Hello everybody, 

The next generation football platform is up and running well. Of course we are still working very hard to improve every single detail but you can already enjoy some new fantastic features. 

In the next few weeks we’ll blog about the lastest and greatest features and functions and how to use them.

First, we’ve got an online first:

YOU have the power to create, edit, modify, be in charge of letting everyone know that you are an expert when it comes to your favourite team or footballer.

And you can do that in your own language. There are ten languages available on our new site: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Russian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese.

HOW TO CUSTOMISE YOUR FAVOURITE TEAM or PLAYER PAGE:

*Once you are at the OleOle home page you can go to the BROWSE & FIND tab and click on the CLUBS, PLAYERS or NATIONAL TEAMS link.

*Let’s go to WAYNE ROONEY’s page as an example.

*The link will take you to the player section main page and some of them will be shown on the right side of the page

http://www.oleole.com/search/players

*But if your favourite’s photo is not there it’s very simple to find him

*Go to the SEARCH BY TOPIC and start writing his name. OleOle will help you find him.

*If you still can’t find that footballer you can BROWSE by REGION, LEAGUES, CLUBS, etc…

*When you get to ROONEY’s page you will see a big orange box to add Rooney’s as your favourite. Do it.

*But unlike any other football side, here at OleOle you can do much more than that. How about adding some widgets to Rooney’s page so it will look the way you think it should look.

*On the left side of the page you will see a WIDGET DOCK with icons that represent the stuff that you can add to Rooney’s page.

*After you add all the fun stuff to his page you will be able to move those tables around and give the page the look and feel that you want.

You can also change the banner, the background colours… customise the page the way it fits your taste. Only OleOle gives you this power!

We will also assign page DIRECTORS in the future. Page Directors will have the privilege to control the look, the fell and the content of the page. To increase your chances to become a Page Director keep visiting your favourites’ pages, help maintain the widgets, start a blog, submit Throw-ins and prove you’re the biggest fan.

And there’s more to come…

~Cheers~

The fun has begun!  It's the big kick-off on OleOle for everyone who's helped us get through our Beta!  We've got an entirely new look (which is pretty cool), and just about everything on the site can be driven by fans just like you (and that is amazing).  OleOle is now structured to cover the entire world of professional football - 208 nations, 300 leagues, 5,000 teams and clubs, and more than 55,000 players!!

Think you can use these new functions?

• Personalized homepage - get snapshots of your favourite teams and players at a glance, and -  no more searching for teams or scores
• Ultimate team and player sections - control the layout, which widgets get displayed, the banners, the background, the look and feel of more than 60,000 sections - one for each team and player in the world
• Quicklinks - create your own navigation, so you can get to the sections of the site you really care about in a single click
• Facts & History -now YOU can write and edit facts, history and stats about any player or team - it's super easy

OleOle is the only place on the internet where football fans can create, unite, write, comment, vote, meet, discuss, customize, upload, watch, connect...and support their teams.

This is your chance to celebrate the great kick-off with us by logging on - and be sure to tell your mates!  

Happy New Year everyone! By Pelé's golden jersey - it's been a while since our last major update!

We've been hard at work, and are proud to announce the release of some cool new features. You bloggers and video junkies will especially like these:

Blog Customization

1) Top of the list is our blog theme customization and management interface. This awesome new feature can be found on My Blogs -> Settings & Layout -> Manage Themes. From here, you can select from our large and ever increasing range of pre-designed blog templates. Most importantly, you have total control over how you want your blog to look.

By clicking "Customize Theme" you will have access to the stylesheet and templates for your blog and blog posts. How cool is that? Be sure to read the associated Help file for more information on how to use the stylesheet and template editor.

Blog Widgets

2) Blogs now have widgets (little informative sections on your blog like "About Me" and "My Friends"), which you can drag and drop to easily change the look of your blog. You can even hide widgets you don't want, or choose who you'd like to see them. Sweeet!

New Video Player

3) We've polished up our video player to give you sharp new interface - it's now easier than ever to share, embed and watch your favourite football videos.

Revamped Live Scores Page

4) Our Live Scores page has been revamped to be even more user friendly than ever. Navigate quickly and easily to your desired team or league.

User Voting on Content

5) On the Throw-Ins page, you'll notice a new streamlined look and feel to the voting interface for submitted stories. In addition to this, we have also rolled out the same type of user voting on all kinds of other content as well, including Photos, Videos, Blog posts, and even comments on blog posts, videos etc.

This gives you, the fans, lots of opportunity to make your voice heard by voting up (or down) any kind of content on the site that you find good (or maybe not so good...).

Keep Me Logged In

6) Last and not least is one of our personal favourites - the "Keep me logged in" feature! This option is available on all login areas. Once selected, you will always be logged in to OleOle, even after you close your web browser. If you want to prevent your browser from keeping you logged in (e.g. a good idea if you are using a public terminal such as at an Internet cafe), just click the "Log Out" link in the top right of every page.

Stay tuned for some images and demo videos of these great new features, as well as lots more good stuff to come from your faithful team here at OleOle!

Hey football fans we've update the site with a couple of new features:

1) Import your blog from other sites (like Blogger, Wordpress etc.):

It's quick and easy to migrate your blog over to OleOle. Simply click the "Import" link on your Blogs page, choose the source of your existing blog and import it! Your posts and comments from the previous site will be moved in to OleOle.

2) Player and Team widgets:

What's a widget you might ask? It's a cool way to display informative feeds on your favourite teams and players.

