First, we're happy to announce that the team has identified and fixed the issue with the YouTube conduit; you can now find and add videos from YouTube to your library and posts. As always, thanks for your patience!
The other news we have today is about a new addition to the Six Apart family: TypePad Micro, a new free level of TypePad that is streamlined for microblogging. We see a new form of blogging emerging that lives between the quick status updates of Twitter and Facebook and the long-form posts of "classic" blogging; TypePad Micro is designed to meet that need. You can read more about TypePad Micro in Chris Alden's post on the Everything TypePad blog.
A lot of the new capabilities we've added to TypePad this year were actually inspired by some of the best things about Vox: favoriting, member profiles, a dashboard to follow other bloggers, and easy ways to post content from other social media sites. But the things that make Vox different from TypePad are still there: Vox has always been -- and still is -- the best place for "friends and family" blogging, where you're in control over who sees what. TypePad, on the other hand, is built for the blogger who wants, no, craves, attention.
Do you have a passion or interest you want to share with people beyond your Vox neighborhood? If so, we'd love it if you tried out TypePad Micro. Maybe you've always wanted to start that obsessive blog that's just about waffle restaurants. Or want a place to share videos of your favorite band (Jonas Brothers, anyone? Anyone? ...). TypePad Micro's great for those topic-specific blogs. Take it for a spin and let us know what you think.
On the Vox front, our designers are working on some cool new themes (coming soon!). We'd also love to hear your thoughts about where we should take Vox in the coming year. What are the key things you'd like to see for Vox? If you've had a chance to use TypePad this year, what are the features there that we should bring over to Vox? And, if you're thinking big thoughts, how could we connect the Vox and TypePad communities in order to bring together bloggers and their shared passions? Your feedback is really important to us, so please leave a comment here, or shoot me a message.
And again, thanks for your patience as we found and fixed the YouTube bug!
~ daisy
As many of you have noticed, the YouTube Conduit is not working. I am so sorry about this; I know how frustrating it is.
The team is looking into how to get this fixed and I will update you as soon as I hear something. In the meantime, not all is lost... There is a work-around for posting videos.
When you're in the Compose Screen, just click on "embed." Ignore the fact that it says "Widget" before everything because you can definitely use this to embed videos as well. You'll just need to input the embed code from the video, enter a title (if you want) and hit OK.
It might not show up perfectly in your compose screen, but when you hit "Save," your video should appear just the way you wanted it to.
Hopefully this will allow you to keep posting videos while we figure out what's happening on our end.
As always, thanks for your patience.
Go forth and fill your libraries with media.
Seriously, thanks to everyone for being so amazing and patient. You are the reason I love Vox.
I was just told that the Amazon Conduit will be fixed by tomorrow. I will post here as soon as I get word that it's back up and running.
I know this has been frustrating and I am sorry there wasn't more I could do to make it less so. I really appreciate your patience though.
Cheers,
Bad news. As many of you have probably noticed, the Amazon Conduit was not fixed in the last week's release. Unfortunately, there was an undetected bug that is preventing the conduit from working.
We are working on this bug fix and hope to have the Conduit back up and running this week.
I will keep you posted.
Thank you for being so patient.
Blog Action Day is every October 15th, when blogger are asked to post something about a single issue to show our strength and conviction as an online community. It's a great way to feel connected to the greater good, and the participation of so many bloggers to support the world's leading non-profit organizations is something you can do to help, right now. By blogging today, you're supporting some of the world's leading non-profits and sharing your voice for change.
This year's topic is climate change, and we'd love to read your thoughts on the topic. If you participate, leave us a link to your post in the comments, so we know to check out your post!
Go to www.blogactionday.org to learn more, get a badge for your blog showing your participation, and see some ideas for your post on climate change.
Can't wait to read your posts!
~ daisy
The Amazon Conduit will be working again on October 15, 2009. Thank you to everyone for your patience.
Have a great weekend,
daisy, Team Vox
In my last Team Vox post, I let you know that we're aware that the Amazon conduit is broken and that we're working to fix it. Many of you want to know when it's going to be fixed and I'm so sorry I haven't gotten back to you about that sooner.
Unfortunately, I don't have an exact date to give you, but rest assured, the Amazon conduit will be fixed in the coming weeks.
In the meantime, I'm about to finish my latest book and I could use a few suggestions as to what to read next, so... if you don't mind, let me know in the comments what's on your nightstand and/or what book you think I absolutely must read next.
Thanks! :)
well look who turned up on our beach today!
Seems that the cannister my neighbour found and reported to the police might have been a tad sinister! Unfortunately Ive no idea what it was and what caused them to call out the Bomb Squad.
Oh hmmmm it wasted a few hours I should have been concentrating on my accounts.
I've come back, well not strictly true, I was reminded the other day that I have a blog page that I used to ramble on now and then, tonight Anne my darling friend came for dinner, we as usual drank wine, discussed god or not god depending on your view point, the kids, food and our own skills as wife, cook and general skivvy.
Anne showed me hers - blog page that is, on it she talks about her skills with the needle, and I realised my lack of patience nowadays, I wonder why I'm less content to sit and sew? I suspect its because I'm getting older and more aware of the days passing, already we have had the school summer holiday, already the kids are back to school.. which brings another milestone. Sophie my youngest daughter started senior school, a major event in her life, one she was happy and more than willing to start, I'm less keen, Sophie is hearing impaired, a bigger school bring more issues, teachers who care less, understand less and more people who would seem to find a simple disability a joke. However she appears to be holding her own, declares herself happy and finds school awesome!
I dont recall school being awesome, I hated every solitary minute, I was disadvantaged at school, by the time I was 11 I was already the tallest in my year, I was lathe thin, wore glasses and braces, and worse was dressed in sensible clothes by my mother, I hated school, I hated the other kids, especially their small minded petty ways, I hated the name calling, the bullying, especially the bullying, Mother well she was born genuinely disabled, having one leg short than the other and a pronounced limp, she survived school so I guess she assumed some name calling was tame by comparrison. Wrong again mother. I was stabbed with a compass, I had lumps of hair torn from my head, my mothers answer was to give little homelies like, tell them "sticks and stones......" "They don't breed fat thorebreds" well yes that helps........NOT
I met Anne at a party, my first thoughts were, jeez she is scarey, has an opinion and not afraid to use it, but the reality is that we are good friends, and actually share many opinions, and share our passionate love for our families, our children for better of for worse... actually I often wondered why those words are never used in the baptism, they would be so appropriate don't you think? We bring a child into this world, bring them up in our own vision and love them warts and all, for better, for worse, they our own and we love them regardless, we may not actually like them some days, wish them far from us others, but but but for better, the good days, the happy, and I love you days, for the worse, you are a git, your are rude and disgusting days, we love them for better for worse. I dunno, unconditional love is so bloody painful.
Hmm so why did I start this blog again? erm well Ive had some wine, always a good start, I heard something about some people that made realise that I'm glad I'm not in a friendship with them, Oh because Anne and I said we'd exchange blogs.
So Anne my lovely funny friend this blog albeit a rambling one, that went slightly off tangent (a little like our conversations I feel) is so that you have something current to read. Oh and I'm glad you likes the icecream even if I didnt make much this time.
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