Can’t wait to learn about the new features for the insider Gold Members. I especially like being locked in at the original price. Some of us Gold Members are the original members and have remained active and loyal to the forum. I think EE is a company that respects its members, and has made a real effort to give back by addressing some of the inventors requests and needs. Thank you EE!

Awesome! Thank you!

I am so excited!!!! Can’t wait!!

Okay—-I have jumped in! I am now an official Gold Member! This was the push I needed!!!! Can’t wait to see what it means! :-)

It’s monday. We’re ready to hear about the first feature!

Can’t wait to see what’s in store for us

Can’t wait!

Looking forward to the June 17th GO Live! Maybe the surprise will be a dashboard with a count of ALL product submissions for each LPS and we can watch the numbers as they cycle through the process!!! That would be excellent!

Early access to Everyday Edisons Season 3 before it’s even released to Hulu.
Love it….sign me up ;-)

Love the insider point system! Wonder how many points you get for a G-8 ;-)

I wonder if the points will be retro-active. I probably don’t ever have to pay an entry fee again!!! LOL!

Phil,

Amazing how everyone looks at things differently…I know you are looking forward to changing your family’s lives with your brilliance, and that is soooooo cool! I’M thinkin though, I wonder if those “retro-active” points you are asking about are tranferable to your friends and supporters and other non-billionaire little people here at EN? LOL

Keep up the great work, my friend. ….er, uh… my best friend in the whole world…wanna come to my birthday party, friend!

The airlines call them frequent flyer points. I’m thinking a good name is frequent dreamer points ;-) Cause Mr. Biskit, you’re dreaming big ,thinking the Panman is giving you his points- cause I’m pretty sure he’s giving them to me ;-)

But Holly did you invite him to your birthday party?

Actually at the Meet and Greet, it was Phil’s birthday, and we ate cupcakes to celebrate. And I gave him a very cute kitty card that sang Happy Birthday in meows ;-)

See…all this just goes to show we all look at things differently…Soooo, Phil…Do you see how some of the rest of us view (lustfully) your millions of “retro” points?

Now pony up!

lol

Thats true Kevin…you are going to have to up your game. I still have the card by the way Holly!

Ah you are a bad influence Kevin. I’ve got to admit it’s very very hard not imagining your scenario of living the highlife and kicking back and never having to worry about money again.

I have no idea how this adventure will turn out but think I"m okay saying that it’s going a heck of a lot better than I could have ever imagined and I can imagine big.

Of course I know it could all fall through and I could end up with nothing but hey at this point it looks like it’s headed in the exact opposite direction. If it continues going the “good” way and they let me you and Holly can split my points!

Love the points!

Points are a great idea! I really think they ought to be retro-active, in order to credit those who have dedicated themselves to EN over the past few years, entering ideas and working hard on making them presentable. It will also benefit EN, since it will increase the number of good ideas that are submitted. It can take a lot of effort to prepare an idea and presentation that makes it to G7 but we all know the odds of being selected by a company are slim. Retro-active points will make it easier for those who have gotten that far to submit more of their best ideas. I have often thought that members who reach a certain number of G7’s (or a ratio) should have their fees waived since in general they are helping EN look good at the presentations and are not taking up staff’s time reviewing submissions that aren’t good fits.

Yes, retroactive would be good.

And don’t forget we would like the retroactive points to be transferable too!
Phil has promised me half of his points ;-)

Matt, did you go someplace fun on vacation?

Why are you all generic looking, Matt? lol
The vacation changed you. You seem to have a flat affect now.

I just wanted to let everybody know that the last post really was from me. I was logged in as my non-gold testing user as we’re wrapping up all of the new code for the Insider launch on Thursday.

We did go somewhere fun, Holly. We took our 7-month old to the beach (Charleston) for the first time. He loved the pool and the ocean and the weather was perfect if not a little too warm. It was a great time but I’m glad to be back and excited about our big launch this week!

Jane, he just wanted to be as good looking as me—-if for just for a minute!

there was a similarity ;-)

LPS Insider Review Priority….Now I’m really excited!!!! I’m hoping that
the longer you have had a gold membership then the more priority you have!
That would be great for us old-timers who have been gold members for more than 2 years compared to the newbies (no offense meant to the newbies) ;-)

Yeah, but some of us newbies, have real staying power! :-)

How about if anyone with a G8 (or any of the green banners ;-) moves to the top of the priority list too!

cute cat avatars??

Great suggestion! Cute kitty avatars get priority too!!

Wow, now Holly, that would be like a double-dip for you!

lol! yey

I agree Holly. And I think those of us who have been here from the start should be rewarded with feedback on our submissions :).

Hi EN Team,
Just saw the new postings for the New Edison Insider features. I know you’re probably extremely busy but was hoping for a little clarification on two of the items.

LPS Review Priority:
What do you consider faster? Hours (probably not :-) ), days, weeks.

Open Searches
Can you give us a little more info on how these might work.

Thanks for any info and for all you do for us inventors.

