Here’s a list of updates on PingMyCompany.com

Tag Clouds:

Two different clouds have been added at the top, just above the companies’ listing. These clouds have same functions on differnt basis, i.e. the one if left makes the most pinged companies prominent while the one in right exposes the busiest categories. The more a company is pinged, the more bold it’ll be shown in the cloud and same for categories.

Company Categories:

The feature has been added while keeping the enhanced search and navigation in mind, i.e. now users can search specific companies under a particular industry, and to make it easy a list of companies is given in a drop down menu, just submit the company in most relevant category.

Improved Navigation:

Keeping the user friendliness in mind, PingMycompany.com now helps user to find exactly what they need. For instance you’ve mistyped the URL, i.e. www.pingmycompany.com/net while you’re looking for Netsol. Now PMC will index all pages with ‘net’ for you.

Improved Search:

Search function at PingMyCompany.com has also been improved. First it used to search the keyword in companies’ names, now it covers the whole content, i.e. if one searches “Zigron”, he’ll find all the pages in index where “Zigron” appears.

Share With a Friend:

And, above all, now you can share any company’s page with your friends via Email. Just enter the email of your friends and we’ll let them know what you want to tell them.

I thought it will be a good time to share exactly whats our policy regarding “inappropriate” pings.

I have been getting few pings as “inappropriate” but to be honest I didnt find anything wrong with them. Our main goal is to make sure that we delete only those pings which contain very abusive language or content.

At times few pings are marked “inappropriate” because someone didnt seem to agree with them. Sometimes pings are marked because they are against a firm’s management team or boss. In such cases we dont feel that they should be deleted. These are people’s opinion and they should be heard.

At this moment there is not standard policy for us to evaluate these pings but we try our level best to make sure pings are fair and appropriate enough so that everyone can read them.

I will really appreciate if you can comment on how we should evaluate “inappropriate” pings.

Mashable.com just reviewed PingMyCompany. You can read the post at the following link.

http://mashable.com/2008/06/04/pingmycompany/

Hope to see few more such reviews and feedback to improve PingMyCompany further.

Ping Team.

Following are few more updates..

- Translation updated:

We have updated the translation feature. Now text is not automatically translated rather there is a translation link which users can use to get that particular ping in english. We plan to add a a new feature which will convert the entire page in any language.

- Pagination added:

Pagination feature is added to our main page. Let us know if it works better.

- Single Ping button:

Now under each "Details" page there is only one button to add your pings. We have added a catagory section which you can select under which catagory you want to add your ping to.

Recently we were noticing ping submissions in languages other then english and it was really exciting. So we have added a translation feature which automatically converts any ping from any other language to “english”.

We have used Google Translation APIs. Please let us know if you see any issues and we will try to fix it or worst just turn the service off if the translation is too off the track.

Feel free to leave your suggestion here or email us at pingmycompany [at] zigron [dot] com

Few more updates to PingMyCompany.com to make it more useful.

1) Inappropriate link

Now you can report any ping as “inappropriate” and we will look into it.

2) CAPTCHA

Though we like all our visitors but just to make sure that only humans add pings we have added CAPTCHA feature.

3) Better usability for sub-topics

We have added “Expand All ” & “Collapse All” feature to our sub-topics list. We have also made sure that if any sub-topic has any pings then its automatically expanded by default.

Based on some initial feedback we have added following new features:

1) Follow us @ twitter:

Now you can follow PingMyCompany activity via twitter. Just add “PingMyCompany” to your twitter account or follow us at twitter.com/PingMyCompany

2) Quick Count:

For better UX we added a quick count next to each Ping category under “Details” page.

3) PingMyCompany on Facebook

We have Facebook page now and if you become a fan you will get recent activity in your personal News Feed.

4) New Filters

We have added new filters on homepage. “Most Favored” and “Most Against”

5) Sub-topics:

We have added sub-topics under each firm. Each sub-topic also has its own Ping count. This will help users fine tune their discussion. For the moment these topics are hand picked and are only added by us but soon they will be open of all based on feedback. You can recommend us more sub-topics via “Suggestion” form or email us at pingmycompany@zigron.com

Feedback/Love/Hate/Advice will be highly appreciated.

Welcome to Ping Blog. Here you will find updates about new features which we will continue to roll out. We will also try to add crazy ideas we think about and hope to get your feedback on them.

Thank you everyone who has visited us till now. We will appreciate if you can pursue your friends to give their thoughts/pings about different firms so we are all better equipped.

Thanks

Ping Team.