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39 Second Single!
Meet Liza. She’s 39 and single. She’s the 39 Second Single. From Internet dating to singles mixers to fix ups and mix ups, Liza Persky dates so you don’t have to. After years of disasterous dating stories, Liza has taken her tales online to share a real laugh at the single life in New York City.
Liza dates so you don’t have to… sounds great right? It is. Liza’s misadventures are a blast to follow and simultaneously keep the viewers wondering: Could this one finally be “the one”?
This new sevenload Special is about the life of a 39 year old single New Yorker, who bravely takes on the NYC dating scene and sheds some light onto the what being 39 and single means to one woman.
Spooktacular Halloween Costume Contest!!
Calling all ghouls, goblins, witches and werewolves! The time has come for the very first ever sevenload Spooktacular Halloween Costume Contest! This scare-tastic photo contest is sure to send shivers up your spine! Upload your best shot of your Halloween costume onto the sevenload Spooktacular Halloween Special and you could win a brand new Apple iPod Nano and up to 5 pounds of Halloween candy!
sevenloaders are invited to rate all of the photos based on their choice for the best costume. The total ratings will be tallied and a winners will be announced on November 15th. First prize is a new Apple iPod Nano and 2 lbs. of Halloween candy, second prize is 5 lbs. of Halloween candy, and third prize is 2 lbs. of Halloween candy. So get into the spirit of the season and upload and rate those photos now- and we’ll scare ya later! 
This English Blog…
This is just a general announcement that I, Jessica aka “Greenbean”, will be taking over (for the most part) here on the English Blog! But don’t worry, for those of you who have been following the German Blog, it can still be found here.
Now, to give you all a little background on me: I’m an American from Albuquerque, NM and am in charge of Country Management and translations for the English site. I work on the site’s texts personally and am also responsible for sevenload Specials for the English site. I am super excited to finally be releasing this Blog (it’s been a long time in the making) and am really looking forward to getting even more involved in the sevenload Community. I’m hoping to give you all continued help, tips and advice all about sevenload, and also write about some new, fun and interesting topics!
As far as Specials are concerned on the site- we’re really starting to expand internationally and are of course, looking for new Specials and Special ideas. If anyone is interested in a Special on sevenload, please contact us here.
Looking forward to seeing how this Blog develops! 
Jessica Ludewig
Country Management USA & UK
PS: I will be joined soon by another English native speaker, Paula, sometime in the very near future! So check back!
John Lore Photo Special
John Lore has the newest photographer special on sevenload. And this one’s really special, because he is officially the first American photographer to have a special!
A little background on John Lore: He hails from the eclectic city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the picturesque southwest region of the U.S. Along with photography, John’s artistic proficiencies include graphic design, film editing, and award-winning cinematography. Though formally trained in the art of photography at the University of New Mexico, John infuses his photos with an air of novelty not commonly seen in the art of portraiture. His portfolio includes an extensive collection of actors, models, bands, and family portraits. His preferred approach when working with a new client is to take a chance and see what unfolds.
The theme for John’s first set of photos on this site will capture his interpretation of Woman’s Image and the conundrum of edginess, fashion, charm, and spirit that defines the female character. In this series, he endeavors to portray the reality of his subject while presenting her in an entirely unique manner.
New RSS Feeds
This topic might not be everyone’s cup of tea, but we felt it was necessary to bring up in the context of enhancing our support of Web 2.0 features- that’s why we decided to integrate this new feature onto sevenload:
As a response to requests from several sevenloaders, we’ve decided to “pimp” the RSS Feeds on sevenload.
Under the section “My sevenload” you’ll find a large selection of general and also personalized RSS Feeds that can provide you with the information you want to have. The adjacent screenshot with its numerous options speaks for itself.
Don’t forget that the RSS Feeds always refer to the current page on sevenload: on a photo page for example only the RSS Feed for the comments of each of the respective photos will be displayed in the central option menu for the RSS Feeds.
Our developers and designers have also incorporated a graphic with the famous RSS icon for every functional box in the lower corner, so that when required the information from the box can also be conveniently viewed in the feed reader– as shown in the screenshot below.
Alongside the RSS Feed we have also integrated an RSS Feed corresponding to the new episodes of the specials on every sevenload channel, e.g. sevenload TV. This makes it possible to compile exactly what you personally want to see on sevenload from the large selection of feeds in combination with the new RSS Feeds.
We would be delighted to include your ideas and wishes in our to-do list– send us an E-mail or make a comment here in the Blog. We will be starting to work hard on developing the features as soon as time allows!
Update: the individual RSS feeds for the Channels will possibly be adjusted afterwards. However, this should pose minimal problems for the users. We’ll keep you updated!
New Community Features
sevenload has made a couple of enhancements which I’d like to discuss here- and in fact, the best way to understand these new features is to check them out yourself!
