them even when the management doesn’t entirely like it. The wildly popular hash tag used today was a user brainwave that was wildly unpopular with the management at first.
The new feature anticipated now, called Lists, is meant to let people make lists of updates posted by their favorite celebrities or anyone. It is meant to help people make some sense of their voluminous Twitter interests. The other feature of the week, Retweet, has been in unofficial use for a while. Users a time ago formed a casual shorthand term called RT when they wanted to repost someone else’s tweet. Twitter is introducing a way that will perform the same function without increasing text volume by repetition. Now this should be something to Twitter about.
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