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Yet another feature... private messaging!

Wow, our prop this week was so big, so laden with new features, that I totally forgot to blog about private messaging! Thanks to Jie's hard work, you can now find the "send message" command throughout Twango where you can -- you guessed it -- send that person a private message. Send him a private message and tell him how cool it is.

Linking stuff off of Twango

I almost forgot, we have another feature that we'd like to "tout". On the actions list to the right of the media and channel page are links that allow you to export some code snippets into your blog or website. If you're on a channel page (i.e., don.razr), you will be taken to a channel twidget page, where you can take any of the Flash twidgets and post them to a blog or website (e.g., my blog); for a media page, you'll be directed to a new tab that we've added to the bottom of the page with code snippets to export HTML.

We're working on new twidgets as we speak. If you have any ideas on what types of twidgets you'd like to speak, post your ideas in our forums!

Transcoding video

Have you noticed anything different on Twango? Click here, see what's different. Yes, that's right, we're transcoding videos now! What that means is that we are now taking your videos and converting them into FLVs (FLash Video), and displaying them in such a way that they just start playing on Twango.

We're in the middle of transcoding all the videos that we've had since we launched (350 of them, give or take a few). We'll start transcoding them as they come in after this batch process is complete.