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Be Social and a New Uploader- July 1st, 2009

We hope this release was worth the wait! We’re thrilled to announce lots of the social features requested by our customers.

If you have the “Easy Sharing” option enabled in your gallery settings, you’ll see the following new options in your Share menu when you’re logged in:

  1. Social Bookmarking – quickly share galleries with lots of popular networks such as Digg, Delicious and StumbleUpon.
  2. Be Social – share your photos with friends on Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed, and Tumblr.
  3. Show Off (for logged-in gallery owner only) – create a custom flash slideshow or animated image badge. Get the code with a single click and flaunt it on your blog, forum, or website.

We’re proud to announce a new, faster uploader that replaces the old Simple uploader. We built this one in-house and it offers better real-time reporting of errors in addition to more robust error retrying and duplicate handling (see the drop-down menu at the bottom). When loading it for the first time, be sure to click “Trust” when the prompt from Sun Java comes up!

We welcomed a new (and incredibly talented) Artist In Residence: B. D. Colen. Photographers with a photojournalistic and documentary flair will want to check out his site and join in the lively discussions and exercises on Digital Grin.

Our first Wiley photo contest was so popular, we’ve added more. Go win some prizes!

Also in this release, we added two more great ClubSmug deals for Smuggers: a discount on stunning flash slideshows with Showit and a free(!) ecopy of the popular book FastTrack Photographer.

More improvements:

  • We added an “Unlisted gallery” indication to the breadcrumbs for unlisted galleries when you’re logged in.
  • The Customization FAQ is now restored and updated for your customizing pleasure.
  • We brushed up and improved the news, referrals, upload log, backprinting, and watermarking pages accessible from the Control Panel.

Bug fixes:

  • We fixed the annoying loop started from logging in to your account from the logout page. You should now properly arrive at your homepage.
  • Special characters in the Amazon Payments billing/address field no longer cause hiccups for new subscribers.
  • New users should now be able to upgrade their accounts on signup when paying via Amazon Payments.
  • Assistants now see “Unlisted gallery” indication on homepages and category pages.

Update on stats, for those of you anxiously awaiting: Stats are currently showing up-to-date information. We are still actively working on overhauling this feature and we think you’ll be thrilled when it’s ready. Sorry we don’t have an ETA yet!

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8 Responses to “Be Social and a New Uploader- July 1st, 2009”

  1. Matt Mayer Says:
    July 3rd, 2009 at 4:15 am

    Any way to get the Facebook sharing working for custom domains?

    I get this error:

    The Facebook Connect cross-domain receiver URL (http://photos.mattmayer.com/services/fbconnect/xd_receiver.htm#fname=_opener&%7B%22t%22%3A3%2C%22h%22%3A%22fbCancelLogin%22%2C%22sid%22%3A%220.111%22%7D) must be in the same domain or be in a subdomain of an application’s base domain (smugmug.com). You can configure the base domain in the application’s settings.

  2. Randy Says:
    July 5th, 2009 at 12:46 pm

    Great news as the new uploader is working great, the social tools are easy to use and the slideshow and badge making is finally here.

    I have used all these new wonders over the weekend, thanks.

    Looking forward to the new stats

  3. Cass Says:
    July 6th, 2009 at 1:29 pm

    Terrible news!! The uploader crashes Internet Explorer. I cannot upload photos. I cannot change uploaders. This is VERY VERY VERY bad.

    Someone, please do something.

  4. Cass Says:
    July 6th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

    After installin latest Java update, everything works OK. Thanks Steve Mills Support Hero!!

  5. Matt Johnson Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 10:36 am

    I like the way the “Be Social” works with Facebook. GREAT WORK! Is it possible to do this on multiple photos all at the same time? Is there a help page that describes the Be Social feature in more detail?

    If it isn’t already in the works I think the ability to update a feed on uploading images to a gallery would be wonderful. That way I can keep people updated on all the latest additions as I add them to SmugMug.

  6. Lou Says:
    July 7th, 2009 at 9:52 pm

    I am very interested in the Facebook sharing however I cannot find documentation on it anywhere. I went the SM help section. I don’t see anything about it. There is no link in this post to any documentation. I’ve also searched dgrin and I cannot find a thread that explains how to do it. Can you please providemor information on this. Ijust wated 45 mintes trying to find info on this. Thanks.

  7. Marie Says:
    July 26th, 2009 at 10:12 am

    Is there some documentationon the badge? I’d like to use it, similar to the slideshow. I hope it accepts feeds and not just a gallery.

  8. Bobe Says:
    July 27th, 2009 at 10:37 am

    Documentation is up here:
    http://smugmug.com/help/showing-photos
    http://smugmug.com/help/web-bookmarking
    http://smugmug.com/help/social-networks

    I hope that helps!

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