Hi Marc,
The LPS Review Priority basically flags and sorts all Insiders so every time anybody goes into the system to review ideas, Insider ideas are the first ones they look at and score. If you are a G7 and a non-Insider is a G7, you will each hear the results as soon as possible; however, the Insider will have passed through all of the stages leading up to G7 much quicker.

We’re still finalizing the Open Search details but essentially, we’ll be hosting at least two Open Searches each year where we take any and all submissions into consideration and then find a home for the best of the best. This gives you the opportunity to submit ideas that just aren’t a good fit for current Live Product Searches but are just too great to pass up.

Matt,
Thanks, that helps.

So when the first open search comes along you guys will be finding a sponsor for the 23 or so R8’s I have waiting! That’s good to know…I"m gonna be rich!!! LOL!!!

Just kidding but you know you’ll be inundated with everyone’s R8’s right… : )

Bring them on Phil! Although, the real goal of the Open Search is to give you opportunities to show us that diamond in the rough that just hasn’t been a good fit for past Live Product Searches.

Ah… Got it. I’ve had a few of those but you guys hold so many LPS’s I found a home for them all so far.

Yea discounts at the EN store. Only thing better than a ShoeSkirt, is a ShoeSkirt on sale ;-) Hopefully in time for Christmas!

I’m thinking about a shoeskirt for my son’s twin bed… but it would hold his nerf guns, remote controls and hand-held video games and junk. Maybe you could market a 2nd version and call it a kids-crap skirt? lol!

Yea, feedback for R-8’s. Loving all these new Insider changes!

wow… Lots of EN’ers will be very surprised with that one!!

…but maybe I don’t wanna know why my idea failed at the presentation. lol. I’m kidding. Well? … yes. I’m kidding! Of course I’d want to know why… I think!! moot point. I may never see another G7!

More benefits- 25,000 free points if you are a gold member before tonight!
That is worth $10 ;-)

So far no mention of priority at next seasons Everyday Edisons casting call- Which is why some of us signed up in the first place.

really liking these changes, YEAH EN! Love the R8 explanation, it could really help!

Feedback! Now you’re talking! Thanks EN.

EE casting call priority is a little off-season at the moment Holly so we aren’t promoting it yet. We’re still editing Season 3!

Matt, will the feedback be one way?

Will it be built into the dashboard as a generic drop down list or icon panel of some sort or will someone actually write to tell us specifically what happened with our idea?

Any and all feedback is fantastic, just trying to get a handle on what to expect.

Thanks!

Matt, what can I say? I’m a planner. I just paid my deposit for my vacation for Nov 2011- yep, 18 months away ;-) (I think it’s the Capricorn in me!)

Yes Phil, the feedback will be one-way in that you can’t debate the point with the sponsor.

There will be a drop-down list of typical responses that we receive from sponsors. If the feedback fits one of those, we will select the appropriate one. There is also the option in some cases to include free-form feedback if the typical responses aren’t appropriate.

Oh no, not Nov 2011 Holly… We were planning on cramming in all of the Season 4 casting calls in Nov 2011!

;-)

Sounds great Matt, loving the new stuff still hoping for some realtime chat on this site.

A forum for Gold members only would be nice.

It’s coming Phil… you must have missed it! http://www.edisonnation.com/preview

A little warning to everybody: We’ll be going offline around midnight EST tonight to get ready for the big launch tomorrow. We’ll be back in the morning with the new Insider features as well as an updated architecture that will make the site even faster and more compatible with mobile devices.

You know I read that and thought it would be some kind of an online meeting/discussion thing once in awhile. I didn’t realize it would be realtime chat. Shows how dense I am sometimes. Will there be direct 1 to 1 IM’ing allowed or just an open chat room?

Can’t wait to see it all come together quickly and smoothly as I’m sure you are hoping for too.

It’s a public chat for now, Phil.

Update: we had a network issue last night that prevented us from taking the site offline at midnight. Expect it to go offline here shortly. We should be back before lunch!

… And we’re back! Our team has been hard at work on adding all of these new features for quite a few months now. I hope everybody enjoys their hard work!

Special shout out to Kirk, Nate, Mary, Mark, Kelly and the other dozen or so others who were involved in the new Insider program and launch!

Well, there’s no waiting for me any longer, Im goin inside!! lol The open search sealed the deal!! Thanks EN you da best……….The best Jerry!!!

wow. I’m lost… ;-)
Very cool!!! Congratulations on pulling it all together.

You’re killing me!!!!!! Eposide 301 is loaded but the instant you get to Holly Tucker, there’s no volume anymore. Are you sure you’re not just messing with ME ;-) I’m not very good at lip reading…………

And i thought it was just my computer… lol Love the new setup though! Great job guys!

Site looks great. Thank you to all at EN for your hard work!

Hey,
I spoke to the web team and they’re working on fixing it ASAP. Excuse our dust, we’re still working out some of the kinks. :)

Glad ya’ll are enjoying it so far!

