Aug

13

2008

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Ningin Down for Design Change

02:21AM by Hoc

This is only going to take 15 minutes at most, so it’ll be back online soon.

Ok, it took closer to 1.5 hours. I’m blaming it on Internet Explorer, both 6 and 7. Read more about the new design on this Ningin blog post.

Aug

8

2008

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server glitches

12:17AM by Hoc

We’ve been incorporating a lot of code today which has caused some problems that as of now has been fixed. We’re sorry about the downtime but all of our sites will be online in a few hours. We’re especially sorry to those who participate in our weekly America’s Best Dance Crew chat on Ningin.com.

Updates will be provided if more any more bad stuff happens.

Jun

18

2008

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Useful Tips #2

01:00PM by Hoc

People have been asking this for an invite friend feature awhile back and we’ve added it a couple of weeks ago. It’s pretty much what you would find in other sites that have a social networking component to it. To access it log in and go to:

My Home -> Friends -> Invite Friends.

Add as many email addresses as you want and whenever they accept the invite you and your invitee will automagically be friends. Even if someone else invited the same person or if they accept the invitation under a different email address they’ll be added to your friends list and you’ll get credited for the invite. What does being credited for the invite get you? Nothing much now, but something very important soon!

Another new feature is the ability to see your friend’s request in the login area. With our universal login system, you’ll see the friend’s request no matter which Mixr community you visit.

There’s been a dozen of quiet bug fixes as well and everything is a work in progress folks, so thanks for your patients. Our efforts right now are on our microsites that we’re developing with our content partners and our video streaming solution. I’ll go into more details about those in a later post.

Also, you’ll find many of the Mixr staff at the AAFilmLab 72 Hour Shootout launch party that our Ningin community is sponsoring. It’ll in lower Manhattan this Friday 6/20 at 6pm.

Jun

4

2008

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Microsites for Niche Communities

11:27AM by Hoc

In theory, Mixr Media has the capabilities to launch any number of communities using our suite of social applications. So far, all the communities we’ve launched have been areas of passionate interest for members of our staff. It’s always been important for us to be a part of the communities we build and not just the host.

The goal we have with Ningin is the goal we have for every one of our communities – we want it to be the definitive resource for the niche that it serves. In Ningin’s case, it’s Asian media. Today, we took a big step towards that by partnering up with the Asian American Film Lab and their 72 Hour Shootout short film competition. We’ll be creating a special microsite for them where their members and our users can watch streaming videos of all the participants and read blog updates provided by our own Ningin bloggers. The microsite will be live on June 16th. There’s more to it than just that, so read the full press release for more details.

So far this is our first partnership and our first microsite. It’s been a lot of fun and something we would like to do more of in the future.

May

30

2008

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Short Downtime and Quick Repair Service

03:04PM by Hoc

We had a slight hiccup today when a database table crashed around 2:40pm EST. It had a nice cascade effort across our entire network eventually leading to a downtime of about 60 mins. Ningin was down a bit longer around 75 minutes, for those keeping tabs. This is actually the first time any of our sites have been offline for something non-maintenance or update related.

We apologize for any inconvenience during that time and while we can’t promise it won’t happen again, we do promise to resolve in as quickly as we can.