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qubox application now available on Facebook

You can now use qubox within Facebook!  We've used the excellent Facebook Platform API to embed qubox like-mindedness searching within Facebook.

You can try the qubox application at http://apps.facebook.com/dothequbox/ (of course, you'll need a Facebook account).

If you already have a login on qubox.com, you can link that to your Facebook account so that your existing quboxes are immediately available inside Facebook.  Watch out for the prompt to make this link as part of the application install process.  (If you skip this step, you'll have to do your quboxes again in Facebook.)

We're planning to add more functionality to the Facebook application soon, but we're already pretty pleased with this first version.  Take a look and tell us what you think!

Blogfeed from qubox - get the latest from like-minded bloggers

We've added a new feature to qubox.com to help you discover and keep up-to-date with interesting blogs.

The qubox blogfeed works like this:

• bloggers register their blogs with qubox.com (there's a shortcut for this: www.qubox.com/bloggers) and complete one or more quboxes
• We monitor the RSS feeds for the blogs to spot new posts
• We use the qubox information to merge and prioritise the different blog feeds based on the degree of like-mindedness between the blog author and blog reader

The resulting merged feed shows you all the latest posts from blogs registered with qubox that are written by people with a degree of like-mindedness that you choose.  So for example, I can choose to see recent blog posts by authors who are at least 90% like-minded about Love.

If you want to read blog posts you don't need to do anything special to set up this new feature - just log in at www.qubox.com and you'll see the blogfeed widget on the home page.  The widget looks like this:

On the left are the most recent blog entries.  You can scroll down this list with the buttons on the top right.

The other controls on the right let you choose how like-minded the blog author needs to be.

Once you have the controls set to filter blog entries the way you want, click "get this as RSS" and qubox will give you a link to an RSS feed that you can monitor with your feed reader of choice.

If you write a blog and want to see it appear in the blogfeed, go to www.qubox.com/bloggers to register your blog.  And remember, the more quboxes you do, the more people will be able to find your blog!

The qubox.com beta is live!

It's official - our alpha site is archived and the new-look beta is up and running at www.qubox.com!

Congratulations and thanks to our development and design team for making this happen, and to all the testers and users who gave feedback on the alpha.

If you are already a user of qubox.com you don't need to do anything - all of your quboxes and other information will be automatically transferred to the beta.

If you haven't tried qubox yet, it's an ideal time to give it a go!

We think the beta looks great with a much slicker layout and more interesting stuff right from the home page.  But we are still planning to add lots of new functions over the next few weeks.  Check back here for more details soon!