MochiBot Blog

It’s about 1:45am and we just finished pushing out a new build. Yipee! Bob and I were working a little slow today because we went kite boarding for the first time ever yesterday. Not only are we both sore from being dragged around the ocean by a kite for four hours, but we’re also both sporting a toasty shade of red from sunburn. But enough with the pleasantries; let’s see what we have in store with this build.

• New - We added the three most recent blog entries to the Dashboard just to keep everyone up to date on news and system status.
• New - You can now subscribe and share hourly stats of your SWFs with the new Atom 1.0 RSS feed located at the bottom of your Dashboard.
• New - Tell the world that you’re using MochiBot with logos that you can add to your SWFs (logo 1, logo 2)
• Improved - We got rid of the popularity ranks for each blog entry because that just seemed to confuse people more than necessary.
• Improved - The Host Report interface has been tweaked a bit to improve usability. There’s a neat little loading animation next to each URL when expanding the URL list. Local views have also been added back to the site so that you can see how many people download your SWFs and play them directly on their computers. This has been a popular feature for the Flash game developers.

Now I’m going to soak in some ice water to stop the burn and hopefully get some sleep tonight.

It’s been a couple weeks since our last build, but the wait has been worthwhile because we’ve added some exciting new features. Here’s what you can look forward to the next time you log in:

• New - The Dashboard is now fully equipped with graphing capabilities for up to 6 SWFs. Not only that, but we also used the Flash / JavaScript Integration Kit to make it Flashtastic!
• New - After many requests … the “remember me” functionality has been turned on in the Login page so now you don’t have to type in your email and password every time you come to the site.
• Improved - The Traffic Report graph now changes to match the reporting days that have been selected.
• Improved - Overall site performance has been improved to things up a bit. You’ll notice further speed improvements over the next few weeks as we continue to tune the site.
• Improved - We got permission from Jon Rosenberg, the creator of goats.com, to use his pirate monkey image. He was even kind enough to give us a new image just for our site. Many thanks Jon!
• Improved - We’re using FeedBurner now to better manage our blog RSS feed.

You’ll also notice that the Host report no longer shows how many “local” views your SWF received. This is only temporary as we’re tuning that report for better performance. You can expect to see the local view tracking functionality turned back on by next week.

Until then, have fun and enjoy using MochiBot. Don’t be shy about leaving us comments and feedback. We’ve been getting some great feature requests so keep them coming and send them to feedback@mochibot.com. We’ll mention your name if you submit a feature that we build and release.

I’d like to start off by giving great thanks to all of our new MochiBot friends who believed in us enough to sign up for an account and for posting such great blog entries about MochiBot.

It’s been a week since we opened the site up to the public and we’ve been getting great feedback from everyone. (keep it up! :)) We’re seeing more and more new users every day and it’s amazing how much traffic you guys are getting on your Flash content. Here’s a perfect example by Fusionary Media.

We added more features and made some improvements to MochiBot this past week so here are a few things that you’ll see when you log in:

• New - Graphs on the SWF Detail and Traffic Report pages.
• New - There is new MochiBot code so that one script does it all. The new code is now Flash 5 compatible.
• Improved - The MochiBot code is now less likely to conflict with existing levels and var names.
• Improved - SWF version compatibility is now managed on the fly by MochiBot depending on what version the SWF is.

We have more features and improvements coming next week so stay tuned for some more treats.

Thanks again to everyone for helping to spread the word about MochiBot! We’re glad that other people ♥ MochiBot too.