Since we took Hubii out, the first week of December, we have been keeping a very low profile. The reason being was that we felt that there were some areas that required extra polishing and also we wanted to have completed the social side of Hubii before spreading the word. Hubii being in Beta version and considering most of the work has been funded by us, it was expected for some things to still be a bit rough. That is just natural.

With regards to the social side of Hubii, we felt that the most important step was to complete the first round of work which consisted in creating a product for the news reader where we present an innovative and different way to interact with the news. Once completed this step we have started with the other flip of the coin, that being the social functionality. We believe that, for Hubii to take off it was necessary to have that in place.

Having said that and having maintained a very low profile, it has been unavoidable to be spotted by different blogs and magazines and those writing about Hubii which in some cases has generated a considerable amount of traffic. It is flattering indeed and we very much welcome every single blog post about Hubii.

Now, we would like to let our visitors and users know that we are working 24×7 in improving Hubii and that their feedbacks are always welcome and taken into consideration so, feel free to let us know your thoughts with regards to how can we improve Hubii to turn it into the product you want to use on a daily basis. We are working on a bunch of very interesting features, and enhancements, that we believe will be of your interest, so keep tuned.

Thank you for your time and support.

The Hubii Team.

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We have been rather busy this last month battling on different fronts therefore we haven’t been around our blog too much; too bad, we know.

A couple of days ago we took out a first set of changes concerning the News Browser and the Mapazine. These changes affect how the articles are being presented to the user. Thus, the old horizontal and column-wide article items format has been replaced instead for a two column format where each article item gains visual relevance.

This relevance is mainly seen in two aspects; the news category it belongs to and the image (if the article contains one).

Thus, with the blink of an eye is rather easy to identify and locate the news category the article covers as it is indicated at the very top of the article item as seen on the following image

Furthermore, the image of the article item has now a much higher relevance. Thus, instead of being an small thumbnail located on the top left of the article item as it used to be previously, now it cover the full width of the article item highlighting the image and captivating our attention.

It can also be seen that the new format has enhanced the visual and reading experience of the Mapazine as it can be seen on the following screenshot

We believe these changes shall improve the browsing experience of our users and we feel it gives Hubii a much better and fresh look; we hope you like them.

Please feel free to send us your comments and also let us know if you have any thoughts with regards to how to improve your Hubii experience.

Thanks!

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So, here we are, Morten pressed the big red button and the site did “plop”. Suddenly we are online. Well, not that suddenly after all.

First things first, so introductions time; we are an small distributed team that is looking forward to build a great product for our community. We have plenty of ideas, lots energy and the ability to do it.

If you are wondering why the online news, the answer is simple; there is an obscene amount of room for improvement.

We wanted to build Hubii to present an alternative to the industry, a way to enable changes. We know we can do it. So we took our chances and did a good job; credit to the whole team. Well done guys.

We still have an obscene amount of work ahead of us but now is when the fun starts, so lets take one step at the time. We are hoping to hang around for a long time and we would like to share the experience with the community we want to build; we want to share this with you.

Nevertheless, we hope you enjoy Hubii.

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