Kelly

the volume thing— I thought it was my cheap speakers! whew

Hello! So I’m assuming its a $10 monthly subscription like the gold membership was, but I can’t find where it states that. The cost should be front and center on the upgrade page. Thanks!

Matt / Kelly, Thanks to you and your team for the wonderful Insider benefits a website upgrade. I have a question about calculating the Insider Points. Are they earned at each level or when you receive the X or G8? For example if receive an R4, do I earn 250+500+750 (stage 1+2+3) =1500 points or 750 points for having passed stage 3?

Hi Eric,
The points are calculated based on the stage that you pass. If you fail at a stage, you don’t receive points for that stage but you do receive points for every single stage that you passed (cumulative).

Speaking of points… If you guys haven’t noticed yet, we’ve rewarded anybody who was a gold member prior to the Insider launch with 50,000 Insider points right out of the gate. That’s good for one free submission! w00t!

Kelly, i sent you a personal email.

Thanks EN! Looks great!

Hi Matt/Kelly…I was going to wait til the dust settled or ask on a private support discussion or something, , but I had a similar question to Eric regarding the points. I understand Matt’s explanation (and am glad about it) regarding “piling on” the points for each stage of an LPS that you succeed at. Next, I would wonder what the ones we had out there did as far as points. I can’t come up with my total no matter how I slice it…it comes up peanuts. (Couldn’t resist…that’s Snickers not lack of gratitude. lol) And last the 50,000 points…mine are not there entirely. Can you look at my account ONLY WHEN YOU GET A CHANCE… and let me know?

Love the results of your collective efforts.
Thank you.
Kevin

Hey Guys,
It’s been a loooooooong few days around here! I actually mis-typed below…

Everybody who was a gold member gets 25,000 points (half-way there). If you had a G7 at any point and were a gold member you get 50,000. If you had a G8 in the past and were a gold member when we did the switch you get 75,000.

And before you ask… if you received two G7s in the past, you don’t get 100,000. It’s a one-time welcome gift to our members :-)

Matt,

Just curious…are there still Gold members? And was the Insider program a one time entry situation, or can someone opt in to it and pay for membership, or do they earn their way in to it by being Gold members for a certain amount of time? Thanks!

And Kevin, to answer your question about what happens with submissions that are already out there…

You’ll start earning points on those as they move going forward. You won’t receive points for any stages that they have already passed (that’s just the case with ideas that you’ve already submitted).

Likewise, I should make sure it’s clear that you are not awarded points for opt-ins. If we did that, members could just opt everything into every search to build up points and that would defeat the purpose, which is to reward you guys more for submitting more successful ideas. That’s the same reason we had the three different tiers of kick-off points, as noted below.

Hi Margaret,
There is no longer a Gold Member. If you were a Gold Member, you are now an Insider.

Members who are not Insiders may sign up for the Insider program by upgrading the same way you did when you became a Gold Member.

And for those of you reading who aren’t Insiders yet, if you sign up right now, we’ll kick off your points account with 10,000 points just for signing up. Just click “Insiders” in the site navigation to upgrade.

Hi Matt,
The points and feedback features are really big improvements.
If I had submissions jump up from around G2 to G7 since the announcement of the program, should the points for these automatically show up on my dashboard?

Hi Matt,

You are killing me. The first episode on the insiders page was working when I checked at lunch time at work but we aren’t allowed to stream video at work.

Now I’m at home and it won’t load it just hands forever with the load bar cycling like a barber pole. Are you going to get it up and running again tonight?

I have family coming right now as we speak expecting to be able to watch the first viewing of it with me.

Thanks

Wow. This is great! I love all the new insider features. Thanks EN.

James, check out my response a few back to Kevin. The points will start going forward from the point we launched the update today around noon EST.

Phil, I’m not around a computer with flash so I can’t test the video for you. It sounds to me like you might have a slow Internet connection at the moment and need to let it buffer a bit. Can the rest of you guys see the episode in the Insider’s lounge? I’m sure our team tested it fully this afternoon after deploying the version with the fixed audio track.

Hey everyone.

The video is now working. I apologize for the delay.

And I’m over the moon with all the positive reactions. Edison Nation is a great community!

Thanks everyone

PS. We worked soooooo late one night Matt got us pizza. Can you believe that? #itellalittlejoke

I’ve got high speed internet with latest flash and for hours it would not load/play until just now.

Buffered the whole movie in a few minutes…

Everything looks super on the relaunched site. Looks like the vid URL worked this time. Great job to all.

The video is working now! Loved it ;-) Auditioning for the show was one big blur, so was nice to see that I was as least coherent! Of course how hard is it to explain that the shoes goes in the pockets?

I could not find the fee for becoming and maintaining insider membership on the Insiders section of the site…
Even when I clicked JOIN, it just came up asking for my card info with no mention of cost. Only when I looked on the forum did I see that it is the same as the old gold member fee. This would scare away first-timers and looks generally shady. I do not think you intentionally wanted to cast this kind of image…

Besides the above, I cannot help but feel, as a non-insider, I am an unwanted customer… or my ideas will not be considered fully. Keeping everyone equal would have been the best way to foster confidence in the system. After all, people are making a great leap by confiding their secret ideas with Edison and they ALL deserve special and careful treatment.

