Chi.mp upgrades to 2.1

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Release 2.1 of chi.mp is now live!

Dashboard, Contact Management, Push Blog Posts and Photos!

Dashboard. You have a new Dashboard which shows you an overview of what has been happening around your .mp site. There are four widgets that both display and link to recent activity in Contacts, Content, Personas and the Chi.mp Community. You can also update and push your chi.mp status out to your Twitter and Facebook accounts from this screen.

Contact Management. They have completely revamped the user interface for contact management! Now it is much simpler to manage your contacts.

Also they have added features which include sorting and filtering your contacts by persona, tags, saved searches or regular search and performing group actions on those searches. For example, if you want to assign all of your Twitter contacts to your public persona, you can do this with just a few clicks.

Our suggestion engine will also look through your contacts to determine if you have duplicate entries for one contact. For example, @johnsmith on twitter might be the same as John Smith from gmail and is also a contact from Outlook, so you now have an easy way to join those three entries into one!

The contacts screen also displays a list of your recently added contacts, choose this link, and you will be able to invite, assign, tag, merge or delete them from your address book. Managing your contacts from across the Web is now easy to do. Do not forget that your contacts can also be exported from your .mp site back to your computer.

Push Site Updates to Twitter and Facebook. Notify your selected contacts when you add new photos or write a new blog post! As you upload photos or blog content, you have the option to push a notification to your Facebook Newsfeed and/or your Twitter status.

Domain Alias. Point your other domains to chi.mp by creating an alias to your .mp with CNAME records. Just look in Settings->Domain Aliases.

Remember I have special invites, leave comments and I’ll hook you up!

My new chi.mp micro-blog!

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Wow this is a really cool service! A micro-blog is an online activity wall with all your latest tweets, blog posts, and whatever else you do online!  Chi.mp is the first web app that I’ve seen that allows you to do this in such a user friendly way.

Your account comes with a dashboard, micro-blog, a full on blog,  photo gallery, and a contact list.  Visitors can request you add them as a contact and you classify what type of contact they will be. You can create separate persona’s such as public, work, and friends to show what you want to each category of your contacts!  I set mine up in an hour or so and even though it is in a private beta it was very easy to use and had a great user interface!  I integrated my twitter, facebook, and last.fm accounts to show up and even this blog’s RSS feed.

Another cool thing is you can use your chi.mp website as an openID.  OpenID is a way to stop using different usernames & passwords for each site you sign up with!  With openID you always know what information you are sharing with websites and only have to remember one username to sign up with a new website and your password never gets shared with them. Its a great idea and Ihope to see it implemented in more sites soon!

Check out my chi.mp site here: www.montanaflynn.mp

Leave a comment and I may share an invite with you!