Howdy!

Hope the hangover from last year’s parties is over, and that you passed by here to see what’s new on Blogzoner.

First of all, we’ve made some optimizations so the site is loading (a little bit) faster in IE. We’re still working on doing the same job for firefox, and we’re still coding the search function, so you may filter more easier the blogs you’re interested into.

Second, there’s plenty of new people around. So, check out Rockbear’s blog about getting out, being active and live happily, or kbarret’s blog about pretty colors and layouts (and believe me, they ARE pretty!), or, why not, EvanVolm’s blog about video games.

And if you have some spare time, just check out Shakelton’s Italian Alps hotel blog and finish with Redmin’s photos from amazing places.

I’m astounded at the quality of the blogs being put on the map on blogzoner, and I do hope many more will want to share their blogs with the world.

Now, prepping for a huge wave of newcomers…

ps. I also found Slide, a nice application that lets you create a guestbook for your blog in which visitors can put a photo - with them, or from their place (I have to thank Imen Dani’s blog for this!)

Have fun!

At least it’s something like that, as our knowledge of Russian is very limited

We discovered this amazing concept through Nikita Begun’s blog, and we’re stunned.

If Nikita knows some English, we’re inviting him to give us more details about mirtesen.ru, a website that lets it’s users chat via a… map. How is this working, you can see for yourself (don’t mind the russian alphabet, the concept is in itself stunning).

You probably heard about OpenSocial initiative from Google, that will allow developers to benefit from a single set of standards to distribute their applications for social networking websites.

Via Michael Langham’s nice blog about tech news we got our hand on this 1-hour video from Google’s Campfire. So, everything about OpenSocial is spelled out for you by the Google guys:

We’ll see how this integrates with what we’re doing here at Blogzoner, and perhaps something new and interesting will come out of this

There are many scary places to be on Haloween, but the scariest would definitely be the birthplace of Dracula, a.k.a. Vlad the Impaler, the Valach prince born in Transylvania.

And that birthplace has a name:  Sighisoara. You can see how this medieval city looks today via some beautiful panoramas made by Zdeto, a fellow Blogzoner.

So here we are: Sighisoara panoramas and some more panoramas and a little bit of history.

Next in our top 3 is the Bran Castle. As Elizabeth Miller, a renowned expert says: it never belonged to Dracula, but is still the most visited place by Dracula-fans, and it surely is scary in itself.

And finishing our top comes a fortress built by Dracula’s family high in the Carpathian mountains, Poenari, where his wife found her demise hurling herself from the top of the fortress when hearing the Ottoman troops approaching.

Next year, be sure to plan a trip to these places. You have nothing to fear, though. Or do you?

Hi guys!

We’ve just launched our blog. It will be a constant connection between you, our users and Blogzoner’s development and management team. We are looking forward for your opinions, ideas, feature requests and bug findings.

So, have you spotted any bugs yet ?