Updates

Moving right along now... We had our first meeting with some sellers this last week that went extremely well. Everyone was positive about the site and the potential that they saw in it. As a result of that meeting a few changes were made, and one bug was found and fixed. First off, I added the following item categories, clothing: Boys, clothing: Girls, Sporting Goods, and Vintage. I also fixed a bug where the items list was not properly sorted when searching for "most recent" items, which was also the default search. Also, when you are the high bidder on an auction, and you get outbid, you will now receive an email letting you know that you have been outbid. tikiwade of course still has the live auction in place, so when you are viewing a listing, if the price changes the web page will notify you through a dialog and you will see the price change.

I also worked on the iPhone interface and have this farther along, and working better than it was before. I have not made it live yet, but I'll keep working on it and release it when it is ready.

Other suggestions that were made include not showing the map, because it seemed distracting, and just showing it when someone clicks on the city and state. Creating a user rating system, that has been mentioned a couple times now so that will probably get done sooner rather than later.

Thanks for using tikiwade!

Wade

Listings...

We are in the process of trying to get as much content (item listings) on the site as we can. We are doing this by reaching out to our friends and the community that will ultimately make tikiwade successful, and are also the target for tikiwade.

We of course do not want to leave out the other categories (Real Estate, Jobs, and Services), please also add listings in these areas as well, or if you know of others who work in these areas, please suggest that they take a look at tikiwade an put their listings on tikiwade, it is free, and it is a tool that they can use.

So please create an account on tikiwade if you don't already have one and create some listings for some stuff that you want to get rid of. This includes stuff that you might want to just give away.

Thanks!

Wade

Ready...Set...GO!!

We are giving it a green light for launch. I have been working really hard on getting the final touches of the new tikiwade core server engine wrapped up and I think I like what I am seeing. The code it way faster than it was before, and can now handle a lot more traffic. Brad did a lot of testing on it over the weekend and agrees that it is ready, so... Here it is.

www.tikiwade.com

Okay, so tikiwade is a listing site for hooking up people that are selling stuff with people that are buying stuff. How is tikiwade different from craigslist and eBay? Well first off tikiwade is 100% free. You can post as much stuff as you want, you can have up to 4 pics or a video of the item you are selling (quicktime only for now, we'll add other formats as we grow). You are able to manage your listings in a very elegant account manager. All listings, when they are created, must be given a zip code, this indicates what area the item is located in. All searches for items on tikiwade are performed around a zip code, so you look for what you want and choose how far you are willing to go for it. Listings can be auctions, and there again, tikiwade is free, no listing fees. tikiwade also has some social tools too, for instance you can vote on listings, I know it might sound a little weird at first, but hay, lets see if people can vote their own listing to the top of the favorites pile;-)

That's it, it is that simple, but the difference is in the experience. I think that you will find that tikiwade is much more user friendly that some other sites that perform similar functions.

We need you! Yes tikiwade needs you in a BIG way. All the content on tikiwade comes from you. We need you to choose to use tikiwade over the others, we need you to try it out and not just try it once and give up. We need you to try it and tell others about it, spread the word in your little circle that there is something better than the other that is free, and safer (tikiwade does not contain personals).

Please give it a whirl and let me know (wade@tikiwade.com) what you think.

Thanks,

Wade