Archive for August, 2009

Dingbee now supports posting to Twitter and Facebook

Posted in News, Updates on August 24th, 2009 by Dingbee – Comments

Today we’re happy to announce our newest feature: Posting to Twitter and Facebook.

Go to the settings page and set up your posting preferences. For Twitter you’ll be redirected to Twitter for one time authentication. For Facebook you’ll be asked to allow Dingbee to post to Facebook, but that doesn’t mean you’ll be using Facebook Connect for login. Please also remember that we never ask for you Twitter or Facebook passwords.

From now on, on every event you create you will see the posting options.

posting to twitter and facebook

If for any reason you want to post your events at a later time, you will be seeing a post link in the event view page. You can use this page to post your events.

If you have any questions, we’re here to answer.

Microformat Support on Dingbee

Posted in News, Updates on August 10th, 2009 by Dingbee – Comments

Today we’re happy to announce that we are adding hCalendar microformat to Dingbee. The idea behind Microformats is very simple: to use information that is already published in a web page and export it to be reusable in other ways. For example Microformats on Dingbee provides you to extract and save all information regarding an event. You can also save the event information to your native or online calendar application easily.

Search engines, including Google and Yahoo, are now indexing microformats and using them in search results. This standardization allows search engines to discover, index, and display better results from Dingbee to their users.

Many sites have been working to integrate Microformats into their systems, however most of the web browsers today do not have built-in support for Microformats. But you can still enjoy its features by using browser plug-ins and bookmarklets until it is widely available. Dingbee from today is ready for Microformats.

This is one of the many other features that we’re working to make Dingbee more useful.

Microformats in action on Dingbee

New Event List Widget

Posted in News, Updates on August 3rd, 2009 by Dingbee – Comments

Hello Everybody,

We’ve been silent for a while, but behind the scenes, a hard-work is going on at Dingbee.

Thanks for all those feedback from people who tried the Dingbee event list widget. Dingbee event list widget has been enhanced and today we’re rolling out a new version. The old one will still be available until January 1st, 2010. We advise everybody to switch to the new version in that period.

The new version is iframe based, and fixes the automatic timezone detection bugs of the old widget. Customization is also different now, since you cant use your CSS in the document.

Head over to the widget page and copy-paste the new code on your page. Also check out the customization information if you’re not using a standard version.

If you still look for help, please shoot your questions to our help pages.

Have a good day!