I took a day off today. Unexpectedly. Circumstances. Work. Need to clear my head and get rid of these nasty headaches.
I just read an interesting article in De Standaard called 'De crisis maakt ons gek op speculoos'. It's about why Lotus & speculoos seem to be winners in this economic climate.
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
I did the spin/boxing combo classes this morning.
About 5 minutes into the spin class I realised this was a bad idea. But there was no way out. I was trapped in a sea of sweaty cyclists and had to stay for the entire class. I had my bike set on about half the resistance that the instructor told everyone to be on and I still sweated like a pig and could barely make my legs turn the wheel around. Then I staggered down to the boxing class and I don't know how I made it through. It killed me.
I can hardly walk now. I'm not kidding. I am so, so, so, so tired I just need to go home and soak in a hot bath. But I don't have a bath... Another long shower and a day spent hugging the couch would do.
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.
On going to see 'Couples Retreat'. I'm just saying, because you won't get that hour and a half, or your $20 back.
I was really looking forward to it, and we even went to the drive in to see it. But it was so lame. Vince Vaughn is just not that funny, and I say that with love because I like him, but he co-wrote the damn thing so has to get some of the blame right? He seems like one of those people that, in real life, are pretty funny, with a dry sense of humour and all. But this didn't translate on screen as his character just monologued on about random subjects such as Richard Simmonds (FFS) while missing the point and making you lose interest in whatever he meant to get across.
After the couples ending up on the island for 'couples therapy', it seemed to negate the point when they all had their character break-throughs on the 'party' island across the ditch. And the one couple that were all fucked up and intent on cheating on each other, only stopped because he caught her dancing with the yoga instructor. That probably doesn't make sense, but neither did the movie. Keep your money in your pocket and use your time to go do something that won't make you feel like you've just spent it being subjected to a film reel about why you should not get in to a relationship but remain single.
In the Tik rating system, this lead balloon gets a 3/10
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Can't wait to read your posts!
~ daisy
