As it turned out, author and project coordinator Simkl though living in the U.S., but arrived there only three years ago and has not forgotten how to speak in Russian. Andrew Masik told us to post an interview about his team and the process of testing a Web Service.
- Tell us about your company.
- The project is organized as a strategic Simkl attempt to go beyond the Russian-language projects and to create something accessible and interesting to the audience from all over the world. That's why we opened our first beta version in three languages and three domains (simkl. ru, simkl. ua and simkl. com), and gradually expand our geographical.
Until April 2007, we worked exclusively on our project a. ua ( monthly audience of one million people), then virtually all of our team began to engage in a new brainchild - Simkl, whereas a. ua passed into the hands of SmartiMedia. Now over ' Simklom ' employs about ten people from different regions of the world - New York, Kiev, Moscow. Our aim was to.
- How and who decided to do this project?.
- The idea came curator of history for a long time - two years ago. There were once a familiar, and I wanted to show pictures of the trip, and a link to the gallery forwarded to other friends on ICQ, and at this point loud and said, ' But if there were a histori... ICQ would show '. C this time the idea began to develop the concept of the future service.
- Someone took initiative to fund?.
- To finance the project entirely from personal funds. Any investor not involved and not to look specifically for the creation of this service.
- What is being tested Simkl?.
- As expected, the main task - to ensure compatibility with a wide variety of client software that runs on PC and Mac, and on mobile phones.
Here, in fact, all the boring. If some software is not working with a proxy server, we are trying to work around this problem by adding code to the software on our server. Another part of the work is to test the interface and the mechanism of recognition of different encodings of messendzhorov. It's hard work. We are very grateful to those users who are not too lazy to tell their opinion about the system, to help us make the most user-friendly interface. Many thanks to them for all the tips sent to us or left behind in our blog and forum.
Last week we launched an interactive full-text search. Members appreciated the opportunity to interface and. We continue to experiment with different types of interfaces, making it not only attractive and comfortable, but also incredibly lightweight. Thanks to our AJAX interface is 5-10 times lighter than counterparts.
- What are the main problems are the users?.
- The main problem - the number of encoding messages. There are many versions of the RTF ( with each program ), Unicode, etc.. We do not know all the character sets, so we add as detection of new. If you have not added - this is not a problem, because as soon as we add a new key and decode the encoding, all messages in the ' stories ' are written in this encoding can be read.
- Are there any guarantees anonymity?.
- We have a clear ' Privacy Policy ' (still available on the international English language, but the latest version after the beta will be available in other languages ), which we clearly follow. We do not ask, neither the name nor the name of users, or their birthday, or town in which they live, do not ask to enter passwords on their accounts in ICQ / MSN / Yahoo. Basically, our service is no different from the usual mail service in which you store all your correspondence.
- Do not fear the people to trust you my correspondence?.
- Those who do not use email for correspondence, and he does not use our service, fearing that the FSB can read their negotiations. You can always disconnect from our service, you need to remove the check mark in your client ' proxy ' during the super-secret negotiations (which are still listening to your Internet service provider ), and then turn back to the proxy when you need it will be. Finally, I can say that we were more than a dozen of thousands of Customer service, who trusted us with their accounts in @ a. ua without any problems.
- In which country are servers?.
- Our servers are located in the U.S. and are connected to one of the fastest channels in Europe. We also use a CDN, through which our servers are scattered all over the world for the highest rate of return content from our site, even in China, Ping 40 ms (compared to the usual 150-200 ms ).
- What are the edges of more users - from the U.S. and Europe or FSU?.
- Almost the same. By the way, from India, too many users. But while we 're at the stage of beta testing, we did not give much information, and the foreign press did not run ads, so long as that is still difficult to tell which users may be more. We still have a language barrier - in Japan, for example, very few people who understand English.
- What are your plans for the future: to grow and develop, to do other projects, or sell any large company?.
- History of our work has always centered around a large number of services, and Simkl - no exception. Along with them we are working on other services. That is why from the start of registration in the ' Simkle ' you can see that it happens in a special passport. We have plans to open a lot of other interesting projects on other subjects. We try to create services that would enjoy themselves, but also remember the wide range of potential users.
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