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May 17, 2012 By Scrible

scrible takes out the trash

Ever been on a page you’ve saved and decided you didn’t need it any more? Before, you had to navigate back to your library and find the page. Starting today, you can move it to the trash straight from the page. If you view a page from your library, you’ll now find a trash button in the toolbar in case you want to get rid of it.

 

This new button only appears on pages you have some kind of ownership of (either a page you’ve saved or have a shortcut to) so there won’t be any confusion as to who can or can’t delete something. So if someone sends you a link to a page saved on scrible, there won’t be a trash can in your toolbar since the page isn’t yours to manage.

Filed Under: New Features, Product

April 18, 2012 By Scrible

This title is longer than our URLs

The Bard tells us brevity is the soul of wit, so scrible just got a bit wittier. We have rolled out our own URL shortening service that gets used behind the scenes to deliver you shorter URLs than ever before. We noticed our links were getting a little bloated and wanted to slim them down to keep up with today’s scribler on the go.

Here’s an example Tweet using a new shortened URL:

The shortened URLs take the form of http://scrible.com.com/s/(super secret code goes here) but function in exactly the same manner as the old links we generated. And don’t worry, all the links you’ve generated in the past are still valid as well.

The best part about all of this is that you don’t have to do a thing to take advantage of it. We do all of the shortening, serving, and redirecting behind the scenes without any extra work on your part. So just keep on sharing those pages, and we’ll keep serving out shorter and sleeker URLs.

Filed Under: New Features, Product

March 14, 2012 By Scrible

scrible gets social

We have been hard at work the past couple weeks in order to bring some shiny, new social integrations to scrible. Starting off, we have added the ability to sign in using either Facebook or Twitter.

You can either use these services to create a new account, or streamline the sign in process for your existing account. If you’re adding one of these methods to your existing account, you’ll need to verify that you own the account by entering your password. This is a one time step, after completing it you’ll be a single click away from your scrible account from here on out.

Once you’re logged in, we’ve added three ways for you to share your scrible content. You can post single pages to Facebook and Twitter from your library, using the new “post” button.

This will post a permalink and some information about your page to the service of your choice.

Or, if you’re already on the page, you can post two different ways. From the toolbar, you can post the whole page to Facebook and Twitter like you can from the library using the corresponding buttons.

If you want to post one of your annotations, you can do that too. Just open up the context menu for that annotation, go to the post button, and choose where you want to post it.

We’ll put as much of that annotation as we can fit into the post, as well as a link to the page. There you have it, scrible social integrations. What are you still reading this for? Go tweet to your heart out!

Filed Under: New Features, Product

March 7, 2012 By Scrible

Copy cat

Once we added the ability to send one shared web page e-mail to multiple people, we realized it would make sense to include yourself on that conversation. So we’ve added an option to the Share Window to send yourself a copy of the Share Email as well. This way, if anyone does a Reply All to the  Share Email, you’ll get included in the action as well.

 

All you have to do is check the box that reads “Send a copy to myself” and you’ll be included in the recipients of the Share Email. This way, you can continue the discussion about the web page beyond the initial Share Message you provided.

Filed Under: Enhancements, New Features, Product

February 18, 2012 By Scrible

Sharing via group emails

Credit: RRZE via Wikimedia Commons

We recently changed the way email sharing works based on our own internal experience using scrible for article sharing.  We got frustrated that we couldn’t have group email threads based on articles we were sharing with each other.  The way things were working, if you shared an article with multiple people, each recipient would receive their own Share Email.  Then, if one of the recipients wanted to reply to that email and include all of the other recipients, they’d have to somehow magically know who those recipients were and manually add those people to his (or her) reply.  Ugh.  We didn’t like that. After grumbling about it to each other for a while, we remembered that we write the code and fixed it!  Now, all of the email addresses you enter into the Recipients field in the Share Window will all be sent one group email so that every person will see all of the other folks included in the Share Email.  So now, to carry on a group email conversation about the article, all you have to do is hit “Reply All” and everyone’s in the loop!  Much better!

We’re always looking for ways to improve sharing.  If you have suggestions on how to make scrible more collaborative, please let us know through our feedback page.

Filed Under: Enhancements, New Features, Product

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