Feb

24

2008

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We’re more than just social news!

11:50PM by Hoc

It’s almost been a year since we first put out our version of a social news application. Since then, we’ve added tons of new features, undergone two redesigns, had over 40,000 submissions, and added two new communities, Ziggytek for cars and Jetdrop for gadgets. Suffice it say, we’ve been busy, but this year is going to be much bigger! When we first started doing this, the idea was to organize all the information related to a community—the news articles, the blog postings, the photos, the videos, the podcasts...everything. We wanted to make a central, easy to navigate resource that was all encompassing and invaluable to the niche communities we serve. Social news is the first application we launched towards that end. We plan to launch five more applications over the course of the year to create something we like to call, a social application suite; a Microsoft Office of social applications if you will. Some of these applications, blog, wiki, and forum will be available live in just a few weeks.

Speaking of blogs, we plan to bring in a lot of talented, experts in their communities, to write on various things happening within the Mixr network and on things related to communities we serve. More on that later. There’s also at least five new communities launching this year, with the next three being fashion, politics, and video games.

What’s really great about combining all these applications and communities together is that one user name, one profile, one friends list, one messaging system, one reputation, and one login will work across the entire Mixr network!

The user feedback has been interesting to hear and we always encourage comments and suggestions about everything. In general, there’s going to be more opportunities to earn points and gain reputation within a community and more awards icons and real world rewards for the more dedicated members. This blog will be updated on a much more regular basis so check back often for new features and details!

Dec

20

2007

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Happy Holidays

12:36PM by aikyrie

Nov

12

2007

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Email Spoofing and Misplaced Frustration

12:35PM by aikyrie

Mixr Media acquires lots of used domains for potential expansion sites. It would seem like some of them, notably fineweek.com and okeh.com, have been used extensively by spammers. Today, I got email from a Mr. Troy Watson asking me to be responsible and do something about it. Here’s the entirety of that email:

I would appreciate if you would eliminate me from all of your data bases. I recieve 10 e-mails a day from you and request to be removed and get nowhere. Please be responsible.

Oct

12

2007

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Ningin Upgrades

12:35PM by aikyrie

9:19 EST: We’ll be starting the upgrades to Ningin in a few moments. We expect the site to be down for at least five hours during this process. Thanks for your patience and sorry for any inconveniences.

Oct

5

2007

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New Design, New Features, New Websites

12:30PM by aikyrie

We’ve been hard at work at improving both the interface and the feature set of Ningin. The goal is for a user experience that’s even more intuitive and easy than the current design. We listened very closely to your suggestions basing a lot of changes on your feedback and the feedback of our beta testers. These changes to Ningin will take place on 10/11 and we would have to shut down the site to do so. Sorry in advance for any inconvenience.