Tonight they host what is said to be the party of the year in Madrid. See you there!

Venga, va… ¡voy! from María Ysasi on Vimeo.

Thanks to María Loureiro, from tecnoloxia.org for her unvaluable help.

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…

<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.

Here is a picture of the article, taken by Denegro:

It’s so cool to share these three pages with Unvlog and iwannagothere, two projects we admire, use and love.

Soitu is one fo the most innovative projects in Spanish digital journalism these days. Their approach is completely unconventional, closer to the blog style than the classic online newspaper.

We are happy to see that both 20minutos and Soitu, being as innovative as they are, consider Planetaki as an important reference.

We are big fans of Unvlog, it’s like the place where you share the really good videos with your really good friends, without having to upload anything (just pointing to them on youtube, vimeo or whatever).

Don’t miss it if you are around Madrid tonight. See you there!

All of this is at the syndication page of 20minutos.es.

If you are that person and would like to volunteer, drop us a line at hello@planetaki.com.
We will credit you on the website and probably send you one of the ultra-cool tshirts we are designing.

PS: French, Italian, German and Catalan translations are on its way. 

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 ;-)

You can either check the planet or add the blogs you like to your planet, where they will refresh content every two minutes or so.

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!

The performance enhancments are now in place and planets are now loading quite a bit faster. I also discovered a fairly significant bug where old posts where not being deleted correctly; this is now corrected, but will take some time to remove all the old entries, so we should see performance gradually improve even more.

Let us know if you have any problems, and stay tuned for some more major updates in the next few days!