New versions of Card Ace & Word Ace just went live on webOS! Version 1.0.4 brings a handful of really awesome new improvements. First off, when you click on a player, you’ll notice a new “expanded chiclet” that gives you more information about the people you’re playing with.

The first thing you’ll notice is the big “Thumbs Up” and “Thumbs Down” buttons. These are ways for you to rate the people you’re playing with. Like playing with someone? Give ‘em a Thumbs Up, and it’ll immediately be reflected in their public rating. Someone being a huge jerk, or playing in a really obnoxious manner? Give ‘em a Thumbs Down - they won’t see it, but *we* will. And if someone’s being legitimately obnoxious, we’ll let ‘em know about it.

You can change your vote for someone any time - so if you liked someone, but now they’re a jerk, just switch your vote with a click of the button.

The other things you’ll notice are that in Word Ace, you can now see a player’s best word, and their average word score. In Card Ace, you can see their best hand. It’s not going to change the world, but it’s nice to get a little info about the people you’re playing with.

In Card Ace, we’ve also got a brand new feature - Auto-Actions! Auto actions let you set up what you’re going to do on your next turn before it’s your turn. So if you know you’re gonna fold, just check “Fold” any time, and when your turn rolls around, you’ll fold right away. If you want to “Check,” just click the check button. If someone raises, it’ll automatically un-check (of course!). If you click both “Check” and “Fold” it’ll check if you can, and fold if you can’t. All this should speed up the game for everyone!

We’ve also made a couple stability tweaks, and fixed a weird issue that causes some players, some of the time, to not be able to connect, even when they have a good connection. So, download version 1.0.4 of Card Ace and Word Ace on the Palm App Catalog today! All these features are coming soon on the iPhone as well!

We’ve also got a new version of Card Ace on Facebook (http://apps.facebook.com/cardace), which revamps the Friends UI, and adds player ratings. Auto-Actions are coming soon to Card Ace on Facebook, and a new Facebook version of Word Ace is also just about ready for release!

In addition, we’re working on something… well, it’s still super secret.

But what’s NOT secret is that Crystal just won 2nd place at SF Food Wars! Congratulations to Crystal and her award-winning recipe for Spinach stuffing balls! They were fanTASTIC.

Woo!