Don’t get me wrong, tho, I DO appreciate the opportunity to participate here!

Kirk,

With all the hard work you’ve all done, I hope he bought some beer too ;).

One little question for everyone…since the relaunch, the forum pages are loading pretty slowly for me. Could be my crappy pc, but to make sure I’m just wondering if it has slowed down for others too. Thanks!

Mine isn’t really slow but I’m not geting the full page any more. I’m losing about 2 inches on the right side. It’s making it impossible to understand any postings.

I see what you’re saying David. I originally had thought that the Insider program was something special for those who had been Gold members for a certain length of time. I thought that it would be something that Gold members graduated to. Didn’t realize it was taking the place of the Gold membership. I am a Gold member (now Insider) so of course I’m happy with the changes. :) But with all the new perks involved I can see how it would make a non-insider members feel a bit jilted.

Absolutely fantastic site and updates. Keep them coming!

I checked the video one last time before the kids and in-laws had to go and voila…it loaded!

It was great to finally get to see what was 2 years in the making for me. Thank you Everyday Edisons. We got a really good laugh at the black and white shot of me looking around all nervous like. Great job editors! Can’t wait to see the next episode.

I’m sorry for the video issues today guys. I hope everything is working well now!

What Kirk didn’t tell you is that in addition to buying pizza last night, I offered to take them out to Five Guys to celebrate today and they decided they’d rather stay at the office and tie up loose ends than have lunch with me :-( I have to admit though, i wasn’t looking forward to seeing Kirk try to eat a burger and fries with that Iron Man helmet on. I’m starting to wonder if he ever goes out in public without it. At least he only wears the matching jumpsuit on Fridays. Oh man, I just remembered tomorrow is Friday.

David, thanks for keeping us honest on including the cost. That was a complete oversight on our part and I’m embarrassed that I reviewed those pages dozens of times and never caught it. As far as feeling like an unwanted customer, I think you are over-reacting. We haven’t taken anything away from non-Insiders. As a matter of fact, we added some new features for you, including the ability to watch Season 2 of Everyday Edisons and Season 3 as soon as it hits Hulu. All of our members know that their ideas are considered fully. Our core business is to license ideas to leading manufacturers and retailers whose lifeblood is innovation. To think that we would not consider all ideas fully to that end just doesn’t make sense. Insiders’ ideas are simply reviewed quicker. Non-Insiders will have the exact same experience they had before the launch of this new program.

Matt,

You have a very dedicated staff! We really appreciate all the hard work. Still laughing about jumpsuit Fridays :)

Yes they are Margaret. They’re a great team!

Great team in more ways than one… I found their soccer team and posted it in the lounge. Got some talent there I think… ;)

Seriously though, you guys put together a great set of people to work with…

Aww, Matt, you mean you timed it so that all those lovely G7s for the ASOTV search wouldn’t count for nuttin?! I thought the points feature was announced a few days ago?

I guess I’ll just have to get the gears turning again to crank out some more ideas.
Where’d that WD-40 git to?

Great site Matt and the rest of the team you should be very proud of it and happy that it seems to have gone off with practically no glitches beyond the video not loading. That had to be a massive challenge to make happen.

I think you guys should allow us to pool our points as a community so we can bid for things like making Matt have to wear the jump suit while Kelly or Amy play Pepper Potts. I’m sure a lot of people would like to see that.

Now THAT could be fun. Just like in Survivor, where they always have the epidsode with the auction… ;-)

Phil was this the jumpsuit you were talking about? Pepper Pots huh LOL

Matt is a man of many talents indeed… Nice hair BTW ;)

THE NEW CHAT FEATURE

As much as I hate to, I am going to swallow my pride and step back in time…what , maybe 5-10 years… and expose myself. No, I didn’t expose myself 5-10 years ago, I am going back to when chat rooms and the like were gaining momentum…and ALSO going to reveal I have NO IDEA how the heck they work. I get the principle, but I have 4 questions that’ll probably make you pros spit up your cereal:
1. What is the age /sex bit about when you try to read the screen, or chat?
2. What is the embed feature?
3. What is edit name?…I’m guessing that has to do with why some peopl’s actual name is there and others’ isn’t.
4. What is the other edit a/s/l thing for?

I know… hard to believe I’m (somewhat) surviving in the 2010s. I guess it’s like that first time jumping off the high dive, where you walk to the end of the diving board, look down, then redo about 1000 times.
Help would be appreciated. Go ahead, I can take it. Take your shots. I earned it.

Kevin,
1) That’s something the chat provider we use asks. You can just leave it blank.
2) It’s not really relevant for the insider chat so I’d just ignore it.
3) You can type in your screen name there so people know who you are (rather than using one of those generic names it auto-assigns).
4) Click it for details but it’s to edit your age/status/etc…

Would there be any way to donate points to someone… who maybe couldn’t afford a submission?

