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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Ok, so we got a pool table at the office. But don’t think bubble-era dot com excess, it’s just that I’m having a kid and my wife said the pool table had to go. So what better place than the office? This should make happy hours at the office more fun anyway.  Now let’s see how much work we can get done.

Drop in for a game if you’re in the neighborhood…

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People from over 40 countries visit radius every day. Big contingents log in from the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Spain, the United Kingdom, India, France, China, the Phillipines and so many more. It’s really exciting and rewarding for us to see this and lets us know in a big way that we need to translate the site. We’re going to start a project to get this done and could use a little help. Look for a posting on this effort soon and please give us a hand!

In the meantime, take advantage of the big international community on radius by moving that map around and saying a quick hello to someone from another country. As a quick refresher, you can move the map by clicking and dragging on it. A good way to surf to another country is to first zoom the map out a few levels by clicking the little ‘-’ icon in the map and then dragging it.

Have fun! Ciao….

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Radius has come a long way since we went live and we remain committed to improving it. Driving our decisions has always been you guys - the users. Requests for new features come in often and this really helps us.

The big request these days is to make radius faster. Everything from loading the page, to logging in, to moving the map. We are going to focus heavily on this in the coming weeks so you can all have a snappier user experience.

Help us prioritize. Drop us a comment on where you’d like to see the most improvement. This type of feedback is really valuable for us!

Thanks everyone and we’ll keep you all updated on progress.

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Now that you’ve eaten all your chocolates and enjoyed your lovely roses, here’s a ‘very nice’ gift from radius. This release has three very cool features you’ve all been asking for.

First off, we wired radius so you can see when your friends on AIM, MSN and Yahoo are receiving IMs on their mobile phones. Always good info to know when you’re about to send a message. Check out Borat below. He’s continuing his world tour, but still receiving IMs on his phone.

Next, we’ve spruced up the IM logs window and fixed some logging bugs. It’s way slicker and has full text search capability. So, start logging those IMs. All you have to do is go to the settings window and check the ‘log all my IMs’ box. You can get to those logs by clicking the logs icon shown below as well as right clicking on a friend and selecting ’show log.’

Lastly, you can now save your password. So, the next time you visit radius, you’ll be automatically logged in. Just click the save password box and you’ll be IMing that much faster.

Thanks for all the support and let us know if you have any ideas to make radius even better.

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With all the increased traffic we’re seeing we wanted to be proactive and upgrade some of radius’ infrastructure. To get it all done we’re taking a bit of downtime on Saturday, February 10th from 6:00 AM EST to 12:00 PM EST. Good news is radius will be more stable and we’ll sleep a little more soundly at night :-).

Thanks everyone for your patience and we’ll be back up around noon eastern time so be sure to check back then.

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We’ve been getting some traffic lately from StumbleUpon, so I’d thought I’d give them a plug because it’s a neat idea and helps get the word out about cool new sites w/o having to BCC your whole crew. It’s up there on my list of things to do to waste time at work/school…

RadiusIM has a page up there (as does every site I guess); slap a review of us up there or maybe a thumbs-up if you wish http://www.stumbleupon.com/url/www.radiusim.com/.

And completely unrelated, here’s the first in our “Subway Series” shots. I think this was our party invite to our first happy hour at Piano’s(?):

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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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Some of you have asked if radius lets you log your IM conversations. The answer is yes! All you have to do is click the ‘my settings’ button in the friend list. You’ll see a setting to ‘Log all my IMs on radiusIM’s secure server.’ It’s turned off by default, but if you’re looking to relive some of your memorable radius convos then be sure to turn it on.

We’re also kicking around ideas on how to display the logs better so pass along any great ideas.

Happy holidays everyone!

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We’re really excited to see a growing community of people from all over the world using radius every day. The encouragement has been great and it’s really motivating us to bring radius to the next level and incorporate all those ‘must have’ features. We thought we’d list put up a list of features that are coming up most often. Please feel free to let us know what else is a must have so we can get it in the queue. The plan is to knock out as many as we can over the next few months.

Nicknames – We know it’s way cooler to have your nickname up there as opposed to an email address. This is a big one.

Multi User Chat – Get in on those big chat rooms. We hear about this a lot and it’s definitely in the works.

Better Search – Make it easier to find your friends on radius.

Locate me automatically – Some people have asked for us to automatically put them on the map based on where we think they are. That would be very cool. Let us know who else would be into this.

Leave a comment and let us know what we’re missing!

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