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Hi there, it’s us again!

Things have been a bit quiet from us recently haven’t they? If we were kids playing upstairs, our mum would probably be knocking nervously on our door right now.

Well, don’t worry - we’re not having a dangerously long afternoon nap. We’ve just been quietly working really hard behind the scenes over the last few months, fixing some bugs, moving things over to MOO, and generally making sure Flavors is working smoothly.

Now comes the fun stuff, and we have lots of exciting plans for the rest of this year (and beyond!). For starters, we’re going to make it even easier to create and edit pages by redesigning and rearranging some of the page layout and design tools. We’re also going to help you get started with your Flavors page by adding some cool background images to choose from if you don’t have your own already.

We’d love to hear what you think, so please stay in touch via our help pages. In the meantime, we’ll keep working hard to make Flavors an even better place for you to share your photos, music and blogs.

And if you’re interested in getting more involved in shaping the future of Flavors, we’re planning some fun groups sessions where we’ll get together (yes, in real life!) to discuss how you’ve been using Flavors, and talk about any clever ideas you may have. If that sounds like something you’d be interested in, and you can make it along to our offices in London (for now - next stop, the world!) then please do get in touch at hello@flavors.me

We’ve probably said it before, but it bears repeating - it’s a genuine joy for us to see all the beautiful pages being created on Flavors. We can’t wait to see more and more of what you can do.

Thanks!

The Flavors team at MOO

Hello we’re MOO.COM — and we love to print.

Yes — we’re a printer! (It’s just like the internet, only slower.) However, like you, we’re also passionate about great design — which is why we’re delighted to announce our acquisition of Flavors.me. But don’t worry — we’re not going to get all weird and start bossing you about. Just think of us as your mom’s new husband. The kind that buys you a car, obviously — not the kind that makes you call him dad (nobody likes that guy.)

We’re huge fans of Flavors — it demonstrates beautifully how the web has opened up great design tools for everyone. It also benefits from thousands of cool, beautiful customers (okay, maybe we do sort of want you to love us like we’re your real dad.) So we’re putting all our efforts into making it even easier for you to create an awesome-looking Flavors page.

We’re excited to start working together, so do drop by MOO.COM at some point and have a look around. And if you have any questions, please visit the Flavors help page — we’d love to hear from you.

Looking forward to a future of even more great design with you!

Richard Moross
CEO MOO.com

New Service: Bandsintown

We’re happy to announce that we’ve added Bandsintown to our ever-growing collection of services for musicians and music fans.

Bandsintown gives you personalized recommendations and reminders based on your Facebook Likes, Last.fm listening history and more. Fans can use it to track their favorite acts’ upcoming shows, and artists can use it to keep fans in the loop about events.

Check out how singer-songwriter Farai Futi uses Bandsintown plus Flavors to display his tour dates alongside his bio, news, tracks, videos and more:

New Services: Songkick Artists & Mixcloud

The Flavors team is passionate about music. A few of us are even moonlighting musicians. We love to discover great new artists in the Flavors community, and to serve musicians as best we can with new features. Today we’re pleased to announce a new integration with industry-leading tour date service Songkick that caters more directly to artists, as well as the addition of Mixcloud, which helps connect listeners to DJ sets and more.

Songkick

You’ll now find a new service called Songkick for Artists under Content > Add in the design panel, along with our previous Songkick integration, designed for fans. Songkick for Artists allows musicians to display their past and upcoming tour dates on their Flavors site, keeping fans connected to their latest gigs quickly, easily, and in style, thanks to our versatile layouts.

If you haven’t signed up for Songkick already, now is a particularly great time to join. With the launch of Songkick’s new Tourbox service, artists now have a central tool to manage and share their tour information across multiple services, including Soundcloud, Spotify, YouTube and more. Sign up at tourbox.songkick.com to get started!

Mixcloud

With Mixcloud on Flavors, you can share the radio shows, DJ mixes and podcasts you’re listening to, along with your Favorites and your own Cloudcasts. Cool bonus: because, like us, Mixcloud is dedicated to supporting artists, playback of copyrighted songs is reported so the correct licensing royalties can be attributed to the artists.

Join Mixcloud today to start listening and sharing.

Announcing Faster Service Updates for Premium Users

We know how important it is to keep the content on your Flavors site fresh, and have always done our best to offer frequent service updates for the Flavors community. We’re happy to announce that, as of late last week, Premium Flavors users got a super-boost to their service update times.

As a new perk of the Premium account level, users who have upgraded their accounts will have their latest tweets, blog posts, Flickr photos, Facebook status updates and more updated on their Flavors site twice as fast.

We hope our Premium users will enjoy seeing quicker updates. If you haven’t gone Premium yet, log in today and click on the Upgrade icon in the navigation bar to unlock speedier updates. You’ll also get access to other great features like premium layouts, custom pages, and the option to use a custom domain for just $20 per year (less than $2 per month!).

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