Tying everything together

It's been a pretty busy week and a half here. We've had 2 stories featured on digg (Omar's and mine), and, now, have released two UI updates to the site.

We are really proud of our latest changes, because (1) we feel they signficantly improve the look of our pages, (2) feature the best part of our site: the people, and (3) start tying everything together nicely.

I'll dissect some of the highlights (and, yes, I realize that I love the yellow paintbrush tool)......

The Product Page

We started last week by updating our product pages and what I want you to take a look at are the following sections:

1. The Quadrus

This little doohicky is an important piece of the puzzle. It allows people to to share their opinion on a product with a simple click, or "tap" as we affectionately call it. A tap can be love it, want it, have it or anything like "cool" or "doohicky". In a lot of ways, this is similar to a digg, but instead of one option (digg), you have many.

2. The People

As you tap stuff, you will appear in the list of people that tapped this product. Now, when somebody else visits this product, they will quickly receive some feedback about what other (actual) people are saying.

This brings me to our second update....

The User (People) Page

The user page is designed to be your hub for you activity on ProductWiki. Take a look at my user page for example:

1. About me

You can use this section to do whatever you like. It's based on a rich text editor so you can put pictures, links, colors, or whatever else you like in this section.

2. Latest Taps

The last 10 things that you've tapped will show up here, so people can get an idea of what you're in to right now. If you click on the image you can go check out each product and even tap it too if you like.

3. Comments

Send a message to a person. Say anything.

4. Stats

Everybody loves stats. Take a look at when a user joined, what their personal website is, how many contributions they've made, and how many views they have on their profile.

5. Tag Cloud

All those products that you are tapping need to be organized somehow. Use the tag cloud to remember what you love, what you want, or even what you are thinking about as a gift idea.

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Our latest initiatives are addressing of our core mission at ProductWiki. Get people to help and share with others about consumer products. Let's give the power back to the consumer.