Yesterday evening the LLGFF (London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival) opened with a diverse range of shorts and high profile queer-centric film and documentary. I’ve listed some of the festival highlights below:
Tied Hands
Uzi, a gay former dancer dying of Aids, is being nursed through his final days by his mother in her Tel Aviv apartment. [...]
Last weekend we went live with with two important features - Commenting and Profiles.
You are now able to comment on all of the stories appearing across the QueensSpeech publishing network. You can do this by selecting the ‘Post your comment’ link (which appears underneath each story extract) and then registering for a new QS account [...]
QueensSpeech was featured prominently in the LLGFF (London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival) email news bulletin today (under ‘Festival Recommends’). Thanks BFI !
You can sign up to the newsletter here or view the online version of today’s email here.
We are proud to announce that this year we will be partnering with the 22nd London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, and have been awarded official ‘online partner’ status by the British Film Institute - organisers of the event.
So what does this mean for QS? Over the next few weeks we’ll be publishing over 150 [...]
This week we passed the 30,000 articles mark! - the number of individual stories we are tracking across the QueensSpeech social publishing network. To support this increased number, our in-house analytics application is now tracking over 770,000 events relating to those articles.
I’ll be spending the next few days re-optimising the caching system used on our [...]
We have recently launched a new feature in the News, Gossip, Opinion, Sexy and Adult sections which will make it much easier for you to find the freshest and most popular content published on QS.
Introducing the new ‘content filter’ bar:
by default, content published within the last 24hrs will be displayed in descending date order. You [...]
Last weekend we went live with our new ‘related’ stories feature. Now when viewing a story, directly underneath the summary you’ll see a list of up to 5 similar stories identified by QueensSpeech (view example).
We had originally been using Yahoo’s Search API to pull together this content, but in recent weeks the quality of Yahoo’s [...]
After what seems an eternity, we’re back and more useful than ever (we hope). Last year we released our ‘Play’ version of QueensSpeech - an experiment in finding new ways to do things by breaking industry norms and best practices. Crazy as it sounds, it was really useful to launch with something that went [...]