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One of the most important surrounding emerging social networking sites today is privacy. Members want to be able to make sure their data is kept protected from strangers, and control what content unknown browsers see.

For this reason, we are excited to announce that we will be releasing a new privacy feature in the upcoming webNetwork 2.0. This will allow your members to configure various aspects of their content and set specific privacy settings for each. Let’s take a quick look at what the new feature has to offer.

As you can see, there are four areas where privacy settings can be configured.

Personal Information - This allows your members to hide their name, address, etc and only display it to friends.

Additional Information - This includes sections such as their education, employment information, and pretty much anything else that’s filled out during the profile creation process besides the Personal Info.

My Content - Control if the public can see your blog posts, photos, videos, etc.

My Profile - Make your profile available to the public or friends only.

We’re really excited about this feature, and hope you are too. Let us know what you think and leave a comment!

The social networking industry has changed drastically in the last year, and to follow some of the newest trends, we are going to be releasing a new version of webNetwork very soon. Thanks to all who have submitted their suggestions, we could not have done this without you!

One of the biggest problems our customers seem to be facing is starting their social networking site and getting members to join. To help you in the process, we’re releasing a new feature which allows your members to automatically invite everyone from their email address book. This is going to be compatible with the major email providers: Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, and GMail. Your members will be able to invite their friends to join your site with the click of button. All they need to do is enter their email address and password for the email provider, and webNetwork will retrieve their entire address book. After that, your members can send an invite to everyone in their address book, or select specific people. This should be a big help in getting a jump start to building you member base, and we hope you like the feature!

We have been actively working on a new version of our webDate dating software, with all of the features coming from customer requests. We’re really excited to be nearly completed and in the final testing phases, and hope that you’ll love the new features! Thanks to everyone that submitted their suggestions.

Now, for the first big change in the software: search engine friendly URLs. We’ve had a lot of customers asking to add this feature to help search engines crawl their sites easier, and index all of the pages including user profiles. Search engines normally have trouble crawling dynamic pages. Normally, in webDate, a URL would look something like: index.php?page=search. Search engines see this as a dynamic page, and ignore parts of the URL. As a result, they do not do a deep crawl of the site. With the search engine friendly URLs feature, the software will rewrite the URLs to look something like: index/page/search instead. This looks like a static URL, and is crawled by search engines much easier.

Getting ranked in search results is tough, but the more content that is indexed the better your chances or ranking higher in the most popular search engines. This is a great feature to help you do that, and we hope you like it!