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.
Esa es la consigna que está siguiendo la marca de coches Lancia, en una campaña de promoción de su modelo Delta que es más que publicidad: es compromiso. Ayer, 9 de Noviembre, se cumplieron 20 años de la caída del Muro de Berlín, y Lancia ayudó a celebrarlo, poniendo a disposición de los invitados institucionales una flota de coches Delta que les acompañará por las calles de la capital alemana hasta llegar a la Puerta de Bradenburgo, donde será la ceremonia de conmemoración.
Además, Lancia será la patrocinadora automovilística de la 10ª Cumbre Mundial de los Premios Nobel de la Paz del 10 al 12 de noviembre. La flota de Lancia Delta acompañará a los premiados en estos actos que tienen lugar esta semana que está acogiendo tantos acontecimientos históricos. En concreto, esta cumbre tendrá como tema principal “el derribo de las barreras sociales y culturales que aún hoy en día existen en el mundo”.
Lancia suele apoyar este tipo de causas, como el año pasado, cuando estuvo presente en la novena edición de la Cumbre que se celebró en París en conmemoración del 60 aniversario de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos que se firmó en Roma. Lancia produjo, junto con la colaboración de los Premios Nobel, una película que dio voz a la Cumbre cuyo fin era conmemorar a todos aquellos que ponen sus vidas en juego con la esperanza de hacer del mundo un lugar mejor.
Es por eso por lo que cada año, la Carlos III de Getafe (Madrid) organiza el mini festival Conciertos sin Etiquetas, que pretende eso mismo: llevar la música a los universitarios, mostrándoles a interesantes grupos en directo que hacen un magnífico trabajo sin necesidad de etiquetarse en lo que la sociedad quiere.
La Universidad siempre ha tenido fama de crear librepensadores, por eso qué mejor que estilos como el rock, la canción de autor o el punk para apoyar la idea. Si quieres descubrirlo, no dejes de asistir a la primera sesión este jueves 12 de Noviembre, en la cafetería principal del campus, donde tocarán Faltones y Russian Roulette. En Diciembre habrá un segundo pase, con Papajuana y Al rollo luche. El evento, por supuesto, es gratis.
¡Rock entre apuntes!
La iniciativa la ha ideado Red.es y los documentos para la solicitud para este programa están en la web que se ha creado para la ocasión: www.universitariosenred.com, además de habilitar puntos de información en las principales ciudades españolas.
Para los curiosos, la financiación la pone en marcha el llamado Plan Avanza, integrado en el Plan E del Gobierno. Tanto el portátil como la conexión a la red sale mucho más barata y así nadie se queda sin consultar las notas vía web.
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.