New Features, Site Update, May Newsletter

Hi Gang,

New SwapSimple features just released: (more info below)
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- New site design and layout!!
- See who's online, and swap with them - live!
- See other member's wishlists or the
wishlist for the entire site
- New posting page with additional features
- Bulk posting of items on posting page
- Improved account information
- BOOK GROUP EXPO in San Jose, California June 8th - 10th

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Event Announcement!!
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BOOK GROUP EXPO

Meet over 50 authors, eat chocolate, attend lively
discussions, taste wine, have books signed,
savor fine tea, browse books - and have some
serious fun!!

The festivities start Friday night with Khaled Hosseini
launching his next release, A THOUSAND SPLENDID
SUNS. In true book group expo fashion, you will have
direct access to this talented author through our salon
style conversations. Seating is limited (which means so
are the tickets!).

When: June 8th - Khaled Hosseini book
launch. 6:30P.
June 9th and 10th - 10A - 5P
Where: San Jose Convention Center, CA
Tickets / INFO: www.bookgroupexpo.com

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Well, it's been spring cleaning here at SwapSimple, and in the spirit
of the season, we decided to give the front-end of the site a bit
of a makeover - complete with new top tabs, and a more space-efficient
top menu bar.

>From there we thought we'd spice things up a bit by showing you exactly
who's online at any given time. There's a list of logged in users on
your logged-in homepage, and also on the browse page. Just click over
to their profile, browse their inventory, send them messages, and swap
with them right while they're online! It's a super-fast way to make
swaps, and its fun too.

You asked, and we delivered - wishlists are now public! By clicking on
a user's profile, you can see their entire wishlist, or if you like, the
wishlist of the entire site! List an item on someone else's
wishlist and we automatically notify them of your posting. It's a
great way to make swaps and earn credits faster than ever!

For those of you who have just a few items listed, you may not see the
benefit of our new posting page features, but for those of you who
have 50, 100, 500 or more items listed, you'll love the new posting
page. Before, the page simply listed everything you had posted in one
loooooooong list. Now, you have many ways to sort and display your
posted items. It's very fast, and uses some new web technology
that lets you work without having to reload the page on every click!

Finally, on the posting page we have instructions for listing items
in bulk. If you have your stuff already inventoried somewhere else
we can make it easy for you to simply send us a file with your item
info, and we do the rest - listing all your items for you.

So, please have a look through the new site and features - and be
sure to report any technical problems you run into!! We'll fix them
ASAP, but the sooner we know about them, the better.

Coming this next month, we'll be releasing two new and very
interesting features, so stay tuned!

Talk soon, and thanks for using SwapSimple!

Elliot

Elliot Hirsch
Co-Founder, SwapSimple.com
SwapSimple.com