http://blog.blogzoner.com Just another WordPress weblog Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:19:12 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://blog.blogzoner.com/2008/blogzoner-in-2008/ Wondered where on Earth can you find a website that allows fast switches between Google Maps, Microsoft's Maps, Yahoo Maps, Ask.com maps, Nasa... and... other... maps?! :D Here it is: Flash Earth Be sure you bookmark it, it's pure gold. http://blog.blogzoner.com/2007/flash-earth-where-do-you-want-a-map-today/ Howdy! The boys are currently making changes to the search function, streamlining it and enabling users to search for bloggers in a more intuitive way. Will follow an advanced search interface, which will be the real deal. And a surprise... Soon :) http://blog.blogzoner.com/2007/new-search-function-in-development/ Twitter fanatics, your hour has come! :) Now you can display your latest Tweet in your profile, by simply completing the 'Twitter' line in your profile. Your latest tweets will be fetched automatically, and instantly. Enjoy it, while we add even more functionalities to Blogzoner. Stay putt, in the next days we ... http://blog.blogzoner.com/2007/add-your-latest-tweets-in-blogzoner/ You can find all kinds of amazing things if you browse Blogzoner's blogs. For example I saw we have a new Italian on board.  Clicked on her blog... What a ride! ILaRia's blog is filled with all kind of interesting information, but above all was a link to a website featuring ... http://blog.blogzoner.com/2007/most-beautiful-christmas-cards/ 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. ... http://blog.blogzoner.com/2007/mirtesenru-or-how-to-live-chat-on-a-map/ 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 ... http://blog.blogzoner.com/2007/google-opensocial-around-the-camp-fire/ The blog for today from Blogzoner is smokingcoolcat. Yep, we got a smoking cat here, folks! He's a young cartoonist from Romania, but you don't need to know Romanian in order to enjoy his drawings. Take a peek! http://blog.blogzoner.com/2007/blog-of-the-day-smoking-cool-cat/ 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 ... http://blog.blogzoner.com/2007/the-scariest-place-to-be-on-haloween-top-3-transylvanian-horrors/ And a Blogzoner member! :) Joel Libava is recognized as The Francise King in the U.S. because of his expertise regarding franchises. A powerful blogger, he's #77 on the top 100 Business Blogs list. We're honored to have Joel on our map, so we asked him some questions regarding blogging. He ... http://blog.blogzoner.com/2007/interview-joel-libava-77-in-top-business-blogs-usa/