A new version of Tweed is available! (v.0.9.7)
Bug Fixes
- Tapping notification banner/dashboard does not load app
- Show loading spinner on refresh
- User Profile tap target was extending past photo
- several memory leaks
Features
- Shorten Urls button in compose tweet scene (urls over 30 char)
- Auto-refresh of active card (3 minutes for refresh, displays banner when there are new tweets)
- Auto-refresh will show New Tweets marker to separate newly loaded tweets from existing tweets in timeline
- Manual refresh (via button) preserves timeline and loads new tweets above existing tweets
- Conversations - icon indicates a message is "in reply to" and popup menu action shows thread
- Home timeline is checked in notifications
- Popup menu action to add marker to tweet timeline -- useful for keep track of read/unread tweets.
- Show client/source of tweets
Markers
You can place a marker (will appear above tweet) on any timeline -- they are saved and reloaded with the timeline. If you mark another tweet, the marker will move. To remove the marker completely, tap unmark from the tweet menu for the tweet with the marker.
There is a bug we just discovered (after we gave Palm the release for review): if you have a marker on a timeline and then tap "Load More" the marker position is not displayed correctly. It is stored correctly, so if you leave the timeline and return to it, it is then displayed correctly. (We will fix this soon -- we didn't want to block the other features since we discovered this it morning.)
Photos
So, we know photo upload/integration is missing.
Here's the scoop on photo integration. There isn't direct support for photo upload in the Palm Mojo SDK, yet.
It is definitely coming, though given the incredible demand for photo integration in Tweed (everyone wants it yesterday, or more precisely, at launch), we realize it won't be ready soon enough.
So, we are working with Palm on alternatives and options that will deliver the ability to tweet photos from Tweed.
We understand it is frustrating, but please know it is a HUGE priority for us and we are actively working on it.
We hope to have something in the coming weeks.
Let us know your feedback either @tweed on Twitter, tweed-support@pivotallabs.com or http://tinyurl.com/satisfaction-tweed
We've added some new features to Pivotal Tracker.
Activity Feed
There is a new activity feed on the dashboard. The feed lets you quickly view recent events that have occurred in all your projects including new stories, comments and stories that have been accepted and rejected. You can subscribe to this activity feed using any blog reader that supports Atom. Click the Subscribe link above the feed or the feed icon in the browser address bar and your browser should handle the rest. Recent activity data is also available via the API.
Project Velocity on Dashboard
Another new feature on the dashboard is a small graph that shows the number of points accepted per iteration. The current velocity for each project is also displayed. If you hover over a project, you'll see links to some of the more commonly used project pages, including members and settings.
Improved Project History
The project history panel should now be more readable. Event timestamps are relative now (for example, "2 hours ago"), and updates to the same story within a short period of time together are bundled together. For example, if you add a new story, and immediately move it to the backlog, this will appear as one entry in the project history. You can also subscribe to a project's history feed by clicking on the feed icon in the browser's address bar.
Follow your project on Twitter
To give even more visibility to the activity on your project, Tracker can now tweet project updates. Create a Twitter account for your project (or choose an existing Twitter account), and configure your Tracker project's Twitter account settings on the Project Settings page. Remember - by default, Twitter accounts and tweets are public and searchable, so if you want to keep your project information private, make sure you enable the "protect my updates" option in your Twitter account settings.
Remember Me
If you select the "remember me" checkbox on the sign-in page, Tracker will do just that and you won't need to sign in again after re-opening your browser. To clear this "remembered" state, log out or clear your browser cookies. Resetting your password will reset "remember me" on all computers where you have previously signed in.
Time Zones
Tracker now supports time zones, allowing you to see all dates in your local time zone, and giving all project members a consistent view of iteration boundaries. Every user has a default time zone (based on what your browser tells us), but it can be overriden on the My Profile page. Projects have time zones as well - this defaults to the time zone of the user who created it, but can be changed as well, in project settings. The project's time zone controls when iteration boundaries occur. If a project's iterations start on Mondays, and it's time zone is PST, that means new iterations will start Mondays at midnight PST, and everyone in the world, will see the new iteration at that same time, even though they may be in different time zones. Someone in New York, for example, won't see a new iteration until 3am their time.
More information about what's new is available on the Pivotal Tracker recent updates pahge.
We are happy to announce Tweed, a twitter client for the Palm® Pre™ and Palm webOS™
Check out http://tweed.pivotallabs.com for info, screenshots and a video.