I’m afraid not Jane… Points can only be redeemed by the person who earned them.

What if I was at level G7 on an LPS (that I received before I switched to Gold and thus became an Insider) and this G7 eventually leads to an R8?? Will I still be eligible to get feedback on that R8?

You should be Sherri as long as you maintain your Insider membership.

Susan,
I have a few fake ideas that I’ve run through the system to test software releases with live data. One of them had passed to G7 at some point (it passed because I moved it there myself in testing). Because I was previously a Gold member who had received a G7, my account was pre-loaded with 50,000 points when we launched. See my previous note about the various levels of pre-loaded points for Gold members who were converted to Insiders.

And no, I don’t plan on cashing them in to submit a free idea. EN team members aren’t permitted to enter Live Product Searches :-(

…aww man!

It’s McCutie ;-) What you been up to DC??

Hey Holly,

I’m just staying busy working on infomercials, infomercials, infomercials.

How have you been?

I’m hanging in there! Busy inventing a fabulous infomercial product that hopefully will be keeping you occupied in the near future ;-)
What can I say…I’m a one of those inventors with an active imagination, but am slowly losing touch with reality ;-)

Holly…I think there’s a "losing touch " virus going around here…have you checked some of the banter around here?…all friendly though…just “out there”.

For 25000 points …who can be first to find the typo in the Insider ad to the left of the forums? I’ll go first…um…in the “Insider Points” category, right after 10,000, Insider has an extra i.

Not pickin on anyone, just happened to notice it.

I used to love “Highlights for Children” when I went to the dentist. lol

It’s not my fault that I’m losing touch;-) I’m just trying to live up to the billing as the all-smiles travel agent with a fierce passion for thinking up the next best thing. That’s alot of responsibilty ;-)

Hi Guys,
One of our members had a good question about the points and I wanted to clarify it for everybody. I thought I already had in some previous responses but just in case, I want to address it again.

If you sign up as an Insider today, you will receive 10,000 bonus points.

If you were already a gold member and we converted you to an Insider, you received 25,000 points.

If you were already a gold member and we converted you to an Insider, and you had passed Stage 7, you received 50,000 points.

If you were already a gold member and we converted you to an Insider, and you had passed Stage G8, you received 75,000 points.

Some of the confusion lies in the terminology developed by our membership regarding the various status levels. I simplified it earlier and said that if you were a G7, you received 50,000 points, but I should have been more clear that you must have moved past that stage in order to qualify. That means if you had just become a G7 but had not yet received a status change to either R8 or G8, you would have been just shy of qualifying.

In the spirit of full disclosure, I’ll explain more about why this is the case:

Our initial plan was as follows:
1) new upgrades get 10,000 points
2) existing Gold members get 25,000 points
3) G8s get 50,000 points

Well, we messed up our database script just a bit significantly in your favor when we made that happen in the rush of things and ended up giving the 50,000 points to everybody who had reached Stage 8. We forgot to check to see if they actually had succeeded at Stage 8. Therefore, if you failed at Stage 8, you received the same points as those who succeeded at Stage 8.

When we realized that, we could have apologized for the error and reset the points down to the appropriate levels. That would have resulted in a whole lot of people who have received G8s losing 25,000 points and we didn’t want to kick off the new program like that so we decided to let the points stay.

Since our original goal was to further reward and recognize those who have reached G8, we gave them an additional 25,000 points, bringing them to a total of 75,000.

I made things worse by mistakenly saying we had awarded everybody 50,000 points in the middle of the chaos that I’m sure you imagine ensued when we realized we had screwed up.

I hope that explains everything and I hope you understand.

Thanks,
Matt

That clears it all up… Thanks!!!!!
And thanks for the extra, extra points!

Thanks for explaining that Matt…now it all makes sense!! The site looks great and seeing the Season 3 episode was awesome! You guys have been very busy and did an outstanding job!! Must have put in quite some hours on all of this, too!! Thanks again!!

Hi Matt,
I noticed you have announced on July 15th at 1pm Jim Wright, Attorney & Intellectual Property expert, will be taking phone calls. And then on July 28th for the first time, you’re hosting a video conferencing session. That is great. I think this will give us a lot more understanding of what’s going on and how we should prepare ourselves in the future.
By the way, I want to suggest a free website I stumbled onto a few months ago. I think you could use it for both events, they offer a free account with a lot of free services. I was surprised I didn’t have to buy anything or downloading any software. It’s web-based just like my Yahoo e-mail account. I am able to use their live video broadcasting that has a live chat feature in it and I’m able to record the entire session so I can see my live broadcast event later. Also I’m able to use their live video audio conference with 10 other users from anywhere simultaneously. Again it has a chat feature in it and the interesting part is I can have unlimited viewers on any of my sessions. On top of it they offer tools to sell products or Pay-Per-View content via PayPal. This is one interesting website. I just wanted to suggest this free website to you for you guys to use or perhaps since it’s free the other users of Edison Nation can use it.

