November was a festive season for our team. We had a good 5 day long weekend for Diwali. In, December we all are getting ready for our Christmas celebration. So, before I get into the new developments in November I would like to wish all of you happy holiday season.

November month was purely a focus on HTML5 for our development team. The main challenge was to get 3D jazzers such as 3D Cube and 3d Flip book in HTML5. But, I can proudly say that with such an enthusiastic development team nothing can stop us from achieving the results. Now, all the jazzers in SiteJazzer are HTML5 supported. Simply click on “Publish” option to get output in both Flash and HTML5. Isn’t this something unique!

We have been receiving lot of inputs from our users on various jazzers and few very good ideas on new jazzers as well. This month was the first time we released a new Jazzer since the time of launch – 3D Carousel. This jazzer helps to present the product portfolios, categories, tips, personalities and other such nuggets of information in a 3D Carousel format. This jazzer too can be published in Flash and HTML5 format.

Microsoft released IE9 beta in early November. Immediately after the release we found that there was an issue related to saving and publishing jazzer in IE9 beta browser. There was a temporary solution of compatibility mode suggested by our engineering team. However, now all jazzers work perfectly fine on IE9 beta as well!

Those were the three major highlights of SiteJazzer for the month of November. Everyone is curious of what would be next in SiteJazzer. Well, we have something very different coming up by end of December. Stay tuned and keep checking your SiteJazzer account for the new updates!

Last week’s Microsoft Professional Developers Conference (PDC) seems to suggest an enhanced level of Microsoft commitment to HTML5 technology, and a much lower emphasis on Silverlight.

In addition to supporting Silverlight, Microsoft seems to be acknowledging HTML as the truly cross-platform development solution for engaging interactive applications.

Microsoft’s IE 9 comes closest to supporting HTML5 out of all releases till now. ”HTML5 enables you to make engaging and interactive sites. With full hardware acceleration of the browser, HTML5 pages feel and run like an app or a game,” said IE chief Dean Hachamovitch during the opening PDC keynote; according to a recent article by Mary Jo Foley on ZDNet.

That is why we were so excited about testing SiteJazzer on IE9 Beta, and here is what our engineers found:

We have checked the SiteJazzer application on IE 9 Beta. The only thing that gets blocked is the ‘Save’ functionality. To solve this issue immediately, user simply needs to click the ‘Compatibility View’ button in the browser window. This has to be done only once and whole SiteJazzer application works perfectly fine. All other functions such as Preview, Publish, Share, Download and Delete work fine on IE9 beta after click on compatibility view button.

We hope that by the time IE9 reaches the masses, this simple workaround will be un-necessary.

October has just finished and we all in India are ready to celebrate our festival of lights – Diwali! So, before getting into holiday mood I thought of just summarizing what changes SiteJazzer has seen in the month of October!

Firstly I would like to thanks all the users who have shown trust in SiteJazzer and are constantly sharing their inputs with us on their experience of using SiteJazzer.

There were quite a few major achievements in SiteJazzer this month.

1)    The biggest achievement of this month was the usage of SiteJazzer in a blog for World Entrepreneurship Forum (WEF) discussion setup by Vikas Joshi

2)    The next major important thing was HTML5 support for eight jazzers. So, your jazzers are now iPhone and iPad ready!

3)    SiteJazzer started it’s month with the announcement of the winner of the first Sweepstakes contest – Matt from My24HrTech.

Congratulations Matt on winning the contest! Do keep checking SiteJazzer community for new contests in future.

SiteJazzer lets you bring your web sites alive with interactivity. In doing so you don’t have to install anything on your computer. You simply get a SiteJazzer subscription, log in and start building a jazzer. Your entire content creation activity is online.

Contrast this will tools like Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop. These are software packages you install on your desktop (or laptop) and work away when you are ready. There is no need for internet.

Do you believe content creation tools should provide both online and desktop access options? Any thoughts or ideas?

SiteJazzer today is now one month old. SiteJazzer moved out of beta mode on August 10, 2010 and created waves in PR industry with more than 20,000+ headline views within two days of launch.

The complete launch process of SiteJazzer was an exciting experience for everyone in the team. The launch was not only for the product release but with a vibrant community with lot of active members contributing to various aspects of SiteJazzer right from features, jazzer specific queries to user segments and their usage. Within a month community has more than 200+ active topics being discussed on varied topics. Community has become a go to place for our customers to know the latest feature updates, ideas on how to use jazzers, and also to suggest new features for various jazzers.

I can proudly state that SiteJazzer is a product which is not being developed only by its engineers within the organization but it largely depends on its users who are constantly providing valuable inputs and new feature ideas. New features which are directly a result of such inputs are Facebook business page support, HTML5 support for jazzers to work on iPad and iPhone devices, Mac support etc.

SiteJazzer today has hundreds of users actively creating various jazzers which include business as well as individual users. I would like to share some exciting usages of the jazzer by these users . We found an interesting trend of jazzers being created by different types of users. Though most of the jazzers are being used, Business users preferred exploring Panning cards, 3D Cube Picture show, and banners where as individual users prefer 3D cube, flip book and panning cards. Below is a pie-chart which gives an overall idea of which jazzers are preferred over the others.

Various other well known publications and bloggers too featured SiteJazzer. SiteJazzer recently got mentioned in dBusinessWeek at Seattle – one of the well- known publications in US region. A real estate blogger described its usage experience of SiteJazzer on its blog which invited lot of enthusiasm among its user base as well.

Our marketing manager – Shivesh shares that more than 12000 users visited our product overview page and had a look at various SiteJazzers being offered. This in itself is a great achievement in the first month. He appends, after seeing the jazzers being created by our trial users we could not stop ourselves from creating the “Jazzers Galore” where we could showcase how different users are creating varied kind of jazzers beyond our imagination!

Looking at all these accomplishments within just a month of launch simply proves that SiteJazzer has a grand future ahead and all of this could not be possible without the entire the support we have received from our users.

With such an amazing first month it definitely calls for a party for all of us! Do look forward for some amazing gifts and offers coming our way in near future.