Follow us on Twitter @tweed
Today's the big day: the Palm® Pre™ has launched.
We've been happy to be partner with Palm and we've been working very hard towards this day.
We are happy to have several applications in the App Catalog:
- AP Mobile
- mobile by Citysearch
- LikeMe
- and our own Tweed, a Twitter client
When the Mojo™ SDK is publicly available, we will be releasing various open-source tools to aid development:
- Jasmine: BDD testing framework
- Pockets: various libraries and utilities for Palm webOS development
As we've been working on applications for the Palm Pre, lots of people have been asking us a lot of questions, most of which we couldn't really answer yet.
One of the big areas people asked about was what the phone was like. And we just weren't allowed to say that much to date. But with the launch only two days away, the press has been given a look at the phone, and the response has been overwhelming. And I'm not talking about the Palm trade press, but folks who have been pretty hard to impress, including some big fans of Apple products for years, people like David Pogue, and Walter Mossberg.
So I thought I'd share with you some of the recent articles:
- David Pogue, in the New York Times: Palm Pre, Elegant Contender
- Walt Mossberg, in the Wall Street Journal: Palm's New Pre Takes On iPhone
- Peter Svensson, The Associated Press Review: Dazzling Palm software beats the iPhone
- Engadget's Joshua Toplosky: Palm Pre Review
We're excited to see such leading journalists in the tech space share our enthusiasm for this great new platform. We're ready to build more great apps for the platform, too, so if you're interested in how we can help, give us a shout.
It's the first Wednesday of the month again, and that means it's time for the Pivotal Labs/Outside.In monthly Ruby Happy Hour. It's the first one since GoRuCo, so there's even more to talk about than usual. (Thanks Josh, Francis, and everyone else who made this a great conference again this year.)
Where: Outside.in, 20 Jay St Suite 1019 (10th Fl), Brooklyn, NY
When: 7-9PM today, Wednesday June 3rd
Who: If you’re a developer who uses Ruby and would like to meet some other Ruby folks, toss around ideas, or just have a few beers, we welcome you with open arms!
There will be pizza, beer, and great discussions for everyone. More details on the Outside.In Blog, and please RSVP if you can, so we know how much pizza to get.
Last night Pivotal participated in the first ever New Tech Meetup Showcase. The Showcase offered 60 NYC technology companies a chance to show off their wares to a large and enthusiastic crowd, and Pivots Mark Michael, Dan Podsedly, and Ian McFarland held down the Pivotal table, demoing Tracker and seeing what other companies had to offer. The New York New Tech Meetup is the biggest meetup in the world with over 10,000 members, and—this being Internet Week in NYC—many of them were out in force. After the Showcase the action moved to 700-person auditorium where 7 companies gave 5-minute live demos to a rapt house.
We have a winner in the Pivotal Tracker GoRuCo Haiku Contest.
Collin Miller submitted the winning entry:
Rivers of Action
Clearly Sculpt a Way Forward
My Path is Now Clear
We thank everyone for participating. There were a number of great entries, but this piece really stood out.
Collin, come on down tomorrow and say hi. I'll be there all day enjoying the conference with some other folks from Pivotal Labs and demoing Pivotal Tracker for anyone who doesn't know it already. Congratulations on your win!
One day only... We're giving away one ticket to GoRuCo, the Gotham Ruby Conference happening here in New York tomorrow, Saturday, May 30th.
Rules: Submit your Pivotal Tracker-related Haiku to tracker-haiku-contest@pivotallabs.com by 5pm ET tonight, May 29th.
We'll pick one winner, at our sole discretion, to be announced here. All submissions are licensed to Pivotal Labs to use however we see fit, and you retain the ability to use them as you see fit, under the Creative Commons commercial attribution share alike license. The winner will be granted one ticket to GoRuCo, to be used tomorrow.
Valid entries must include name, telephone, and email. Name will be used in attribution, but neither the telephone number or email will be made public.
So have at it! Give us your Tracker haikus. Don't know Tracker yet? Check it out!
On Wednesday night we hosted our first San Francisco Tracker Users Group (SF.TUG)
It was a great opportunity to meet more of our users, and hear directly from them about how they're using the product, and share with them some of the philosophy behind it.
We're excited by your enthusiasm and we will definitely make the TUG a regular event here in San Francisco, and we are planning to start one in our New York City offices soon. Please visit the Meetup group to join the discussion, and for more information and the schedule for future meetups.