1. Success Stories
Userplane ID’s Go Live!

2. Now
New Media-Rich Web Community for Music and Film Enthusiasts Launches Userplane

3. Userplane Apps
Userplane Announces Drupal Plug-in and New Feature for Webchat

4. What do you think?
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Userplane ID’s Go Live!

As most users and administrators of Userplane Instant Webchat have already seen – Userplane ID’s are now live! Anyone can still jump in with just a screen name, but for users that want permanent screen names, photos, and profiles – there are two new buttons: “Create Profile” and “Login”. These new accounts work across the entire network of Userplane Instant Communities unless individual sites choose to restrict access.

Userplane ID’s were launched as soon as there were enough features to add value for the millions of Instant Userplane users. Since launch, we’ve had excellent feedback from thousands and been hard at work engineering the next round of features and improvements. Below, we have listed some of the most important upcoming features. As always, send us your feedback – our dedicated development team takes it very seriously.

Userplane passionately believes in empowering individual communities to flourish. All user information, features, and content created in a site’s Userplane will soon be accessible to the site admin through web administration and a standards-based API. Sites will not only be able to monitor and adjust their Userplane, they will also be able to creatively leverage their new community beyond Userplane.

New Media-Rich Web Community for Music and Film Enthusiasts Launches Userplane

Userplane announces the integration of Webchat and Webmessenger into the innovative and ambitious new community, PLAYiNDIES – a social networking site that features and supports emerging independent artists.

Currently in BETA, PLAYiNDIES will globally deliver independent digital music and film content to a niche market, while also serving as a launching pad for both emerging and established talent. Also launching a B2B aspect of its business, PLAYiNDIES will offer streaming media products and services that are designed to create, protect, manage, and distribute digital media. The services are aimed at independent musicians, filmmakers, labels, promoters, and distributors.

“PLAYiNDIES recognizes the obstacles that artists face today and believes our service, enhanced with Userplane’s technology, supports the PLAYiNDIES business objectives: to promote, support, and develop creative communities – and ultimately empower a new breed of artists. Userplane applications are very robust, flexible, and effective. They complement our services and provide a key element in building web community,” said Brayden Styles, Senior Director of Creative and Media for PLAYiNDIES.com.

Unlike traditional Java- and HTML-based chat solutions, Userplane Webchat and Webmessenger offer cross-platform functionality, performing with ease on virtually all operating systems. While Java chat rooms frequently create customer support challenges because of platform inconsistencies, Flash comes pre-installed on Windows XP, and works seamlessly on both Macintosh and Linux platforms. Current studies show that Flash is installed on more than 98 percent of internet browsers.

For a live demo of Userplane Apps, go to www.userplane.com/webchat.

Userplane Announces Drupal Plug-in and New Feature for Webchat

Userplane recently expanded the market reach of its free Instant Webchat application through the release of plug-in modules for community software platforms. With plug-ins already available for Simple Machines, vBulletin, Mambo and PHP-Nuke, Userplane is excited to announce the addition of the new Drupal plug-in.

This exciting new release will allow Drupal developers and administrators to quickly and easily add Userplane instant messaging and chat to their sites. Drupal has a rapidly growing developer community that is continuously improving the platform’s usability and functionality. It is fast becoming one of the best and most popular open-source solutions for user-contributed, content-based communities.

The Userplane plug-in installation includes pre-written code modules, available for free download to allow quick and easy installation. Since these site software systems have existing admin panels, site administrators can control all Userplane application features and functionality with ease within one location. By opening up its API to these platforms, Userplane embraces the open source community making Webchat and Webmessenger simple add-ons for any website.

The Userplane plug-in is available for free download and includes pre-written code modules – allowing quick and easy installation. Since Drupal and the other Userplane-supported site software platforms have existing admin panels, Userplane administration is integrated and can be controlled centrally. By opening up its API to these platforms, Userplane is embracing the open source community and making Webchat and Webmessenger simple, must-have add-ons for any community site.

“Drupal is emerging as one of the most exciting community application platforms available to developers. We are happy to be a part of the Drupal community and excited to open our API for quick development and plug-in expansion into systems such as these,” said Michael Jones, co-founder and CEO of Userplane.

In other Apps news – Userplane released the highly requested archiving feature for Webchat, now allowing integrated clients to maintain chat histories, logs of user activity, and create full audits on Webchat activity.

“We have clients that want to allow their Webchat transcripts to be fully indexed by the search engines or dynamically broadcasted to large audiences for live events. The new archiving feature allows each site to use the content flexibly – driving additional traffic to their website,” explains Jones.

Additionally, Userplane adds customizable background colors, button skins, and resizable windows for Webmessenger. After much anticipation, sites can now deploy Userplane’s Flash instant messaging tool with either globally-set color themes or opt for site-specified colors and button skins.

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Userplane is the premier provider of enterprise social software for online communities. Userplane Apps are easy to use, rapidly deployed Flash web applications that support live text and A/V communication. Each Userplane App adds core, must-have features to thriving community websites. Deployed internationally on sites ranging from online dating to social networks to intranets, Userplane Apps reach millions of users in more than fifteen countries. Userplane dramatically increases online interaction and improves guest-to-member conversion. Recent clients include: Date.com, Friendster, Honda, and Red Bull.

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