By the way, the websites name is www.livecage.com

Best regards

Thanks Sarkis, that sure is a ringing endorsement! In the spirit of full disclosure, what is your relationship with them?

Matt,
Nothing in it for me, I found out about it through a friend.

OMG Sir Ed, that is hysterical! You are the Photoshop master!!

Great job Mr. Ed. I love the pics

Matt,

I case you have not tested it yet, I would like to report that the new site looks and works perfectly on my IPad 3G. The width of the page is optimized, no scrolling side to side and nothing seems to be cut-off. Thanks to you and your team for the wonderful improvements.

Sir Edward: Amazing as always!

Eric, you are as well.

Thanks Penny, but I don’t know Photoshop.

Thanks Phil looks like you were the only one to see mine all the way down there and appreciate it.

Good Iron Matt beats a bad Iron Matt any day in the end you know. ;)

Eric, I was referring to your amazing invention talents! Take care Sir.

Penny, thanks you are too kind…good night.

Matt, When logging in, I REALLY miss the statement, which used to be above the photos of ‘friends’, about how many new forums and how many new posts have happened since I last logged in.

Thanks for the Photoshop work there Sir Ed… very funny.

Julie, we removed that element because we didn’t believe many people relied on it. I’ve heard from a few people who did. Hindsight being 20/20, we did reserve the right internally to bring it back if enough people wanted it. What does everybody else think? Want it back?

I miss that feature….anyone else?

I have a question…Will we be able to choose when or if to use our points or after hitting 50k will the next submission automatically be free?….

Joe,
You’ll get to choose… There was a small bug in the redeeming option that I wrote about on another forum somewhere that we’re currently working on. It’s our #1 priority and as soon as it’s fixed, you’ll be able to start redeeming.

I miss that feature too. Also the bits about who recently friended who, and who posted and who just wrote a blog entry.

Thanks Matt….and while I have your ear….I have the forum updates emailed to me…ad check em all day long on my phone….it would be nice if when I clicked on the link to respond it at least took me to the working page!..but no it kicks me to page one and then I need to click on the correct page…..even Better would be if the link would index the page to the esponse so you could read and reply easier

I miss it too

Holly,
That’s coming back, too. We just ran out of time with the launch and it wasn’t a mission critical component so we pushed it off a few days.

Joe,
You’re running into a bug that is technically a feature, I believe. It’s designed in a way that if you’ve logged on with a different machine, the site will force you to log on from a new machine even if you had asked it to remember you. It’s designed that way so that if you logged on at a public computer and forgot to log out, you would be automatically logged out the next time you logged in elsewhere.

I do, however, have an idea for a possible fix that we’ll investigate. In the meantime, there’s an easy workaround. 1) click the link and log in. Don’t close the browser. 2) go back to your email and click the link again. It will send you to the right page, bypassing the login page.

Keep an eye out for the return of the “X new posts in Y new topics…” feature in the next couple of days. Thanks for letting us know that you guys missed it :-)

Thank you, Matt.

I have a question…. According to the new insider rule if you were already a gold member and converted to an Insider, and you had passed Stage 7, you receive 50,000 points.
Ok! How about the other submissions that still in green stages, don’t you earn more points for each stage your idea passes? Cause I have one G3 at rawlings.

Sarkis,
You will receive points for those ideas when they make their next move and going forward from there.

Thank you for putting the forum info. back on the dashboard.

CANT SEEM TO LOG IN ON THIS NEW TFEATURE INSIDER. I AM AGOLD MEMBER SO THAT IS NOT THE PROBLEM PLEASE HELP MY EMAIL IS PERFECION77@AOL.COM

Laura, just click “Insiders” in the navigation. It goes here: http://www.edisonnation.com/lounge

If you are still having problems, please submit a support request at http://support.edisonnation.com and they’ll investigate the issue further for you.

Thanks!
Matt

wtf….why does my site say i have no active submissions!!!

FIXED: Sorry about that. I was making some style changes to that page today and I forgot to remove a comment.

What happened to the short explanation for each stage that we had when clicking on the green check mark from 1 to Exclamation mark?

Hey Matt,

When officially will the new episode each week go up and when the new one goes up will the old one stay?

When will they start showing up on Hulu. I have friends and family that want to watch and they are still anxiously awaiting the Hulu premier.

Thanks

Looks like we broke something Sarkis. Sorry about that. We’ll fix it as soon as possible.

Phil, they’ll go up on Thursdays (as in today). We’ll be archiving previous episodes so you can continue to watch them as an Insider.

We won’t even begin editing and processing files for Hulu until our team has finished producing the season for PBS. We have to make slight changes to the Hulu files before converting them and uploading them. It’s actually a very time-consuming and difficult process to get them up on Hulu. Uploading each episode alone takes 8-12 hours after several hours of editing, followed by an overnight render to the required Hulu format.

Hi Matt

Earlier today I moved from a Stage 2 to a Stage 3 in Pyrex and the additional points as I understand it didn’t add on to my already existing 50,000 points.

