Glacir has just released our biggest update since launching. We have made updates to a large amount of the site. I won’t get into all the specifics but will talk about our biggest update, Facebook Connect.
Facebook Connect allows you to link your Glacir and Facebook accounts. This makes it easy to get started on Glacir, as well as giving you the ability to send information back to Facebook. With Facebook Connect on Glacir, you can do all of the following:
Find and connect to Facebook friends on Glacir with one click
Invite Facebook friends to Glacir with one click
Post Glacir messages about your Six Degrees of Separation to your Facebook wall
Stay updated on your Six Degrees of Separation with Glacir notifications sent to Facebook periodically
Glacir believes that integrating Facebook with our service will make it easier for you to build, explore, and harness your own Six Degrees of Separation. If you already have a Glacir account, go to www.glacir.com/connect to link your Facebook account to Glacir. If you don’t have a Glacir account, please visit www.glacir.com/join to get started with Glacir and to connect your Facebook account.
Let us know what you think, if you have any questions or problems, by telling us in our feedback forum.
February 2009 – That’s when I contacted Zak. I had heard about Glacir through a friend and was interested in helping out. After a few meetings, Brad and Zak (both of whom I had the pleasure of meeting while attending Miami University) brought me on board.
Some big changes have just been launched on Glacir. We have changed the degrees page to be a living timeline of your degrees of separation connection activity. Listed below are some of the major changes:
People on your degrees page are now arranged chronologically, with the most recent on top.
New connections will now be flagged as “new” to make it easy for you to explore new people you are connected to
You can now see all of your 6 degrees on your map at once
These changes have been made to make the degrees pages your center for all six degrees of separation information. Log on to your account now to explore the changes. Stay tuned! Coming very soon is Facebook Connect! It will truly transform how you use Glacir!
Glacir just launched a new feature that allows you to display links to your Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other network profile pages. Glacir sees this being a great way for you to allow other Glacir members to explore your other online identities.
For example, it will allow you to go to someone’s Glacir profile and then see if they have a Twitter account, and if they do, you can visit their Twitter profile and then decide to follow them if you would like. Or if you want to see someone’s professional info, click on their LinkedIn link. Want to see a Glacir member’s photos? Perhaps they have a Facebook page; click on their Facebook link and explore their Facebook profile. Read More…
Glacir strives to be highly responsive to our users when they are having problems, have questions, or have suggestions for improvement of our services. We just launched a new tool that will help foster these conversations. You can access the the tool from the new “Feedback” tab on the right-hand side of every page on Glacir. Here is a little more about what this tool does.
Have an Idea?
Have an idea on how to make Glacir better? Share it on the new feedback forum! Others can then join in the conversation and help shape your idea. The Glacir team contributes to and monitors these ideas to gauge how interested users are in new ideas. If there is enough interest, we may implement your suggestion! Also, if you see an idea you like, join the conversation and help us refine it.
Glacir has just launched the first of many new features…Talkbox. Talkbox gives Glacir users the ability to communicate with one another on Glacir. It is a unique communications platform that creates a stream of talks (short messages of 256 characters or less) that can be filtered by person. Below are the basics of Talkbox:
I have been getting a lot of questions lately from my friends and family about Glacir. One of the most common questions they ask is, “Can I tell people about this website or not?” …. As you can imagine, my answer is always a resounding YES!
We aren’t trying to keep this a secret. We want the world to know about it!