It's that time of year agaaain! From Dec. 20-31, we'll be releasing 10 questions a day into our news quiz looking back at notable events of 2008. That's 12 months of goodness totaling 120 questions.
For anyone disconnecting over the holidays, the year in review questions will stay live through Jan. 5.
More quiz features coming soon...
We've added a couple of new features to our development pipeline. They include commenting and question rating, allowing players to comment on a particular question/ answer/ topic and also allowing them to rate questions up or down, like or not like respectively. The first will help users connect with each other as comments will link to user profiles. The latter will allow our hard-working editors and our algorithms to serve better questions in the future. Until then, we'll keep you in the loop.
Last month, after getting feedback about the leaderboard, we asked Deadliners what their thoughts were on some proposed alternatives. And boy did we get a response.
The main issue with the current leaderboard is that it's cumulative, so new players don't have a chance of getting to the top.
Ideally, our goal is to make things a little more competitive and give everyone a chance to play for the No. 1 spot every day. So we proposed creating a daily leaderboard. That would give everyone a chance to be king or queen for a day, and allow us to tally weekly and monthly wins so we can reward those who play often and well. In terms of ranking, you would continue to be ranked amongst your friends and the Deadline universe.
At first we told everybody that changing the leaderboard would mean resetting everyone's scores to 0 (zero), but after the overwhelming and passionate responses we got from players, we're definitely not going to erase any points you've earned.
We still have to solve another problem: those who play daily will eventually have a limited number of questions they can answer in a 24-hr period, whereas newbies will have access to a pool of roughly 350 active questions. How do you think we should handle this? Do we limit the number of questions available each day?
In any case, we haven't instituted the new changes yet, but as soon as our dev team is freed from Olympic duties, we'll be rolling out a daily and weekly leaderboard in addition to the all-time leaderboard.
It was three months ago, in cramped and carpeted quarters at the San Francisco's Embarcadero Center, that we launched our first Facebook application: Deadline, our not-so-trivial news quiz with long questions and even longer answers. Some of you might remember.
Since then, we've upgraded; we rolled out some cool features (more to come) and expanded our players from the 11 people who brought you deadline to 35,000 players from around the world. And the swank new office is a definite improvement.
Thanks for the support (Merci, Danke, Gracias...). We hope you keep playing as we continue to roll out new features and other news-based applications.
In 2007
For 2008
You can expect to see some of these features soon, as well as some other surprises:
Not to be missed
Check out Fuel News. Fuel News is our latest App, a place where you can deepen your knowledge and discover the stories you might have missed.
We are attentive to your feedback with regards to features so keep it coming.
Last but not least, we'd like to remind you can Rate the App and Share it with friends.
Thanks again, enjoy the news!
- The Deadline Team
It’s no surprise that our biggest group of players comes from the US (based on Facebook’s user profile data). After all, the US has the largest population on Facebook and Deadline is only available in English for the time being. What’s exciting is the fact that 70.47% of our players are non-US English speakers; the other 100 or so countries that show up on our screens remind us of our global audience.
We’ve got a sneak peek of some of the data we’re seeing; insights are pretty general but interesting (at least to us). In the past month, Jan 19 and Feb 18 2008, visits came from 102 different countries/territories. Here are the top 25:
Congratulations!
Prizewinners for our Year in Review Quiz have been determined. They are:
Winners will be contacted by Deadline in order to arrange delivery of their prize, the book “World in Photos”, featuring the best images of 2007 from AFP’s award-winning photographers.
Thanks to all for taking the 2007 challenge.
Enjoy the news.
- The Deadline Team
Over the winter break, we're offering a challenge to test your knowledge about what happened in the 2007. The most skilled competitors will earn a prize!
Here's how it works:
The top 10 finishers win "World in Photos" - a beautiful coffee table edition featuring the best images of 2007 from AFP's award-winning photographers. Winners will be determined by the highest point totals for the Year in Review Quiz as of 1800 GMT, January 11, 2008.
Let us know what you think
- The Deadline Team
Deadline's first online review, a very nice Christmas present.... Thanks Bryan.
"I'm going to go out on a limb here: Deadline is the slickest, best
looking app on Facebook. No contest. Now I'm sure you could argue for
other well produced applications taking the title, but wouldn't that be
a High-Class Problem? Indeed. I spend countless hours days
weeks poo-pooing useless, ill conceived and poorly produced apps, in
the hopes that 1 out of a 100 will come even close to retaining my
attention for more than 2 minutes. Congratulations, Deadline, you've
done it."
Read it all at:http://www.apprate.com/deadline-346/
Deadline is now live on Facebook. It's Newzwag's first news applications on your favorite social network.
Deadline is a game of non-trivial pursuit. A quiz to test your wits and discover who knows what's happening in the world - and who doesn't... If the pressure gets too much, we'll even help you cheat.
Play at: apps.facebook.com/deadline
Continue reading Deadline live on Facebook Platform.
Newzwag is a San Francisco-based company funded by Agence France-Presse (AFP). We develop technologies and ideas that bring one of the world's richest news resources to the rapidly evolving world of social media.
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