HAPPY BIRTHDAY TOMMY!

Tommy W., Co-Founder and Chief System Architect for PEEK is turning 3 today! I don’t know if the age is accurate but I got it off his Peek Profile – where everyone tells the truth, right?  Tommy is too busy working on Peek 2.0 to celebrate today so send him a birthday greeting if you can.  

Oddly enough, it happens to be my birthday as well. I’m Christer, Chief Blogger and Head of All Things Unimportant here at Peek. Unlike Tommy I DO get out frequently.  I’ll be celebrating all day on a beautiful beach in South America so no need to send me any birthday wishes. We at Peek believe in balance.  That’s why Tommy works and I play.

Cheers...  C

PEEK Tagged as "Staff Favorite" in US App Store

After these last 10 days, you’ll never convince me that App Store positioning doesn’t matter.  In the same day, PEEK found itself on the front of the “Staff Favorites” list in the US and the top of the “New and Noteworthy” section in Australia.  Instantly we saw sales of PEEK go up several hundred per cent in each country!  It’s clear that most iPhone/iPod users periodically check the app store and don’t go much further than the front page – and with thousands of apps out there, who can blame them?!  

We certainly understand this and are grateful to be more visible for the time being.  We are also a bit confused by the seeming randomness of the whole App Store process including who makes these decisions and why for each store.  For example, we have been the #1 paid social app in several countries but were never mentioned in their “New and Noteworthy” sections.  Now we’re there and have little idea why...but we ain’t complaining!!  

After our initial frustration in the first weeks, we realized that this process was more or less out of our control.  Instead we decided to focus on the only thing we COULD control which was to make PEEK the best Social App in the world.  We realize we have a long way to go in order to accomplish this and we have taken your comments and suggestions very seriously.  

‘FRIENDS’ LIST and better Message History – we know, we know.  We’ve heard it from all corners of the earth!  These are features we actually planned from the start but we just wanted to make sure the anonymous element of PEEK wasn’t lost in the process.   That’s why the decision was made to release the first version without it. But rest assured it will be part of Peek 2.0! We are also hard a work on many other great features.  

Uhh, let me correct that...TOMMY is very hard at work!  I’m currently on a beach in Punta del Este, Uruguay.  Hey, it’s a rough life, I know, but someone has to be the International Ambassador for PEEK!!

¡Nos Vemos!   C

Kiwii's and Aussies loves to sneak-a-PEEK!

Peek is now No 1 paid social app in New Zeeland and No 2 in Australia!!! I'v been sending pics of snow to people "down under" like crazy. They can't get enough of it!

See you out there! Keep on Peek'n.

PEEK Announces First Upgrade

Many Peesters have been kind enough to pass along their ideas for improvements – and we’ve been listening!  The result is PEEK 1.1 which will be available in the App Store any time now.

From the day we came up with this whacky idea to the day we launched it, our motto has been “Keep it Simple...”  We wanted to create an app that was sleek, fun and extremely easy to use!  The plan was that once people got used to playing with PEEK they would naturally want to expand on it.  Then PEEK would continue to evolve based largely on user feedback.  

We are currently hard at work on many new features that will soon be available but we saw some things that we wanted to change right away.  Most of these ‘fixes’ have come from your feedback and include:  

• Better picture quality.
• Improved “Last Message” posting.
• The ability to receive messages while your iPhone is in ‘Sleep’ mode
• Several minor bug fixes
  

We hope you enjoy your “New & Improved” Peek experience and we will soon be adding many more features.  Keep the comments coming because we are counting on our loyal users to help drive PEEK to the the App Stratosphere.

Thanks!