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BonzoBox 2008 Year in Review

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Now that the partying is, (partly), over, it’s time for us to take a look back and see what we’ve accomplished this year at BonzoBox, and to look forward and see what we need to do.

2008 saw the successful beta launch of BonzoBox.com, our site, and our company. We’re an eclectic team with members in California and Québec and backgrounds ranging from real estate to programming to design to classical dance. Some of us knew each other before we invented BonzoBox and some didn’t, but now we’re a pretty tight bunch. That’s enough nostalgia. Wipe your eyes and read on.

This year we’ve made an attempt to reach out to our users and have received a bunch of feedback. With our next few updates we will attempt to address as many of your concerns as possible. If ever you have a problem with the site or have anything you want to say, good or bad, please let us know. There is a feedback link at the bottom of every page, and on most pages there is a feedback tab at the side that will let you submit feedback to our user forum.

In 2009, in addition what was mentioned in our Holiday Newsletter, we will be throwing our doors wide open. You will be able to link directly to your BonzoBox and even if your friends aren’t BonzoBox members they can see what you have in your box, if you let them, (of course, we want them to become members, so throw in a good word for us, won’t you?). 2009 will be the Year of the BonzoBox. Please enjoy it, and keep telling us what you think.

New Feedback & Upgrades

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Our new feedback tab.

Our new feedback tab.

Great new feedback system from Get Satisfaction

Here on BonzoBox there’s always been a link at the very bottom of the site that allows you to send feedback to us, but it’s not very obvious and just sends an E-mail – not very 21st century of us, so this week we have pushed an update that gives all of you BonzoBoxers out there a way to participate in making BonzoBox better:  Feedback powered by Get Satisfaction.

Get Satisfaction allows you to send us questions, ideas, problem reports, and even praise, and it lets others see what’s going on and let us know their thoughts on the subject.  For example, if Sally wants the ability to make her BonzoBox sing to her she can post an idea that says “BonzoBox should sing to me.”  Then, if Jane likes the idea she can tell us so from the same web page and start following the idea so she knows what’s going on.  This will allow us to know which ideas are the most loved, (or hated).  It also means that the survey will be closed down by the end of the weekend.

You will notice a black tab on the left side of most BonzoBox pages that says “Feedback.”  Just click it and tell us your ideas, wishes, and gripes.

Back-End improvements to allow for faster updates

You may not be aware, but BonzoBox is multi-lingual, we have both English and Spanish versions of BonzoBox, and have a couple more languages coming soon.  However, it’s tough to quickly add new features to a website when everything has to be done in four languages! So, a major part of our updates this week consisted of code changes that allow us to update the different languages independently as the translations are ready.  This means that for those of you using BonzoBox in English, you may see features slightly faster than those of you using BonzoBox in other languages.  This will allow us to keep on innovating and experimenting at breakneck speed!

Who is this John guy?

You may have noticed that this post is not written by the Bonzo Guy.  It’s written by John.  I am the Chief Technology Officer of BonzoBox and I will be writing about new features and upgrades to BonzoBox, and maybe something else once in a while if I feel like it.  Want to know what’s in my BonzoBox?  Check it out here.