Today, well OK over the weekend, we updated the server with some new features around profiles.  Now you can add some cool things like a picture…  Also you can now view other people’s profile.  Look in your contact list and you can see the profile of anyone on your list that is a Vuuch user.  Your contact list contain Vuuch users and non Vuuch users (“email contacts”).  If you want to see someones profile that is not a contact then use the add contact button and search for someone and you can see the profile of anyone in the list.  We are looking for ideas of how you would like to discover other Vuuch users.  For instance if you create public discussions, would you like to see all other people who create public discussions?

We just released a new version of the Vuuch.  To check these out please uninstall your old add-in adn install the new add-in.  You can find the add-ins at www.vuuch.com/download. There are some great new enhancements, all things you have been asking for:

• User profile – Each user can now maintain a simple profile.  While the current implementation is simple it is the start of some interesting developments.
• Contacts – The management of contacts has been greatly improved.  Now you can maintain contacts that are NOT Vuuch users. 
• Public discussions – Instead of closing a conversation to a small group of your contacts you can now open the discussion to everyone on the WEB.  Public discussions are made available to anyone that wants to extract them using the Vuuch open API.  For instance you can see public discussions being posted at www.vuuch.net.  Any comment made at www.vuuch.net is feedback to Vuuch.  So the next time your have an engineering question or a question of how to do something in your application just create a Vuuch public discussions.
• WordPress addin – Anyone running a WordPress based site can extract Vuuch public discussions using this addin.  The code is available for open use and modification.  So if you would like to modify this code to work with say PHPBB then you are free to do.
• HTML widget – If you would like to host Vuuch public discussions on your WEB site then use our HTML widget.  You can see an example of this here on the blog or generate your own widget.
• Multiple image – Now add as many images as you want to a discussion.  While creating a discussion or replying to a discussion you can snap an image of the screen.  If you find an image you don’t like or don’t need just right click the image and delete it.
• Image names – As you create iamges you can use the default names or type any name you want.  Now your image name makes sense.
• Reply from email – A little known feature that has worked for a while is reply by email.  Those people you invite to discussions can just hit reply to the email the get from Vuuch and the reply is connected to the discussion.  There are a few limitations with this.  At this time you cannot add people to the reply nor can you add an attachment to the reply.

Keep the feedback coming.  Thanks to all those beta users for giving us things to work on.