Saturday, 25 October 2008

Upgrade!

Hi all,

We've just released a new update for ThatsMyMouse. The two main features of this release are;
a) Speed updates. ThatsMyMouse will now load & run faster.
b) Improved work-flow for first time users. The new process is;

  1. First time users enter a page and ThatsMyMouse is disabled
  2. The TMM icon bounces in the bottom-right corner of the browser
  3. They click the icon and a "You can use ThatsMyMouse on this page" dialogue opens
  4. They click to enable or disable TMM
There are a couple of benefits to this new process. Firstly we had a lot of people interested in using TMM on their website, however they were turned off due to the large dialogue that would pop-up for every first-time visitors. Secondly it is a more intuitive process for new users to go through. They are immediately familiarised with clicking on the bottom-right icon to perform actions & they won't have their mouse cursor shared until they've specifically accepted it.

Don't forget, using ThatsMyMouse is as simple as adding the following code anywhere on your page;
<script type="text/javascript" defer="defer" src="http://files.thatsmymouse.com/app.latest.js">

You can find more information about customising ThatsMyMouse here; http://thatsmymouse.com/?page=Add

Thank you to all everyone who continues to use our service. Let us know what you think of this new upgrade!

2 comments:

Utopiah said...

Hi, thanks for the update now I think I can include this on my website.
I was wondering though, I skimmed through the API documentation but didn't find that, how can I access the log of a specific page of my website?
Id like to be able to get access to it in order to store and eventually archive them so that user wouldn't have to copy and paste what they typed before.

Cheers,
Utopiah.

PS : would you mind explaining your business model a bit?

James said...

Hi utopiah,

Currently you cannot directly access that data via the API. The API is designed to enable a JavaScript distributed computing environment via a shared state on a webpage. i.e. when two people are on the same page they can do things together.

If there is enough demand, we will construct an API to allow people to extract data directly from the application. Alternatively (and most likely the route we'll take) is that we'll allow people to host data locally - i.e. chat sessions, mouse position data etc... and user activity can be your own database. Don't forget that there's also a limited history of chat sessions on a page. Press Ctrl+Enter to see the chat window with the last 10 message on the page in it.

Regarding the business model - if the application becomes successful enough we plan to charge for premium features. We don't plan to make any features available now restricted under a pricing plan.

Regards,
James