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So now the first tentative round of invites and testing is pretty much done. There haven’t been any major issues but a whole bunch of tiny things that cropped up have been fixed or improved. Getting the small things right is very important and many thanks to everyone who’s helped so far and given us ideas and feedback.

We’ve been fairly cautious in the number of invites we’ve given out but now we need to let a few more people in to really give this thing a proper work out. So to make this easy you can now get an account for the beta without having to wait for an invite, here’s how.

• Don’t Have an Account yet?
  What you waiting for! oh an invite, right well no longer. Just click on ‘Create your Account’ from the homepage and then enter the email address beta to skip the invite process. This will get you straight in! During the sign up process feel free to send out a couple more invites to your friends.

• Already a Beta Tester?
  If you already have an account we’d like you to try out our invite friends features and send a few to people you know.If you one of our early users you may not have seen it yet but there are now two ways you can invite people. The first is you can use the ‘Invite Friends’ link which has been added next to Profile at the top, this is just a basic email a friend invite.The other way is that we have now built inviting right into contacts themselves, which makes sense. Go to any of your existing contacts and then to edit (or add one if you don’t have any). From here you can see some new sharing settings and from here you can send invites. This feature is nicer than just sending regular invites because when invites are accepted your contact details get traded and you will automatically be added to one an-others favorites. This saves both people the effort of having to manually enter each others contacts.

Oh and one other thing is that you can now also tell which contacts are also your favorites by a heart that appears over a contacts buddy icon. So cute, one of Katies ideas of course.

Look forward to seeing you all in there, don’t forget to check out my Backroom TextStream and sign me up as a favourite already!