So I bet you guys are wondering what we actually do here @ Pikchur besides drink beer and watch Diggnation? Well, we eat cake, oh and release features from time to time.
Some of these delightful treats include
Friends / Followers
Edit Pik Data
Activity Stream, a stream of activities of you and the people you follow (Piks, Follows, Comments). The Activity Stream can be found in your dashboard. :)
Upgraded comment system.
Optimized API
Optimized Pikchur Message Queueing System
And much more (you’ll just have to look closely)
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Here is a more detailed look at some of the features from the list:
Friends / Followers / Activity Streams
You can now follow and have people follow you back on Pikchur.
Follow your friends Public Pikchur activity, Piks, comments, and new followings.
We also made our comments a lot smarter! Now when you leave a comment on a Pikchur, a link back is included as well as the option of embedded @’s to services that don’t support threaded conversations (or have limited support for them). This eliminates out of context status updates.
So for example , I send a pik, (@Orical) and you leave a comment of “Nice pik”, we will, if enabled add the @Orical Nice Pik <link back> to your outgoing comment. This pretty much eliminates all out of context conversations.
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There are a bunch of more features we just added, so come join us!
We here at Pikchur love jQuery and we figured we’d write a short summary of the new features included in jQuery UI 1.7. It’s full of updates, upgrades and uptomization optomizations.
So what’s new?
Backward compatability!: Well one of the biggest things is the backwards compatability with jQuery 1.3, yes thats right you can upgrade to 1.7 and benifit from all the goodness and speed boosting gremlins, quickly and easily.
Revamped and optimized plugins : In addition to making all sorts of bug fixes, the jQuery team optimized all of there plugins. With the promise of cleaner code, faster proccess, and more options.
ThemeRoller V2 + CSS Framework : These two updates have to be my favorite, as a developer I love to geek out over these sorts of things, and well the new openness of the CSS framework and the cool things you can do with the ThemeRoller, make me feel all tingley inside. Err what I mean is that the new CSS framwork update not only supports the standard jQuery UI plugins, but also custom made ones. Opening up a door of possibilities that makes even the most reserved developer dance with joy. Oh and of course ThemeRoller, which has been built to work in conjunction with the new CSS Framework.
Along with a a buch of other updates such as offline documentation, new demos, a revamped website ( http://ui.jquery.com/ ), and a dedicated blog, (http://blog.jqueryui.com/) its no wonder jQuery is always ahead of the game.
So we clawed, and scrapped our way to the finals in one of the categories for the SXSW web awards! Isn’t that great? We are super psyched, and truly honored to have been nominated for an award of this caliber.
You’ll find us under the “mobile” category, along with some other really cool sites, including one name you guys might have heard a little bit about .. :-)
Thanks to everyone who has helped support us, we really appreciate it. Thanks to our users for providing feedback and enabling us to make a better service. Wow, this sounds like an acceptance speech, so we’ll stop right here..
We hope to see a bunch of you at SXSW! Keep bringing the awesomeness!
Hey guys sorry for the inconvenience, but it seems that Twitter is having some DNS issues. This means that for the time being we cannot send Piks or authenticate with Twitter.
We will notify you as soon as everything is resolved :)
Although the weather wasn’t great, the interview with Luckystartups went really well. Yeah, there are things we could have improved on, but overall it wasn’t bad for our first live interview.
We have are seat-belts fastened, and are ready to move on with the next major update to the site. In addition we will have a nice little surprise coming shortly for those of you who have iPhones. Thanks to all who gave us feedback and suggestions, we are definitely taking them in to account as we move along.
Of course if anyone has any other suggestions,comments, or just wants to say hi, we are on getsatisfaction and twitter. Feel free to drop us a line :-)
Come join @JewGoneWild and my self (@Orical) tonight @ 6pm EST while we do a Live interview with LuckyStartups.
About
How do you describe a show like lucky…
It’s like spring after a long winter, flowers in bloom.. errr wait I digress..
Luckystartups is a show that interviews any and all startups as well as people who are in the industry. It allows for users to communicate and ask questions live.
If that wasn’t enough LuckyStartups is hosted by two extremely charismatic people, (Aronado Placencia and Dennis Lankes) whose on screen chemestry bring the show up from a 10 out of 10 to a cool 20 on the Pikchur Startup Interview Show Scale (PSISS, for short).
Now that you know what LuckyStartups is, and we are assuming you know what Pikchur is, please feel free to join us tonight with your questions, ideas, and feedback we will be glad to answer any and all questions (well as long as you don’t ask why the goat is in our office we’re good).
As you can see we are down for a few minutes while we do some critical updates.
The majority of these fixes have to do with the styling of the site ( CSS ) and some inconsistencies that were occuring on certain browsers and platforms.
All in all this will be a nice little patch, and we will continue burning the 2am oil for our next release, which will be way cooler than this Zzzzzing one.
Following up on a new tradition, we will now drop some knowledge:
Hey guys sorry for the down time… But we promise its worth it!
Here are a few questions we thought you would have while we are down:
So What happend to Pikchur?
Nothing really, we are still here to stay, we are not closing down. We Just need to go offline for a few hours while we transfer over our services to new servers.
Are all my photos still going to be there?
Sure! You think we would run off with all your stuff? Not a chance, everything you had will be back up once everything is transfered over.
What’s changing?
Well, a whole lot, but one of the things you’ll notice immediately is a completely re-vamped user interface. We really hope you like it, and if you don’t make sure to let us know!
Well now that we are done answering questions, here are some words of wisdom for you to reflect on while you wait.
We here at Pikchur love jQuery and we figured we’d write a short summary of the new features included in jQuery UI 1.7. It’s full of updates, upgrades and 
