Nurphy

Neil: Hi @Paul, Happy New Year (and to the *Nurphy http://Nurphy.com/Nurphy followers, too).

I published a blog post on a New Year's Resolution that lots of people could stick to: http://nurphy.posterous.com/ (it's a new Nurphy Blog). The festive season made me realise how Nurphy makes it easier & more fun to keep in touch with people, especially across different time zones. Email isn't pretty, I don't like the way that Instant Messaging is...well...instant-only, and social network profiles incriminate everyone via photo taggings. But Nurphy is working quite nicely with my family, colleagues, and friends in places like Thailand & China (no more disjointed email and IM conversations!).

And I can't wait to release those new features we've just been talking about; I think we'll become attached to them rather quickly.

p.s. Do you think we should do blog post on how we approached the new landing page (as seen here http://nurphy.posterous.com/)? Maybe it'll be of interest to other website owners...

Neil: @paul, I just tweeted about the launch of the brand new Nurphy landing page (screenshot here: http://bit.ly/7pAxjC). There's a positive response so far.

Someone mentioned http://fivesecondtest.com , have you heard of it? It looks like a handy tool for gathering feedback and testing website designs. I started a memory test in case any of the *Nurphy followers wanted to give feedback http://fivesecondtest.com/test/rztgmrCO

Neil: Hi @Paul, the 'Getting Started' video ( http://nurphy.com/getting_started#getting_started ), and FAQ ( http://nurphy.com/faq ) should help with the 'arriving at Nurphy' experience. But did I miss any frequently asked questions?

I'm looking forward to the Nurphy pitch at the TechCrunch ChristmasCrunch tomorrow. How many Nurphy puns (Nurph' said?) we can fit in to 1 minute?

Neil: @paul, I'm enjoying the new 'fork a conversation' feature. It's fun to go off topic when you have a conversation linking system http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq33jZ6m2Rk

And now we have real-time 'about X minutes ago' in messages, it's hard to see how we did without it.

Neil: @paul, I'm enjoying the new (new) message count that pops up in the browser tab title when you leave a conversation open and someone posts something new. Very handy. Here's a screenshot: http://bit.ly/1gSEyT

And the featured conversation with the Like Minds experts & speakers is going well. Here's the link http://Nurphy.com/*wou1fu. Do you think the Nurphy community will be interested in commentary from social media experts (without hashtags or 140 char limits)?

Neil: Hi, @Paul. Further to a point by @ihatemornings regarding broken links in a Twitter client, I just started a public conversation for our big dilemma with asterisks in conversation URLs: *w67urh

Neil: @paul, it's working well so far, and the privacy settings are much clearer now. Talking of new features; the new message 'Send' button is better than the Windows 3.1 look I handcrafted before.

paul: @Neil I've also just deployed the changes to the Start a Conversation form we've been working on. Hopefully that should make starting a conversation a little smoother.

Neil: @paul, thanks for deploying the new 'People' button in the main menu, and the search box within. I bet within a few days we'll be wondering how we ever did without it.

Neil: Hi @Paul, I'm just on the way to social media cafe. @documentally is working some magic again, hopefully it's all running smoothly for new visitors. I'm posting from the iPhone web interface, but 3g keeps dropping out - I can't get enurph.

paul: No, I'd not seen http://cssiphone.com/ before, I'll take a better look around later.

Neil: @paul, same for me; in fact I'm nearly addicted to checking Nurphy on my iPhone when I'm out and about. There's room for a few more tweaks to the CSS (form elements, landing page), but maybe we can come back to those once the current changes have settled in. Have you seen http://cssiphone.com/?

paul: It makes a huge difference. I'm certainly finding myself more likely to check the site on my iPhone now it's that much easier. Have you had any further thoughts now it's been live for a couple of days?

Neil: The new iPhone & iPod Touch optimised site is live, and I'm really enjoying it so far. The mobile Nurphy experience is completely different without the need to zoom in & out. How's it working out for you, @Paul?

Neil: @Paul, Nurphy has a facebook fan page. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nurphycom/150286445198?ref=nf Would you & @charms be interested in joining the fan club? There's no fee for sign-up over the next two weeks. After that, who knows?