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We now have hReview plug-ins available for WordPress.org v2.0.x/v2.1.x and WordPress MU v1.2.1 These plug-ins allow you to write correctly formatted reviews directly on your blog that our site and several others can collect and interpret properly. You no longer have to visit the LouderVoice site to write your reviews! Once you write a review using the plug-in (simply by clicking “Insert Review” when writing any blog post) we will collect it and make it searchable on LouderVoice.

We finally did it

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

May 2, 2007

At 4am this morning, we unlocked LouderVoice. An enormous amount of work has gone into this over recent weeks and we’re all pleased as punch with the result. A big thank you to Lee and Blair and everyone else who got it out the door. Head on over and check it out. Sign up for an account and publish some reviews to your blog. There are still some teething problems in there but let us know what you think.

Sneak Peek

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

April 26, 2007

Yes, we’re very mean but it’s looking fan-diddley-tastic. Tick tock.

Consider voting for us at TheNextWeb Awards

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

April 18, 2007

We’re attending TheNextWeb Conference in Amsterdam on June 1st. It looks like it will be an awesome day and we are aiming to show off LouderVoice to a big audience. The organisers have put together an awards site and we’d really appreciate a vote for LouderVoice in the Beta & Stealth Category. Whilst you are there, a vote for Pixenate in the Disruptors Category would make a lot of sense!

Yes we've been very quiet

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

April 18, 2007

For which we apologise. But we are getting ready for a nice soft launch in the near future and have had our heads down trying to create a great site. The new features are looking awesome and our add-ons make it even better. Just give us a little bit more time. I think you’ve going to like it!

Hello to Read/WriteWeb Readers

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

March 30, 2007

Thanks for stopping by. LouderVoice will hopefully be launching in April, so stay tuned by subscribing to the RSS feed of this blog. What’s LouderVoice all about? We’ll provide the tools that let you publish reviews to your blog in a specific way. Other users can then find those reviews via our site, read them on your blog and then rate them and do useful things with them. Great reviewers will be able to build their reputations and those looking for great reviews finally have a place where quality bubbles to the top.

WordPress Rich Text Editor Poll

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

March 27, 2007

The current version of the WordPress Rich Text Editor causes us “some pain” due to its mangling of things like divs which we use in our microformats markup. We’re interested to know what percentage of WordPress users (both wordpress.com and hosted wordpress.org) actually use it. Here’s a little PollDaddy poll to that end:

Microformats – empowering your markup for Web 2.0

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

March 27, 2007

John Allsopp, of the seriously good Microformatique site, has just released a book called “Microformats – empowering your markup for Web 2.0″. John has been writing on microformats for quite a while now and it is great to see this book emerge. You can get it on amazon.com or .co.uk In this book, noted web developer and long time WaSP member John Allsop teaches all you need to know about the technology: what Microformats are currently available and how to use them; the general principles of how they work, so you’ll be able to understand and use future Microformat; how to use Microformats with web sites and software that already support them; and how to create your own.

External Blog publishing for Beta Testers

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

March 26, 2007

We’ve just started rolling out invites to current beta testers to point their LouderVoice accounts at their own blogs instead of our reviewblogs. There are still one or two small glitches to iron out but overall things are very solid. The braver testers can go ahead and try to figure it out for themselves! Otherwise we’ll be sending out the instructions in the coming days. A big thanks to our Swedish guru for managing to get us working with the new Blogger platform using the old API!

Examples in the Wild

By Conor O'Neill in Blog

March 20, 2007

We should be enabling external blog publishing on LouderVoice this week. Just to give you some sense of how things look in the wild, here are some of the test blogs we are using. We should be adding Blogger to the list this afternoon: WordPress MU: LouderVoice Review Blogs WordPress.org: Bandon Blog WordPress.com: d’Other Blog Movable Type: I love it, I love it not TypePad: Conor’s Very Typetastic Pad LiveJournal: The Live Arguer

Our WordPress plug-ins are now available

We finally did it

Sneak Peek

Consider voting for us at TheNextWeb Awards

Yes we've been very quiet

Hello to Read/WriteWeb Readers

WordPress Rich Text Editor Poll

Microformats – empowering your markup for Web 2.0

External Blog publishing for Beta Testers

Examples in the Wild

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