Happy holidays from the team at Magnify.net.

In this update, we have a new feature announcement, an invitation to Magnify's live community conference call on December 9, and a link to Connecting India's channel with news from the Mumbai terrorist attacks,

Photo Gallery

Things have been busy here, and we've just rolled out some new code that we wanted to share with you. It's a collection of features that we've been asked for for a while -- all related to photo upload management and presentation.

So, today Magnify.net is pleased to announce the beta release of Photo Gallery support!

Just in time for the most photogenic season of the year, we've got a bunch of new features and functions to make photo uploads easier, photo management easier, and idenity around content items clearer.

Here's how it works:

* User Photo Upload. On most channels, photo support is already enabled, and you are ready to accept photo uploads from your channel members.

To post a photo, just go to your channel's submission page and upload an image file in the same way you would post a video.

You can turn photo upload on or off from your channel's administration console:
>> http://YOURSITE.magnify.net/admin/customize/formats />
* Photo Gallery View. The photo gallery is an easy way for your visitors to explore the most recent photos uploaded to your site, one at a time, or in a slide show.
>> http://YOURSITE.magnify.net/watch/album/images />
* Photo Gallery Link Module. You can make it easy for visitors to your site to find the photo gallery by posting the "View Photo Gallery" module on your home page. You'll find it on page 3 of the "Tools" tab in your home page design area:
>> http://YOURSITE.magnify.net/admin/design/module_gallery/ />
* Thumbnail Icons for Photos and Video. You can distinguish between photos and videos because the photos have a small camera icon in their bottom-right corner. You can disable that photo icon, or turn on a separate icon for videos, using your administration console:
>> http://YOURSITE.magnify.net/admin/design/listings />
* New Mosaic Module (for photos and videos). You can pack thumbnails You'll find the new "Thumbnail Mosaic" module in the home page design area, under the Content > Grids tab:
>> http://YOURSITE.magnify.net/admin/design/module_gallery/ />


Community Conference Call

In other news, we're proud to announce the first MagnifyLIVE user conference, on December 9th!

We've decided to have a "Community Conference" and invite all of you to a great big live call-in. We're going to have Steve, Simon, and other members of the product and community team for an hour next week, to join in a wide ranging open-line conference call to talk about the product, the roadmap, your plans, monetization ideas, and basically listen and brainstorm.

Now, there could be a lot of you, so we're going to reserve the first twenty minutes to answering questions that have been submitted via email to CommunityConf (at) Magnify.net -- then, we'll open the floor for discussion and debate. As with the discussion boards, we ask everyone to be supportive of the community and respectful of each other, but that doesn't mean you can't ask tough questions -- heck, we're all learning here, and if everything was perfect then there'd be nothing left to build or learn.

So, mark your calendars for Tuesday, December 9th, from 2 PM to 3 PM Eastern time. (We know that, for some of you, that will be the middle of the night, so if that time doesn't work for you, please keep in touch via email and the support forums.)

To participate, the Conference Dial-in Number is: (218) 844-8230
Participant Access Code: 328288#

Mumbai Attack News

Finally, our hearts go out to the Magnify channel creators at the Connecting India group. Their site,


www.indianews.magnify.net, provided a great service to the world as the terrible events unfolded in Mumbai last week.  We've been in touch with Mr. Rajeev, who runs 25 sites on Magnify, and we wished him and the Indian people our support.

He told us, "We Indians have faced many such incidents in the past 50 years. But this situation is unprecedented and very grave in nature. We are more concerned about the Guests visiting India whom we consider always as equal to God. 'Atithi Devo Bhava'"

To show your support, log in to www.indianews.magnify.net and add Site Editor B. Rajeev to your friends list.  The web provides us with a powerful tool to connect, and in times like these, that kind of support can mean a lot.


Talk to You Soon

That's all for now, so please enjoy the new features, and remember to dial in on December 9th to participate in the community discussion -- and of course, feel free to contact us any time at Support (at) Magnify.net and use the forums to keep the conversation going.

-- Steve, Simon and the Magnify.net Team