Vantage Release - October 23, 2006
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Welcome to yet another new Lijit release! You might have noticed that I included a release name in the title of this blog post. We’re planing to name our releases after cars, as we have several automotive enthusiasts on staff. The first in this series is the “Vantage” release (named after the lovely Aston Martin Vantage), which offers the following feature goodies:
- You can now convert your Firefox and IE bookmarks into “good” Lijit reports. (If the pages were originally good enough to bookmark, aren’t they now good enough to share with your network?) It’s also nice to have everything (bookmarks, Lijit reports, etc.) together in one place. New informers will be offered the opportunity to upload their bookmarks during the process of creating an account; existing informers can upload their bookmarks from the “Manage Account” page.
- We’ve updated the look of various elements on the site. (Did you notice that the title bars in the sidebar and the title bars associated with the blocks on the right-hand side of the site are no longer black? They’re now a softer charcoal. Oooooh. Ahhhhh.) We’ve additionally prettied-up the Lijit search mark-up for Google and Yahoo! in Firefox (Internet Explorer got its search mark-up facelift in the last release), made the site resizeable width-wise, and removed the orange, cross-hatched bars along the side of the site. They’re all pretty subtle changes, but we hope they enhance your enjoyment of Lijit. We’ll continue to tweak the look of the site regularly. We can’t leave well enough alone sometimes…
- We’ve sprinkled contextual help links throughout the site. We don’t want any part of Lijit to be a mystery, so please click around and learn!
- We now support the ability to include ATOM feeds as informers in your network, in addition to the RSS and OPML feeds we support today. You can include ATOM feeds in your network through the “Add RSS Feed” page.
- We also did some testing and appear to be fully compatible with Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.0. Upgrade and enjoy!
Oh, and we’re rather sorry that the site was down so long today while we upgraded. Please accept our apology for interrupting your afternoon Lijit-ing. We won’t do that again.
