Today we’re presenting E at the Next ‘09 conference in Hamburg, Germany. And what good would conferences be without product announcements? Today we introduce the latest build of the E webservice to you, codenamed Marvin. Apart from minor bugfixes supplied to us by our lovely community, we have a couple of unique features ready for you.
Today is not about hardware, but how E will behave on the web. One of our most popular features right now is the Public Card. Your Public Card is basically one of your cards you can make public, which means you get a mynameise.com/yourname url where you can list the contact information you’d like to share, as well as your social networking profiles. You can customize it by adding a HD background.
One of the most popular feature requests was to be able to connect online, not just in real life, through the Public Card. We’ve added that functionality. Whenever you visit a Public Card now, you’ll see a lovely shiny button in the top right which will allow you to send a connection request. Select one of your own cards to share, and wait for the other to accept. The receiving party can also select a different card upon receiving the connection request.
The second new feature we’re announcing is also based on the Public Card, and shows you the first moves into our upcoming API. Want to share your public card on your site or blog? You can. You’ll be able to export your public card into a widget of your preferred size. The Public Card widget comes in the sizes of small, medium, large and megatron. You can download these as Wordpress plugins, or just embed the code on your website. It will always stay up to date.
Us here at E hope you’ll enjoy these new features and perhaps you’ll be able to draw some conclusions about what kind of platform we want to be. Just a little reminder: Sharing your cards is just the beginning. We have a lot of cool stuff coming up.
