Scrible

Modern research platform for school and work

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New e-mail preferences

We’ve created a granular settings page so that you can manage your e-mail preferences and only get the notices that you want. You can access the new page from the Settings Page by clicking the “Manage e-mail preferences” link.

You’ll then be brought to the E-mail Settings Page, where you’ll be presented with your options for e-mail notifications. This way, you can opt in and out of the different types of e-mails so that you only get information you care about.

Here’s a breakdown of the categories:

  • User Notifications: These are the e-mails sent because of another user’s actions, such as sharing a page with you.
  • Critical Updates: Any important information about scrible would be sent out as a Critical Update email. This includes things like service downtime and changes or major updates.
  • Product Announcements: Information regarding updates, upgrades and new features introduced to scrible.
  • Marketing Announcements: News about scrible, such as partnering with another product or awards and press mentions we’ve earned.  Also, news aboutevents we host or attend as well as special offers provided directly by us.
  • Partner News: News and offers about and from any partners that we work with.

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Streamlined sign up

We’ve launched an enhancement to the scrible sign up process. With this change, accounts no longer have to be verified before they can be used to start annotating and saving web pages. Now you can get into our service and get to work faster than ever before. The only caveat is that you won’t be able to take actions that generate e-mails until you’ve verified the email address associated with your account. One example of this is sharing pages via email. This is our effort to streamline the experience while still fighting against spam and abuse of the service.  Here’s the new sign up confirmation window:

If you can think of other places and ways that we can streamline the process of getting started with scrible, please let us know at our feedback page.  We’d love to know!

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Not so fast, storage quota

A user recently reported to us that they felt their quota was being used too quickly.  We investigated and – lo and behold – it was true.

We had a problem with how the quota usage was calculated, which caused pages saved multiple times to be counted multiple times instead of just once.  This has been fixed now.  So, everyone should have more room to organize their saved pages.

As you can see we really do listen to your feedback!  Please let us know if you see anything you don’t like or if something seems wrong.

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Do you speak □□□□□?

mojibake as art
mojibake as art (Photo credit: TR4NSLATOR)

One of our users pointed out to us that when he saved a page with traditional Chinese characters in his notes, when he retrieved the page, he got back Mojibake inside the notes instead of comprehensible notes because the characters got turned into garbage like □□□□.

We had recently switched to a new library on our servers which assumed a latin 1 character set instead of UTF-8.  After some remedial language lessons, our system is back to speaking the languages of the world.  If you happen to find someplace where it isn’t working though, please let us know so we can send the system back to a refresher course 😉

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scrible Launches!

We launched into public beta this morning!  Simultaneously, we announced that the National Science Foundation has awarded scrible with a $500,000 SBIR Phase II Grant.
We’ve been blessed to have our big news day covered by three titans of the startup and technology blogosphere: Robert Scoble, VentureBeat and TechCrunch.  Check out their posts below.  Robert’s post contains a ~10 minutes interview of our Co-Founder Vic and a demo of scrible.  How fun!

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First look: Scrible, cool new web research, curation, collection tool

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Scrible gets $500k check from National Science Foundation to fix Web research


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Scrible Launches Rich Web Annotation App To The Public


We would love for you to spread the word to folks you know who would benefit from using scrible.  The more folks that know about us, the more we can help!  Thanks and have a great day!

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