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Blogr Update Xmas 07

admin — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:31:26 +0100

Dear blogr-User,

Yesterday night (21st of December, 2007) we performed another update of the blogr service.

The most important change is that now all our blogr-installations share the same user-database. This means, that a user that is for example registered at blogr.com, can now also authenticate at all the other available blogr-domains, such as blogr.at, blogr.de,...

A newly added feature, is the possibility to add Pages to your Site. See the new item in your menu, resp. also see the PageWidget.

Additionally we finally activated Spam Protection for Comments.

Merry Xmas!

your blogr team

Bug Fix Update - August 2007

admin_com — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:10:18 +0200

We just performed an update of our blogr service, in order to fix a number of issues, that kept bugging our users:

Updated the Story Editor (tinyMCE) to the latest Version, so that inserting of YouTube-videos should be no longer a problem
Fixed the editing and deletion of multiple Media-Files
Tags are now shared for Stories and Media
Added a shared TagCloud (see here for example)
Enhanced User-Interface for Comments

Blogr Update April 07

admin_com — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:53:52 +0200

Long time, no hear.

Yes, we haven't been too active here at blogr, but be assured that this project is still on our radar. Things are progressing, but unfortunately much slower than we were hoping for.

Today we performed another minor update, that brings the following new features to you:

stories can now be saved as drafts
a new flash video player
support for the Sitemap's format (see here for example)
improved performance
and Trackbacks

Enjoy!

Voicemail from Matthias via Google Talk...

admin_com — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:38:06 +0200

Download [mp3; 97 KB]

This is a test using the newest version of Google Talk

Matthias (mp3, 97 KB)

posted by admin_com on Aug 18, 2006 4:38 PM

Podcasts

admin_com — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 11:27:01 +0200

Yesterday we launched a first version of our podcast support.

Now you can create your own podcast show by simply recording an MP3 file and upload it to your site. We will take care of all the rest. Your visitors will be able to subscribe to your podcast using the RSS feed or open it directly with iTunes. Try it!

PLEASE! respect copyrighted music.
We will delete all sites uploading copyrighted material without any excuse! - and we mean what we say!

If you have a band and want to upload your own songs you are very welcomed.

Changes in base.css

admin_com — Thu, 27 Jul 2006 11:50:55 +0200

If you started to use a custom layout, you may have expirienced, that the sidebar is rendered below the content, and not where it should be: beside the content.

To fix this we will add the following rule to the base.css in the next days.

#content { float: left; }
#sidebar { float: right; }
body { text-align: center; }
#container { margin: 0 auto; text-align: left; }

we also fixed the default layout of the blog title in the banner:

#banner-header {
  font-size: 2em;
  font-weight: normal;
  margin: 0.3em 0.2em;
}

you may copy these two rulesets to your custom stylesheet to test it with your own design.

Customizable Layouts and a Flash File-Up...

admin_com — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 19:22:55 +0200

We have been pretty busy lately to add some more features to our blogr-service, that have been missed by the users.

There is now a cool Flash-based File-Uploader (requires Flash version 8 though), which makes it a lot easier to upload multiple files. This uploader allows you to select as many files as you want from your disk, and you can lean back and watch the progress bar while your files get uploaded.
You will now also find a separate menu item, where you can manage the Comments at your space. We even implemented Comment Moderation, in case that you want to take a look at the comments before they get published on your space.
Last but not least, we made the Layouts customizable. There is an easy interface, which allows you to change the colors of your space, and you can even change/add some images to your layout. Additionally, if you feel daring and have a solid knowledge of HTML and CSS, then you can also completely adapt the stylesheet of your space to your needs.

So, what's next? A couple of features, like improved photo albums and (finally!) Podcasts, we will very likely role out in the upcoming week. Following that, we have lots of or more ideas/stuff for blogr that we will be working on (yes, simple blogrolls is among them). So, stay tuned! And have a good time here at blogr.

international feedback

admin_com — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:24:08 +0200

"Spread the word" - that's how it works! We got some international coverage in well known blogs: Martin Varsavsky wrote about blogr.es in his spanish blog, but others as Genbeta and Microsiervos gave us some credit. If you are looking for some screenshots, have a look at econectados.com

French bloggers are talking about it: have a look it at netvizz or this blogging e-zine. I am sure, there is more feedback in other languages (like the one in this Guardian Blog), so you are welcome to add further links below or drop us a mail: blogr [at] knallgrau.at. Or even better, post it in your own blog or send the links above to your mates. Thnx!

New RSS 2.0 Feeds

admin_com — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 10:28:00 +0200

We updated the RSS 2.0 support recently. Now you should see a human readable output when clicking on the Blog (RSS 2.0) feed button. And for all those wondering what RSS is we also added a short introduction:

This is a formatted version of the RSS 2.0 feed of http://feedback-alpha.blogr.com/stories/rss20.xml, and is meant to be read by computer programs. RSS is used to aggregate content from several sources (Blogs, News Sites, Podcasts, Videocasts,..) for easier/faster reading, and allows one to watch a large number of sources for updates, without having to browse to all these sites manually. In order to get started with RSS you need to either sign up for one of the (usually cost-free) online services (e.g. Bloglines), or download a desktop program, and add this URL to the list of your subscriptions.

- matthias

bonjour, hola, moi und hallo

admin_com — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:57:54 +0200

We just launched french, spanish, finish! and german versions of blogr. So from now on blogr will speak your language and the people around you using blogr will too.

Each country runs on a seperate installation, will have it's own info blog, forum, support and portal.

All user names are unique across all installations. This means if you already created an account at blogr.com and want to move to one of the local versions please write us an email. We will delete your name (and space) from the blogr.com installation, so you can create an account with your name on one of the local portals.

Sorry for the inconvenience. We will try to support you as good as we can to also transfer your content. Just write us an email.

Reboot 8.0

admin_com — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:39:54 +0200

We are currently at the reboot in copenhagen and will demo blogr.com to a bunch of geeks tomorrow.

- matthias

New Designs

admin_com — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:36:22 +0200

The single most requested feature is "customizing the design".

To shorten the waiting time until the full functionality is available we started providing two more very simple layouts. The well known "Kubrick" design from Michael Heilemann and a very simple (yet grey) SimpleGrey. Currently you will miss the ability to change any pictures used in the template or colors.

Video Update

admin_com — Wed, 31 May 2006 13:58:31 +0200

Some of you reported problems with the encoding of uploaded videos like very low frame rate, or missing sound. Most of these bugs should be gone. We are now using a different encoder for some of the formats. We also increased the quality (data rate) of the encoded videos which makes them look much better when streched to the size of the video player.

We currently use FlowPlayer for embeding videos. This is a very simple and easy player, but also has some limitations. So we are currently developing a replacement for that. This should also fix the aspect ratio problem with videos that are not 4:3.

Welcome

admin_com — Fri, 19 May 2006 18:14:49 +0200

to the public alpha of blogr.com

Because of the many requests we got after the article in derstandard, we decided to open the service for public alpha testing. So that's what you are propably doing right now.

Many things are still a little buggy (just noticed that 'available tags' are broken ) and some parts of the service are not even online yet (for example podcasting). We still hope that you get a first picture and we would be happy about every feedback we can get. Just use this blog called "feedback-alpha" or write us an email to blogr AT knallgrau DOT at

Press Coverage

admin_com — Wed, 17 May 2006 14:00:24 +0200

Helmut Spudich from derstandard.at couldn't wait to write about blogr, despite the fact that we've not been online yet :-)

read the article

dkg made a print shot