Bukisa

We would like to let everyone know that we have now completed the upgrade to version 1.0 Beta of Bukisa

With this new version we hope that all you will have a smoother time on our site, better features and better opportunities to produce quality content and get traffic to it.

Below is a list of the new features that have been added over the past 3 weeks:

• Twitter Integration – http://www.bukisa.com/faq/?faq=11#faq_11
• New Bukisa widget – You can our new widget to drive more traffic from your other online to sites to your Bukisa content. To build a widget, just login and go to your MyBukisa page and click the widget banner to start the wizard.
• Auto tagging and Auto thumbnails suggestions courtesy of Zemanta – http://www.zemanta.com
• Revamped MyBukisa Home Page
• Simplified network page – friends, invitations and network connections all on one page with a new Network search option
• Full earnings & views stats per content on your “My Content” report
• New JavaScript backend to make Bukisa more cross browser compatible.
• Moved over to a new video encoding service, faster encoding and higher quality. (Ooyala)
• New licensing options – per content, choose from 3 types. http://www.bukisa.com/info/syndication
• Slides Upload is enabled again.

Some of planed features for the next version:

• Private messaging between users
• Search for friends
• Notification system (when someone you invited joins Bukisa, when you get a new comment and other social activates involving you and your network)
• Embed videos in your articles from external sources (like YouTube)
• Auto resizing of images you place in articles so they don’t break the article design.
• Full Network Drilldown (Earnings, Views, Users)
• Improvements to “My Content” page
• Improvements to invite system.
• New My Comments section.
• Better “Following” of your network & friends.

Some open issues that are still undecided (from our feedback forum)

• Lowering the minimum payout
• Minimum word count for articles (on certain categories)

As always we are eager to get your feedback on the above features and any new ideas you may have to our feedback forum – http://bukisa.uservoice.com/

I would I also like to let everyone know that very soon we will be making some changes to how we calculate our Bukisa Index – based on the activity and the performance of Bukisa over the past few months – this will benefit the active and “good” users and not so benefit the “bad” spammers & abusers of our system.

A separate email regarding the Bukisa Index will be released if and when any changes are made.