Hey!  Happy Birthday To Us!  

We're 30,000 Sites Old (big)...

It's almost Valentines day -- time for a little mid-winter love letter to all our channel admins (we do love you you know!).  And we've just pased our 1st Birthday.  Wow.  It seems like just yesturday we were at DEMO in Palm Springs making our debut.  Well,  here goes year two.

By now you've probably seen the new admin page layout area, and hopefully you've played with the new Design Gallery, which should make updating your pages easier and more fun. Both of these new graphical drag-and-drop tools are just for you (the end-users can't see them).

There's more going on here than meets the eye.  We're gearing up to provide more and more page layout modules -- using both features we create in-house, and also widgets that we bring into the Magnify.net platform from third parties.  So,  here's a glimpse of the future.

- We're excited to bring you the first of a bunch of great new widgets from our pals at UserPlane.  We've launched their super-friendly chat widget (both in mini-chat and full-featured chat sizes). And thanks to integrated single-signon capability, when registered users visit your site they're automatically logged in to your chat room as well!

- You can now quickly integrate graphics and images into your pages and blog posts with a easy-to-use formatting and graphics toolbar that lets you adjust image size, alignment, and text formatting. And in a small but frequently-requested change, picking a playlist to display on your page now also automatically inserts the playlist name as a headline.
 http://archive.magnify.net/admin/design/module_galler

- We've made some other minor enhancements to the Design Gallery interface, streamlining the process of uploading and organizing your own graphics, or sharing your work with other channel admins.
 http://archive.magnify.net/admin/design/gallery

- In other admin news, we've made our support documentation searchable, so you can find answers to your questions faster.  It still contains the original FAQ, but as we continue to add information to it, you'll see it transition to a wiki-style knowledge base so we can capture and share what we learn from the forums, bug reports and your emails.
- http://www.magnify.net/support/faq/ />
- Single Sign On -- Private Beta.  We've been working on a new SSO implementation and are ready to start testing it with some additional channels. If you have a significant number of users pre-registered on your main web site and want to enable automatic sharing of login information between your main site and your Magnify channel, send an email message to Privatebeta (at) Magnify.net with the address of your current web site, the number of users you have, and some info about your member log in database configuration.

- Ad Placement Choices.  We've always required no less than two ad impressions per page as part of the Magnify.net AdShare network.  While we've been a bit loose about defaulting sites two this two ad minimum.  Well,  starting in the next few days,  we're going to turn the defaults to 'on',  and you may see an additional ad placement appear on your page.  If  you want to avoid this happening, simply go into your control panel and make sure that at least two ad units (of you choice) are turned on per page.

What's coming up next? Well we're a few weeks away from some big new features based on your requests! Can't spill the beans yet,  but they're almost baked.

So stay tuned -- and keep on Magnifying the stuff you care about.

Cheers,

The Magnify.net Team

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