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Introducing the Mixx Sifter
6/6/2009 | external link
When we launched Mixx 18 months ago, our goal was to create a website that featured the best in content discovery and personalization while offering a way to meet new people and have some fun. Speaking personally, we think we nailed the ?fun? part?that?s why we love coming in to the office every day. And [...]
More User Requests!
6/6/2009 | external link
Greetings Mixxers! We are installing a few small tweaks in response to user requests we’ve had over the last month or so.  Without further ado: To speed up the share process, we’ve made some tweaks to delay the loading of your friends avatars until you need them.  We also complete the share behind-the-scenes to get you on [...]
More Power to You
6/6/2009 | external link
More Power to You! That is exactly what we decided to do, give more power to our loyal Mixx users.  We here at Mixx like to reward those that are active on the site, so we thought what better way to give a reward than to create a new group of Mixxers to be known [...]
Mixx To Go
6/6/2009 | external link
Today we launched a new tool to add to your Mixx arsenal.  Introducing Mixx To Go–a new Firefox plugin from MashLogic. Mixx To Go provides you with links to Mixx content wherever you are on the web.  Over on CNN reading about the latest economic news? Look for the blue dotted underlines–that’s your visual clue that [...]
And The Winner Is?
6/6/2009 | external link
Brian Bickerton (Tau_Zero) is the lucky winner of the first Loyal Mixxer Sweepstakes! We’ll be shipping Brian a brand-new Apple MacBook with the sleek aluminum unibody! His laptop will now be better than ours?hmm, maybe we can swap this one out for?heh, heh, just kidding, Brian! For all of you who entered, thank you. We can say [...]
Winner(s) of the First Sifter: Living Social Movies App, Polianna and YOU
6/6/2009 | external link
The first results of The Sifter are in!  It was a neck and neck race until this weekend when the Living Social App centered around Movies pulled ahead of the Books app. The voters for the movies app were overwhelmingly men while the books app skewed more for the ladies.  We?ll leave it to you to [...]
Winner of the second Sifter: Clorox(r) Toaster
6/6/2009 | external link
The second running of the Sifter has come to a close, and winner winner chicken dinner; the top creative this week was the Clorox(r) Toaster creative. Once again, the competition was tight; but it looks as if the Toaster creative took the lead at the end and held onto it until the finish line. [...]
Winner of the T4 Sifter
6/6/2009 | external link
?Kyle Reese: The Terminator’s an infiltration unit, part man, part machine. Underneath, it’s a hyper-alloy combat chassis - micro processor-controlled, fully armored. Very tough. But outside, it’s living human tissue - flesh, skin, hair, blood, grown for the cyborgs…The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy. But these are new, they look human. [...]
Winner of the VisualCV Sifter - Get a Job!
6/6/2009 | external link
Get a job!! “We didn’t all get into music for a job! We got into music to avoid a job, in truth - and get lots of girls.” View quotes by Paul McCartney ?To a member of the audience who was heckling - ‘Don’t tell me how to do my job, do I go to your job and [...]
And the winner is??.
6/6/2009 | external link
The first four (well more than that now) Sifter campaigns are on the books and closed out, and as promised, we are giving away another MacBook. In case you have forgotten, we gave away a MacBook to Tau_Zero about six weeks ago (you can read all about it here), and we are holding true [...]