Appreciate your help with this,
Marvin

Oh YEAH—-just saw that a new episode of EE is posted on the Insider Forum..
Going to go watch it. Thanks EN for all the great changes! Love the Insider Program!

Thank you for all the upgrades EN.

Hey Marvin

I can take a look at your issue. So I can double checkout our records, what is the name of the idea/submission in question?

One thing to keep in mind, you don’t get points of opt-ins.

Thanks

Marvin,
Please don’t post the name of it here in the forum… Please send it to us via http://support.edisonnation.com

Thanks!
Matt

Hi Matt

No worries. I figured that and wanted to protect it so I sent Kirk a private email message.

Thank You,
Marvin

Thanks for the new Episode!

The video is not working for me. Hope it gets fixed soon- looking forward to watching the next episode!

Try again Holly. I watched it from start to finish when we launched it and it worked fine. It’s a huge file and if your Internet connection slows down while you’re watching it, you might have to hit pause and let it buffer for a couple of minutes before resuming play.

I have tried dozens of times (you know how persistent I can be ;-)
I just get an error message and it says Sorry something went wrong, you know about it and are working on it.

I also tried to access it from my husbands computer and it won’t work on his either.

I’m beginning to think it’s personal, and you’re working to make sure I never get to see another episode ;-)

Hi Holly Tucker

What browser are you using?

It could be the browser your using. The video didn’t play for me as well yesterday when I tried it using Mozilla Firefox so I opened it in Safari and it played perfectly. You can download Safari for free online.

Best Wishes,
Marvin

I’ll have our guys check the logs. Those types of errors get logged and we review them often. You should also open a support request at http://support.edisonnation.com – they may have additional questions for you in order to identify where/when the bug is happening. Please tell them which browser/operating system you are on, if the error is reproducible and exactly what you do where to trigger the error (e.g., click the red play button, click “Insiders” in the nav, etc…). Thanks!

I’m looking into the video issues right now. I will keep everyone posted.

Thanks
-Kirk

I made a couple tweaks and things should be working now.

Thanks everyone
-Kirk

Thanks, It’s working great now. Loved the episode! How thrilling, exciting and fun it was ;-)

Now I’m ready for some of that Insider expedited dashboard movement ;-)
And let me make myself perfectly clear….looking for green movement, not red!

I loved the first episode too! I love getting acquainted with the inventors, and their inventions. Season three products look awesome and should do very well on the market. Great job everyone!

Holly, I have a little insider trivia question for you. In season three, what state did Michael Cable play the role of a judge? LOL Have a great weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It said Jonathan Frank auditioned at the San Jose casting call, and it showed Michael judging him. So is this a trick question…cause I say San Jose CA ;-)

Thanks for the prediction of future awesomeness Mary! We’re all hoping season 3 inventions do well too. I can’t wait to see one of the individual episodes now that we know who everyone is.

Hello Matt,

It has been a while since I checked in but have been hearing a lot about the Edison Insider Program. I am quite pleasantly surprise seeing all the benefits being offered to paying members verses the non-paying members.

That’s what makes this country great!!! An inventor can choose to work for a company and on his spare time come up with some great idea or one can choose to be an inventor full time similar to so many inventors on this forum.

Many of us prefer to work and have a nice home, raise a family, pay for college, and if you work hard anything is possible in this country. At least Anerica “allows” us this option. However, there are some people out there don’t want to see anyone having any more than they do and if that is the altitude then the socialist/communist country would be a good fit for them. I have lived, breathed, and experienced that kind of life many years living in my country, and trust me it wasn’t pleasant. They’ll be glad to have you work so your hard earned pay check can be doled out evenly among everyone else. That system squashes any reason for hope, optimism, dreams and aspirations.

I am happy to see inventors like Phil and Holly Tucker among many others that have set great example for the inventor’s community. It is inventors like them that make this forum a great place to visit, chat, but most importantly connect with other inventors with similar interest.

I know after living, visiting, and traveling all the places in the world, I am thankful for being able to live in America. Amazing, isn’t it – for all the bashers in this country, you don’t see anyone trying to get out/leave; but you do see people trying to get in by any way they can. For they have hopes, dreams and aspirations and know that America is where those hopes, dreams and aspirations can come true.

We should all cherrish and appreciate all the hard work the Edison Nation’s team have worked hard making this forum available for us to connect; And even better, they allow us the platform in order to submit our ideas to some of the largest retailers in the country without costing us a penny.

I am hoping my message will help brings unity to this forum and together we can represent the biggest and loudest voice that speaks innovation to all the companies out there thanks to Edison Nation.

Congratulation once again for the launch of great Edison Insider Program. Keep up the good work Matt as I am sure all the inventors will greatly appreciated.

Michael Diep

Ditto Michael :)

Spoken like a true American and a true inventor, Michael.

Great post Michael. I agree with you completely. It may not always be easy but at least in America you have that chance to make it and better yourself.

You know you should post more in the forums. Your story is a great one and I’m sure everyone here would like to hear more from you. I know I would.

