From the monthly archives: November 2008

Today we release a number of new enhancements to blist: We added 5 new How do I? help videos.  These new topics were based on top customer questions.  Also, the videos can now be watched full screen!  Learn how to hide a column, change blist permissions, export a blist, use page view, and embed a [...]

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Over the past few weeks I’ve noticed more people using blist to make and share their Christmas lists. In the Merritt household all of us are making Christmas blists this year too. One feature that makes blist so handy is that you can borrow other people’s blists and effectively use them as a template for [...]

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We  have two new blist badges that you can put on your blog or other web page to let the world know that you use blist, and are generally brilliant. We have a two sizes of .GIF images. All you need to do is copy the HTML for the appropriate badge and paste it into [...]

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Today we launched an updated version of our sharing and privacy features in blist, with  improvements that will make it easier to share your data.  These improvements include: A more discoverable Permissions & Privacy section, which allows you to easily make your blist public or private.  Public blists are a great way to share interesting [...]

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If you are interested in using new web technology for teaching, you should take a look at blist. We are finding a lot of organic interest from teachers using blist in two distinct ways. First, blist is great for classroom administration – being a database, you can start with one row per student, add yearbook [...]

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Wetpaint is a terrific place to publish your own rich, online community. It’s an incredibly easy to use, collaborative wiki service that also has some of the features of blogs, forums and social networks. You can either create your own site or explore the thousands of sites created by others in the Wetpaint community. Recently [...]

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blist is a great tool for human resources (HR) and employment agencies. Allan in Hong Kong writes: “I use blist for an online database for our small employment agencies. We run an employment agency in Hong Kong, placing Filipino workers with HK families. We have to collect and keep data on the domestic helpers, including [...]

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We’ll be at Defrag 2008 in Denver on Monday & Tuesday the 3rd & 4th of November. We’re looking forward to participating in the discussion around defragmenting data that’s skattered and strewn all over the place. We hope to see you there. As you can see, we’re in good company. Who’s at Defrag?Who’s at Defrag?Powered [...]

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