To: The Pinstack Community
From: The Viigo Team
RE: Key Changes Document for the Release of Pinstack Edition of Viigo, Beta 2

Hey everyone – we’ve listened to your feedback incorporated some key changes to our latest Beta release of Pinstack Viigo. We’re very excited to announce that it’s available NOW.

Click here or visit http://www.viigo.com/pinstack.htm to install right over top your last version. (No need to uninstall your previous version of Viigo.)

*Note - this is still a beta version of Viigo.

Here are the Key Changes…

Notifications

The notification feature is designed to give you a more compelling user experience. You’ll get visual notifications on new content when it arrives on your device.

How it Works:
The channel icons have a red star (sometimes called the red tomato) to indicate that the channel has new content. The new articles within the channel also have a red star on the icon.

In later versions, the new content indicator will be extended to the desktop ribbon (for 4.2 devices only).

Alerts

‘Alerts’ is an extension of the notification feature, allowing you to get an audible notification when specific content arrives on your device. The feature ties into the Blackberry Profiles. For each of the profiles that exists, Normal, Quiet, Vibrate etc, you can specify how the Viigo alert should behave. (In/out of holster behavior, Tone/Vibrate, Mute/Volume etc can all be specified.).

How it Works:
Within Viigo, you can turn alerts on or off for each channel. You can also set conditional alerts to trigger on the arrival of content that matches keywords that you enter.

When alerts are triggered, all items matching alert criteria are aggregated in a special view called My Alerts.

Alerts are only triggered on an auto update, or when you first turn on Viigo (which triggers an update). Note - Manual update of all or a single channel will not trigger alerts.
When the device is holstered and a Viigo alert is triggered, if you ‘unholsters’ the device within a few seconds, Viigo opens automatically to the My Alerts screen, which contains all the alert items.

Client side Channel Renaming

You can now rename the titles of the channels to which you’re subscribed.

How it Works:
In the main Viigo screen, highlight a channel, and select “Menu>Edit Channel”.
On this screen is a Custom Title field. Any name that you enter here overrides the channel name that was specified by the publisher. Since Viigo sorts the list of channels alphabetically, changing the name allows you to order the channels the way you want.

For example, all weather channels for various jurisdictions could have a custom name prefixed with Weather: ensuring that all these feeds are grouped together in the channel list.

On Demand Collection

As the number of channels in our database increase, the time taken to cycle through all of them and collect the latest items from the channel publisher is increasing. We have added the ability for you to “force” collection on a single feed.

How it Works:
When you update a single channel, by selecting the channel and selecting “Menu>Update Channel”, the server immediately fetches the most up-to-date items from the channel URL (instead of delivering whatever items it has collected so far in its database).

The exception to this is if the last fetch from the channel URL comes within its TTL (time to live). The TTL is imposed by publishers in an attempt to minimize bandwidth usage on their servers), and specifies the minimum period of time that RSS aggregators are required to wait between two consecutive accesses to the channel URL.