Automatic “Continue” Feature after Uploading
Normally, your uploaded photos and videos are first shown on sevenload only after you have clicked on “continue” in the upload section. In order to save yourself from this extra click, you simply have to check in the box that you’d like to automatically continue after uploading. The automatically continue box can be found right in the upload section on sevenload.
Points and Guestbook on “My sevenload”
Until now, you were only able to see your Guestbook and point information directly on your own profile, but thanks to our super developers, it’s now possible to see this on your “My sevenload” page. Thanks to our team for integrating this new feature, giving us just a bit more “usability” on our pages.
New Blog Entries
It’s now possible to see what the newest sevenload Blog entries are on the “My sevenload” page (right at the top). Becuase you should always know what’s going on in the Blog, right?…
More Info about coComment on sevenload
A few weeks ago, we were able to integrate coComment on sevenload. Due to technical reasons, we have decided to adjust coComments integration for sevenload users.
Effective immediately, coComment will be deactivated for sevenload users as a standard- this does not mean however, that the service will no longer be available on sevenload. On the contrary, whoever wants to actively use coComment on sevenload simply has to go to the “My sevenload” section of their account and activate coComment (which is found under Communications Options)- or of course, de-activate it again. Any other future changes that are made to coComment’s accessability on sevenload will be discussed here on the Blog. We already gave a brief introduction/explanation of coComment in this Blog entry.
Tip: Tagging Photos and Videos
Tonight, I’m going to give the sevenload Community something to read. A lot of users have been asking about how to properly tag photos and videos lately. Tags are the search terms and keywords with which you can “collaboratively index” your photos and videos in the sevenload Community. The search function on sevenload can only be optimally used by other users when well selected and relevant tags are used.
Your photos and videos can only be found on sevenload when they are linked with tags. Tags may be added to photos/videos even while they are uploading. In addition to serving a search function, tags also help describe the photo/video in a way that doesn’t always show up in the title. But it’s actually such tagged “moments” in a video for example, that make it catch a user’s attention. *Something important to note here: this is why it is so important to properly and relevantly make tags for the actual contents. Irrelevant or biased keywords such as “sexy”, “women” or “funny” are not reletive to a photo of a white beach and though it might make the user happy to have some many views of their pics it is actually tag misuse and is misleading to the other users searching for particular contents.
Whoever misuses tags (and let alone doesn’t tag at all) makes their photos and videos difficult to find for their friends and other users. Your content viewers could quickly lose interest in viewing your photos/videos when they discover that the actual contents of your works are not as they were described. A beautiful landscape photo can be something truly moving, but when such as photo is tagged with “funny“, well it just doesn’t fit. In fact, in some cases, our Support Team will delete such misused tags for you- and sometimes, in more extreme circumstances, they might write you a warning about misusing tags.
However, correctly tagging is the best way to share your photos/videos with other users and for the whole world to be able to find them. Because of this, sevenload has made it possible for any user to add tags to a photo/video- however, the photo/video’s user has the ability to delete any other users tags at any time. sevenload’s large Community is all about togetherness and we are always happy to see new results pop up in search results- sometimes tagged by the user themselves and sometimes by their fellow user.
P.S.: You can find further information about tags on Wikipedia (here too).
coComment: Track Comments on sevenload
For quite some time now, we’ve offered our users the chance to follow what’s going on for all comments made on their photos/videos on the “What’s New?” page.
As a small addition to this (to add a bit more Web 2.0ness to sevenload) we’ve decided to integrate coComment onto sevenload. coComment allows users to track not only their own comments being made, but also those by others (made on other users photos/videos).coComment makes it possible for people to follow various comments made on websites, blogs and forums (even those that are already months old).
For most users, this feature is not something that is an absolute must-have, but we hope that it will prove to be both a handy and welcome tool addition for both bloggers and non-bloggers alike.
How does coComment work on sevenload?
The easiest method of properly using coComment on sevenload is to create a user acocunt on coComment and then install the extension or plugin (for example, for Firefox). But, simply signing up with coComment does not mean that it will automatically work on sevenload, but rather insured that you have access to coComment and also that it is compatible with your internet browser. In order to it to work on sevenload, go to your account settings and under notifications. Under Communications Options you will see the option to use coComment. After selecting yes and saving the changes, you will be able to track comments made on any photos/videos by checking off the “Track this Conversation” button (which is found just below the comment box for the corresponding photo/video). After that, you may look at the overview of all tracked comments on coComment itself.
Conclusion
If you are already using coComment on other blogs and forums should already have an idea of what it should be like on sevenload. If you are not yet familiar with coComment it might help to take a look at their getting started section. Adding coComment is surely a good addition in supporting more Web 2.0 features on sevenload.
Network Component Outages
Due to numerous outages of central network components in our shared server network, we’ve had some outages this evening.
We are working as fast as we can to solve this problem and ask for your understanding and patience in the meantime.
Update: Our service provider has found the problem and fixed it, sevenload is back online at 100%.
