Release Notes for revision 1787

Revision Number: 1787


-Community interface heavily reworked for joining, leaving, inviting and creating.

-Can sign up users for Sabisu as they join your community.

-Updated dialogs for sharing widgets and pages.

-Introduced user profile pictures.

-Added a switch to the on-premise server to restrict searching communities to within the premise, i.e., users within a premise cannot search for communities external to the premise server.

-Improved AD security.

-Accessing widgets data from a premise externally now requires the user to authenticate.

-Limit on invites. A user now has the option to restrict an invitation to a particular community.

-Introduced community keys, allowing users to be invited directly into a community, making joining the platform and the community seamless.
-Optimised scrolling for tabs.

-Introduced invisible widgets which are primarily used when a config is required for a widget (i.e., widgets do not show in a users sidebar).

-Introduced Open ID to the platform for Google logins.

-Minor bug fixes.

Release Notes for Revision 1606

Revision 1606 went live on 23rd May, including:

• Improvements to On-Premise to Cloud communication, including security enhancements
• Last admin can no longer leave a community
• Added feature to allow users to copy a community page to their personal pages
• Users must now formally rejoin a community
• Making any change to a community page gives users edit mode automatically
• Creating a new community now allows a user to inherit details from the attached community
• Login and registration have been updated with a new user interface
• Users can now setup a company when they register with Sabisu
• The widget design tool has had some user interface improvements made and defects resolved
• Various other bug fixes

Release Notes for Revision 1515

Revision 1515 went live on 13th May, with the following improvements including:

• Improved system ajax architecture
• Minor bug fixes including
• Widget recommendations now show in the sidebar
• Inviting multiple users to a community now invites all entered users
• Other minor bug fixes
• Overhaul of system security
• Introduced session based logins

Revision 1331 now live, improving security & CSS

We pushed revision 1331 to Sabisu.co today - lots of changes, even if most of them were 'below the water line'.

• Public cloud users are now invited to create a community page, publish it and invite users in a single seamless workflow.
• On-premise users can now set themselves up for access outside the corporate network through a new option on their User Profile (user menu, top right).
• There's a 'Hints' mode under the user menu (top right).
• Platform reskin, now with our new branding and colour scheme.
• CSS themes for communities have been expanded platform wide, now much more control over what you can change to add your own unique style.
• Sabisu Community Forums are now available as a widget; look under the "Sabisu" application in the side bar to add it to your page.
• The on-premise security model has been improved, as has the log-in security for cloud users.
• Various widget improvements have been made, including improvements to the way supply chain objects are drawn on maps.
• Chat has been made more efficient, shifting more activity server side.
• Minor CSS fixes have been made to the chat window.
• Improvements to widget editor - usability, security.
• The system will ensure that users will always have at least one page on their workspace.

Sabisu release 1240

Just a quick note for this release; it's something of an interim release while we work on new things.

Our current focus is security, usability and platform reliability.

Release 1240 adds:

- A new feature which allows a community admin to make amendments to the community profile.

- Various bug fixes

Sabisu gets chat, in-line notifications, load on-demand

Sabisu continues to get better; we've added some new features in the last couple of weeks.

1. Notifications
   Email might be the de facto notification method for most platforms on the internet and you can see why; it's a way to reach outside the platform and maintain contact. We'll keep on using it because we understand (most) people don't live in the platform 24/7.
   
   However, our customers expect a real-time experience; if the data being streamed to the cloud is real-time it would be strange for all elements of the platform not to be so. Therefore new notifications are not only emailed, they're flashed up at the bottom right of the screen with a quick link to take the user directly to the point of action in the platform.
   
   At the moment, it's community and widget related actions that are notified to the user. However we'll look at other events that should generate a notification; please feel free to suggest.
   
   
2. On-Demand Load
   Everyone on the development team is a heavy user; we have lots of workspace pages, each with lots of data based widgets. Until now, the platform would prioritise loading the current workspace, then would load background pages.
   
   Now the platform will load each workspace page as it is requested by the user. This makes the platform much faster. It also makes it impossible for a badly designed widget to cause a browser problem until that workspace page is requested.
   
   
3. Chat
   Clearly a collaboration platform needs some sort of real-time chat facility. Often it's the quickest way to get things done and users like multi-tasking many chat streams.
   
   We understand there are other chat facilities out there; both standalone and platform based. However we felt given our corporate focus we couldn't be reliant on another vendor; not only must we ensure reliability, we plan to develop chat in ways that might be denied to us had we chosen another route.
   
   

Books that inspired Team Sabisu in 2010

What Would Google Do?, Jeff Jarvis: Readable and provoking analysis of Google's approach. A starting point from which to explore internet platforms, practices and models.

Free, Chris Anderson: Makes sense of the new default price in the digital world; zero. Useful analysis and guidance as to what makes a freemium business model work.


The Longer Long Tail, Chris Anderson: Looks at the power of digital retailing as it applies to inventory; how a mass of niches can be as profitable as sticking to a few big sellers.


Everything Is Miscellaneous, David Weinberger: Another easy business/culture read. Develops concepts well, clearly argued and implications are well examined.


Cluetrain Manifesto, Rick Levine et al: Essential reading for anyone involved with web 2.0; a manifesto for changing the world.


Here Comes Everybody, Clay Shirky: As told through anecdote and example, interesting ideas on rapid forming communities and how faster is different.


The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell: Classic from the NYU school of new thinking (cf Shirky). Makes a good attempt to do some impossible analysis on the nature of virality.


Creative Disruption, Simon Waldman: Interesting look at how established businesses react to disruptions great for both for those seeking to disrupt and those on the receiving end of disruption.

What Technology Wants, Kevin Kelly: Meticulously researched work proposing that technology extends the natural process of evolution.

Business Model Generation, Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur: a fantastic handbook for visualising new and disruptive business models