The Blellow Queue: May 2009

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Which new features did we push this month on Blellow? What’s up and coming? Here’s the official Blellow Queue:

Search Blellow - You may now search Blellow status updates and replies! Just type your keyword or phrases in the top right of your dashboard
Find Your Friends - We’ve made updates to the email address book importer as well as added the ability to search and add your friends and followers from Twitter. Try it out here!
API - Blellow now has an API, or Advanced Programming Interface. An API allows other websites, 3rd party tools, and sites like Ping.FM and TweetDeck the ability to read and post status updates to Blellow without having to go to the site. We’re working with several developers to get us added to the list of services soon!
Invite your friends to Blellow - You can now send messages to your friends to join Blellow through your email address book
Improved SignUp process - We’ve simplified the signup process to Blellow even more, and added the ability to resend the verification email in case something went wrong. Not a Blellow member? Sign up today!
Group Postings - You can now post a message in a group even if you’re not a member, depending on restrictions to that group (does not apply to Private groups)
Improved Group Administration - It’s even easier to make changes or modify group settings. We’ve added a handy “edit” button below the group name.

These are features that we are working hard to get in place to improve your Blellow experience even more!

RSS Feeds - Subscribe to user status updates and group updates via your favorite RSS reader like Google Reader or NetVibes.
Revamped User Profiles - Currently the user pages simply list the recent status updates, but we are looking to import other services like Flickr and LinkedIn to allow your profile pages to be more like a mini-portfolio.
Increased Character Count - We like the ability to have 300 characters for our status updates, but we want to increase this especially for private messages
Notifications - New options for notifications (when someone replies to a post, subscribed group activity email)
Reporting - Spam and abuse reporting for posts, jobs, projects, and meetups
Group Activity in Dashboard - Group activity included in My Network view

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I'd be interested in how I access the API so I could look at developing a blellow Mac client :)

Andy Fundinger

Mat, the best place to watch for API updates is in the Blellow group for it, I'm posting updates there.(http://blellow.com/groups/BlellowAPI/dashboard)

Chris Charabaruk

Are there any docs for the API yet? I'd love to read up on what you're making available, and start planning how to connect Blellow with Taskerrific. Also, are you guys working with the folks at FriendFeed to get Blellow supported as a first-class service? It'd be best to actually get to have that same quality of service on FriendFeed with Blellow that we already do with Twitter.

Sean Loyless

I've contacted FriendFeed and Ana said they weren't adding any new services at the moment, but you can still import custom RSS feeds. Generally they need a large number of users requesting a new service before they will add it. Keep requesting and maybe we'll get it in there soon!

Chris Charabaruk

Well, I just suggested in the %FriendFeed room to request it, and done so myself (for what I think might be the third or fourth time). Just for completeness, anyone who is reading the blog and wants to suggest adding Blellow to FriendFeed can do it here: http://friendfeed.com/about/contact/servicerequest