Archive for the 'Features' Category

Ubiquity command for Planetaki

Published
by
Javier
on September 3, 2008
in Experiments - Labs and Features
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Sam, the developer behind Planetaki, was so impressed with Ubiquity that he decided to make a command for adding websites to your planet.

If you are the kind of geek who likes to play with this stuff, just go to www.planetaki.com/ubiquity to install the command and you are done. The syntaxis is easy. Just go to the website you like, invoque Ubiquity and type “planetaki -”

And it will look something like this (look at the top-left corner):

Yeah, Ubiquity is something experimental and all that, but you know Sam…

Embed a planet in your website

Published
by
Javier
on August 14, 2008
in Features and Updates
. 2 Comments

Do you want to have your planet appear on your own website? Eaaaasy!! It’s already doable by insterting a super-tiny piece of code inside the code of your website:

<script type=”text/javascript”
src=”http://www.planetaki.com/example.js”></script>

You only have to make sure that you change “example” for your own planet last piece of URL (it’s called slug) so it displays your planet. Also make sure that your planet is public (not private). One more thing: the planet will appear with the background you have on your website (either color or image) and not with the one you have at Planetaki. This way everything will be more visually integrated.

I just made a small naked example at programavostok.com so you can see it in action (obviously it could fit inside a less empty page). We’d love to know any examples and experiments you make out of it. Please, use the comments to show us yours.

Friday the 13th Upgrade

Published
by
sam
on June 13, 2008
in Features and System status
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While for some people Friday the 13th is bad luck, we’re fortunate enough to be in Spain where Tuesday the 13th is supposed to be unlucky, and probably for this reason the last upgrade has gone quite smoothly. There were a few moments of downtime as the servers restarted, but nothing to worry about. Nonetheless, apologies if you didn’t manage to get your Planetaki hit when you wanted it.

There are quite a few little changes and fixes in this release and a major change to help us send out notifications which we’ll be trying out very soon. For the curious techy people, we’re now running Rails 2.1 to take advantage of some of its cool features.

One of the smaller fixes comes after a complaint from the guys at unvlog.com, where the videos from their blogs were not coming up properly in Planetaki. That should be working okay now, but please guys, no more Abba videos, and no, I don’t care if they sing in Spanish, its just not good for you ;-)

New features and improvements!!

Published
by
Javier
on May 27, 2008
in Design and Features
. 2 Comments

We just made public some new features we’ve been releasing these days:

1. COPY THIS TO MY PLANET
Now you can go to someone else’s planet and copy any website they have to your own planet. There are two buttons next to each post: copy and email. The homepage may be a good starting point to find cool blogs and websites to feed your little monster.

2. BEAUTIFUL, RICH, SHINY NEW HOMEPAGE
Planetaki has a new homepage. It features some planets with a subject (sports, cooking, etc.) and also the newly created planets. That’s for you to read whenever your planet runs out of new content and you really need another dose. Check it at http://www.planetaki.com

3. AUTOMAGICAL UPDATES
Every two minutes your planet will go see if there is new content for you to read. If so it will appear automagically. You don’t have to hit the refresh button any more. Just leave your planet on a tab and take an occasional look at it (even the title on the tab tells you about it). Cool, eh?

4. WE SPEAK LAS LENGUAS DU MONDE
Planetaki is already available in Spanish and very soon will be in French, German, Chinese, Catalan and many others.

Planetaki tries to discover your language by checking your browser’s settings for you. That’s how it decides in which language it shows the interface but you can change it manually in the preferences section.

5. WE CARE ABOUT WEBMASTERS (AND BLOGGERS TOO)
You may be a blogger/webmaster who wants his site to be added to people’s planets and look gorgeous on them. If so, check our tools for you:

- Put a button on your homepage so planetizens can add your website to their planet with just one click (just like we did on this planet). Here’s how: http://www.planetaki.com/buttons

- Want your content to link to the proper avatar (that little 48×48 image)? Put the desired gif or png image on your website’s root folder and we’ll go get it on the last update. People reading your website will see it attached to your content.

We hope you find them useful!