MochiBot Blog

We’ve just pushed a new build over the weekend that adds a couple new features. One is the addition of SWF categories. This will help determine if the Flash movie you’re tracking is a game, animation, video, etc. We created these categories because the second feature we added was SWF Rankings and we needed to categorize the SWFs to properly rank them against each other. Having your SWF ranked is optional because the rank of your SWF will be available for the public to see in a weekly listing of top Flash movies. We won’t be releasing the listing of top Flash movies for a while because it’s going to take some time for people to get their SWFs properly categorized.

One of the reasons why we created the rankings is to help give developers a better idea of how their Flash movies perform in comparison to others around the web. Another reason is also to help our developers get some more recognition by driving traffic to their sites. Along with each ranked SWF will be a field for you to put the link where you want to send people to view your Flash movie. Our job is to make the most of the developers we work with so this is just another way we’re trying to do that.

Both of these new features can be found when you create a new MochiBot or when you edit one that you already created. The edit button for your MochiBot is now more conveniently placed on the SWF Detail page next to the title of your SWF.

In addition to the new features we also made a fix to the Dashboard graphing feature so now the checkboxes properly update the graph.