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It’s been a big week here at Headup. At long last, after months of hard work, we’ve finally unveiled our Headup “Topic Pages“.

What are Headup topic pages?

Headup topic pages are a new and exciting way to help your audience explore the topics you cover on your blog.

How are they generated?

Like the Tabbed widgets you’re familiar with, the new Topic Pages are generated automatically for each of  the topics Headup identifies in your content. They include all the data you’re familiar with from the Tabbed widgets, and much much more.

How are they displayed?

Headup Topic Pages can be linked and launched directly from your content, or connected via a “Snippet” widget, like the one we’ve installed on this blog (mouse-over the annotations in the demo text below to launch a Snippet).

“…For those of you who simply can’t get enough of Tim Burton, we have another treat from Alice in Wonderland for you. We’ve been given some new images which show, process by process how a piece of imagery goes from being filmed to being put onto a finished piece of film. To help demonstrate this, we’ve got progression art for The Knave of Hearts, The White Rabbit and the Red Queen. Alice in Wonderland is to be released by Disney 5th March and the global premier is set to take place in London with The Prince of Wales in attendance…” (Source: heyuguys.co.uk)

To access a Topic Page click the “More” link at the end of the summary in the snippet widget:

Clicking "More" launches a Topic Page

How can they be customized?

Headup Topic Pages can be customized to match your blog’s branding and show your blog’s articles as “Related Articles”.

The Headup publishers’ dashboard enables you to configure your Topic Pages to show your blog’s logo and coloring in the Topic Page header and display your own posts, or posts from any domain you choose, in the Related Articles section:

Topic Pages can be customized to match your branding & show your related posts (click to view full size)

We’d love to hear your feedback!

Initially available only to a select group of Alpha testers, we intend to release this new feature as an option for all Headup users VERY soon, and are eager to hear your feedback so give us a shout out @headup on Twitter, or leave a comment below and tell us what you think…

Organize your music and create playlists NOW with the new ‘Headup Music’!

The Headup Music Player

This new release of Headup was dedicated mostly to improving Headup’s included music player.

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Besides giving the player a shiny new skin we’ve improved functionality so that now it enables you to organize your music and create playlists
…oh, and we did some with bug fixes too… ; )

ROCK ON!

Release notes

• Compatible with the new Mozilla Firefox 3.5.
• You can now customize the design for highlighted terms.
• Enhanced special highlights.

New Site

Headup has a brand new website that’s been live for just under two weeks.
Check it out ! We’d love to hear your feedback…

These past few months we’ve gotten a lot of requests and feedback relating to Headup’s music features. So much so that we decided to perform a major overhaul that resulted in the creation of Headup Music – Headup’s very own media player.

Headup Music

Launching Headup's music player

Headup Music is a player designed to boost the way you listen to music online by leveraging Headup’s semantic web engine. Use it to:

• Get your regular music fix from a variety of free sources like YouTube, Seeqpod, Blip.fm, etc.
• Listen to automatically personalized playlists of your favorite artists generated from your Facebook and/or Last.Fm profiles.

The Headup music player interface

We’re very excited about this addition to Headup and would love to get your feedback so please check it out and tell us what you think.

Annotation news – Social Annotation

We’ve made several modifications to Headup’s annotation capabilities.

• Headup now annotates a wider selection of names and terms.
• Social annotation:
  • Terms that have personal relevance to you receive a highlight annotation.
  • A tool tip notifying you about the personal relevance will appear when the term is hovered over.

Headup's new Social Annotation shows how the Web relates to YOU

More release notes

• Improvement of the data provided for companies and movies.
• Small UI and stability fixes.

What you can expect next…

• Headup’s next generation user interface is still in the oven.
• Improvements to the music player.
• Annotation control – we’re working on enabling you to control the appearance of Headup’s annotations.

…And on to other news:

We’re on a road-trip
Yesterday marked the first day of this years “Israeli Web Tour“, originally launched in 2006 by the CICC in partnership and collaboration with Google, PayPal, Yahoo!, Amazon, Microsoft, and Facebook. We were fortunate enough to get invited to this year’s tour and are looking forward to meeting the representatives of the participating industry leaders.

We’re on the air
This evening at 6:00 pm EST we’re scheduled to participate in RSS Ray’s online radio show to talk about Marketing on the Semantic Web.

We’ve moved!
Last but not least if anyone wants to come and visit us, please note we’ve relocated our offices from Tel Aviv to Shefayim.
Less traffic, less smog, more birds, and I can see the Mediterranean sea from my window (if I lean half my body out the window and crane my neck to the point of risking breaking it… ; )

Got something to say?

Comments? Questions? Requests? Declarations of your undying love?

Add’em all in the comments below
… and as always, we try to be responsive on Twitter – @Headup

Until next time… : )