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May 16, 2007

Maxthon Addons site Launched

The beta site of Maxthon Add-ons for Maxthon 2.x have just been launched.

  • Support for Maxthon 2.0 filter packs
  • Better comment support
  • Items can be tagged
  • Profiles of add-ons and plugin-developers
There is also a link for how to create Maxthon 2.0 skins.


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May 07, 2007

Twitter Tools For Maxthon!

Good news for all you Twitter addicts! We just released the Twitter Sidebar plugin for Maxthon.Now you can view the latest messages from your Twitter friends right from the Maxthon sidebar! You can also post to twitter.

For Maxthon 1.x:
Attached File s_Twitter_Sidebar_1.0.0.zip

For Maxthon 2.0 (auto install):
Attached File s_Twitter_Sidebar_1.0.0.m2p

We also have the Twitter Toolbar plugin (Maxthon 2.0 only) for you to Twitt straight from the toolbar.

Attached File t_Twitter_1.0.0.m2p

If you want you can add me.


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April 29, 2007

Me & Bill Tai making the Maxthon Sign

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Bill Tai and me making the Maxthon sign before hiking the Arizona desert outside Phoenix.

April 24, 2007

Maxthon Fans: Frederik Hermann from Jajah

    Today I met with Frederik Hermann, responsible for marketing at the cool VoiP company Jajah outside the University Cafe in Palo Alto. Frederik is originally from Germany and is a passionate Maxthon user. He contacted me via Linkedin after I had thrown out the question: What should be Maxthon's EU/US distribution strategy. It's always great to meet new Maxthon user's and hear why they started to use Maxthon and what they think we can improve. Jajah is going to develop a plugin for Maxthon so keep you eyes open. Check out Jajah out!

April 01, 2007

Twitter For Maxthon!


Faster than a Twitt, Maxthon super plugin developer Neo101, created this cool Twitter toolbar for Maxthon 2.0 The toolbar enables you to post to Twitter straight from Maxthon. Add me as your friend.


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February 25, 2007

New: Spread Maxthon Site

User love as good as it gets! Once user (Nitrogen) loves Maxthon so much that he decided to set up a Spread Maxthon site! He has already posted banners, a home made YouTube video on why Maxthon beast Firefox etc. This is not an official site (but there will be in the near future..;), however, what can be better than fan-sites spreading the word? Great job & keep it up!

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January 29, 2007

Last.fm & Maxthon

More good news for music lovers! We've just released the Last.fm sidebar plugin for Maxthon. Now you can listen to Last.fm radio stations in your sidebar while you surf.
Choose the following stations:

  • User radio, listen to neighbor radio or recommended radio from a specific last.fm user
  • Tag radio, listen to "tagged" music, like " jazz" or "pop"
  • Artist radio, listen to similar artists or artist fan station for a specific artist
  • Your own last.fm station
  • The plugin can also display artist information (picture, related artists, top songs, top albums), last.fm user information (profile, recent tracks, weekly artist chart, recommendations and top artists).
  • Download it here!
  • Yet another great plugin from Neo101

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January 24, 2007

Pandora Sidebar For Maxthon

Good news for all you music lovers! Get the Pandora Sidebar for Maxthon. Now you can listen to music you like for free in your sidebar while you surf.

  • Change stations
  • Vote
  • Change Volume
  • Play, Pause and Skip current song

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January 18, 2007

Pandora, Last.fm, Upcoming and much more

We have some nice long awaited for plugins coming up soon:

I am especially excited about the Pandora, Last.fm and Upcoming plugins. And as always, if you have any specific plugin requests - please let us know.


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December 31, 2006

Updated: Facebook & BlogEx Plugins

More goodies to just before the New Year. Booth the Facebook and the BlogEx plugins have been updated making them event better. Do you have any special plugin requests? If so please leave a comment and we'll do our best make it happen.

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Google Spreadsheets Plugin

We just released another simple, but yet very useful plugin for you all to enjoy. The Google Spreadsheets plugin lets you:

• Access all your Google Spreadsheets
• View your recently viewed Spreadsheets
• Launch a new spread sheet in one click & Upload your existing Excel Spreadsheet  to Google Spreadsheets

Very handy! Kudos to Neo101!

