This release has been in the works for 3 weeks, but thankfully there’s the holidays, shopping, and partying to blame it on…

What’s new this release:

• Trip embeddability: build your trips on Zipalong and then include them in other web pages, such as your blog. More on this below.
• The newsfeed is now filtered correctly based on the privacy settings of the items listed in the feed, even for news from the past.
• You can now change your email from the account settings dialog, if you so desire.
• We’ve added the ability to rotate a picture to the left too, as rotating a picture 3 times to obtain the same effect is sort of annoying.
• New users can get in the site without having to first confirm their email. Instant gratification is not all that bad…
• People with multiple accounts can now merge the accounts during the sign-up process. This is particularly handy if you created an account when you signed up using your Facebook account, and then decided to create another one using a regular email address.
• And last but not least, quite a few feedbacks have been addressed.

Trip Embeddability

You can now embed trips that you build on Zipalong in other pages, just like you embed Youtube videos. The eye-candy should tell the rest of the story:

You click the “Embed” link:

Copy the HTML snippet:

And once you embed it in the page, you get something like so (this is what you get from clicking the “See a demo” link from the above dialog):

Default account email

You can now change it (but you can also use the old one to login to Zipalong). Here’s how to do it:

Feedbacks

We’ve received a lot of good feedbacks lately, and we are hard at work implementing some of the good ideas that were suggested, so stay tuned!