I miss the updates on who wrote a blog entry. Does anybody else? I saw Karen’s little note in the insider chat box about it too. Is there any chance of getting that back? thx

We’re bringing that back, too, Jane. It’s just going to take a little more time. I noted that at some point in the past on the forums – when we were talking about bringing back the # of new forum posts.

:-)

Thanks, Matt! How could I have missed that? ;-)

Thanks Michael! It’s great to see you out on the forums. It’s impossible not to come across your Emery Cat on TV or in just about any store these days. I think of you every time I see one – and of my cats who had a small paw in the execution of the idea. It’s pretty cool to think that the Emery Cat you see in every store today can be traced back to the original prototype that you brought to the casting call and the half dozen prototypes that my cats gladly tested for us!

Thanks Matt. There is no doubt in my mind that a great deal of success for the Emery CAT product lean towards your company and the great team behind the product with great execution. I have enjoyed the relationship with EN thus far and continue to see better things happening on the EN’s site like the Insider Program.

I am confident I will be among many inventors that will be indebted to EN and even your cat, I owe him as well for being the first tester for the Emery Cat product.

Keep up the great work and have a great Monday Matt. Thanks for EVERYTHING!!!

Michael Diep

:)

Does the Open Search start at midnight tonight?

That’s funny, I just asked Kelly the same question Joseph

Hey Guys,
The Open Search will be starting around lunchtime today!

Thanks for the update Matt! We’re chomping at the bit :)

Would that still be noon for us in California? Time is different around these parts. lol

If all goes well, it will launch between 12:30-1:30 EST.

Thanks Matt, see you in the winners circle!

Matt, I plan on upgrading this week. How long will the open search last for insiders?

At at risk of making some angry- I have a suggestion. How about only Insider members can post on the bulletin board. Anyone registered can still view the board-and maybe have one topic where they can ask questions about EN and such- but in order to PARTICIPATE on the board they have to be an Insider.

Hey Everybody,
The Open Search is live!

You can access it from your dashboard or the Insider’s page.

Go forth and conquer!

Edwina,
It will run through August 30th so you’ll be fine upgrading this week.

Great new changes taking place, I’ll jump in as soon as I get a break from work.

Soooo I guess its kind of cheating to RENAME an existing idea and submit it to the open search???!!

Edison Insider Exclusive!
Open Search for any new product innovation.
Deadline: Monday, August 30th, 2010 at 11:59PM Pacific Time (US & Canada)
Submit an existing idea Submit a new idea

Why are we offered a choice of new or existing if we can’t pick existing??

Joseph,
Take a couple of days to think about other uses/applications of your idea, or ways to make it even better (or more simple!) before you just rename it. Make sure that if you developed it in response to a particular search that you expand it to be faster/stronger/smarter/etc… If after you’ve done all of that, it simply can’t be perfected any further, go ahead and rename it and submit it. Just don’t tell us ;-)

Joseph,
You’re given the ability to pick between new and existing. Not new and submitted. If you look carefully, you’ll see the existing idea list is simply ideas that you’ve been working on but haven’t submitted yet – it doesn’t include previously submitted ideas. If we didn’t do it that way, you would never be able to work on an idea and take a break – it would disappear. Doing it this way allows you to save your progress and finish it up later.

I don’t think they care if we resubmit an existing idea (a really good idea). They just won’t let us opt it in. Sounds like we will need to submit to the open search first with our new (extra fabulous) ideas. Then we will be able to opt them into the regular searches later. Otherwise we will have to pay twice…

Hmmm yeah..i think i am getting uppity over nuthin….I will revisit my ideas and see how they can be renewed…

Jane may be on to something… To clarify, if you submit a new idea to the Open Search, it will be available as a free opt-in to future searches.

So, if you have an idea that we think is great but for some reason, just can’t get the right retailer/manufacturer interested but they sign on as a Live Product Search sponsor down the road, you would have the ability to opt it into that future search for free.

I wasn’t going to say it, Joe ;-)

Give it some thought and I bet each one of them will be better for it!

Matt, wow lots of questions huh! Sorry, but I have one as well………. Will the open search follow the same direction as the live product searches? What I mean is like you guys review most of the G4’s after the search ends and in G5, compare with others in the search. Im sure you guys will get many different ideas, so will the movement on the green line be an idividual thing or will we still be grouped together? Does this make any since? Hell after I wrote it I even got confussed. lol

I am trying to enter one of my ideas in the Insider Open search. When I click on submit an idea only my most recent idea comes up. Two are missing. But if I check my ideas they are still there.
????

Hi Marie,

You cannot submit existing ideas into the Insider Open Search. Please read the FAQs here:

http://www.edisonnation.com/live_product_search...

We are only accepting new ideas, or old ideas that you’ve changed significantly.

Thanks!

Kelly

Episode 303 is now up.

Boom Shakalaka!!!
-Kirk

I only see season 2?

You’re looking in the wrong place Penny… Season 3 is here: http://www.edisonnation.com/lounge