The latest release of Bloo is now available. This is the first full production release of Bloo and I'm so excited I'm snorting. This is huge news!

[Bill yells over his shoulder] "This is really huge news, right honey!?"

[Bill's wife replies from the next room] "What's really huge news?"

[Bill hollers back] "You know, silly, the first full production release of Bloo!"

[Bill's wife, quizzical] "The first full what of what?"

Oh well, I think it's pretty cool. :-)

Actually, Thinklings has been one of my test sites, so as features were developed they were deployed here; in other words, nothing huge is changing around here since we're already on 1.00. But if you're a Bloo user on a previous version, there's lots in this release that's an improvement over what you have, so you might want to download the latest version and do an upgrade. Once uploaded to your site, the upgrade takes just seconds.

And if you're not currently a user of Bloo, what's wrong with you? It's free, and getting better all the time. Be counter-cultural, people, and use Bloo. All the cool people are! (Plus, I'll be your best friend).

For a full list of new features and fixes, you can check out the Bloo Development Blog.

Below is a summary of some of what's new:

- Commenters can edit their latest comment for a period of around five minutes, even if they aren't logged on.

- Static pages are here! The bios and history in the left navbar are static pages.

- Bloggers can create Private posts, viewable only by other posters and administrators logged into the blog.

- If you're have a userid and password on the blog and you lose your password, the blog gives you a way to get a new one, quick and easy.

- We have a Contact extension SnapOn now, which allows you to contact the Thinklings via email (even though you won't be able to see our emails). It's in the left navbar.

- You may not have noticed, but the main page now has navigation links at the bottom to page backward and forward in the posts.

- Created the Favorite Posts extension SnapOn, which you can see in the left navbar.

- Fixed our RSS feed problems.

- Added a Comments RSS feed (both feeds are in the left navbar).

- Bloo now has a new logo (up at the top of this post)!

- Now we can send trackbacks as well as receive them (does anyone do trackbacks anymore?)

- Plus lots of other bug fixes and enhancements.

There's already lots of thought going into version 1.10, coming soon (hopefully).

Sorry for the commercial. You may now return to your regularly scheduled blog.