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
sorry interwebs, i have to start protecting my posts so that they're viewable by neighborhood only b/c someone is harrassing me mercilessly. he has left 21 voice mails tonight alone and i suspect my last post about a newfound friendship has been taken out of context and this person has spun out of control. it's gotten so awful and has escalated to the point that i be contacting my legal division b/c tonight i've started fearing for my safety. this person has resorted to threatening not only me but also threatened to seek out one of my friends in order to tell her what a 'slutty and horrible' person i am. and why do i deserve this kind of treatment when i BROKE UP WITH THIS PERSON IN SEPTEMBER?
that last bit though is a fucking NO-NO. you can fuck with me all you like but you do NOT. EVER fuck with or threaten the ppl in my life.
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.
S frigging amazing...
UPDATE: whoa!!!! how drunk was i last night to not only post a terrible pic of imogen but mispelled her name as well?
oh well. it was an amazing show, one of the best i've been to in recent years.
... another sad day for us :(.
nothing much to say at the moment so here are a couple songs which are more 'uplifting' than this post (i meant to rave about these songs earlier in the week and am now realizing i won't be in the right mood to do so anytime soon) and a quote someone posted this morning on their FB.
".. and the air is thin
and it blows through your skin
and you feel like something
is about to begin.
and the walls spin
and you're paper-thin
from the haze of the smoke
and the mescaline ..."
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.
A transformer down the street blew out after catching on fire and power went out completely. We had 5 outages thru the morning but this one literally put us out on the street, complete with a campus-wide evacuation notice.
I sent the entire team home even before the evac notice, now am just laying around watching tellie and cleaning up the apt. Wish I just took the day off or had gone to the beach!
Kill me now and put me out of this misery- I actually find these kids adorable.
/Taken at yesterday's campus party./
Btw, it was almost impossible taking a picture of kids yesterday, they were bouncing off the walls from the sugar overload our company provided. I've never seen so much cotton candy around.
Wow, there is SO MUCH sugar flying around the office these days :(. Today I need to pick up ice cream for someone's bday surprise, there's a campud Halloween celebration where I'm sure cookies/candy/cake will be aplenty, yesterday we got a truckload of dove ice cream bars for our giving/charity campign and now I just found out on fb that someone has macaroons from France (must. eat. this) and she is willing to share one with me but "not with anyone else."
Weekend plans: get hair "did", two partays, maze/haunted house in a corn field, embark on quest for tomy "sunshine buddies" and just some good old fashioned errands. I sense fun times ahead.
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