For more info on Google Spreadsheets go to: docs.google.com

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October 01, 2006

Blog Editor for Maxthon

We just released the first version of BlogEx, a blog extension for Maxthon.  Now you can:

  • Add posts to your blog quickly with this Maxthon Sidebar plugin!
  • Post to your blog without having to go to your blog
  • Just open the sidebar, press "New article" or "blog this" (if you like to blog about the page your currently viewing),enter a message in the WYSIWYG editor and publish it to the web!
  • Add multiple blog accounts to the plugin, view your latest posts, edit/update your latest posts,open and save "drafts", add categories to posts and add new posts of course.
This plugin uses the MetaWeblog API in combination with the Blogger API.
  • Wordpress
  • Windows Live Spaces
  • Typepad
Kudos to SiC who started the development & Neo101 who took upon himself to finnish it off. I have personally waited long for this extension as a well as many other bloggers I know. Keep in mind that this is the first take and any comments and useful input is more than welcome.


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September 25, 2006

Google Bookmarks Sidebar

The Google Bookmarks Sidebar Plugin for Maxthon was recently released.

This Plugin:

  • Loads your Google Bookmarks favorites in the Maxthon Sidebar
  • Let’s you easily add, edit and delete you Google Bookmarks
  • Includes an incremental (search as you type) searchbox

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September 19, 2006

Maxthon Developers Conference in Beijing

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Last weekend we invited 10 of our most active Chinese Maxthon developers to Beijing for the first Maxthon developer conference. We had developers coming from all parts of China to the Maxthon headquarters in Beijing. The first day was spend at the Maxthon headquarters meeting with Jeff Chen, Maxthon CEO and founder, the rest of the Maxthon team and a visit to the Tian'nemen square. The second day included a trip to the Great Wall and the Kunming Lake and the Yihe palace. The conference was a hit and we have decided to do a similar developers conference for the international audience in Beijing, time and place yet to be decided. Here’s some picture from the event by Richard (one of the main Maxthon team developers).

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Above is Jeff Chen.. Maxthon founder and CEO welcomes the the crowd and spoke about Maxthon’s history and what lies ahead.

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Breakfast and another presentation about the latest development by the Maxthon team

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Group photo in front of the Maxthon entrance and a happy Maxthon gang at the Great Wall (see the new cool Maxthon flag?).

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The obligatory pictures at Tian’anmen Square, Beijing. For several of the developers this was their first time in Beijing.

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Hanging out at the Kunming Lake, Yihe Palace.

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Saying goodbye is always difficult, but see you again soon. This was the first, but certainly not the last Maxthon developers conference. It was great Maxthon developers bonding after having only known each others by their screen names before in the Maxthon forum. It was also very valuable for us to get input from these core users – after all it is great users like these that makes Maxthon the success that it is.

September 14, 2006

Meeting with abc@home in Hong Kong

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Yesterday I had the opportunity to meet one of the most active Maxthon forum members and plugin developers, Alik Yong a.k.a abc@home. Alik is really a very nice guy who is a finance controller by training, but hangs out it the Maxthon forum when ever he can. We had a great time together chatting about Maxthon and trying to hunt down a Camcorder in a terribly rainy Hong Kong. Unfortunately it was so wet and humid that the picture came out all fuzzy. Anyway it was fun to meet yet another face behind those cryptic screen names. I will try to do this more often when I can and even Vlog it as well in the future. A great thanks to Alik for helping me get a camcorder and a MacBook Pro (do I dare to say that here?) in a soaking wet Hong Kong.

September 11, 2006

Guide to Create Maxthon Plugins

We just released a long waited for Guide to create Maxthon Plugins (PDF). This Guide gives you a clear overview on how to create:

  • Sidebar Plugins
  • Toolbar Plugins
  • COM – Plugins

Please feel free to pass it on to any services out there that you would like to develop plugins for in Maxthon. Since this is the first version, we would love to hear from you on how we can make it better and if anything is missing etc.

September 10, 2006

Typepad, Technorati, coComment in Maxthon

Maxthon has finally got a number of Blog-related Plugins:

  • Technorati
  • Typepad
  • Co.comments

Technorati

The Technorati Sidebar plugin functions similarly to the Technorati Mini . In addition you can:

Typepad

With the Typepad Plugin, you can easily post about something you’ve read Online to your Typepad blog. Just select the text on a website, press the plugin button and post it to your blog. It works just like the “Quick Post” bookmarklet, but can also copy the full html-code from any selection.

Cocomments

The co.Comments Plugin allows you to:

  • Track all the comments you make on blogs and other sites like Digg or forums etc. You can then view the follow-up comments on co.Comment.com .
  • Besides working just like the coComment bookmarklet in Internet Explorer, it also includes links to the coComment homepage and "Your conversations".

Hope that you enjoy them!