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Hey there. Part of the mission of Zimbio is to help members find not only great content about a specific topic, but also great people who are passionate enthusiasts or experts about that topic.  Many of our experts and enthusiasts on Zimbio are active bloggers who maintain a personal blog on Blogger, Wordpress, Typepad, LiveJournal, MSN/Windows Live Spaces, or other platforms.   Until today, if you wanted to share what you've been writing about, you had to manually copy and paste each... Read Full Story

Hey there.   We've been busy plugging away at infrastructure and UI changes over the last couple of weeks.  You may have noticed a little speed boost, or at least we hope you did!  And we continue to make design improvements as we learn more from you about what you want.   Meanwhile, we've managed to crank out a few new features, and I'm writing to announce one of them - our new universal browser button.   Zimbio now offers an "Add to Zimbio" browser button that you can use for any of your... Read Full Story

We've worked in partnership with Grazr to launch a new feature today - OPML widgets.    You can grab a widget for any portal, search term, or member profile and post it on your personal website or blog.  Its a great way to add fresh content from Zimbio to your site.   Here are a couple of examples: If you're a baseball blogger, you can post a widget about the New York Mets If you're more interested in politics, add content about Election 2006 or follow breaking news about... Read Full Story

Many thanks for the feedback and suggestions you've been giving us.  We've been working hard to respond to your ideas.  Over the course of the next 2 weeks, we'll be releasing a series of upgrades to Zimbio.com.  We released the first batch of changes today.  Here's what's new on Zimbio: Faster startpages with a new design.  We made a number of performance improvements that should dramatically speed up startpages.  We also created buttons at the top of each startpage to let you... Read Full Story

Today we made some changes to Zimbio’s design (special thanks to James, Shelley, and Helena for suggestions).  Hopefully we’ve made the site more readable and used spacing and color to highlight special features. Here’s what’s new: Suggesting links, RSS feeds, and keywords - Just click on an orange link to suggest your favorite content to any portal. Promoting your personal blog – We now give more space for blog entries and include prominent links back to your site when you... Read Full Story

Hey there. We're very excited to announce that Zimbio now offers you private portals.  Private portals are websites that only you and the members you invite can view and edit.  Just like public portals, you can have your own group blog, store links and photos, browse headlines, and write notes together. A private portal can be a useful tool to share or collaborate with your friends, family, or colleagues.  There are a lot of potential uses, like a media sharing site for your family, or a... Read Full Story

We just launched a new feature – Video Playlists.    To check it out, click on the new “videos” link on the left hand side of your favorite portal.  The idea is to create a playlist (or 2 or 3…) of videos related to the topic being discussed on the portal.  Gurus can also add video modules to the portal startpage by editing the layout. Here are a couple of examples: Botswana Bound has safari home videos at the top of the right-hand sidebar.  Makes me want to plan a trip to... Read Full Story

The Zimbio community continues to grow.  In January, over 500,000 folks came to Zimbio to learn about stories and people in the news, and to share their opinions. What was the Zimbio community interested in in January 2007?  Well, 2008 U.S. presidential campaigns began getting some buzz, especially Obamamania .  Members also discussed the trial of Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti , Genocide Prevention , and of course a bit of celebrity gossip .  Bloggers are a vital part of our community... Read Full Story

A very warm welcome to all of our new Zimbio users!  According to Google Analytics, we’ve already passed 100,000 unique visitors this month and the count’s still climbing.  We’ve nearly tripled our traffic in the last 2 months.     It’s great to see so many new people coming to Zimbio and using the site.  There’re lots of new portals, ranging from Guatemala Travel to the Ironworkers Local 377 Union .  Members have also been linking their personal blogs.  Most recently, bescho linked csr... Read Full Story

We’re very happy to announce a new partnership with ESPN.  Gurus can now choose ESPN to power News Trackers or Images Trackers on their favorite sports portals.    Tracker features allow members to suggest and share their favorite news or image searches with the Zimbio community.  If you’re on a portal about “ Cory Lidle ”, you might suggest search terms such as “Cory Lidle”, “New York Yankees”, and “The Belaire Apartment Plane Crash".   To see ESPN results in action... Read Full Story