Publish Your Mingle To Facebook

You've just scheduled your next mingle and you want to invite your friends to come. Since you don't have everyone's email address handy, we've provided a way for you to publish your event to Facebook so you can then send all of your Facebook friends an invitation to join you.

Publishing your mingle is easy, simple click the 'Publish to Facebook' link on your mingle page.

Then follow the simple 3 step instructions and you're on your way. Just remember to log in to Facebook to invite your friends to the event you've just published!

Mingling = Save Carbon = Win Badges

I thought I'd take a moment to talk about some ideas we have for our Facebook App in hopes that you'll share your feedback/ideas with us.

Since we are really focused on eliminating unnecessary travel to help reduce the emission of carbon into the atmosphere, we are going to create a series of badges to award minglers for the amount of carbon they are saving... and we're hoping to have a little bit of fun with it.

Here's where I'm hoping you can help. Below are 2 of 12 badges that minglers can win... I'd really like to hear some of your ideas for fun new badges!

Sneak Peek of Our New Design

Note: The new design went live today, July 29, so head to mingleverse.com to check out the new design, or to http://apps.facebook.com/mingleverse to see the new Facebook redesign.

Although our mom has always told us we're handsome, it was becoming clear that perhaps a make-over wouldn't hurt. Our summer intern Brad has been hard at work putting a new site design together and I'm happy to be the first to say that it is looking damn good! Along with a new design of the website, we'll also be launching a new design of our Facebook App, making it much more functional.

This is only the first bit of great news that will be coming from us over the next few weeks, so be sure to check back often.

Here is a sneak peek of the new design:

iPhone 4 Draw Winner

Congratulations to the winner of our iPhone 4 draw, Arpana Prajapati!!

With the well documented problems with the iPhone 4, Arpana has opted for an iPad instead, which will be a great device to be mingling from when Mingleverse releases an iPad app (coming soon, stay tuned).

Arpana has been making great use of Mingleverse since she found the app on Facebook:

"I will really like to thank Mingleverse for making my life easier. It is so convenient for me to chat with my parents back in India, share my latest pictures from FB album and enjoy an amazing voice quality. The 3D room presence almost makes me feel at home. With YouTube in built, I can now watch recorded episodes with my family from a distance. Thank you so much MV team!"

Meet Alina

Alina has more than 7 years of experience in software engineering and software testing, specializing in the development of client-side and service oriented solutions and the development of rich internet applications using Flash. Alina is originally from Russia, but now calls Vancouver her home.

Mingleverse 3D Telepresence running on Google Nexus One/Flash Player!

The video is pretty raw, but here is a sneak peek of Mingleverse running on a Google Nexus One (running Andriod 2.2 and Adobe Flash Player 10.1). Still lots of work to be done, but Mingleverse on mobile devices is not too far away.

Meet Brad

Brad has joined us as a summer intern from Capilano University where he studies Interactive Design. Brad specializes in HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Wireframing… and the list goes on. He's from Yellowknife, Northwest Territories and is married to Laura.

BTW, this guy can sing!

Our mom thinks we're handsome, but apparently not, so one of Brad's first jobs is to give our website a facelift - keep your eye out, it should be happening very soon.