• Upgraded to the more powerful Python 2.5 Release.
• Upgraded the code to the sparkling new Django 1.0.
• Added the ability to easily add photos — service starting with Flickr, more services will be added as we go on.
• The same goes for videos, starting with YouTube and more services will be added as we go on.
• Users can also submit any other Cricket related articles.

The upgrade to Python 2.5 and Django 1.0 is rather technical and I won’t even discuss the details here. But it should be fun to talk a bit about the new additional services added to oCricket and more coming in future.

Flickr

Flickr is the super awesome Photo Sharing website and we wanted users to easily add Cricket photos via Flickr. With this beta release, we’ve added that and we would love to see you try it out. More other Photo sharing sites — Smugmug, Picasa, Photobucket — and lot more will be added pretty soon.

YouTube

YouTube is to Videos as Flickr is to Photos. Along with the ability to add Flickr Photos to oCricket, users can now submit/add videos from YouTube very easily. More other Video sites will be added soon.

Try them out and let us know your feedbacks.

Login with your username or associated email

While the option to use your existing Facebook, Gmail/Google/Orkut, Yahoo! accounts (OpenID) to login to Cricket is in the work, we have already made it easier for users to login using either their username or the email associated with oCricket.

Re-freshed, new design coming soon

Recently, we were able to persuade Adel Anwar to be part of the oTeam. The new User Interface which have been brainstormed, discussed amongst the oCricket team and carefully designed by Adel Anwar is on its way. We’ll be upgrading to the new design around early 2009.