Dear fans of Minggl!

We’ve just released a major upgrade to Minggl–version 2.0.  It’s got many of the things we’ve been dying to show you, that previously were not quite ready for prime time. Below I highlight some of the features & changes you can expect with this significant new release.

1. To give you more space for your favorite sites, the “friends” and “stream” buttons and their related menus, have been moved from the toolbar, into the Minggl menu and sidebar
2. You can now access almost everything directly from the sidebar
3. Other features like a “mass mailer” and “friend manager” are available under the Minggl menu
4. Note creation (formerly called “Add Flair”) has also been moved off of the toolbar and into the sidebar as well
5. The sidebar has been completely reorganized, giving you consolidated views of your incoming content of MANY types, including:
   • Inboxes (from all of your sites simultaneously)
   • News Stream by site
   • Stream by “favorites”  (top friends or other user created tags)
   • Composite friend list that is searchable by tags, friend names and sites
     (sometimes even a few attributes from their social profiles when available)

New Features:

1. Inbox messages from all your sites in ONE place  (can anyone else do that?)
2. You can now drop private messages to friends (including images or video) directly onto almost ANY website.
3. Public Profile where friends can see your favorite online social hangouts  (you can hide them as well)
4. Much improved UI, sidebar and tool tips to help you get the most from Minggl
5. Image “preview” — now you don’t have to visit websites to see photo’s that your friends have posted
6. Blocking of friends from the news-feed (without unfriending them at the social site)
7. Ability to tell your friends where you’ve hidden Notes
8. New tutorial videos (available shortly)
9. Explanation of minggl privacy policy (video)

Known issues:

1. Friend manager (bulk tagging): This UI has a few problems. It’s not especially obvious how to “remove” a tag off of a group of people.  The “remove …” button is in the upper right corner…..it’s “modal” and we’re working on re-designing this UI.  It works, just not as easily as we’d like
2. Bulk messages  (group email): Some websites limit the # of direct messages you can send in one day.   If you select too many people from one of those sites, such that it exceeds this threshold, some friends will not receive your message.  While we’re working on a solution, at the current time, Minggl does not warn you when this has happened. Check the limits at your particular social site and you can always go into your “Sent” folder on the site and confirm that all your messages were delivered.

What can you expect from Minggl going forward:

The social web has turned each of you into rock-stars. Many of you super-social elites  have more information being thrown at you than a typical CEO at some Fortune 500 companies. We’re obsessed with efficiency – in our engineering, and in our personal lives.   We’re even a tad-bit entitled and its our belief that you should not have to deal with people, noise or information that’s not interesting or useful to you. Our goal is to entitle you, and allow you to deal with only those things that are worthy of your attention.   Toward this end, the big secret that Minggl has been building under the hood for over 3 years is a system that “learns” who’s important in your life, and filters out the rest.