Hey folks, just as a heads up, we changed the format of usernames a bit tonight. If you didn’t set a username when we use the first part of your email, prefixed by a “~”. Before, we would append two numbers to the name.
If your email was “joe@megacorp.net” then your username might have shown up as “joe52”. It’ll now show up as “~joe”.
To set a username of your choice, just go to “edit my profile” and enter your username of choice. Of course, if you’d already set a username, this change won’t affect you.
Happy blipping!
What will you find with the newest version of blippr? Lots.
- A better design; though we warn you now that it is radically different and eagerly await your feedback
- A new personal homepage that will act as your personal command center when you’re signed in—we will no longer make you visit your public profile (intended for friends) to complete important actions or get to important data (intended for you)
- A newsfeed on your homepage to stay up on more than just your friends’ recent blips; undeniably, it is inspired by Facebook’s
- A blip stuff! page, which will help you find more books, games, movies, and music to blip now, save for later, or ignore forever
- Better friend filtering and sorting features, as well as a much improved people search
- A new signup process
- And more!
Most importantly, you’re now able to connect your profile so that, when your blips post to Twitter, FriendFeed, and Facebook, your friends can browse blippr on their own and sign up if they want. It only takes about six seconds to join and you’ll get better recommendations as a result of following them, so why not, right?!
We won’t be making big news out of this new version for a short while… just enough time for you, our faithful current users, to test it out, invite more friends, give us feedback, and the like. Please don’t, don’t, don’t be shy. Use the “feedback?” link in the bottom right corner of every page to let us know your thoughts. Or DM us on Twitter. Or voice your opinion on Get Satisfaction. Or start a discussion on our Google Group. Whatever your method, please do let us know your thoughts. We’re listening.
Thanks to all of you for bringing blippr to this point. It’s a humble effort by two friends-turned-business-partners (though I must give most credit to our only developer at this point, blippr’s Co-Founder and Chief Executive Geek, Chris Heald), and we look forward to bringing you many more features and integrations with other services in the near future. Many additions, revisions, fixes, and more polish will be coming over the next few days and weeks, too, so bear with us and any numbers in the 499-501 range that you might encounter along the way.
Now, go blip!
Okay, we’re back up. Sorry for the downtime everyone. And thanks again for your patience.
In case you’re wondering, yes, blippr is down. Our hosting provider had some type of outage. They’re working on it. We’ll be back soon.
Thanks for your understanding!
blippr already integrates with a number of services, including:
…but we want to know which services you want to see blippr integrated with. Where do you want to see your blips show up? Where would it be useful to have blips available? What places do you have friends that you’d like to be getting opinions from? Tweet your ideas at us!
Okay, Tumblr is really freaking easy to use for blogging just like blippr is for reviewing books, games, movies, and music. As a result, we’re going to be using them (along with Twitter and Get Satisfaction) to keep you informed and talk with you about all of our shenanigans.
Thanks Tumblr!
