Pavatar and Gravatar

Jargong will support both Pavatar and Gravatar standards.

Pavatar:
When you register at Jargong with an OpenID we´ll automatically fetch your avatar from your OpenID provider in the following ways:

1. We investigate if there´s X-Pavatar: header.
2. If there´s any link rel="avatar" or link rel="pavatar" in your html.
3. If we can find an avatar at youropenid/avatar.jpg or youropenid/pavatar.jpg.

Gravatar:
If you haven´t uploaded an avatar to your Jargong account we´ll check if you have any Gravatar associated with your email address and use that before we use the default avatar.

Jargong and OpenID

We´re happy to let you know that the upcoming version of Jargong is supporting OpenID.

OpenID is an identity technology that let you sign into different sites with a single name and password. It makes surfing the web more simple and secure for you.

If you want to implement OpenID on your site (which ofcourse is a good idea) here is my two cents:

1) Be a consumer. Don´t even think about being a provider before you implemented the consumer part. - OpenID needs more consumers not providers.
If you want to be a provider later that´s fine but start with letting everyone with an existing OpenID sign on first.
The last thing OpenID needs is a another provider that doesn´t support sign on with existing OpenIds (Hello Yahoo and all you others..).

2) Don´t do it the wrong way and only support a few "secure" providers (Hello Microsoft..) the open in OpenID means you should support every provider.
We don´t want to end up with having multiple OpenIDs for different accounts and sites.

small update (while we´re doing the next big thing..)

While we are working with the next big release (that will be quite different than what you´ve seen so far....) we give you another small update of Jargong. 0.5.3 is now available for download.








Here are some of the new features:

Twitter:

• A lot of small user interface updates (It´s now easier to see if an update is successful or not / a refresh is going on etc).
• Browse into a users timeline from another timeline.
• Send and receive direct messages.
• Background image and background color from a timeline is now displayed.
  

Instant Messaging:

• Scrolls username and personal message if it´s too long to fit the display.

Important: To use all the new features please reauthorize your Twitter account with Jargong by logging in with your Jargong account on www.jargong.com and authorize Twitter again.

And as always, please delete any version of Jargong on your phone before installing this update.

Again a small update (more for you Twitter-happy-people)

Today we release v0.5.2 of Jargong. Another small update to please you. Here are some of the new features.

Twitter:

• View "Me and friends", "Everyone", "Friend list" and "Follower list" timelines.
• Automatically refresh (every two minutes) "Me and friends" timeline if you want. Set automatic or manual refresh in "My settings".
• Fixed a small bug that caused Jargong to stall if Twitter servers are too slow.
  

Instant Messaging:

• Hide offline contacts (finally here!).
• Error messages from the Instant Messaging networks are now presented in "My settings/IM networks".
  

Google Reader:

• Folder/Tag support.
• Send item as email or MMS.

Important: Please delete any version of Jargong on your phone before installing this update.

Twitter everywhere

Twitter is on everybody´s mind this week. We released a small update (0.5.1) that includes more Twitter features. Now you can keep up to date with "What You And Your Friends Are Doing" right from the main menu in Jargong. Nice and simple, the Twitter way.

Oh, if you haven´t noticed it. 0.5.0 was released a couple of days ago with Flickr, Twitter, Google Reader, Instant Messaging .. even the website is brand new. Maybe we´ll send you a newsletter and tell you more about it some day soon..

Note this!

We love the notes feature in Flickr. This is how it looks like in Jargong. The yellow note in the top right corner tells you when there are notes available for a photo. Push "Show notes" in the menu and the notes will appear. Jump between notes with <, > (or 4, 6) keys.

Notes with yellow background are notes written by the photo author and notes with green background are notes written by anyone else, as always..

Only 28 days in February? Damn..

Right now we´re experiencing some problems connecting to the MSN network. We´re sorry about that and hope we can fix it ASAP.

About the new version: We´ll hopefully add the last things today and then we need a couple of days to test everything and update the website, but we´re getting there..