Thursday, June 25, 2009

News - Viigo's New Weather Service

This was the first part of a series on the new Viigo. Check it out.


This is the first in a series of posts covering what's new in the latest
version of Viigo and we thought we'd start with the basics.

Our weather service, which is delivered in partnership with Accuweather,
is one of the most popular services within Viigo. Each day, hundreds of
thousands of people check the weather on Viigo, and we owe them the best
weather experience we can provide.

Earlier versions of Viigo's weather service suffered from a couple of
key issues (1) for cities with few subscribers, collection times were
often long, resulting in the weather being out of date, and (2) for
detailed information, we forced you to open a web page (a slow and
sometimes arduous process).

We've not only improved both of those things, we've actually added some
important features.

Here's a look at the new weather screen for a city (in this example New
York). You'll see live current conditions and a 5 day forecast,
including a summary of the expected conditions.

Clicking on the Current conditions, brings you additional details,
delivered without the need for you to launch an external browser.

For cities within North America, scrolling down further will get you a
live radar image, so you can see what storms might be approaching.

If you want more detailed hour by hour results, just click on the link
provided, and we'll take you to AccuWeather's live mobile optimized Web
Page.

Note: in order to fully take advantage of Weather 2.0, you'll need to
remove your current weather cities and add the new ones, and you'll need
to be running the latest version of Viigo.

Team Viigo
"Sun is shining, the weather is sweet, yeah "

http://bulletins.viigo.com/2009/06/24/viigos-new-weather-service/

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