[Feature Day] Personalized Recommendations, Multilingual Tips & Personalized Tips
Helping You Better
Here at e-Business, we’re always working on making your SMS experience over Pring nothing short of amazing. We do a lot of feedback calls to our users to understand in what way can we improve their experience. One of the issue we constantly hear from our SMS-only users is that it is hard for new users to understand what can Pring do.
If you use text you can always send HELP to your shortcode and you’ll receive help on pretty much anything you can do with/on Pring. Since launching Pring, the amount of things you can do on Pring has grown and so have the number of commands. There are now more than 40 various commands and hundreds of content menus inside Pring. Knowing what you want can become a daunting task over SMS.
Boy! We’ve Got a Tip for You!
For this reason, we’ve come up with Tips. If you use Pring, you’ve probably seen our help tips. They appear at the bottom of messages where we tell you how to use a certain command or functionality. Previously, everyone received the same tips over and over again. After collecting feedback, we’ve overhauled the system to make it much more useful for you.
Tips are now personalized. This means that the tips you see were specifically selected for you. For example, if you have not performed a certain command like FOLLOW; we will recommend that you do with a simple tip such as “You can get updates from any Pringer by sending FOLLOW Pringer_name”. Once you act on this tip and send the FOLLOW command, we will no longer send this tip to you. This gives us tremendous flexibility and accuracy in explaining Pring to you bit-by-bit. We’re working on a whole host of tips that will make it easy for you to understand Pring at the right moment and knowledge level.
Another small but significant step we’ve taken is the ability to have multi-lingual tips. So, if your language is set to urdu, you will receive tips in Urdu. If your language is set to English, you will recieve tips in English. We translate tips into each supported language.
Great People To Follow, Seriously!
But perhaps the most important feature we’ve launched is personalized recommendations. Searching for new users is hard over SMS. It would be cumbersome to see a list of followers of a particular friend over SMS. A simple solution we’ve come up with is that we examine all the people you follow and then we examine who do they follow. We then look at the people who who we think are good/fun accounts which you do not follow but are followed by your friends. These accounts are then recommended to you. You will see a tip at the bottom of your SMS such as “Nash, Umar and 3 more of your friends follow Nomy, you can follow them as well by sending FOLLOW NOMY”.
There’s a lot more that we’re working on to make our minimalist interface more meaningful, relevant and fun. We hope you enjoy these changes and give us feedback for improvements!
September 7th, 2010 at 10:10 pm
Thanks Nash for creating these features for us these features are really helpful for new users….Nasir Javed ID SuRiLi
September 7th, 2010 at 10:18 pm
Cool Innovations !!
They’ll Surely Make Pring More ”New-User Friendly”.
September 7th, 2010 at 11:28 pm
Salam, Add some new features to have fun on the pring service
September 10th, 2010 at 10:13 am
Great!! Good to see pring makin improvements. Add a re-pring button please.
September 16th, 2010 at 10:02 am
good…
October 6th, 2010 at 4:08 am
nice thx for improvement……..but plz add deactive account command its really difficult to unsub
October 7th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
Pring is too slow for ufone users…update on fb appears after several hours…
November 15th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
Good Changes But Many Users Facing Limit Problems specially Warid users
January 24th, 2011 at 2:58 pm
A.A!
pring is quite a good way of communication.you people are doing great job.i want to know that how much our phone numbers are secure here? Is there any possibilty that some one can access our phone numbers by using any kind of trick?
kindly send me brief discription and do reply me.i am waiting for your response.
FIAMANILLAH!!
January 24th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
@Noorulaain: We take privacy very seriously and do not share mobile numbers and discourage people from doing so. Our technical team works around the clock to close any *tricks* that may arise and close it off immediatly.
January 30th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
Well..:) I had many friends who left pring after being charged on zong and ufone.
) packages should be of following types:
i was looking for such medium like this forum, where i can Express my feelings about Pring.
