http://blog.planetaki.com Stuff worth mentioning Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:01:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's unvlog's birthday. Congrats guys! 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. http://blog.planetaki.com/unvlogs-birthday-party/ We made a few minor adjustments to the "about us" section to accomodate the super-nice guys who translated Planetaki to their languages. Check them out. http://blog.planetaki.com/we-love-our-translators/ We just opened a Twitter account for Planetaki. We will use it for quick updates and informal stuff. Check it out and follow it, especially if you are one of those Netvibes design guys who secretly love us ;) http://blog.planetaki.com/planetaki-on-twitter/ We just translated Planetaki to Galician, that beautiful language spoken in the also beautiful region of Galicia. If you happen to speak Galician and want it to be Planetaki's default language, set it up on the preferences page of your planet. Thanks to María Loureiro, from tecnoloxia.org for her unvaluable help. http://blog.planetaki.com/planetaki-in-galician/ 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 ... http://blog.planetaki.com/ubiquity-command-for-planetaki/ 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) ... http://blog.planetaki.com/embed-planet-your-website/ We were very happy to see Planetaki on PC Actual, one of the main computer magazines in Spain. It's on a report about web apps made here. 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 ... http://blog.planetaki.com/planetaki-on-the-paper-press/ It's now easy to add Soitu's channels to your planet. You can do so by going to their syndication page and clicking the "P" button of the section you like. Soitu is one fo the most innovative projects in Spanish digital journalism these days. Their approach is completely unconventional, closer to ... http://blog.planetaki.com/adding-soitus-channels-to-your-planet/ Sam and I will be partying all night at the great Unvlog Party, probably the most expected party of the year in Madrid. Here's the flyer: 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 ... http://blog.planetaki.com/unvlog-party/ The guys at 20minutos.es just added Planetaki as one of the tools available to read the newspaper which is, by the way, the most succesful online paper in Spain. We are glad they did so, this way it will be easier for Planetaki users to add to their planets the ... http://blog.planetaki.com/adding-20minutos-sections-to-your-planet/ We are looking for someone who is a native Chinese speaker and would like to translate Planetaki to simplified Chinese. It's not a big deal of work (a couple of hours perhaps) but a great deal of responsability since there are many people who would use Planetaki in Chinese. The ... http://blog.planetaki.com/translating-planetaki-to-chinese/ 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 ... http://blog.planetaki.com/friday-the-13th-upgrade/ We've set up Planet Mac with the best sources on Apple and the Mac for you to follow today's World Wide Developers Conference in case you are not phisically attending. We believe Planetaki may work as an amplifier for Steve Jobs' reality distortion field ;) You can either check the planet ... http://blog.planetaki.com/a-planet-for-the-apple-wwdc/ 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 ... http://blog.planetaki.com/new-features-and-improvements/ Today Planetaki suffered from a couple hours of downtime as we struggled to implement a few database optimisations. Planetaki has been progressively getting slower these last few weeks and days and reached an unbearable point today as some users where provided a 404 error due to a queue of requests ... http://blog.planetaki.com/planetaki-outage-today/ The title pretty much sums up the idea of this post! Please come back for the latest news, updates, and comments from the Planetaki development team. http://blog.planetaki.com/welcome-to-the-planetaki-blog/