We spend a lot of time at our offices in the Lower East Side.  Much of it involves thinking through new product features, enhancing existing ones and squashing those annoying bugs.  To keep us all entertained throughout the long hours, we rely on our trusty jukebox.   It’s a piece of software called PlayerPal that plugs into iTunes and gives you browser access to all your music.  Themes for each day are beginning to form, but for the most part we take our chances with the shuffle feature.

Stuff we’re pretty into these days include:  The Shins, Flaming Lips, TV on the Radio, Whitest Boy Alive, Hot Chip and too many others to mention.  If anyone has some suggestions on new stuff, please chime in.

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Our last release a few weeks ago was pretty huge and today we offer up even more love. This release marks a big step towards enhancing our IM feature set with a really sweet Friend Overlay. Mousing over your friends now loads an overlay featuring the user’s pic, their distance away from you (radius friends), status and any away messages. You’ll also see that nicknames are coming very soon too!

Along with the overlay we’ve fixed some bugs and further improved stability. And if you’re here, you noticed that we have a blog link on the page now. So check back often and post some comments so we can get more feedback.

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The map window is nice and colorful these days with some great pics. Some of you have really taken advantage of the cool photo editing capabilities built into radius. For those of you that haven’t seen these, here’s a reminder of what you can do.

Zoom on the Fly - When you upload a picture, you can use the zoom slider to zoom into a particular part of the picture. Try moving the slider left and right to see this. When you click apply the photo will be displayed the way it appears in the preview pane.

Drag the Photo - You can also move the picture around to focus on a particular part of it. Do this by clicking on the photo and dragging it around. Use this in combination with zooming to get your pics looking just right.

Pick your Icon - You can make any photo your icon. Do this by clicking the ‘my icon’ radio button on the pic you want. You’ll see a little my icon square show up. This is what your icon will actually look like.

Hope this helps and that more of you will upload some cool pics. As always, pass along any feedback.

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Many people have asked us how to invite their friends to radius. The easiest way to do it is to click the Add+Invite icon in the Friends List. This is the little guy with a plus sign next to him. Here you can type in email addresses for your friends and send them an invitation message. When they sign up, they’ll be automatically added to your friend list.

We’re working on cool stuff like importing your contacts and letting you pick who you want to invite. If anyone has good ideas around this do let us know.

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One of the coolest things on radius is seeing where your friends are and who else is around. To keep it fun, we give you total control over your location. You can let your friends know where you are by using the ‘my location’ window. Clicking the globe icon in the map toolbar gets you there.

The ‘my location’ window lets you type in an address or you can just move the ‘me’ bubble around to position yourself. You can also save frequent locations like school and home by checking the ‘save location as’ box and typing in a name. When you’re done, just click the ‘Done’ button and you’ll be all set.

Let us know how it’s working for you.

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It’s release time again and since we didn’t want to steal Apple’s iPhone thunder we waited until MacWorld was over to announce the great new stuff. This time around we focused on a new look and feel, usability and more speed.

Highlights:

SPEED! We’ve been working hard to optimize the application over the past few weeks. You’ll notice a big improvement in performance. Everything from logging in to messaging has been souped-up.

Wide is the new square! We love the whole widescreen revolution so we made some changes to the map window to give it that slick HD look. You’ll also notice a new toolbar on the map window and friend list. Be sure to click on the cool new icons to get the most out of radiusIM.

You can now IM Anyone. Click the IM Anyone icon in the Friend List and it will launch a window where you can type in an IM username on any network and send them an IM.

A new and improved Status Bar. The Status Bar now has colored indicators so you know what state you’re in and the text entry box for editing your custom messages is much easier to use.

There’s more great stuff on the way so keep an eye out and be sure to let us know what you’d like to see in the app by clicking the feedback link.

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