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Another Week…Another Round of Features

Just finished with rolling out yet another round of features and improvements for Blellow. It has been so great seeing this community start to come together and the features we are launching this week will help you to better interact and stay connected to your friends and groups on Blellow. Here is a quick run down of the latest upgrades:

Improved time stamp on replies

Now you can see not only when a post was originally posted, but also when the last reply was made. No more wondering why a post that says 3 days ago is sitting at the top of the message queue.

Improved Meetup Functionality

Before you could enter an event, but couldn’t edit or delete it. We’ve since given up on our info hoarding when it comes to meetups, so feel free to post, edit and delete away!

Delete Your Account

Along with the improved meetups and our whole anti info hoarding thing, if you want to delete your Blellow account you can. Gosh, we hope you don’t though, we really like everyone in here so far!

Group Invitations

Now you can invite friends and contact to join your groups on Blellow with our handy-dandy built in inviter tool! Okay, so that’s not what it’s really called, but you get the idea, invite friends and collegues to come check out your group with a simple click.

Improve Group Post Visibility

We’ve added groups posts to your My Network view. Before groups posts were only visible if the person posting was also someone you were following. Now, no need to follow everyone in a group to see the posts from your dashboard. Less clicking, more posting…cool!

Group Post Notification

Keep up to date on what’s going on in your groups thanks to this nifty new notification. You can opt in and out on a group level or on a global level, it’s all up to you!

RSS Feeds

RSS feeds for your posts, your network, and your groups is now available.  Just look for the familiar orange button and syndicate to your heart’s content!

Hover to follow

Now the same great hover to follow or unfollow functionality that we offer in our Following area works in groups. Just click on the See All Members link in a group’s left nav sections, hover and click follow!

Help Us Keep Our Community SPAM free

Now you can flag a post, job, project, or meetup as SPAM. The power to keep our community clean is in your hands! (Course we’ll be helping too!)

That’s it for this week, there is more to come, so stay tuned!

Have an idea that can help us improve the Blellow experience? Join the %Blellow group and let us know!

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:

New Features

  • 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.

Coming Soon

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

The Blellow Queue

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

New Features this Week

  • Interface improvements for the Firefox browser
  • New follower and reply notifications
  • Ability to favorite a post
  • Add your Twitter name in user settings - find other users by searching for their Twitter name.
  • Find people on Blellow from your address book or other social networks
  • Download Blellow logos and badges to let others know you’re on Blellow

NOTE: Some of the features that we’ve added or modified require you to update your user settings in order to take advantage of them, so be sure to do that next time you log in to Blellow!

Coming Soon

  • Blellow API
  • Improved functionality on the job and project boards
  • Ability to invite friends from your address book
  • Geographic localization for meetups
  • Implementation of paid user options
  • Ability to search for people by location and industry
  • Improved group functionality including preventing duplicates, inviting users, and group owner and member list
  • Document management