Say what you will about the sometimes extreme methods employed by the glitterati to look young and beautiful, because for the most part - it works.  Many running in that crowd will say a ‘nip here’ and a ‘tuck there’ never really hurt anyone.  The web is also no stranger to the constant quest to look young and beautiful and thus a design wizard or two often pulls out their digital scalpel to breathe new life into websites all over our vast sphere.

We  had the pleasure of working with one of these wizards recently and gave our beloved radius a little love.  Visit our homepage, http://www.radiusIM.com, to witness the results!

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As a continuing force in enabling everyone’s IM addiction, we’re pleased to announce that we’ve launched support for Facebook IM. You’ll find a new icon on the bottom of the Friend List next to GTalk. Just click on it and login. In a few seconds you’ll be IMing with your Facebook friends.

We just launched it so we’re looking for feedback on performance and bugs so please share. As always, send a note to feedback@radiusIM.com.

Hope everyone enjoys it!

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RadiusIM has now crossed the 3 Million User mark and all these voices have been crystal clear about what they want - VIDEO.  As always, we aim to please so we’ve been hard at work getting this new feature rolled out.  Radius is all about being social and this new feature brings a new dimension to the Social IM experience.

Here’s a quick look at how it works.   First off, you’ll need a webcam connected to your computer.  Next, log into radius and open up a window to send a message to someone and click on the little video camera icon shown below.

The window will then grow into a live Video Chat and your friend’s video image will appear right next to yours as soon as they accept your request.

Have fun and let us know what you think!

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Radius has taken a big step forward in our latest release with cool additions like a navigation redesign, richer profiles and a new Find Me icon that automatically locates you.

Many of you have probably noticed the new nav bar on the top of the page.  Our goal was to make radius much easier to use and let everyone know all the cool things you can do in the app.  The feedback so far has been great.

Our profiles have also gotten a lot cooler with much larger photos.  Now when you click on one of the thumbnails on the profiles a much larger version of the picture will pop up and also let you view a slide show of all the pics.  Makes surfing for people a lot more fun.

My personal favorite is the new ‘Find Me’ button.  You’ll see an icon in the map now that looks like a beacon.  It’s right below the zoom out icon inside the map.  Click on it and you’ll get moved to your actual location.  Don’t worry, we still fuzzy it up a bit to keep your friends guessing, but it gets you pretty close.  Our partner Skyhook Wireless powers this with their nifty wifi positioning technology.  Check out this link to learn how they work their magic.  Note that you’ll need a wifi enabled computer to use it.

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Ever since Al Gore took that fateful trip up the ladder in An Inconvenient Truth we here at radius have been thinking of ways to do our part to combat the crisis of Global Warming.  To that end we compiled this list of things you can do within radius to help out.  Don’t believe those pundits that say it’s only about China and India.  You too can make a difference!

Top 5 things to lower your Carbon Footprint on radiusIM

5.  Log in to AIM and MSN on radius instead of having to load yet another application on your PC.  Your computer will work a whole lot less!

4.  Use IM slang like LOL as often as possible to keep those IMs short.  Shorter messages save energy.

3.  Fill out your profile so users don’t have to ask you things like ASL and burn through yet more carbon.

2.  Use our newly launched group chat (click the IM bubbles on the top of the friend list) to IM all your friends at once.  The more, the merrier and the greener.

1.  Use the new background color changer we launched this week in the general tab of the settings window.  You can make your background all black and save a TON of energy!

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The past several months at radius have been all about improving the website. We’ve spent countless hours on several really big projects to bring you new features, improve the speed of the site and make the community more friendly.

You’ve all returned the favor with record usage and growing the community to nearly 2 million registered users. Here’s a brief summary of all the goodness we’ve rolled out recently.

New Profiles: Many of you have been asking for better profiles and a place to make your own so we rolled out some cool new pages for every user. It’s got your pics, friends, info and of course a map so your friends know where you are. Check out the page for our friendly radiusOffice user. Even more improvements like bigger pics and richer info about users is coming soon.

Better Community: As with any social website, care needs to be taken to make sure the community remains friendly and has the right privacy features in place. We’ve taken big steps in this area to ensure radius remains a cool place to IM and meet new people. The feedback here has been really positive.

The Big Move: With all the new users our old home was getting a little snug so we started shopping around for a new home for the radius servers. After a long search we found a great place that is going to give us plenty of room to grow, but an even better benefit was a big increase in speed due to some fancy new technology. Many of you have reached out and let us know how much faster the site is these days. Thanks for noticing!

There’s a whole lot more, but we just wanted to share with everyone a bit of how we’re spending our time at radius. Look for some other big improvements really soon and thanks again for all the support. As always keep the feedback coming.

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So you’re addicted to Facebook? You’re not alone. Say hello to the radiusIM Facebook App. It takes all the cool features of radius and puts them right inside Facebook. The best part is that it automatically adds any of your Facebook friends who also use radiusIM, so you can IM them and see where they are. And you get the added bonus of the widget in your profile.

Be sure to link your existing account when loging in through Facebook so there’s no need to re-enter your AIM/MSN accounts etc. Check it out and let us know what you think.

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Al tener muchos visitantes de habla hispana en nuestra página, decidimos brindar el servicio ahora en Español. Muchas de las cosas están traducidas, pero si ven algo en inglés por favor háganoslo saber. Ahora el mundo de habla hispana puede disfrutar mas de radius!

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We’ve made the map a lot more fun this week by adding the ‘me’ bubble. It makes sharing your location with your friends a whole lot easier. All you have to do is drag and drop it to wherever you want to place yourself. You can also just type in an address by clicking the address link and then click the map at the new location to place yourself there.

Saving your favorite locations is also easier. Just click the globe icon and choose ’save current location.’ The next time you click the globe you’ll see it listed there along with any other locations you choose to save.

Let us know how you like it.

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Some of you may have noticed that a few new treats entered the friend list this week. We’ve been working hard on some of your big requests and now they’ve arrived.

First, you’ll see that an icon shows up now for friends that have gone idle. And on the AIM network you can see how long your friends have been online. The big one, though, is nicknames on MSN. The days of long email addresses in the friend list are over.

We’ve also made some nice login improvements that will make getting on the site much faster.

Hope everyone enjoys the new features.

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