nshrine news

This morning nshrine began hosting 700 shrines.

To celebrate, each nshrine member qualifies for a free “gift candle”. Gift candles allow you to remove advertising and enable privacy for the shrine of your choice for one week.

To get your free candle, go here:
http://nshrine.com/free_gift_candles.html

Also, nshrine has install getsatisfaction.com great feedback tool. If you have any ideas, complaints, or suggestions, got to nshrine and click on the “Feedback” tab.

I’ve increased the limit of shrines a member could have from 5 to 500.  I wanted to remove the limit altogether and will at some point, but this was the quickest way to respond to a suggestion.  If you’d like to have more than 500 shrines for some reason, we’d love to hear it.  (Seriously, it would be great to know why.)

This improvement was done in response to an nshrine user’s suggestion from nshrine’s new “feedback” application, provided by getsatisfaction.com.  Go now to nshrine and click on the feedback tab to provide your own suggestion.

We have new ways of lighting candles on nshrine through twitter.

You can still light a candle in the twitter shrine just by sending a twitter to the nshrine account. Try sending “@nshrine happy day!” in twitter now to see it work. That all you need to do. You’ll get a link back to the candle you’ve lit.

New/changed options:

• To pick a color other than yellow, add a ‘#’ followed by the mood or, now, color name. See http://nshrine.com/help/twittercandles.htmlfor list.
• To pick a shrine other than the twitter shrine, add a ‘:’ followed by the shrine name. (Note: this used to be ‘@’. This will no longer work.)
• To light a candle for another twitter user, add a ‘@’ some place after the ‘@nshrine’ at the beginning. This will link to the user AND send them a tweet about the candle.

See http://nshrine.com/help/twittercandles.html for more information and examples.

This was a featured inspired by an nshrine user’s request. Others are on the way. If you have something you’d like added to nshrine, let me know.

I’m happy to announce the availability of nshrine-backed shrines for facebook users.  If you’ve got an account, do check out http://apps.facebook.com/nshrine/ and tell us how it goes.

The facebook application design process has helped shaped the goals for the next version of nshrine. Your feedback can help even further.

While the facebook shrines and accounts aren’t accessible to nshrine shrines and accounts, their data are all in the same place. If the facebook application grows significantly, we will have the two operating together and any shrines and accounts you create in either will be accessible to both. Stay tuned.

You may now add candles using twitter. If you have an account and would like to add a candle at nshrine just send a message beginning with “@nshrine”. You’ll receive a reply with a link to the candle in the
twitter shrine.

You can also add candles to other shrines and use any of the available candle colors. See the Help page for more options.

This was a featured inspired by an nshrine user’s request. If you have something you’d like added to nshrine, let me know.

Paypal has been added to join Google Checkout as a way to pay for ad-free and/or privacy for your shrine.  It is also accepted for payment for gift candles.

As with Google Checkout, you can use major credit cards to pay for payment, as well as existing credits and accounts.

To celebrate this added feature, 12 months of ad-free time is the same price as 6 months.  This offer will remain valid until the 13th of December 2008, so hurry on over and help out your favorite shrine.

This feature was added by request of an nshrine user. If you would like to see a new feature, let me know.

This morning nshrine began hosting 500 shrines. Though shrines are added and removed every day, today marks the first day that over 500 shrines were active at once.

To celebrate, each nshrine member qualifies for a free “gift candle”. Gift candles allow you to remove advertising and enable privacy for the shrine of your choice for one week.

To get your free candle, go here:
http://nshrine.com/free_gift_candles.html

To learn more about gift candles, go here:
http://nshrine.com/help/giftcandles.html

Orange candles, with the suggested meaning of “Joy”, have been added to the candle selection on all shrines on nshrine.com. We’ve also received suggestions in to make the candle colors configurable by the shrine’s maintainer. That should be a feature in the near future, but this color came as a quick possibility at just the right time.

Thanks to Serendipity, maintainer of the InfinitePossibility shrine, for the suggestion. Do you have a suggestion? Email artwells@nshrine.com with your thoughts.

This morning, <a href=”http://artwells.com/”>nshrine.com</a> got its 25,000th candle placed.  Though this milestone is a big one, there is still so much more to create and play with on this site.  Growth and positive feedback has been steady and encouraging.  Thank you all!  To celebrate, I’ve turned off all shrine ads for the next couple days.

At long last, nshrine is offering privacy settings for your shrines.  This means you can set a shrine to allow only yourself, only your friends, or only nshrine members to see your shrine and its candles. The default will allow anyone to see your shrine, as it has been to this point.  You can still idependently limit candle placing to yourself, friends or members.

This new feature will be available only to advertising free shrines after December 1st of this year, so give it a try for free this month and see if it’s right for you.