TagsTagsA new feature today: you can very easily embed audio tracks and playlists from the cool SoundCloud website (including a lot of music by well-known artists) in LGF comments or LGF Pages. This feature works the same way as embedding videos from YouTube, Vimeo, Comedy Central, or The Onion. To embed SoundCloud ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Comments, LGF Pages, SoundCloud, Music, Playlists
We have a big change in the way our "Recent Pages" area works. That's the place in our right sidebar that shows the LGF Pages most recently posted by our writers. Previously, it would show all the recent Pages in order; but we've noticed that some of you are much more ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Pages, Diaries, Tech Note, New Features
We have some new features to announce, designed to make it much simpler to place embedded tweets from Twitter in comments and LGF Pages. All you have to do to insert an embedded tweet is paste in the URL of the tweet's 'Details' page at Twitter. For example, here's the page ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Regular Expressions, LGF Pages, Comments, Tech Note
Tonight I'm happy to announce a new LGF web app that I think will prove incredibly useful to our LGF Pages authors: the LGF Pages Dashboard. With the LGF Pages Dashboard, you can browse and search all the Pages you've posted, sort by the various columns, edit your Pages in a ...
Little Green Footballs, Tech Note, LGF Pages, LGF Pages Dashboard
I'm putting the finishing touches on our new LGF Pages Dashboard app before the public unveiling, so here's an open thread for the nonce...
This isn't a huge change, but I know that unless I explain what's up, some people will have questions so ... here's the deal. I've decided to eliminate the "alternate" method of posting LGF Pages -- clicking the "Show top rated Pages" link at the top, then clicking "submit a link." Clicking ...
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We have a very cool new feature in LGF Pages today; to help you easily pick appropriate tags for your Pages, we now have a magical "Suggest Tags" button that will analyze the text of your post and extract the relevant keywords, then show you a list of alphabetically sorted ...
LGF Pages, Analysis, Tags, Cool New Feature, Content Analysis Tools, Search Engines, Tech Note
Here’s an open thread for anything at all on a Friday night, with a note to let all LGF Pages authors know that there’s been a change to the LGF Pages bookmarklet to fix a small problem, so you should delete your current bookmarklet and reinstall the new one. The new ...
Here's a Friday night open registration thread, with some reasons you might want to consider registering a free account at LGF: [Item List]
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We're tweaking the poll creation feature of our LGF Pages app, and the latest addition is an expiration date. When someone loads a Page with a poll that's past the date, they'll see a message saying the poll is "closed," and won't be able to vote. (The results will still ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Pages, Polls, Ajax, Javascript, LGF Blog Engine
Tonight we're announcing a cool new feature for LGF Pages -- each LGF Page can now contain an Ajax-based poll, just like the ones you've seen on LGF front page articles. The interface is very simple. A poll consists of a "topic," and two or more "options." You can think of ...
LGF Blog Engine, Javascript, Ajax, Polls, LGF Pages, Little Green Footballs
Today we're unveiling a brand new tagging system for your LGF Pages, making it much easier to create new tags and reuse previously created tags with a personalized autocompletion feature. The LGF Pages posting bookmarklet now uses your personal "tag library" (all the tags you've ever used for your Pages) to ...
LGF Blog Engine, jQuery, Tech Note, Tags, Javascript, LGF Pages, Little Green Footballs
The bookmarklet that lets registered LGF users post LGF Pages has been updated, to provide better support for automatically grabbing selected text from a web page in Internet Explorer. Here's the new version of the bookmarklet: LGF Pages Bookmarklet To install this in Safari, Chrome, or Firefox, you can just drag the link ...
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I'm posting this open thread as an LGF Page, to use it as the first test of the new "promotion" feature that will basically turn LGF into a group blog, by "promoting" LGF Pages. This new feature lets me convert LGF Pages that are especially noteworthy into front page articles, ...
If you're a PHP coder who also codes Javascript, here's an insanely useful site where they've converted most of the useful PHP functions into Javascript, keeping the syntax intact: PHP functions in JavaScript. I'm currently using their versions of base64_decode(), utf8_decode(), addslashes(), and str_replace() in the LGF Javascript codebase, and they ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, PHP, Javascript
As I was working with the code for our new LGF Connect feature that lets you post to Twitter with Ajax, I realized there was no reason to limit its usage to people with LGF accounts. Instead, I could do the standard Twitter authorization dance (basically the same code you ...
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Now that we have the infrastructure for the linking of LGF accounts to Twitter accounts, we have another new feature to announce: our retweet buttons (at the top right of each post) now use the LGF Connect app to post your tweet directly on Twitter, using Ajax instead of pop-up ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, API
We have a brand new feature tonight in LGF Pages, something I mentioned as "coming soon" in the previous Tech Note: auto-posting to Twitter, by linking your LGF account to your Twitter account. Background: one of the groovy things you can do with Twitter is to give third party "apps" access ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, API
There are some new features in LGF Pages, our simple but powerful blogging system for registered users: 1) Pages now have all the same sharing tools as LGF front page articles; a Facebook Like button, a Google +1 button, a retweet button for Twitter, and a "Share" button that pops up ...
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Announcing a new feature for registered users: if you have a Twitter account, you can now save your Twitter username in your LGF Account Settings page (it's near the bottom of the page). Once you enter the Twitter name and save settings, a link will appear in your LGF user profile ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, Twitter, Social Media, LGF Pages
I'd like to draw your attention to our left sidebar, where you'll see two new additions to the list of "drop-down" links: "Tweeted Articles," and "Tweeted Pages." These new drop-down lists show you the most-tweeted (in other words, posted on Twitter) LGF front page articles and user-submitted LGF Pages, in the ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Twitter, Retweet
New feature tonight! Each and every author of LGF Pages now has her or his own RSS feed, with its own custom URL. There's always been an RSS feed for the whole thing, right here: http://feeds2.feedburner.com/Litt leGreenLinks Now you can view any author's RSS feed by using an address like this, with my ...
Little Green Footballs, LGF Blog Engine, LGF Pages, Lizardoid Nation, RSS
Since it's the first of the month, I thought it might be interesting to run a quick script to determine which user-submitted LGF Pages have been most popular on Twitter, during the previous month of February. And without further ado, here are the top 10 results in reverse order: #10 - ...
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Both YouTube and Vimeo recently switched their video embedding code to a new style that allows videos to play on all kinds of devices, including mobile devices that don't have Flash installed (like the iPhone). Today I added the new IFRAME code to the types of video embedding code supported by ...
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Here's a Friday afternoon open thread with a purpose -- post any links to LGF Pages you thought were especially noteworthy this week. And it's OK to pimp your own Pages...