3.5

• Changes on the way that different lists worked.
• Changes on the way that searched for a User works.

3.6

• Improved the Reservations interface.
• A whole lot of improvements on the Bot.
• Some security prevention fixes.

We have also started development of version 4. There won´t be no more mayor changes on the site for a couple of months as we develop this next version. We will be rewriting some of the basis of the App, and we will also be doing some mayor changes to the architecture. We will finally redo the GUI and move to a more conventional graphic design. There will of course be a lot of new features and functionalities that we hope you will like and enhance your experience on the site.

Last week we moved to version 3.4.4 and today to version 3.4.5. Among the new features of this version are:

* Adult filter on tag pages. This was needed since the Toy section of tags was filled with sextoys. Our policy regarding filtering is we consider adult material that which is not seen on prime time television. Which means that girls (or guys for that matter) on thongs are ok, but dildos, bdsm toys and adult videos are not. It was tough desition but we want to keep the site family safe and if you do want to browse through the sex toys tag pages you can simple turn the adult filter off.
* Related tags on tag pages
* Also wished for sites on Site pages
* Amazon Wishlist Import. You can now import your Amazon wishlist on one go by simply going to the list and then clicking on the browser button. The system will guide you from there.

We've also done some changes to the backend of the site.

We had a couple of rough weeks here at TTIW since site usage increases a lot at this time of the year. The fact that we were metioned in a very nice article by CNN.com, and that there is a lot more pages in this new version for spiders to index also added to site usage. Well, what happened was basically that we run into some trouble accomodating all of the new visits and all the extra activity so we had to do a lot of tunings on the server and on the scripts to handle this:

• Tuned OS, Apache, Mysql and Php resources usage and changed the rotation of logs(to acomodate a faster rate of rotation).
• Optimized a bunch of sql queries that were slowing down the site.
• Did a couple of extra configurations on Apache

There is still some stuff that needs to be done tomorrow morning and we will officially move to version 3.4.3

Service will be unavailable Sunday night (actually Monday morning) as we move to version 3.4 of TTIW. The site will not be accessible from Monday 0:00 am EST to approximatelly Monday 6:00 am EST. You are suggested ( but not required ) to reinstall your bookmarlet after we move to the next version, we'll give you an explanation page on how to do this.

This version took a long time. I had some health issues and I also needed some time off to sort out some personal stuff ( Among other things, I've also gotten my online presence back in order, you can check out my new Homepage if you want to know more about me. It's funny when I was reviewing my CV I started wondering what had happened to my life.. but well, personal problems aside, TTIW just keeps growing so I'm feeling way more positive now ). Anyhow we've been working really hard, so let's get on with..

What's new

First of all, the Shopping Ideas section has been completely redone.

The first and most basic change is how we show when an item is listed by more than one person. So far we've been only showing this on the tag pages when an item was tagged with the same tag by more than one person. Now we will show the actual count of the times an item has been added to a
User's list regardless of the tag used.

I'm explaining this because it will be quite a noticeable change since the database has grown a lot and there are lots of coincidences.

Now, It's a truism of database driven apps that once you have a considerable database there's a lot you can do. And since the db has been growing a lot, we did. :-).. Now, here's what's new:

• In the tag pages you can now sort the Tag pages by popularity (In the current version it's automatically sorted by date added). The new tag pages will also shows you the sites that have items tagged with this tag so that you can find more places to find items you want or are interested in.
• We have created a Most popular page that shows the most popular items of the last 3 months. (This is done algorithmically and it's really cool )
• We have created an Item page. In this page you will be able to write reviews of items, find other people who have listed this item, find all the tags used on that item and also find similar items (In technical terms, We have done some basic collaborative filtering based on coincidence of items on lists. Though it's very basic, It is trully very cool. The nice thing is the more the database grows the more intelligent it becomes and the more stuff like this we'll be able to do).
• We have created a Site page. This page shows the most Popular Items from that site, some data we are getting from Alexa, the most popular tags used on items from that site, and you will also be able to write Reviews for that site.
• There's a new Search page, that does some basic searching from the user generated database.

Appart from that we have done a New bookmarlet that:

• Picks up the Item photo on 95% of chances even if we don´t customize the bot for the site. (From a technical perspective we are doing some old school web page analysis. Just some basic position and area comparison ( the old school part of this ) on the DOM ( new school ).)
• is able of picking the right data from within a set of frames.

And we have also changed the "Add new Item" Interface:

• We have improved the way in which you select the item photo (when the bookmarlet+bot does not pick it right on it's own).
• We have implemented a dynamic tag suggestion mechanism. (It's really, really cool.)
• And there's also some more programmatically intelligence added to this interface, but it is something too technical to discuss here. (Actually this whole new version is about more programmatical intelligence. )

And last but not least, We've also fixed a Zillon quirks and interface issues. And There is also some deep backend stuff that's too technical to get into here. BTW, we are using the hReview microformat for items and site reviews. ( With the include pattern! )

We really hope you like this new version. Personally, I'm very proud of this one.

We are still working on Version 3.4 but some changes were done the last couple of weeks.

Version 3.3.2
Maintenance release on the bot. Actually we moved to version 0.4 of the bot.
I also configured the bot for some nice sites that have blogged about us: www.liliconfetti.com, www.ellebstyle.com, www.adorneya.com, www.onelittlemonkey.com . Those are really nice sites, you should go and check them out. BTW, now that the bot had been configured they could (if they want) add the "add to thethingsiwant" link on their product pages.

Version 3.3.3
Added pagination to list pages. I had to take down the ajaxing when moving and deleting, I'll probably bring it back when we concentrate on the user interface, but I want to focus on version 3.4.

Appart from that we were mentioned in www.shauniman.com 's link blog. It was really nice that he noticed us. And yes we do have to redo the User interface but we are going one step at a time.. :-) and core functionalities are still not done.