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Heads down and workingOctober 30 2008

You may have noticed that the blog has been awfully quiet the past month. We have been focused on building some great new things for Toluu that require more time to develop than some features we have done in the past.

Know that we continue to make bug fixes, invite new users, and answer emails. We are simply being quiet about what we are working on. We think you will like it when it is released

New Option: Delete your feedsSeptember 22 2008

Just a quick note. We have introduced the ability for you to clear your feeds.

If you accidently uploaded the wrong feed list, or have made huge changes to your list, or you just want to start over, this new functionality will allow you to do just that.

The new functionality can be found by going to ‘Account’. Be careful deleting your feeds, since we can’t recover them.

Toluu launches Tagging!September 3 2008

 

Today is a big day, we have just rolled out the largest update to Toluu since launch. We have been working on this for a while now, and hope you like it.

Toluu now has Tagging!

Tagging has been our #1 most requested feature and we wanted to make sure we really tailored the experience to fit Toluu, not just bolt on some frankenstein system and call it a day. The goal has been to make tagging super simple to use and pervasive across the site. Now let’s jump into how it works!

On every feed page there is a new tab called ‘Tags’. We start with a nice big text box for entering tags. We have used Ajax to make adding tags snappy. There are three other sections as well; ‘My Tags’, ‘Top Tags’, and ‘Similar Feeds’.

• ‘My Tags’ shows you how you have tagged this feed and also allows you to update your tags with in-line editing goodness.
• ‘Top Tags’ shows the most popular tags for the feed across the Toluu universe. 
• ‘Similar Feeds’ scours all of the feeds in Toluu and compares the tags to find relevant matches, providing another way to discover interesting new feeds.

 There is also a cool feature we call AutoSuggest, when typing a tag, we suggest tags

Quick UpdateAugust 28 2008

Things have been quiet on the blog as we have been heads down on some major new functionality. We continue to make small bug fixes and talk with all of you via email, Twitter and FriendFeed.

I can tell you that the new functionality has been our most requested feature and in testing it is pretty darn cool. 

More details next week!

Squashing BugsJuly 30 2008

As we mentioned last week, we have been focusing on the details of the site; making the experience of using Toluu better for both new and long time users. I wanted to share just a few of the items we have just fixed.

Twitter Ampersand  Issue- When adding a feed whose title included an ampersand (&) posting to Twitter would go screwy, it would drop characters and the URL in the tweet. This has been fixed

Adding Self as Contact- Sometimes when trying to add someone as a contact the system would instead add you as a contact. This has been fixed.

Avatar Upload Error- Some users where getting errors or seeing blank profile images when they uploaded a new avatar. This has been fixed.

These are just a few of the items we have been fixing this week. Thank you to everyone who let us know about them and providing useful info about how and when they cropped up for you. Please continue to send in your feedback, we love hearing from you!