Up-Up-and-Upgrade!

Today, we launched an upgrade to the MyJeeves service.  We originally launched MJ last September as a beta.  Since that time, we've received a surprisingly large number of registrations, and have been listening to all the great feedback these avid users have been sending us.   

Our first response is MyJeeves 1.1.  Some of the enhanced functionality we've added includes:
- saving links to images and hosting image thumbnails (from pictures.ask.com, and from the web via our toolbar)
- importing your browser bookmarks
- enhanced folder and subfoldering management functionality
- dynamic flyout menus
- tagging of saved items
- enhanced sharing and importing functionality

I'd like to mention a couple of details about the foldering system that I'm particularly proud of.  First, the DHTML flyout menuing system is smart because it doesn't try to load all the subfolders at pageloading time, but instead does so on demand by a user (as the user hovers over a folder that has subfolders).  Second, the menus are more three-dimensional in MJ 1.1 because of the use of png images to create real shadows.  Shadows rule.

With all the recent buzz about "re-mixing" the web, it's clear that products like MyJeeves will increase in demand.  Rather than a one-size-fits-all search engine, users will continue to spend increasing amounts of time building and revisiting their "personal web."  With that in mind, we'll continue to bring users the features they want to enable that.  Look for more features in upcoming releases.

And, as always, send us your ideas and feedback. 

- Nick Tran, Software Engineer