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Likeastore Search Just Got Better

Last few weeks we worked really hard to bring new and better search. After we switched the technology and released browser extensions for all major browsers, search became the most useful function of Likeastore application.

Today, we combined few services into one. What's so cool about that?

Not only your likes

Previously we allowed search only by your own likes. But after we've introduced collections and feeds, we came up with simple thought:

"My feed is so interesting and full of relevant information, why don't we use that information for search?".

Indeed, why to limit the search with only data you own, let's build the community to help each other for better search results.

Search your feed

From today, while you searching you will see both results from own favorites and favorites of other users from feed. The results were impressive.

This is also one of the encouraging point to follow the best collections and share own collections.

Collections suggestion

Also, while you search you will see some relevant collections we suggest to follow.

By following collections, you will make your feed more interesting and search results better.

For now, improved search is available for search extensions. If you have installed the extension earlier, it should be updated automatically. For Safari users, please visit this link and download it manually.

The search on site will be updated in next few days.

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Our first promo video clip. Happy watching!

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Likeastore Extension for on Safari

Great news, we are now covering all major browsers. Safari concludes our series of browser extensions.

Let me remind you that browser extension will allow you to extend default Google results with the most relevant information from your likes. It already works from Firefox and Chrome and showing amazing results.

To install the extension, just follow the link to download "likeastore.safariextz" file. Once it's downloaded just open it and confirm installation.

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Extend Firefox with Likeastore Search

Last week we've released Likeastore Extension for Chrome. Today I'm happy to announce that Firefox version is available as well!

Let me remind you, our browser extensions goal is to make your search results better.

To install the extension, follow the link and then just open Google and try to search something. You will be surprised with the results.

Hope that works for you. If you need any help or have a question, just reply this email.

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Google Search Experience Like Never Before

Today we are happy to announce a great new feature that will make your Google search experience like never before.

We have released the Chrome Extension to enable Likeastore search results to be shown side by side with Google results. From now on, all your Google searches will be extended with the most relevant information for you - by searching your social likes.

To install the extension, follow the link and then just open Google and try to search something. You will be surprised with the results.

We continue to improve the search service for even better results and performance. As always, your feedback is much appreciated.

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Search is Back and Improved!

As you might remember, last weekend we had downtime for several services including "Search". Today I'm happy to announce that "Search" have been fully restored.

We've completely re-implemented it, so now searching became much faster and really accurate. I would encourage you to try and let me know what you think. Some fine tunings will be applied based on your feedback.

With "Basic Search" being re-enabled we are moving further to "Advanced Search" features that will appear in Pro accounts. It's not too late to be added to our Pro subscribers list, please click on the button below.

Besides, we are continue to work for much better search experience and will announce it really soon!

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Outage Report

Some of you might noticed problems with collection of new data. Last Friday we had issue that forced us to temporary stop few of our services - Collector, Pulse and Search (detailed explanation below).

We are sorry it happened and do our best to do not allow to happen it again.

Thanks for understanding,

And some geeky info for ones who likes details :)

Friday near 6.00 PM GMT we've noticed slowdown of our services. Almost all requests to application ended up with HTTP 504 and it was not possible to access neither dashboard nor search. Quick health check showed that our MongoDB is under heavy load and experiencing high "Locked" percentage (>120 %) that basically paralyzed the service.

Database been hit really hard, due to a lot of new writes to collection that contains likes. The collection already contained few big indexes, including full-text one, each write caused recalculations that immediately affected performance.

As first action to unblock web application was stop of Collector, Pulse and Search services to reduce load to database. So, the application continued to work, you could access your likes, feed and collections but without access to new data.

After emergency actions, we have both optimized MongoDB part (by reducing number of indexes) and code to reduce number of database writes. After redeploy it showed that DB loading is on acceptable level and application experience is fine.

The likes collection is already huge, full text index turns to be bottleneck, so we had to be eliminate it. Search remains disabled, we will fix it very soon.

We are continue to both improve our code and infrastructure, so it would fit current load.

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Support for Instagram and Flickr

This means that now you have unique possibility to collect all your favorite moments forever inside our tiny app. For example Instagram doesn't provide solution for this, except small tab inside mobile app's settings which for some users doesn't work properly and is limited only to last 300 photos you've liked.

