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 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!

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!