The Dandelife Blog

A number of new features in this version. Here’s a list:

• What color is your privacy?
• Contextual timelines - tags and people are related to the author first, the world second.
  • Cleveland stories
  • My Cleveland stories
  • Stories from 2005
  • My stories from 2005
• SIMILE Timeline Export
• Re-design of your vanity page.
• Putting your favorites on display.
• Ad sponsorship (Apple, yay!)
• Story page layout has changed.
• Adding tags has changed a bit.
• Download ALL of your stories.
• Photo slide show.
• Speed, speed, speed.
• Export your life in XML format.
• Emphasize the widget (widgetbox widget now available too).

Took out:

• People’s blog.
• Sidebar on the story page.

I also wanted to take a minute to thank everyone who is giving us feedback in the forums too. It really makes life a lot easier here at “Dandelife Central” (I use that term loosely since none of us working on the project actually lives in the same city). Without positive feeback, contructive criticism and complaints we would have to run on instinct alone. That said, our instincts can’t be that bad, but the words of our members is much, much better indeed.

Thanks to ALL who’ve made this place hum with activity. Keep sharing those stories!

For Screenshots and More explanation of the recently added features, please keep on reading . . .

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One Down, Eleven to Go

Here we are at the tail end of the first month of the year. The holidays are past the new year has just begun. Earlier this month we talked about New Years “intentions.” Dandelife is a good tool for chronicaling your success in those endeavors. But did you know that you can use Dandelife to automatically write your end-of-year holiday letter? It true! Here’s how:

1. Come back to Dandelife throughout 2007.
2. Write about your memories while they are fresh.
3. In December, invite your friends and family to your dandelife!

Would you like to see what Kelly did in 2006? Click here: Kelly’s fun-filled 2006

Dandelife News

• You will be happy to know that Dandelife is filled with new features for 2007.  Be sure to check them out!
• Dandelife, the work-out! A few moves to help fulfill on those good intentions.
• More people.
• More stories.
• More photos and videos.

May your 2007 pages be filled with friends, family, tight abs, and happiness.

Thrive,

Emily Dunn

Chief Message-Maker, Dandelife.com

• Caroline M
• Kevin C
• Aly Medina
• Maria Pentkovski
• Meredith Peruzzi
• Brainy Brimston
• Veronika Gerka

• “The Concept of Perfect”, by MJC Go
• “Snow Summit Snowboarding Sunday”, by Anthony Tanaka
• “Little Girl in Kathmandu”, by Caroline M
• “Zenyatta Mondatta Tour”, by Caroline M
• “Down”, by Jonathon D. Colman
• “Rally”, by Jonathon D. Coman
• “Travel in Scandinavia, Loneliness and Meets”, by Loris Junod
• “The Watch”, by Joe Sperzan
• “Welcome to Parris Island”, by Joe Sperzan
• “The Time When I Went to Sea for 6 Months on an Aircraft Carrier”, by Andrew Ross
• “The Time When I met my Wife”, by Andrew Ross
• “The Lazy Pigs in Prague”, by Kevin C
• “My First Ring and Bracelet”, by Ben Wilkoff and Kara Roux
• “I Accidently saw Marilyn Manson in Concert”, by Sara Dunn
• “We Brought Jeri Home”, by Maria Pentkovski
• “That Best Place”, by MalaKI Skogen Johnson
• “How I try to Balance my Life and the Rules to Giving People Grief”, by David Hodges
• “Awakenings”, by Joe Sperzan
• “Domina is 30″, by Scott Dunn
• “72 and Sunny, Christmas in San Diego”, by Samir Bhavnani

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Cheers to 2007!

Looking back

Each passing year brings new stories. Though it may be the first month of a brand new year, perhaps only now do we have the time to take stock of our recent holiday tales. Holy moly, was that 2006? It passed by so quickly!

In the spirit of looking back, why not take a moment to recall some of your recently-minted fond and fattening memories:

• Thanksgiving
• Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa
• New Year’s (share these photos!)
• For you, what was the highlight of 2006?

