You can listen to this post or you can read on.  Comon’, you know you’d rather listen.

1. Statistics - We’ve been online for 2 months now and have had over 2,000 visits and 5,000 page views from 60 countries and all 50 of the United States. Woo ha!
2. Updates - The iPad contest is in full swing.  It is based on a 7-day rolling score system.  Find out more on the contest page.  The Facebook audio player have been removed and replaced with a link to the post’s page on the GabbiCat site.
3. Upcoming - I’m looking into developing audio replies, directed audio posts, and user tagging in audio posts and hoping to spend some time on those features this week.  iPhone/iPad and Android apps are still planned but I’ve re-prioritized them a bit.  Longer term, I’m hoping to promote GabbiCat from an alpha product (i.e. still being developed) to a beta product (i.e. mostly done and being tested) by this Fall.

Have you joined GabbiCat yet?  No?  Then join now for a chance to win an iPad!

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Howdy all,

You can listen to this post here.  Otherwise, read on…

Today we’re officially launching the Start Gabbing Contest to give away an iPad 3 (or New iPad, other whatever people are calling it).  The contest is designed to help promote and create awareness of GabbiCat by rewarding you points for various activities.  Scores are updated daily and the leading scorer at the end of the contest will win a rockin’ iPad!

Interested?  Check out the Start Gabbing Contest page and get started!

GabbiCat

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Hi all,

You can listen to this post here, or you can read on…

Yesterday was a HUGE TRAFFIC DAY!  We broke our previous record traffic day by over 400%, with nearly 800 visits.  If you have posts on GabbiCat, check out your play counts.  Many of them have been played several hundred times!  We’ve now been visited by all 50 of the United States and over 70 countries around the world!  For those of you that have been tweeting about and promoting GabbiCat, thank you SO MUCH!  I appreciate anything you can do to spread the word about GabbiCat as I have very little money for advertising.

I deployed some minor enhancements to the site last night.  They are as follows:

1. Played count notifications - You will now receive notifications when any of your posts are played 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000, etc. times.  This helps keep you aware of posts that are trending or possibly going viral…handy.  If you have email notifications enabled, you will also receive an email each time these events occur.
2. Extended and clickable captions - You can now enter up to 500 characters in the caption field of your posts rather than 140.  Also, any hyperlinks that you include in your caption will now appear as clickable links that will open a new browser window.
3. Changed anonymous home page back to “Everything” feed - After reviewing the traffic numbers from yesterday, it became clear that making the “Trending” feed the home page caused many of the latest posts to be ignored.  It might make sense to use the “Trending” feed as the home page at some point in the future when there’s a constant flow of new posts coming in, but for now I think it makes more sense to use the “Everything” feed.  We’ll see.
4. Contest coming soon - I’m still working on the specifics of the contest.  Expect an announcement soon!

I think that’s about it for now.  Thanks again to everyone for your help.  Please continue to help promote GabbiCat on Facebook and Twitter.  All help is VERY appreciated!

Oh yeah, have you joined GabbiCat and started posting yet?  No?  Then join now and make my day!

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Hey everyone,

You can listen to this post here, or, if you’d rather be kinda lame, you can read on… :)

POSTING FROM YOUR PHONE IS NOW AVAILABLE!!!

I’ve been promising this for the last week or so, and now it’s available.  You can now use the GabbiCat phone client to record and post to without needing to use a web browser.  To do this, you must first register the phone number from which you’ll be calling GabbiCat and assign a four digit pin.  This can be done in the new phone tab on the settings page.  Once your phone number is registered, you can record and post to GabbiCat from your phone anytime.  Woo ha!  Try it out and let me know what you think!

In other topics, last Thursday was our second highest traffic day since the website launch four weeks ago.  Traffic yesterday/today has been reduced, but this is consistent with the pattern we’ve seen emerging over the last few weeks: weekends tend to be lower traffic days.  Nevertheless, the lows are still higher than in previous weeks, which is still indicative of overall upward growth.  Boo ya!

I think that’s it for now.  I’m heading on vacation with my family tomorrow for the week, but that won’t stop me from posting now that I can post straight from my phone!  Waka waka!

Oh yeah…have you signed up for GabbiCat yet?  No?  Then be a lamb and sign up now!

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Ola Amigos,

As always, you can listen to this post here, or you can be boring and read on… :)

1. Yesterday tied our second biggest traffic day since the GabbiCat launch almost 4 weeks ago!  We now have had visitors from 51 countries and 44 of the United States.  We’ve also had nearly 2,000 plays on our members’ audio posts.  Most excellent!
2. I’ve made further progress on the GabbiCat phone client, which will allow you to record and post directly from a phone call and without the need to sign-in to the site using your web browser.  I’m hoping to have it deployed in the next few days before I leave for vacation with the fam.

That’s about it for today…short and sweet.  Stay tuned for more updates.

Oh yeah…have you signed up for GabbiCat yet?  No?  Then take action and join now, Hotshot!

GabbiCat

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Howdy partners,

You can listen to this post here, or you can be boring and read on <not-so-subtle-nudging>…

Updates for today:

1. Site traffic continued it’s upward trend again yesterday after the dip over the holiday weekend.  I believe it was our 3rd busiest day since launch.  I’ll have some specific numbers to share later this week.
2. I’ve been working on a new feature called the “phone client”, which will allow users to interact with GabbiCat completely from their phones…no computer needed.  This will be especially handy for recording audio posts while out and about.  I’m hoping to have this feature available later this week.
3. Some GabbiCat users have expressed that while they enjoy listening to posts, they don’t feel like they have anything worth posting.  This is same thing that many used to say about Twitter and Facebook only a few short years ago, and now look at them! :)  Everyone knows something, whether it’s a life experience, knowledge you’ve acquired, or simply the way you feel about your day!  Chances are also good that someone out there could benefit from the things that you share through your voice.  It’s my sincere hope that GabbiCat becomes a community of supportive users that encourage everyone to try posting their voice or other audio.  So, give it some thought, shake off some of that shyness, and share something with the world!  We want to hear you!

I think that’s about all for today.  Stay tuned for more information and have a great day!

Oh yeah…have you signed up for GabbiCat yet?  No?  Then join now and say what you need to say!

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1. Indiana - 442 (visits)
2. Illinois - 63
3. Alaska - 33
4. New York - 23
5. Ohio - 8
6. California - 7
7. Arizona - 4
8. Michigan - 4
9. (not set) - 3
10. Florida - 3
11. Georgia - 3
12. South Carolina - 3
13. Texas  - 3
14. Kentucky - 2
15. Massachusetts - 2
16. Missouri - 2
17. New Jersey - 2
18. Pennsylvania - 2
19. Wisconsin - 2
20. Colorado - 1
21. District of Columbia - 1
22. Idaho - 1
23. Maryland - 1
24. Minnesota - 1
25. Montana - 1
26. North Carolina - 1
27. Oregon - 1
28. Tennessee - 1
29. Virginia - 1
30. Washington - 1

Total - 622

Don’t see your state here?  Then join GabbiCat and represent!

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