Second Thoughts

ReadWriteWeb on the new Secondbrain

Lars Teigen — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:46:06 +0000

Sarah Perez just published a review about the new Secondbrain:

It’s not often you hear an application’s creators describe their service as “an unmanageable complexity” that “compromised the user experience,” but that’s exactly what those behind the content aggregation system Secondbrain are admitting right now. Their service, a bookmarking/social-media sharing/lifestreaming/social network kind of tool was hard to describe and even harder to use.

Also see my comment just below the post and check out the Twitterati talking about the new version.

A small update to Secondbrain.com

Lars Teigen — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:20:09 +0000

We just did a few minor improvements to Secondbrain.

Among the updates are several performance improvements, the availability of edit options in all views and RSS feeds from the most important pages.

Now you can also change your registered email address in your settings panel.

There are several more updates coming in the next few weeks. If you would like to share some feedback, please visit our feedback forum on secondbrain.uservoice.com.

The new Secondbrain is live

Lars Teigen — Wed, 20 May 2009 21:30:45 +0000

The Team is proud to present a new and improved service to all users. We have listened to feedback from you who are using Secondbrain and made several changes that we think you will enjoy.

Online bookmarking should be easy. So we decided to go back to the basics – to make it as simple as possible to save, share and discover interesting bookmarks in your Secondbrain.

This is what you need to know about the update

Your username and password are the same as before
All your bookmarks, pictures, video and files etc. that you’ve previously organized in Secondbrain are migrated to the new edition
We’ve disabled automatic syncronization of social media accounts
There’s currently no file uploading

The essential new features

More efficient navigation with a simplified library and more focus on collections
All your updates are listed under “What’s new”
Subscribe to specific collections instead of following everything from a user.
Bookmarks are saved to collections and tagging is optional
Control your privacy with three types of collections (Public, Restricted and Private)
Work together on collections by turning on ‘Collaboration’
Import bookmarks stored in your browser
Save bookmarks from your browser with our simplified browser tool (bookmarklet)

Please visit secondbrain.com today or read more about what’s new. If you have questions contact us by email or on twitter.com/2ndbrain. If you have feedback or brilliant ideas head over to uservoice.secondbrain.com.

All the best,

The Secondbrain Team

Scheduled downtime in progress

Lars Teigen — Sun, 17 May 2009 20:33:06 +0000

We’re performing some major brain surgery on Secondbrain.com. We should be back in about 48 hours. Thank you for your patience and see you soon,

The Secondbrain Team

Secondbrain update in progress – 48 hours downtime scheduled

Lars Teigen — Sat, 16 May 2009 21:23:26 +0000

Finally, we are going to deploy a major change and update to Secondbrain.com. During this update, we need to take down the service for about 48 hours.

We expect Secondbrain.com to be taken down on Sunday evening around 1800 hours CET. If everything goes as planned, we expect to be back up within about 48 hours.

The new Secondbrain will be quite different from today’s version. We have simplified the product model to focus on adding bookmarks to collections. Our goal is to make online bookmarking simple and useful.

We promise to explain more about the new Secondbrain once we’re back up.

See you soon:)

The Secondbrain Team

The testrelease is only a few days away

Lars Teigen — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 13:25:34 +0000

We’re deploying the testversion to our testserver this weekend. As soon as we have confirmed that the service is running well, we’ll start inviting some of our closest friends to test it. Depending on the feedback we plan to launch it publicly a couple of weeks later.

Cheers!

A quick update from the Secondbrain team

Lars Teigen — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:59:23 +0000

It’s been a while since we updated our blog, but rest assured that we have been working behind the scenes on the next update of Secondbrain.com.

The new version should be ready for testing in a few weeks and we plan a public release as soon as our testpilots give us the thumbs up.

We’ll publish some more information on the upcoming release as we approach the launch. However, one bit of information that we can give today is that the new version will be simpler, faster and much more focused than the current release. We’ll have more details for you in our next post:)

Moving to a new database server

Lars Teigen — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 12:27:26 +0000

Update: And we’re back and running smoothly.

We are moving the db to a brand spanking new server to improve performance. We’ll be right back:)

We’re moving! (Downtime expected)

audun — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 13:21:27 +0000

Secondbrain is relocating to new servers, and there will be some downtime while we are moving the all the data. Please return to www.secondbrain.com in a few hours.

We’re sorry for any inconvenience, and look forward to see you on our new servers!

Always thinking,

The Secondbrain team

Extending the invitation promotion

Lars Teigen — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:34:23 +0000

We have several $20 Amazon gift cards left, so instead of closing the promotion today, we decided to extend it until the 18th of December.

This will give more people a chance to get rewarded for introducing new people to our community.

We understand that some people may not like that we are changing the dates so late in the promotion, but we would like to introduce Secondbrain to as many people as possible, and to give more people a chance to participate.

All of you who are already qualified for a gift card will get your awards when the contest ends.

Good luck to you all and keep inviting your friends