October 24, 2011

• More Mobile Updates

  Hey guys. We've made significant steps towards our upcoming mobile app, and wanted to share some updates.

  1) Updated Mobile Interface

  We just updated our mobile website, and would love your feedback! It's located at m.xanga.com, and you can access it through this link:

  • http://m.xanga.com/

  So, what's new?

  • Mobile Xangas - Now every user has their own mobile Xanga, where you see their posts all on one page. Just click on their username from your inbox, and you'll see what I mean!
  • Unified Xanga site: When you view someone's mobile Xanga, you don't just see their weblog posts. Photo blogs, Video blogs, and pulses *all* appear on your Mobile frontpage.
  • Mobile Pulsing - You can pulse right from the mobile interface. You can also see where you'll be able to add photos and videos when the app goes live.
  • Edit more stuff - Now you can edit pulses, photo posts and video posts.
  • Mobile subbing - You can sub and unsub from users right in the mobile interface, which is handy if you find a great post and want to sub to a new Xangan right then and there.

  2) Streamlining and Focusing Xanga

  This mobile app has been a part of a big effort we're making to streamline Xanga and to focus it on its core.

  What does that mean? Well, we've focused more than ever on creating a clean interface where the flow is as seamless as possible. It's easier than ever to go from user to user, dropping comments and discovering new content. On a personal note, the biggest surprise for me has been how much easier it now feels to find new and interesting sites to read (and sub to, thanks to our new mobile subbing feature!).  Oh and also, we noticed the interface could use some extra zip, so we're working now on making it faster.

  Please do check out our mobile website beta and let us know what you think!  (If you run into issues when accessing the beta, try clearing your browser cache.)

  • http://m.xanga.com

  ps As promised, we've picked out a dozen applicants from our post on the Xanga Product Council and have started scheduling Skype interviews for this week. The main focus of our first round of conversations: Xanga's upcoming mobile app!

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