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Updates to Plugins and Find Gigs based on feedback

Written by Lou Paniccia | Mar 19, 2009 05:57 PM
We got a ton of great feedback over the past week after launching Last.fm, Twitter and Google plugins and the new Find Gigs section.

And we’ve been doing more than just reading your feedback. We’ve been working on making tweaks to both the Plugins and the Find Gigs section based on what you’ve said. Here’s what we released today:

Plugins
•    Not seeing good results for your Twitter or Google Blog Buzz? You can now refine the search terms we’re using to track your buzz by clicking the “Refine Search” link on your Dashboard and adding additional search criteria.



Find Gigs
•    View more of what you like. We updated the bottom of the Find Gigs Home to let you view all gigs by upcoming deadlines, recently added, and most popular.
•    More ways to discover gigs. We also added a feed of Most/Least Picky gigs based on their Pick-o-meter and “Hidden Gems” which are gigs that haven’t seen much action yet.


•    Recently Viewed Gigs now display in the sidebar of the Find Gigs Section.
•    Customize View – This was not a new feature, but a lot of people were asking for different sorting and columns on their search results. You can do this with Customize View.  For example, those that always want to see the recently added gigs first can click the “Customize View” link, set the “Default Sort Order:” to “Date Added” and check the bubble for “Descending.”



As always post a comment here or drop me a note on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Sonicbids to let us know what you think.