We’ve been promising it forever and now we’re finally ready to unveil the all-new LouderVoice WordPress plug-in V2.0. This enables you to write reviews on your blog using an open standard called hReview. Sites like LouderVoice can then index and interpret them more intelligently than raw blog-posts. The new plug-in is a total re-write based on lots of user feedback and, in particular, some fantastic suggestions and guidance from Robin Blandford.
We quietly launched V2 of our LouderVoice on the night before the Irish Blog Awards and have been tweaking for a few weeks. There is a lot more to come but we thought it’d be good to let you know what has changed now since we have a few more announcements coming in the next few days. The main aim with V2 was to make the activity on the site much more visible to the users and provide more opportunities to interact with others on the site.
Well done to all the winners at the Irish Blog Awards on Saturday. A wonderful night was had by everyone and our only disappointment was that we didn’t get to meet Fatmammycat who won in the LouderVoice-sponsored Best Blog Post category with her incredibly moving post on fox hunting. The success of the awards every year is down to one man, Damien Mulley. Thanks again for another memorable night. Here is the full list of winners:
The finalists for the Best Blog Post at the 2008 Awards have been announced. Looking forward to meeting them all on Saturday. Swearing Lady – Muppet shooting season That’s Ireland – Fianna Fail’s Fifty Ways to Laugh at Voters Fustar – To Whom it Concerns… It’s The Manky Toy Show (Live)! Fatmammycat.com – Fox hunting, horses and a girl’s awakening FakeEmpire: Why Katy will change everything. And nothing. Cheebah – A complex webb Twenty Major – Dickheads of the year Flirty Something: Let down your fair hair Music Road – Irish music, Irish landscape Balrog – Sinn Fein, what went wrong Hope we see some interesting schwag on the night too!
Bernie Goldbach, well known blogger/journalist/lecturer/consultant got some teenagers to recommend chippers in Tipperary by SMS. We now have 7 of the top Chips in Tipp on LouderVoice. What’s your favourite?
We’ve been working round the clock to get the next version of LouderVoice out the door. We are within a hair’s breadth now! What can you expect to see? A big redesign with a much busier home page to enable you to explore the site more easily Reviews and comments in-site so you no longer need a blog to write full reviews Review images Instant sign-up Instant sign-up via SMS Community features enabling you to follow other users and see their activity on the site Avatar images Review Drafts A new voting system Major improvements to tag navigation Basic support for Google Maps A faster search back-end And a ton of other under the hood improvements Keep an eye out, we know you’re going to like it.
We hope you have your bottle of Italian Red ready. The challenge is to write a review of it in just seven words! All the details on how to send your review to LouderVoice are here. Leave a comment if you have any questions.
We were delighted to get two pieces on LouderVoice in the Irish Examiner newspaper recently. On Friday Feb 1st, Bernie Goldbach did a great column focused on mini-reviewing which he re-posted on his blog. Then on Monday 4th, Dan MacCarthy published an extensive interview with Conor the LouderVoice CEO. As there is no online copy, I have uploaded a scan of it. Apologies for the roughness of the scan and for not OCRing it.
The shortlist for this category has just been published over on the awards blog. We encourage you to check them all out since they show the fantastic variety and quality in Irish blogging over the past year. That’s Ireland – Fianna Fail’s Fifty Ways to Laugh at Voters Fustar – To Whom it Concerns… It’s The Manky Toy Show (Live)! Fatmammycat.com – Fox hunting, horses and a girl’s awakening Avoiding Life – There seems to be a bit of interest… The Provisional Licence Joke The Sigla Blog – A milestone nialler9 – The Go!
The fourth week of the competition (and final week of this phase) is over and we can now announce the winner of a Hairy Baby t-shirt. Congratulations to Ciarán Rooney, an Irish guy living in London, who wins with his complimentary review of AerLingus.com phone customer support. The review, which he wrote on Jaiku, currently tops Google for “Aer Lingus Support”. Keep an eye out for the next competition phase which we should be announcing shortly.
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