Monthly Archives: May 2009

Welcome Back from the Long Weekend

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Well, it’s Tuesday and I hope that all of you BonzoBoxers in the US had a great long weekend, maybe fired up the grill, and honored the memory of the brave men and women that gave their lives to keep the country strong and free. 

We saw that you were not spending your time on BonzoBox this weekend, and while you were away we did a bunch of small upgrades.  Most of them were small and make things a little faster or work a little better.  The thing you will most likely notice that when you look at a buddy’s websites, (like mine at bonzobox.com/johnbeales), you shouldn’t see which providers your buddy was using in his E-mail tab.

There are a bunch more small updates scheduled to roll out throughout the week to help improve your experience on BonzoBox.  We won’t be blogging about them all, but we will try to post most of them on Twitter so if you’re not already doing it, follow us at twitter.com/bonzobox.  

Have a great week.

Announcing Facebook Connect on BonzoBox

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A few minutes ago we pushed a major update that adds Facebook Connect to BonzoBox.  We’re pretty excited about this and hope that you will be too!

Facebook Connect allows you to sign in to BonzoBox by authenticating with Facebook instead of creating a username and password on BonzoBox.  If you already have a BonzoBox account you can add Facebook authentication to your account by going to Settings, (by your name in the top right), then choosing Account Linking. If you don’t already have a BonzoBox account simply click the Facebook Connect button in the Sign Up screen.  To sign in using Facebook Connect click the Facebook Connect button in the BonzoBox Sign In screen.

This is only our first step with the Facebook platform here on BonzoBox. We are planning even deeper integration with the Facebook platform and there is more to come.

Summer Interns Wanted.

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For the past few weeks we’ve been quietly looking for interns to join our team for the summer, and possibly longer.  We have found some excellent people, (look for an introduction later on), but there are a few key internships that we would like to fill.

Starting today we are looking for a Graphic & Web Design intern. If you are self-motivated, collaborative in nature, can wear many hats, and will thrive in a start-up environment, we want you to apply.  See more on the BonzoBox Recruiting Page.

While we’re at it, we are looking for commission-based salespeople.  We’re offering a healthy commission, so if you’re good at sales, head to the Recruiting Page for more info.

Performance Issues Resolved

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You may have noticed that sometimes BonzoBox has been extremely slow to load over the past 2 weeks.  We noticed too and set to work finding out why. 

It turns out that the program that imports our updated screenshots was very hard on the database and as a result whenever it started working, (at least every 5 minutes), the database would be overloaded and BonzoBox pages would stop loading properly.  This is why BonzoBox sometimes appeared to be up one minute, down the next, and back up 2 minutes after that.  To fix the problem we rewrote the program that imports the updated screenshots so be much nicer to the database and everything seems to be running fine now, and has been since last night.  As an added bonus updated screenshots are now imported much faster!

Thank you for your patience while we hunted down the cause of the problem and got it fixed.