In addition, you can add our widget code to your own website or homepage, or even other blog pages! You'll find these widgets on the individual teams and players page, or you can use the widget search feature here.

3) Wiki's for teams and players:

Fancy yourself as a football historian? Think you know everything there is to know about a team or player? Show us, and everyone else what you know!

Each team and player has their own wiki page, where you can create articles, edit, or add to existing articles. Any registered OleOle user can contribute to their favourite wiki.

Till next time,

Ole!Ole!

Hey OleOle fans!

We've been busy as usual bringing you additional features and updates to the site:

1) Our 2007 blogging contest has kicked off, and you need to be in it to stand a chance of winning a trip to Tokyo Japan to see the FIFA Club World Cup. Our 2006 winners got to watch the best matches, got the best seats, and got to interview star players with their press passes and credentials! Don't forget to vote for your favourite blog either - but remember, you can only vote once! You can see the current contenders HERE.

2) We've added links to external sites like "digg" to your blogs. Readers can now submit your blogs to a number of sharing sites. Watch your readship grow!

3) Want to know exactly what time a football match is supposed to start, anywhere in the world? We've added a timezone feature which will let you specify which part of the world you're in! Any content that has time related information will be changed to match your local time. You can find this feature on your edit my profile page.

4) Got too many messages in your inbox? You can now select multiple messages and delete them with one click!

5) Now finally (and best of all), you can now organise your personal profile page any way you want! Drag and drop each section, and hide them if you don't want them shown.

For greater control, you can also select what is visible on your profile settings page.

Till next time. OLE! OLE!

Hi everyone! If you haven't already noticed, we've added a few new features and done some updates on existing functions:

Videos

You can now upload your videos, browse and watch videos and embed any OleOle videos to other sites as well! To get started click the Videos link.

From here you'll be able to browse the currently available videos. Click the Upload Video link to get to your video uploads page. Simply fill in some details on the video, and proceed to step 2, where you select the file (you can uploada just about any kind of movie file, e.g., .avi, .wmv, .mov)

Once uploaded, the file will take several minutes to process (or longer if there are lots being processed).

Group Discussion Boards

All groups now have their own discussion forum! Group managers can choose to make it a private board, visible only to group members, or to make it public. Select the Edit option from your group Control Panel to make your changes.

Blogging Improvements

News

You can now leave comments and rate news articles even though these articles are not provided or hosted by OleOle. To see this feature in action, click here for an example, or on a link for any news article on the Home Page.

In the Loop

We have a new layout showing What your friends have been doing on OleOle in the past 7 days. Click here for your In the Loop page.

Ratings

We've added a ratings feature for blog posts and photos - The system is very easy to use, and provides 5 stars that the user clicks on to provide a rating. The best way to understand this is to try it out for yourself.

Look for the row of stars and click on a star to rate the content. You can delete and update your rating at any time!

The OleKick Facebook Game

The objective is to kick the ball to a friend on Facebook, who then kicks the ball on to another friend, and so on, till 11 different people have passed the ball around. The last person then takes a shot at goal and the whole team scores!

Stats are collected on all players and all teams to create the leader board, so players can try to get onto the top scorers list of all time, or fastest team to score list, etc.

There are 12 types of kicks to choose from with cool icons to go with it.

Everyone can play, even people who don’t know much about football, so everyone should have a go and try starting up a new game.

The link to the game can be found on the OleOle Football apps page on facebook.

Our big news for this week is the launch today of OleOle's flagship "app" for the Facebook platform!

For the Facebook users reading this, you are most likely already familiar with using one or more of the many apps available to plug into your Facebook profile. Well now you can get a super football fix while on Facebook with our new app!

You'll be able to add teams and players to your profile and proudly show your support with some cool badges. But unlike some other apps, that's only just the beginning. The profile badges link you in to complete "OleScout" pages with the latest news, live scores, blogs, photos, fan wall, even links to other Facebook fans of the same teams and players!

Here's a sneak peak at a profile box with a few teams and players added:

You do need to have a Facebook account first, and after you are logged in to your Facebook, click on this link to go to add the app: http://www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2500446844

We have more cool features that will be constantly rolling out over the next few weeks so go ahead and get started by adding the new app to your Facebook profile, and spread the word around to all your other footie mad friends as well!

Exciting news everyone! Our Fantasy Football is now up and running!

Please go take a look, and start playing! It's completely free!

We have great prizes for you, including a trip to the Euro 2008 final, and chances to watch matches LIVE in the Premiership, La Liga, Serie A, French Ligue 1 and Bundesliga. And that's not all, we've also got Playstation 3's, PSPs, iPods, jerseys, video games, and other goodies to give away. Theres loads for everyone to win!

The main game is OleOle's "European Super League", where you get to pick the players from around the top divisions in England, Spain, Italy, France and Germany, all in the same team. It's a completely unique game, and one that we hope will be very, very popular.

And not just that, but we've also got separate games for the English Premiership, Spanish La Liga, Italian Serie A, French Ligue 1 and German Bundesliga, and there's no limits on what you can play - just play one game, or play all of them!

Get started now!  

Well we've been up and running for a while now and garnering a steady and ever-increasing flow of visitors, but we'd still like to keep getting better and better.

I've started a thread on the discussion forum where you can give us your ideas and suggestions , and discuss the features and functions of OleOle and what you like and don't like, and what you'd like to see in the future.

So just click here !

Thanks!