Looking forward

Now that 2006 is settled, here’s an idea for the New Year. Instead of resolutions (which most of us have already broken), I have decided to have intentions. Intentions just don’t seem so black-tie to me. For example . . .

This year I intend to:

• smell coffee before I drink it,
• be nicer to strangers,
• travel more,
• use “holy moly” in more sentences,
• get in touch with some old friends,
• and eat more cake.

Please also share your intentions with all of us. Tag your intentions stories with, you guessed it, “intentions”.

I wish you all occasions to eat cake this year! Welcome, 2007 !

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• “State Title”, by Joe Sperzan
• “I met Sophia Today”, by Joe Sperzan
• “Smiling at Old People”, by Emily Dunn
• “9/11″, by Jake McKee
• “Our First Date”, by John Frenette
• “”How to save a life”, and a portion of why I don’t smile”, by Anthony Tanaka
• “kindness 3: Multiple Sclerosis”, by mjc go
• “The Day I Met William, “His Stormy Cloud of Acid Rain Continues To Fall” “, by Bhuzwhaldi Gherengls
• “Life as a housewife”, by DG Amnot
• “Braskan Trip (The Road-Trip To Colorado)”, by Tag Hartman
• “Immigrated to the USA”, by Mario Casamalhuapa
• “Wrigley at Night”, by Kevin Makice
• “Falling off a cliff”, by John Gauntt
• “The Prowler Around My Sister’s House”, by John Gauntt
• “Birthing a baby in just 34 hours”, by Kevin Makice
• “Birthing a baby in just 34 hours”, by Kevin Makice
• “The Forest, The Yetti, and the Chickens who have lost their legs…”, by Joe Sperzan
• “New Years 2007″, by Joe Sperzan
• “My first Memory”, by Joe Sperzan
• “Roast”, by Jonathon D. Colman
• “Sentience”, by Jonathon D. Colman
• “First Memory”, by Kevin Makice
• “Monochrome”, by Amalia Culiuc
• “gap intelligence: It Starts”, by Gary Peterson
• “Running Shoes”, by Aaron Davis
• “The Morning Shift”, by Kevin Makice
• “The Quickest failed New Years Resolution in History”, by David Hodges
• “The Washington Storm”, by Matt Warren
• “How to avoid a cross language misunderstanding.”, by Roberto
• “Paytotheorderofofof vs. Dinosaur”, by Shawna Star
• “just an average day at work”, by caroline m
• “vows”, by Jonathon D. Colman
• “A Suicide”, by Josh Shartzer
• “The Christmas Present”, by Josh Shartzer
• “PSYCHO TANJOOBI”, by Roberto Maxwell
• “Antarctica”, by Jason Shim
• “Grief for “Angel”", by Jared
• “My 2nd Son was born.”, by S K
• “Alien for a day”, by Jared
• “Me, some nutter and the holy water.”, by Roberto
• “A very cold night and another brothel.”, by Roberto
• “The Good, The Bad, and The Criminally Insane”, by Jared Cox
• “Rest in Peace, Leo”, by Jared Cox
• “my bladder made me do it”, by The Benigma

• draco kodez
• Ianus Keller
• Roberto Maxwell
• Holding the Ground in Place, by Josh Shartzer
• 9 stories, by Jacqueline Daniels
• A longer “Now”, by Aaron Davis
• How it feels to be something on…….., by Gary Peterson
• Kevin Makice
• The Life and Times of The World According to the Old and New Testaments of La Divina Commedia of Jonathon D. Colman(or, “All’s Well That Ends Well”), by Jonathon D. Colman
• Joe Sperzan
• brittni bradford
• Emily Dunn
• 16 stories, by My Garden
• Kevin M
• Paul T
• John Frenette
• Distance Education

When a ‘Life Book’ Is All There Is to Recall a Childhood - New York Times

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Touching story about orphans and the memories they take with them in their life books. There are a few Dandelifers who have also had their share of foster home experiences - either as children themselves or as parents or siblings.