So from the time you connect your Likeastore account with Instagram or Flickr all favorited photos will be saved safely.

Are you ready? Create collections, add there photos, and share them with your friends, let them remember their last amazing holidays and be inspired!

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Free social icons pack

Good news from Likeastore! We decided to open-source social icons pack that we use inside application.

This pack consists of the services that app already supports, some of them will be added in the nearest future. There are 20 high-quality images and you are free to choose how to use it. Get the pack on github!

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Introducing: Organize Favorites with Collections

Public and private collections

Once you've created a collection you're able to create so-called "Likeboard" of somehow related favorites. Every favorite from different service can be added to the collection simply by clicking "Add" button at the top every card.

As an option collections can be public or private. The "public" ones are those that could be shared with your friends and co-workers.

Share your likeboards

That gives you a unique opportunity easily to create collaborative social feeds. Currently public collections are work in progress yet, stay tuned because this update will be landed very very soon. We are always open for your feedback, so send us your mails with suggestions - [email protected].

Happy favoriting.. and collecting! :)

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Likeastore iPhone App Concept

These wonderful screenshots were provided by Igor - web/ui designer from Odessa, Ukraine.

They are also available on Igor's project page on dribbble.

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Too much networks on the screen?

Previously left sidebar was showing full list of social networks our service provides to the customers. But from now it's much easier to organize your dashboard and information - Likeastore navigation menu shows only enabled networks. Clicking the button will move user to the settings page where she can organize the list of services.

Turning it off..

Another important users proposal and application update concerns switching off networks. This means that all favorites from deleted services will be automatically removed from dashboard, so any annoying information won't be displayed here no more. We hope this will also improve your experience of using our service.

Have something to say?

You always can affect our development process by sending to us your thoughts, bug reports or feature suggestions - [email protected]. Thanks!

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Boom!

Thanks @Valentin for amazing logo animation! Share your thoughts about this logo in the comments!

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Take a Tour of Likeastore App

The most common way of usage of Likeastore app is colourfully described step by step on a brand new tour page. Do not hesitate to check it once more and leave your methods of usage in comments below!

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More for designers happiness - Behance!

On the morrow of awesome Dribbble integration we are happy to say that the huge army of Behance lovers can be satisfied as well.

Make your account behanced

Adding Behance likes into your likeastore account is as easy as it was before with all other social networks we already support. Just go to your account settings page and toggle the button, in several seconds all your Behance appreciations will be added to all likes feed or filtered as only Behance items on the named page.

Dashboards of inspiration

By the way while working on designers' social networks integrations these days we thought about "Collections" feature. The aim of it is to provide an option to you as our users create shareable lists of your likes that you can create and compose simply by adding/deleting likes inside. We would like to hear your thoughts about it as well, send us emails directly to [email protected]. Stay tuned for more updates and features!

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New Year Gift for Dribbble Fans

Today we are happy to introduce new feature that all Dribbble fans are going to be happy about! Likeastore is now integrated with Dribbble service, so since now you are able to collect all your likes from Dribbble as well.

Dribbble is very popular site where mainly graphic designers post their projects and get valuable feedback from each other. As any other social network, it's very hard to track and keep all your likes from Dribbble and that's where Likeastore comes to help.

Despite of all other networks that Likeastore currently supports, Dribbble is a little different in the matter of authorization. To connect Dribbble, you simply provide us your Dribbble's username, the rest we'll do ourselves.

In few seconds you will have all your likes with ability to search by its' title and description or share the most beloved images with your friends and coworkers.

We see Dribbble as very important asset and hope that its' fans will enjoy that. If you want to share some feedback, please go ahead with comments to this blog post or contact us at .

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Share Your Favorites to Friends

For me Likeastore is not only the tool for collecting my likes on background and keeping that information organized. I also tend to use it as a kind of "Read-It-Later" service. Namely, when I see interesting information on twitter or cool repository on github I will put it to favorites without much digging into details.

Later I'll open inbox and see all items waiting my attention there.

If I realize that the content is really interesting - I wish to re-share it to my friends.

That's why we've introduced "Share" feature. Each card has "share" button now and by pressing it you will get short link for interesting content, as well as an ability to post it to twitter and facebook.

Have happy liking and sharing best content!