Kilg.us – Fantasy Stat Tracker …Tracker

[This note was posted to all Users' dashboards on 4/5/2009. I've included it here for archival purposes.]

Welcome to the new Kilg.us Dashboard! If you’ve been using more than 1 team in Kilg.us, the Dashboard is a familiar concept to you. If not, this is a whole new concept.

The purpose of the Dashboard is to provide quick, one-click access to all the functionality of Kilg.us. On the left side of the screen you will see the “My Teams” section. This provides links to all the teams you own within Kilg.us. Simply click on the link for a team to access that team’s stats page.

The right column now contains the “My Industry” section. This consists of 4 main sections: 1) Notifications of Industry requests (think of them like Facebook “friend requests”), 2) link to all the teams shared with you through your industry, 3) a list of your industry friends, and 4) a form to find new industry members.

The core of the new Industry functionality is in place, but it will be undergoing lots of development and improvement in the coming weeks. Please check out the Tracker blog to learn more about how the Industry features [will] work and for the status of new functionality. As always, feedback is appreciated either through blog comments or email!

Kilg.us is now the world’s first social stat tracker. This afternoon I finished up the basic functionality to allow the creation of “Industries” within Kilg.us. The underlying concept is to allow Users to track the stats of their friends’ and competitors’ teams.

The solution isn’t particularly elegant right now. I’ll be continuing to improve the interface and interactions in the coming weeks. Look for a future post to walk through how Industries work. For now, hop into your Account Info, add your personal details (name, hometown, cell phone), and opt into the public sharing so you and other Owners can start to build your Industry!

Lots of new items in the Account Information section. Kilg.us can now store some personal information like names, hometowns, and cell phones. Collection of this information is a precursor to the aforementioned team-sharing/social-networking features I plan to implement. I have included an option for whether or not to share publicly any personal information that is entered. The default setting for this is to hide any personal information. A User will need to explicitly turn it on for their information to be searchable or visible by other Users.

The Account Information page also now allows Users to sign up for daily stats emails for each of their teams. The test I mentioned yesterday fired off successfully, so hopefully it will work for everyone now. I’m very interested in any feedback on this feature. Please post a comment here or shoot me an email.