bubbletop news!

and we are live! :)

a little message to tell you, that yes, we are finally live! Woo-hoo!

Thank you all alpha testers for your very crucial feedback in the past 6 months, it has been critical in making bubbletop better...well, we hope you find it better, we certainly do and appreciate your help in the matter :)
Still a few lolcats in the system and tons of new ideas for 2008, but we're getting there so why not opening our doors?
We are very excited about this new phase and about welcoming new users.
Please keep sending us feedback and let us know what you think.

As it is the holidays season, we could not resist another surprise: we are also now on the iPhone.
If you are the lucky owner of an iPhone, you can go to www.bubbletop.com/iPhone
In this first version, you will find back your tabs, your feed modules. You will be able to read your news and share them with your bubbletop friends. If you have a YouTube module, you will be able to view the videos straight into the iPhone YouTube player.

There will be much more in 2008 on the mobile side, so stay tuned!

In the meanwhile, we wish you very very happy holidays,

the bubbletop team

recommend to the world: create your own public page on bubbletop

Discovery though your peers has always been at the center of what bubbletop is about ,as we believe that in this world of information overload, our friends and affinity group are an excellent filter to the surrounding noise and one of our best discovery tool.

 

With bubbletop, you were able to share with your friends and also to discover through your social network public feeds, now you can go further and create your own public page to display your latest sources of interest, an article that picked your brain or your latest rants and raves...

Easily create your public page from what you read, watch, listen, view on bubbletop and let everybody know what you think of it. Share this page through the world through your unique url: your username.bubbletop.com

 

In our first release of this new feature you will be able to:

o publish a module that interests you: a feed, a search module, a tag module (soon a widget)

o publish a news or an item that interests you directly from the reading pane

o you may add a comment to all what you publish, if you so wish, to explain why it is of interest to you. Other bubbletop users will also be able to comment on what you share with them.

o Finally, you can also post your latest rants or raves through our "new post" widget, you can embed a picture or a video in there if you wish

 

Want to see a preview of how this whole thing works? Watch it here.

- soon to come, here is a short list of new features we will bring to you in a near future:

o Publish your favorite widgets -> which widgets do you most use? Would you like to put some of them on your public page? Soon, you'll be able to.

o A guestbook -> people can already leave comments on your posts, soon they will also be able to leave some trace on your page.

o Your blogroll -> want to publish your whole list of public feeds? Soon you'll be able to do that as well

o Subscribe to somebody's Page -> want to keep trace of somebody? Soon, you'll be able to subscribe to somebody's page and to be notified of their latest posts or recommendations.

o The community page -> the place where you will be find other bubbletop users' public page