Hello Mixxers!
We wanted to let you know that the Big Brains here at Mixx have been hard at work at some performance improvements and the time has come to push those out live! Its a pretty big update, so you will be seeing the napping baby for about 3-4 hours tomorrow morning, starting at 3AM ET.

One other item we’re tweaking is returning do-follow to links coming from our SuperMixxers and from SuperMixxer-endorsed sites, and on profiles of SuperMixxers and Power Mixxers.

The rest of the improvements are all tied into changes with some columns of the database tables or some other bit of something that only the big brains understand. They tried explaining it, but that they might have well have been talking Greek. Suffice to say, things will be up and running and zipping along by about 7AM ET.

Thanks for your understanding!

~The Mixx Team

The first four (well more than that now) Sifter campaigns are on the books and closed out, and as promised, we are giving away another MacBook. In case you have forgotten, we gave away a MacBook to Tau_Zero about six weeks ago (you can read all about it here), and we are holding true to our promise to give another one away.

Drum roll please……………………. and the winner of our second MacBook give away is: Suzanek! Congrats to Suzanek, she (like a lot of other Mixxers) took the time out of their busy Mixxing schedule to check out the first four Sifter campaigns and voted on which ones she liked. It is Mixxers like Suzanek and the rest of you that make our wonderful site go around, and sometimes we need to show our gratitude a little more than just with Karma, and so we did.

Will we be giving away another one? Perhaps, but you will have to keep any eye out every week for the Sifter to see if we give away any hints as to when the next give away may be. Remember, your participation in the Sifter gives you a say in what runs on the front page of Mixx and keeps the site nice and clean for our users! As always, every week there is a random drawing for a cool give away (to someone who participated in the Sifter that week, of course).

Again, thanks to everyone who participated, keep up the great work!

Cheers,
The Mixx Team

Get a job!!

“We didn’t all get into music for a job! We got into music to avoid a job, in truth - and get lots of girls.”
View quotes by Paul McCartney

“To a member of the audience who was heckling - ‘Don’t tell me how to do my job, do I go to your job and tell you how to sweep up”
View quotes by Billy Connelly

“It’s just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.”
View quotes by Muhammad Ali

And the winner of the VisualCV.com Sifter is…. http://www.visualcv.com/donfarnsworth !  Check this guy out, he could pretty much sell ice in the Arctic Circle.  He has demos, sales collateral, case studies, brochures, research and his website all on his visual CV.  He pretty much “brings home the bacon and fries it up in a pan”.  Get over there and trick out your own VisualCV.

Summer Reading Sifter

The Sifter this week features beach reading……. Tell us which of these will be on your reading list this summer (and if you have read it, leave a review).   http://www.mixx.com/sifter

Your participation on the Sifter gives you a say in what runs on the front page of Mixx and keeps the site nice and clean for our users!

Now Go Get Your Mixx on!
Chris

Ps.

iTunes winner:  Congratulations to this week’s $25 iTunes gift certificate winner is homestar 14!

Pps.

We’ll announce the MacBook winner later this week so stay tuned!

“Kyle Reese: The Terminator’s an infiltration unit, part man, part machine. Underneath, it’s a hyper-alloy combat chassis - micro processor-controlled, fully armored. Very tough. But outside, it’s living human tissue - flesh, skin, hair, blood, grown for the cyborgs…The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy. But these are new, they look human. Sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. I had to wait till he moved on you before I could zero him.”
To be honest, this description fits many of the SuperMixxers we know!
Yes Terminator fans went crazy for this week’s Sifter… the T4 posters.  Not shockingly, the crowd was overwhelmingly male this week and you all picked the bad-ass red eye picture… but wait, were they not all bad ass?!  T4 opens this Friday and we all expect much talk on Mixx over the weekend.

New Sifter is Open
This week’s Sifter is being brought to you by VisualCV.com.  If you have never heard of them, they have been covered in just about every medium possible as one of the coolest new ways to show off who you really are and what you are about in a resume.  You get to show off charts, videos, images, art work and more…… and since jobs are a little short right now, every edge you can get in order to stand out from the competition is crucial.  The Sifter has some examples of really cool CV’s, so get in there and check them out!  In fact, the VisualCV team has agreed to review resumes the Mixxers make this week and if they are cool enough they will be listed on their examples page where a lot of recruiters “take stock”.  Just send a link of your VisualCV to katrina@visualcv.com and tell her you are a Mixxer.  You’d be in some pretty cool company there including Barack Obama and Robert Scobble.

Remember, you must vote in each of the first four sifters to be eligible to win a Mac Book.
Also, please remember that your participation on the Sifter gives you a say in what runs on the front page of Mixx and keeps the site nice and clean for our users!

Now Go Get Your Mixx on!  Click here to go to The Sifter.

Chris

The second running of the Sifter has come to a close, and winner winner chicken dinner; the top creative this week was the Clorox(r) Toaster creative. Once again, the competition was tight; but it looks as if the Toaster creative took the lead at the end and held onto it until the finish line. The creatives are from Clorox’s national print advertising campaign in support of the Clorox Disinfecting Wipes Décor canisters, more information can be found at www.redesignclean.com. Thanks to everyone who participated this week and making it an overwhelming success.

Also, congratulation to version7.7 who won this week’s $25 iTunes card!

New Sifter Open
The new Sifter is out! We thought we would change things up a bit this week and feature a sure to be summer blockbuster movie, Terminator Salvation; and it’s various movie posters for you to pick your favorite. Take a minute to go into the sifter, check them out and rank order them. Remember, you must vote in each of the first four sifters to be eligible to win you Mac Book.

Also, please remember that your participation on The Sifter gives you a say in what runs on the front page of Mixx and keeps the site nice and clean for our users!

Now go get your Mixx on!