We’ve been hearing a lot about this little thing called Facebook and thought we’d check it out. It’s pretty cool and wow! were we surprised to see so many of you over there! Just kidding, of course—we’ve been working on a Facebook app for a while now, and we’re happy to say that it’s up and running, and ready for you to share with your Facebook friends!

So now you don’t have to leave Facebook to submit, comment on and share content from around the web, and you can share with your Facebook and your Mixx Friends at the same time. And by setting your Facebook Interests you’ll get the stuff you want delivered right to your profile page.

It’s easy to link your existing Mixx account to your Facebook account or to create a Mixx account and, once you do, voila! It’s a MiniMixx! You’ll be able to:

• See your contacts, your faves, even your Mixx profile
• Find out what’s popular on Mixx: video, stories, photos and tags
• See which of your Facebook friends is also a Mixxer
• Invite Facebook friends to join Mixx
• Find out if any of your Mixx Groups have crossed over
• Take the shortcut to a Facebook version of the MixxLounge and see the Mixxers who are also on Facebook and the number of Karma points they have

And it’s also easy to add content to your Facebook profile page. But first you have to add the Mixx Facebook app. So why are you still here? Go! Check it out and let us know what you think.

Your Mixx Team

You may have noticed we dressed up this morning as we added a few things:

• New way to report related assets that aren’t really related
• A new SuperMixxer badge on SuperMixxer’s profiles
• A ShareThis link on story pages that lets you submit the mixx page to Facebook, del.icio.us, etc.

And with that, we’ll wish you a Happy Monday and head back to work!
~The Mixx Team

We’ve always said we have the best community out there, and that’s due in part to how well you communicate with one another—and with us. Today we’re launching two new features that will make it even easier!

Mixx Mail Phase 1: Now you can send and receive messages to and from anyone in the community without ever leaving the Mixx. Mixx Mail offers some very handy little features, including:

• The icons of all Mixx friends in your address book—especially useful if you’re like us and remember faces/avatars better than names.
• Send a message to a Mixxer directly from that user’s profile page.
• Block overeager wanna-be groupies. That’s right—not only can you slam the door on their friendship pleas, but now you can block them from sending messages, not that you’d be so cruel. Right? Well ok then, just don’t block us.
• Opt to have a daily digest sent to your regular email and we’ll let you know how many messages you have waiting.

Phase 2 with more improvements is coming very soon, so get your feedback and suggestions in to us as soon as possible.

Group Message Boards: Ever wish you could have a discussion with members of your group that wasn’t tied to one specific content entry? We thought so, and now you can do just that with the new Mixx Group Message Boards. You’ll find the Message Boards on Your Groups page, where the Soapbox used to be (don’t worry, we moved your Soapbox contents to the new board).

Finally, many of you were listening to the latest Social Blend podcast when Mixx founder Chris McGill promised a bunch of new features/fixes based on Mixxer requests. And since it’s bonus season and it can’t hurt to make the boss look good, we thought we’d get right on a few of those (but not all, yet). So, as promised:

1. When you want to share content fast, choose “select all” and send it to all of your Followers at once.

2. Filter your searches by text, photo or video (see mixx.com/search).

3. Tags from YourMixx will once again pop up in the submission process.

Enjoy the new and improved Mixx and, as ever, use the Feedback mailbox, send Mixx Mail to user feedback, and/or Blog Comments to let us know what you think. Stay tuned—there’s lots more cool stuff on the way!

Your Mixx Team

Two cool things to talk about this morning!

First, our partner, Reuters, has recently updated their site to add “Submit to Mixx” buttons on their photos and photo slideshows. Reuters has an army of photographers that take amazing pictures. Be sure to regularly check out their Editor’s Choices!

Just click on the “Share” button and choose to mixx either the one picture you are looking at, or the entire slideshow. We continue to be very excited have Reuters as a partner!

Second, the good folks over at Socialize Me! have taken it upon themselves to add Mixx as one of their options for their WordPress plugin. First off we want to give them a huge shout out for including us, and second, we encourage you to hop on over to their website and install their plugin. It rocks!

Imagine one of your articles has been submitted to Mixx. You’re getting a steady stream of visitors to your blog. You could really connect with some of these visitors—if you knew who they were. Well here’s the thing, with Socialize Me!, those visitors to your blog will see a simple message when they arrive: “Hi, thanks for the visit! Joe’s on Mixx, too!” with a link to your profile.

This gives you the biggest bang for your buck. Not only are your blog posts being submitted to Mixx, but when a Mixx user comes to your blog to read the post, you kindly greet them with a welcome message and a link to your Mixx profile. What a sweet deal.

According to the Socialize Me! instructions, if you’re a seasoned blogger, then the installation is very easy — just download the Socialize Me! Plugin, uncompress the file (if your system doesn’t do that for you) and upload the file into the Plugins folder on your server.

For those who’re new or less familiar with WordPress, a Plugin installation guide for WordPress might be what you’re looking for.

Configuration:

• Pay a visit to your WordPress account and sign-in to your Dashboard.
• Click on the Options tab.
• Click on the “Socialize Me!” tab on the sub-menu.
• Enter your usernames, IDs and profiles into the relevant fields.
• Add the code into your “single.php” page (see figure 1, or click here for the code) — you’re free to place the code where you like!

Jay from Shareaholic dropped us a note this weekend to let us know that he added Mixx to Shareaholic, an awesome Firefox extension. Shareaholic now lets you easily submit stories, photos and videos to Mixx. No more cutting and pasting! Its especially great if you are using other social media sites like StumbleUpon or del.icio.us.

Shareaholic has some other great features, as Mashable pointed out in their recent update, including the ability share via email and some tracking tools.

After installing Shareaholic, click on Customize:

Select Mixx from the options:

And you are now all set to Mixx!