As usual, we’ve been very busy working on new features for our users. We’ve added tons of exciting stuff that we are announcing today. MessageDance at its soul is an email service — we like to call it a social email service. We grok very well with the issues affecting mainstream email services — spam, clutter, asynchronous attention issues, and a general pain to deal with attachments.

With this new release, we decided to address non-work related email attachments.

We call it FWDance. I remember how our sysadmins used to send emails emphasizing email best practices. One common wrist-slap was how to handle big attachments. Your colleague’s funny lol cat haz message was usually just one click (and one virus) away from bringing high-stakes product roll-out plans to a grinding halt!

FWDance is a simple service to offload all those non-work related email messages and attachments. Instead of forwarding big (and likely toxic) attachments, you are just sharing a website address. Your email administrator will come and hug you for doing this. Plus, bandwidth is not all that cheap either, so you are saving your company some money too. Let MessageDance worry about storing all your attachment files.

Earn Money for Your Content Sharing!

Speaking of money . . . how about a few extra dollars to compensate for your gas pump pain? Now with MessageDance, you can make some walking-around money too. We’re enabling users to embed their own ads on their MessageDance content pages. These show up on the sidebar on pages that show your shared content. Currently we only allow Google Adsense (160×600 ad units), but we will be expanding this to include other networks in the near future.

Best way to test drive this feature is to create account in MessageDance, go to Affiliate module and enter your AdSense publisher id. Once done, you’re ready to send any content including attachment emails to <username> @ messagedance.com.

Along with FWDance and Affiliates, we are also announcing FatBird. The Twitter phenomena is amazing. It’s hard to know why, but it can be amazingly addictive. At MessageDance, we love the Twitter community. 140 character constraint based tweets creates good, fun, snarky dialog (of course, you can send more than 140 chars with MessageDance, if you must!). Tweets can sometimes be profound and important as well. As the recent earthquake in China showed, Twitter can be put to good use with the Microblogging format perfect for breaking news.

Twitter fits in nicely with our vision to push all forms of expression in a completely decentralized fashion. We call it anywhere to anywhere publishing.Today we are announcing MessageDance FatBird, a smart way to browse and share tweets.

FatBird allows users to

-Browse tweets. FatBird does a smart url expansion creating a rich media browsing experience. Current release shows YouTube videos and Flickr pictures automatically. You can even listen to song if tweet has any url pointing to mp3 file as we render a player. Nice.

- Take bunch of tweets and send them directly to your blog. Yes they come with the url expansion and all the SEO juice.

- Share tweet digest with your friends. Like someone’s tweet and feel like sharing it? Now you can do that using MessageDance friend network. Tweet sharing notification will show up in all networks where you have MessageDance widgets installed. Facebook, MySpace, LiveJournal, Xanga, WordPress and Blogger are just some of the destinations where your tweet digest can go now. Go ahead be a tweet curator!

Also you can do other Twitter-y stuff like REPLY, RETWEET and posting new TWEETS. We think you’ll like these new features.

As always, we would love your feedback. If you are not signed up, please head over to the FatBird home page and sign-up using using your Twitter credentials.

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