Monthly Archive for January, 2008

Fighting spam

Published on January 22, 2008 in Fixes. Closed

Hi All

We just wanted to let everyone know that we are implementing a new spam management approach very soon. Until then, you can continue to report offensive bookmarks and offsensive comments using our existing features, or for outright spam bookmarks please let us know by sending an email to feedback<at>2collab.com

We are also monitoring the site and taking action on clearly obvious spam items.

Thanks for your help!

Best regards
Camelia – product manager

InfoToday says we’re one to watch!

Published on January 18, 2008 in News highlights. Closed

We’re very proud that InfoToday have included us alongside established luminaries like Facebook, LinkedIn and other new faces like ITToolbox as a social networking application worth keeping an eye on, in their review of top trends from 2007…   

“But, perhaps the biggest story of the year was social networking. Each week brought news of developments around Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and the many start-ups creating applications around them. But there were also some interesting networking developments for the professional community: 2collab.com from Elsevier (http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=40102), ITtoolbox (an online professional community for the IT industry), and more.” 

Read the full article at:  http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=40635

2collab improves performance

Published on January 17, 2008 in Fixes and Product development. 1 Comment

As some of you noticed, our performance speeds have tended to lag at peak times. We are currently focusing on improving overall service performance. A first step has been made today by releasing some minor changes that improve significantly the performance for the whole site. You can see the performance gains below, compared over last week and today.

Sample URLs / requests

 2collab originally (response time) 2collab after performance improvements
http://www.2collab.com/ 8.3s 3.9s
http://www.2collab.com/bookmarks:new 6.86s 3.74s
http://www.2collab.com/tags:popular 18s 4.2s

This is just a first step in a series of efforts we’ll be undertaking over the next couple of weeks to really look at increasing speed, reliability and availability of 2collab.
Regards
Camelia