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New Photo Background Options

It's now possible to completely customise the background of your photos page. You can choose any color, or you can upload your own background image. This is a feature that I don't think any other social network offers.

I've experimented with different backgrounds for my photos, and came the conclusion that having a plain white background just looked a bit boring. Maybe some people think a plain white background is fine. It's fun experimenting to see what sort of background works well with your photos.

Posted by Chris Kent on 5 Mar 2010  Comments

What background are you going to use?

Your profile page is now even more customizable. Is customizable a proper word? My dictionary doesn't think so. Oh well, spelling never was my strong point. Anyway, the point I'm try to make is that you can now add even more eye candy to your profile page. Upload an image of your choice and make your profile stand out from the crowd. The same background options will soon be available for your photos page.



Posted by Chris Kent on 26 Feb 2010  Comments

Bookmark Comments

You can now add a comment to someones bookmark. Bookmark comments can be deleted at any time by the person who added the bookmark, or by the person who wrote the comment. If someone adds a comment to one of your bookmarks, you will be notified by email.

Posted by Chris Kent on 5 Feb 2010  Comments

Activity

So you want to know what all of your contacts have been up to? What do you mean you don't have any contacts? It's really easy to add a contact. Just go to their profile page and click on the 'Add/Remove Contact' link. Now, where was I. Oh yes. Activity. We've now added an activity page to your profile. This is a news feed of what your contacts have being doing. It's now going to be really easy to see when your contacts have uploaded some new photos or added some new bookmarks. What's great about the activity records is that you have control over what activity is shown. Say for example you added a new entry to your diary, but you don't think it is something that your contacts would be interested in, you can easily delete the activity record.

Posted by Chris Kent on 2 Feb 2010  Comments

Twenty Ten

It's 2010. The start of a new decade. Was it really ten years ago when I watched the new millenium celebrations. It might not seem very long ago but the last ten years has seen a lot of changes on the web. Ten years ago facebook didn't exist. And as for technology, mobile phones can now do what desktop computers where doing. All of these changes make me excited about what billion7 could become. Hopefully, as we add new features and more people signup, it will get better and better. I hope 2010 will be a good year for all of you.

Posted by Chris Kent on 12 Jan 2010  Comments

New Blog Accounts

Is blogging big business? Probably not for most of us. I expect that the majority of bloggers write blogs because it's their hobby. They enjoy writing, and publishing their work in way that was never possible before the internet. For a few people, blogging is a serious business. Blogging can be an important marketing tool for an existing business, or for the most popular blogs you can generate a regular income from advertising. Some of the best blogs are a collaborative effort. Rather than seeing posts by just one person there's a group of people regularly posting to the same blog. Whatever kind of blog you have you can now boost traffic to your blog by registering a blog account on billion7.

Posted by Chris Kent on 16 Dec 2009  Comments (1)

E-Cards Background Color

You can now choose a background color when you create your e-card. Just click on the tiny color wheel and you'll see the new color picker control. Sometimes you can make you e-cards really stand out if they are on a dark background. We've also tweaked the layout of the email, so that the e-card is centered. Don't forget you can always try it out be sending an e-card to yourself, before you send them to your friends.

Posted by Chris Kent on 16 Dec 2009  Comments

Share Photos For E-Cards


Allow other people to use your photos as an e-card. With your help we can create one of the best places on the web for sending e-cards.

Posted by Chris Kent on 19 Nov 2009  Comments (2)

Compassion

CHARTER FOR COMPASSION TRAILER from TED Prize on Vimeo.

Billion7 is a global networking website, so we are interested in anything that has a global theme. Whether you are religious or not the words, "Treat all others as we wish to be treated", are good advice in any situation. They are words that I need to sometimes ask myself, "I'm I treating others as I would expect them to treat me?".

Posted by Chris Kent on 12 Nov 2009  Comments

ImageMagick

We've just installed a new version of ImageMagick. What would we do without open source software?
Thumbnail for version as of 08:27, 6 April 2008Whenever you upload a photo or send an e-card we use ImageMagick. It's the perfect tool for resizing images in different formats.

When you upload a photo to billion7 we create four different copies. A small thumbnail image, and then small, medium and large versions. This makes viewing photos easy, regardless of your browsers window size.


Posted by Chris Kent on 3 Nov 2009  Comments
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