During my time here at Headup I’ve come to realize one of the things that characterizes our progress as a startup company, is that it isn’t linear.
In other words, similar spans of time don’t necessarily manifest comparable progress.
Whereas for certain periods the work we invest is manifested in minor evolutions, other times our toil manifests itself as a major revolution.
Today marks the fruition of such a period, & what a revolution it is…
Headup – The News
I’m happy to announce the release of Headup v 1.10 which marks the launch of our official Beta & introduces the following improvements & features:
- Headup Snippet – The new slim Headup widget.
- Headup Topic Pages – Topic Pages you can customize to display your content & match your design.
- Analytics – Now you can follow exactly how your widget is performing & what are the most popular topics on your site.
Please note this is a Beta, which means we’re still tweaking and testing these features. We’d love for you to try them out, and would appreciate any, and every feedback you have for us. If you run across something you feel is broken or silly, please let us know, so we can fix it.
Thanks!
Headup Snippet – A New Widget is Born
The new Headup “Snippet” is a lightweight widget that displays a short summary & related articles from your site for the topics it identifies in your content. It’s the default widget on this blog & it looks like this:
Headup Snippets - Introducing the Diet Widget
To activate Snippet widgets instead of your default Tabbed widget enter your dashboard & select “Snippet” from “Widget Mode” options in the new “General Settings” box:
Want Snippets? Set your Widget Mode to "Snippet"
Snippet widgets are linked to Headup Topic Pages via the “View Topic” button
Headup Topic Pages – All the Freshest Content about your Topics in 1 place
Headup Topics Pages show in-depth dynamic coverage for your topics & offer related activities & topic-to-topic browsing. They can be accessed via Snippet widgets or directly by setting your “Widget Mode” to “Link”.
All the Freshest Content about your Topics in 1 place
Topic & Usage Analytics
By popular demand we’ve added a brand new “Analytics” tab to the publisher dashboard. Use it to learn how many times your visitors use Headup, for how long, & which topics are the most popular on your site.
Topic & Usage Analytics
A Word of Thanks
As you can see over these past few months we’ve been working intensively on improving Headup & developing exciting new features for your enjoyment, however hadn’t it not been for a wonderful & select group of supportive bloggers, some of which you’ve met here in our weekly blogger interviews, we wouldn’t have had the opportunity to check these new features &test their value.
Before I sign off I’d like to take the opportunity to say a heartfelt “Thank You” to Dave, David & Ruhani for all their support. Thanks guys! We couldn’t have pulled this one off & launched our Beta without you…