Firstly: Pring should make a plan for Users who are Offline due to charges,
Pring can get them back by providing Packages; Daily Package; Weekly package,
As much i thought and extracted a result (don’t laugh on me
Ufone & Zong:
Daily Package 300 : 300 msgs/Rs 3
Daily Package 100 : 100 msgs/Rs 2
Weekly Package 700 : 700 msgs/Rs 8
Weekly Package 300 : 300 msgs/Rs 6
..
this is my Weak thinking and Result about improvement of pring:)
now i let you to make it.
because you say(Mr Nash) “We Make Pring”.
Secondly: it will be better if you make an agreement with Fm Radio stations, agreement like this:
1)You will provide a User Name for Fm Radio station;
2)People Will send them msgs via pring short code 2323 from any network;
3)each msg will be costed Rs5/-;
4)if sombody wanna send msg to Radio , he Must also be a follower of that station,(User name);
5)Being a follower of that station will be the benefit of that radio station, because if station wants to send update! he can also do that. but the station will also be charged for their update, cuz if they r not charged! they will send more updates and may annoy their followers;
6)Provide them a special page where they can see all the updates, page like: that page will show only updates which are not read, read updates will be deleted automatically;
7)….oh much sujjestions. but other time Inshah Allah…
yar m gona sleep now… bubyee… reply must for these sujjestions. must…
Pring Id Arnold ..
January 30th, 2011 at 11:50 pm
Nash Sir.. can we get registered to this blog ????
January 31st, 2011 at 6:03 pm
@Arnold: Thanks for the great feedback! We’ve been exploring various tariff options and we hope to give a better plan soon!
February 26th, 2011 at 9:53 am
@arnold @nash pleased to know smbdy also thea thinking lyk i do….well i’d say of a monthly pkg!
well as i cn gather,i never get any suggestion tip say,dis n dis follow dat….y don’t u????
March 12th, 2011 at 12:23 am
pring is a big enjoy mint network in pakitan will den nash and over frainds good work
May 27th, 2011 at 7:48 pm
i like this service
June 30th, 2011 at 11:56 am
want to give some suggestion to pring admin..1.pring network sirf warid aur jazz pay free hey lakin jis ke wja sey ab b pring pr 97% active members wohi hain jin k pass warid aur jazz network hey baqi user sirf msg receive kr rhay hain aur kuch nai .lakin agr pring admin aisa short code introduce krvaye jis ko weekly aur monthly package ke trah subscribe kiya ja skay jis ko subscribe krnay k baad open beta phase free kr diya jaye for example agr 1 user nain weekly package active krvaya hey to osay 150 public pring sms send krnay ke ejazat d jaye lakin sath he pvt msg free honay chaiye ta keh zong telenor ufone user b pring ko enjoy kr skain .es trah 8Rs se 10Rs tk ka weekly package every user afford kr skta hey mujhay pura yaqeen hey keh pring ko chlanay walay great tecnologix hain agr woh mare es suggestion pay work krain to 100% result hasil kiya ja sktay hain. i hope pring admin es optoion pay jld ghor kray )))))))
aur last main pring admin sey mara 1 question hey keh mara pring pay PAKMAN account hey jis se main apnay followers ko without any benefit 2010 sey Poetry update day rha hon agr main apna account verified krvana chahon to es k kia rules and regulations kia hain….????we love pring no doubt in it..long live pring…
October 6th, 2011 at 12:22 pm
SIR NASH PLZZZZZZZZZ MSG KI LIMMIT BHAR DO HOURS MEIN 20 KAR DO
November 7th, 2011 at 1:31 am
Sir jab se ufone ne pring par paisay kaatna start kiye hain tab se pring bilkul sunsaan hogaya hai. kindly iska kuch karen. mei Arnold brother se ittefaaq karta hon. os ke packages thek hain.wohee start karden.
second: aj kal tips ki waja se koi message thek se mil nai pata. kindly esska koi ilaaj karen.
thanks
December 26th, 2011 at 1:13 pm
sir plz service ko behtar banaye follwerz ko sms nahi milty