It hasn’t even been a month since we launched Popfly, but we already finished our first batch of updates for the site with a ton of new features! We have some notes up on our team blog about the new features; here’s an abbreviated list of my favorites:
- Silverlight Streaming-hosted videos, so Mac users get a great video experience, too!
- Block suggestions to help you build your mashups
- Loading the mashup designer is enormously faster in IE, but it’s also faster in Firefox as well
- Saving mashups should now be a bit faster (for all browsers)
- Mashups that hang should now be the exception rather than the rule
- Loading avatars in search results should be much faster (for all browsers)
- You can see when every member joined Popfly
- Slick inline UI for adding a dev key (no more popup blocker madness)
- You can now click someone’s block from their project page to instantly use it in a mashup
- Preview-time console to help power-users debug
- Tons of new blocks: Live Ads, Live Image Search, Live News, Live Search, Live Spellchecker, Phonebook, Bar Graph, PhotoShow, and Straw Poll
Additionally, the Popfly community has been hard at work with over 125 user-contributed blocks! These community-built services are incredibly cool, and feature such awesome things as:
- Virtual Earth 3D support
- World of Warcraft player data
- Weatherbug
- Top iTunes songs
Whew, what a list! Anyway, I need to get back to my features for our next release, which we’re in the thick of developing right now. We can’t wait to show you what’s coming next 
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1 Microsoft updates PopFly « Scobleizer // Jun 14, 2007 at 12:45 pm
[...] updates PopFly Microsoft’s mashup programming editor, PopFly, has been updated according to Aaron Brethorst, program manager on that team. Lots of updates. Looks great and is getting good uptake from the [...]
2 Fábio Pedrosa » Popfly updated! // Jun 14, 2007 at 4:59 pm
[...] can find a compiled list of changes and new features at Aaron Brethorst blog. [...]
3 Come get your fresh, updated Popfly! | The GenetiBlog // Jun 14, 2007 at 7:43 pm
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4 Popfly Updated! // Jun 15, 2007 at 12:57 am
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5 Mental block : Popfly updated and opened for Alpha testing // Jun 18, 2007 at 12:11 am
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6 Microsoft updates PopFly » Ecommerce Blog // Jun 18, 2007 at 2:04 am
[...] mashup programming editor, Popfly, has been updated according to Aaron Brethorst, program manager on that team. Lots of updates. Looks great and is getting good uptake from the [...]
7 Max // Jun 18, 2007 at 8:50 am
Aaron I’m very interested in the Popfly project and, in general, in the consumer-ization of middleware concepts (done so far also by Google and Yahoo).
I’m very curious about the direction you guys will give to Popfly. One of the first questions is if this project will remain in the consumer area or if it will cross the line and be directed to the smb market as a “burocracy killer” (what about having a trusted block offered by the government where you could connect your trusted block from accountancy?).
Max
8 aaron // Jun 18, 2007 at 9:44 am
Hey Max - I don’t know if I am really in a position to answer this, but my boss has posted his thoughts on the matter. I suppose the best answer I can give you is that it’s too soon to tell
If you’d like, please post your thoughts on the matter to our Popfly forum.
Thanks,
Aaron
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