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Client Spotlight: Share My Guitar

This latest client spotlight features Mickey Richardson of Share My Guitar, a community for musicians.  Started as a blog for guitar enthusiasts, Mickey transformed Share My Guitar with SocialEngine into an active community for musicians to socialize and share.

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Tips and Tutorials: Selecting a Server for your Community

So you’re ready to create a social networking community with SocialEngine. To start, you need a server. Already have one? Great! Don’t have one? No sweat. It’s as simple as signing up with a company like Arvixe who offers optimized servers configured for SocialEngine. Arvixe is not your only option either. Really, any server that…

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Upcoming Feature: MaxCDN Integration with SocialEngine

We are pleased to announce MaxCDN integration with SocialEngine for the coming 4.1.8 release. Here is a quick introduction of the service from MaxCDN: ” The web has to be fast! We all know that we have to tweak our sites to make them faster since the benefits of a fast website are mind boggling!…

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SocialEngine 3.10 is ready for load testing on the demo site

We are proud to announce that the initial version of 3.10 is ready for alpha testing on our demo site: http://demo.socialengine.net Some of the new features are: Data caching (file-based or memory-based with memcached) has been added to reduce MySQL server loads User login is stored in PHP sessions instead of hashed cookies for increased…

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SocialEngine 3.07, Videos 3.01 Released

John and Sami have made some nice updates to both the video plugin and the main platform. In the video plugin: 1. We’ve integrated a flash uploader for a more pleasant upload experience (including a progress bar). The uploader is Flash 10 compatible. 2. Some compatibility issues with several video formats have been fixed. 3.…