We'll be kicking off our client support efforts on GetSatisfaction.com to respond to clients taking our Olympics quiz.
GetSatisfaction.com is a great space that allows us to handle customer support while giving clients the opportunity to publicly discuss their experiences, rants and raves. The site thrives on customers helping each other out, so we encourage everyone to participate and help.
To give and get satisfaction just go to our Olympics products home.
After a grueling week we got our Olympic product presentations and demo site done and we're looking forward to the commercial launch next week. BTW: It's like 90 degrees in SF today, beer anyone?
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After months of experimenting on social networks we'll soon be offering AFP clients fun and informative social applications. We are taking Deadline to AFP's media clients as an add-on to AFP's Olympic products, which will enable clients to engage audiences in more meaningful ways. (btw: the app won't be called Deadline anymore)
It's an exciting time for Newzwag. We are remixing tradition with modern practices by tapping into AFP's services and bringing premium Olympic coverage to new audiences through the quiz. We're confident the infrastructure of the game will help clients build community and encourage people to participate and interact.
Stay tuned for more info on Newzwag's experiments and growth.
Last month, after getting feedback about the leaderboard, we asked Deadliners what their thoughts were on some proposed alternatives. And boy did we get a response.
The main issue with the current leaderboard is that it's cumulative, so new players don't have a chance of getting to the top.
Ideally, our goal is to make things a little more competitive and give everyone a chance to play for the No. 1 spot every day. So we proposed creating a daily leaderboard. That would give everyone a chance to be king or queen for a day, and allow us to tally weekly and monthly wins so we can reward those who play often and well. In terms of ranking, you would continue to be ranked amongst your friends and the Deadline universe.
At first we told everybody that changing the leaderboard would mean resetting everyone's scores to 0 (zero), but after the overwhelming and passionate responses we got from players, we're definitely not going to erase any points you've earned.
We still have to solve another problem: those who play daily will eventually have a limited number of questions they can answer in a 24-hr period, whereas newbies will have access to a pool of roughly 350 active questions. How do you think we should handle this? Do we limit the number of questions available each day?
In any case, we haven't instituted the new changes yet, but as soon as our dev team is freed from Olympic duties, we'll be rolling out a daily and weekly leaderboard in addition to the all-time leaderboard.
Tony and Josh attended the NewsTools2008 conference which wrapped-up on May 2nd. Here they are in action.
After a couple of days wait, 5 to be exact, our Fuel News app has been approved and listed on Facebook’s Application Directory.
Now you can get smart, go global, and track world news without leaving Facebook.
Check it out and let us know what you think.
It was three months ago, in cramped and carpeted quarters at the San Francisco's Embarcadero Center, that we launched our first Facebook application: Deadline, our not-so-trivial news quiz with long questions and even longer answers. Some of you might remember.
Since then, we've upgraded; we rolled out some cool features (more to come) and expanded our players from the 11 people who brought you deadline to 35,000 players from around the world. And the swank new office is a definite improvement.
Thanks for the support (Merci, Danke, Gracias...). We hope you keep playing as we continue to roll out new features and other news-based applications.
In 2007
For 2008
You can expect to see some of these features soon, as well as some other surprises:
Not to be missed
Check out Fuel News. Fuel News is our latest App, a place where you can deepen your knowledge and discover the stories you might have missed.
We are attentive to your feedback with regards to features so keep it coming.
Last but not least, we'd like to remind you can Rate the App and Share it with friends.
Thanks again, enjoy the news!
- The Deadline Team
It’s no surprise that our biggest group of players comes from the US (based on Facebook’s user profile data). After all, the US has the largest population on Facebook and Deadline is only available in English for the time being. What’s exciting is the fact that 70.47% of our players are non-US English speakers; the other 100 or so countries that show up on our screens remind us of our global audience.
We’ve got a sneak peek of some of the data we’re seeing; insights are pretty general but interesting (at least to us). In the past month, Jan 19 and Feb 18 2008, visits came from 102 different countries/territories. Here are the top 25:
We just released the first version of our most comprehensive news application to date.
Fuel News allows you to engage with the news and each other. It's a place where you can deepen your knowledge, and discover the stories you might have missed.
From browsing to voting, to commenting, bookmarking and sharing, Fuel News is social news right on Facebook.
Check it out at: apps.facebook.com/fuelnews
Congratulations!
Prizewinners for our Year in Review Quiz have been determined. They are:
Winners will be contacted by Deadline in order to arrange delivery of their prize, the book “World in Photos”, featuring the best images of 2007 from AFP’s award-winning photographers.
Thanks to all for taking the 2007 challenge.
Enjoy the news.
- The Deadline Team
Newzwag is a San Francisco-based company funded by Agence France-Presse (AFP). We develop technologies and ideas that bring one of the world's richest news resources to the rapidly evolving world of social media.
Olympics: Give and Get Satisfaction
Quiz goes B2B for the 2008 Summer Olympics
New Deadline Leaderboard. Get on top.
Our boys in action at NewsTools2008
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