Grazr Blog

One of our two data centers (two different hosting providers) lost network connectivity recently and we’ve been dealing with the repercussions of that event. You may experience some grazr site and widget hiccups while we sort out moving our traffic to different machines. I apologize if this is causing any problems for anyone.

It’s been a long time since I’ve had to write a server update, we’ve taken the reliability of our back end *very* seriously and I’d like to think people have noticed. Other than the occasional network hiccup, our system has been extremely solid for many months now. Unfortunately we’ve been in full on firefighting mode […]

The widget has learned some new, relatively powerful, tricks over the past couple weeks. We not only added iPhone support, but we’ve also added a framework for anchors and expansion control that enables some neat applications. We’ve been asked for anchor-type functionality by more than a few people. These new arguments allow you to […]

It took a little longer than I’d hoped, but Grazr widget code now runs really smoothly on the iPhone! Part of the delay was trying to figure out how to integrate the new widget behaviors with the site in a way that made sense.
When you go to the grazr iPhone site, you will see […]

James has a nice little application of using Grazr with Twitter to display the Twitter accounts of people attending the Irish blog Awards. Neat. The names he came up with, Twazr and Grittir make me wince a bit though. He added another possibility in the comments, could it be a twiizer?

We’ve got a new private label grazr that we’ve created for StoryNory, a site for podcasts and stories for kids.

Here’s the widget to put on your own page!

Yes it’s finally officially official, we’ve enabled grazr themes! This has been an oft requested feature and, ironically, it’s been in the underlying widget code for a long time. We really didn’t feel comfortable releasing this capability until now because of all the changes we had been doing to the frame and internal structures of […]