Thought Into Motion

2Contenders Gets Facebook Connect

We have been fighting with integration facebook connect into 2contenders now for the better part of 2 weeks.   I am happy to announce that the changes have gone live.  While we are still shaking out some of the bugs the new features are great.   Now when you hit 2contenders you can create a local account or sign up using your facebook information.    If you already had a local account you can still click the facebook connect and link your local and facebook accounts.  This will enable you to use all the features on the site.   Below is a list of the new Facebook Connect features.

• Publish New Battles To Facebook
• Publish New Comments To Facebook
• Publish Ratings To Facebook
• Publish Voting To Facebook 

One of the best features is that each post must be confirmed by you.  While this sounds like it might become a pain, we have found this is a nice option.  While all services can be truned on or off from your profile sometimes you don't want things to be shared and this will allow you to control the information flow without causing to much of an interruption in service.   

Finally for the developers in us, we have learned a couple of things during this process and we will be sharing more blog posts about technical stuff in the next couple of posts.   But for now, we are just happy it we got this promoted. 

Next Up:  Twitter Integration

Please feel free to post any comments or thoughts you might have regarding 2contenders or what you might want to see from our Facebook Connect posts. 

2contenders Updates

Over the weekend we rolled out some new changes to the 2contenders website.  Most of the changes are visual.  Profile pages have been completely redone to show more information but also make it easier to navigate.    One the back-end we have started to roll up the user activity so that we can add in some graphs and show your activity versus the average user.  We feel that this will add to the competition element of the site.   Listed below is small list highlighting the big changes. 

New Features:

• New profile pages
• New direct messaging interface 
• Improved friends list with larger images and more information. 
• New random avatars for people who haven't posted a picture.  We were all getting annoyed with the grey box. 
• New user ranking based on the boxing weight classes. 

We are not done though!!   We are looking to finish up and roll out over the next 2 weeks some more new features.  

Upcoming Features:

• Twitter & Facebook integration
• User stats pages with graphs 
• A mini-widget for embedding battles into your sites. 

As always please feel free to send us any thoughts of suggestions at suggestions@2contenders.com

Thanks and let the battling begin.

 

It's Alive!!!

Well 2contenders is officially up.   I just wanted to give a big thank you to all the people who helped us out in making the site.  It was alot of fun working on this project and I know you guys will have fun playing around with it.

Thanks again!!!

Check out 2Contenders.com for more details.

2Contenders Launches!!

Where to being.   2Contenders is a website that we have been playing with as a pet project and we have decided to launch it as a real site for everyone to use.  The concept was born from a couple of simple arguments over movies, games, and hypothetical situations.  The site allows users to pit any two contenders against each other in a fictional battle.  Other users then vote on who they feel should win the battle. 

Over the next couple of posts I am going to be talking about some of the unique challenges we encountered while building the site, and how we got around them.

But in the meantime.  Please check out the site, and join the fun.

www.2contenders.com