Thanks for the email, we’ve gotten several naming suggestions. We’ve been impressed with the quality of your suggestions. Keep them coming!

I’m sitting here amusing myself with the new version of Microsoft Office. I’m hardly a hard-core Office user but I thought I’d give the blog posting feature a bit of a try. For the most part, I really like it. I like what they’ve done to replace the menus. It is much easier to find commands  and settings. Posting to a blog is was handled very well. It worked the first time and the HTML was pretty clean. I’m not as pleased with Outlook or Vista, but I won’t go into that here…

Enough of that, let’s talk about Picnik. Here’s a glimpse into what the team is working on now:

The bitmap on the left is a little teaser for the next release. Brian and Peter have really done an awesome job on this. I knew they were working on some more creative tools, but we were all shocked when we saw what they had made – the creative tools are much more powerful and there were several new additions that were a total surprise. I’m not sure about a release date yet, but I’d expect it to be in the two week-ish time frame.

Darrin has been working on a couple of interesting things, including one of our most requested features – an API. I’ll wait until we’re closer to release before we go into any more detail on the API. We’ve had so many sites requesting this feature that we bumped it up in work list. You’re going to like what Darrin’s cooked up.

I’ve been working with Justin on some of the less visible features, like working on getting the server fully scalable for that day when we start getting oodles and oodles of traffic. We’re already in pretty decent shape, but we’ve been talking with a lot of potential partners who have the ability to send a huge amount of traffic our way. I’m working with Justin to ensure that between Apache, Cherrypy, mogileFS, MySQL, perlbal and a smattering of PHP and Perl so that we have the ability to scale quickly. So far, so good!

I would like to know what people are interested in reading about in this blog. We’re happy to share most anything. Please leave a comment or send me email with any requests.

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