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WriteBoard from 37 Signals is an incredibly versatile, yet simple tool.... and it is Free.

Wow!... must be in the spirit of the Founding Fathers, but we've seen a SURGE in migration interest from Ning site owners this week...

 

***UPDATE AUGUST 1, 2009 - NING HAS KILLED TUNE BROWSER***

Wow, it took Ning almost three whole weeks to kill this functional product! Maybe they're losing their edge? It normally only takes them one or two days to kill any of products that make things better or easier for Ning site owners...

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Just for old times sake...

Enjoy this free desktop application that allows one to browse, search, and listen to music across any Ning site.

Get it while it lasts... Ning has already killed our last three useful applications for fear that site owners will Migrate to SocialGO....

Download Here

Who-IM is a "must have" feature for any site. It provides immediate information about who is actively browsing, and a way for members to instantly send private messages to each other.

Fast, simple, and optimized for your site, it requires virtually no setup. Simply drop into any position in your SideBar (Zone A) and you will have a feature that will increase member participation exponentially!

Who-IM can also be "bridged" to an existing Ning site as a way ease your members' migration to your new SocialGO or Zocku home.

Focusing on output can become quite an obsession when one is in the creative arts or marketing field. How many blog entries did you write this week? How many widgets did you sell? How many new customers did you add to your roster? When one is entirely focused on the output of your creative work, it is easy forget the need to spend time on input.

Think of it like a rechargeable battery. If one is constantly drawing amps from that battery, with no charge time, then one may  (quite literally) drain the battery past the point where it can be recharged. Not good.

WidgetLaboratory has been spending the last few days working on input rather than our output. Why? Two reasons:

ScribeFire is a great blog editor to have running in your FireFox browser.

Provides you with the extra "zing" you need to be a power-blogger on your SocialGO or Zocku networks.

Miro has a simple, gorgeous interface designed for fullscreen HD video. Since Miro downloads most videos, you can take your site shows with you, even on an airplane. Quite simply, Miro is a better way to watch all the video you care about.

Since your members can automatically download your site videos one time and then watch them locally, you save a bundle on your site bandwidth charges. MiroFeed can pay for itself in a very short time!

Simply install MiroFeed into your site and your members will then be able to instantly subscribe using the free Miro desktop player from http://getmiro.com/

Miro will only show videos that have actually been uploaded to your site, it will not create a feed for videos that are embedded, which will help to ensure that only original content displays in the feed.

Available now in the WidgetStore for a $49.99 one time purchase price (special price of $39.99 available to all MyLaboratory Club members, so join now for free and save!.

If you want to hide individual LabTabs but retain the page content (so you can link to it discretely), this is really easy with CSS.

Just use the following code in your Ads & Custom HTML area within the Admin Center. Put the code into the Head Meta Data area.

Change out the "_forum" below for whatever element ID you have assigned to each tab, and repeat this same block of CSS for every tab you want to hide (only use one set of style tags though).

<style>
#labtab_forum{
display:none!important
}
</style>