Aruna Send has evolved from a file sending only service to a service that makes SENDING, STORING AND SHARING files on the Internet easy.

There is a more detailed blog post up at Aruna Labs and you can read more about the new Aruna Send release there.

VisionTEN has helped to plan and build this release for Aruna Labs. We will continue to work on both the front end and back end infrastructure for Aruna.

Aruna Send has many more exciting features to come but we will let their team fill you in on those as they come down the pipe.

Today the service was promoted to public beta so go try it out!

sendbeta.arunasend.com

Today they have decided to move the site to public beta. We will be able to provide more info next week when they do their announcements. In the meantime you can check it out…

http://www.moneylet.com

“Today we are releasing the next version of Aruna IM. The development team has been working hard to make many small improvements and it shows. Things are working very well and we are happy to introduce a major new feature. Web Conferencing.

Originally, we found that clients and companies using Aruna IM needed to have employees inside their company chatting in a secure manor. That has been solved by Aruna IM and has helped communication and efficiencies within the company. But what to do if you want to chat with a client, a vendor, a temp, a consultant, a supplier or any other third party? You don’t really want to provision an ID on the system for them for both security and management reasons. How do you chat with them easily?

Or what if you want to have a group chat and share some files with a few people involved on a disparate project team? Some people are inside the company and some are in USA and some in Europe, what to do now?

Aruna IM will allow you to create and send a web link to your conference participants, which will direct them to a web page to chat to you and the conference members. It can also be password protected for privacy if you like. And as with the regular Aruna IM, your chat sessions are always secure and encrypted.

The web chat also logs into your history to the server for compliance and regulatory reasons so your legal and compliance departments can remain happy! There is a even a file sharing capability so you can share files internally AND externally during your conferences and chat sessions.

If your company is looking for a corporate instant messaging solution that is secure BOTH inside and outside your company, let us introduce you to Aruna IM.

(Existing customers will be upgraded to the new version automatically)”

We implemented a blog style format for them and chose an open source content management platform that they could grow into. The platform is expandable for future functionality and the current features will organize their content so it is easily found.

We wish the best of luck for Gertie G. and hope her readers also have some financial fun!

The new Gertie G. website is available now at www.gertieg.com

This year they needed a refresh of their website to reflect the changes and growth in their business. The VisionTEN team worked with Vacci-Test to set a new look and feel and change the content. We leveraged the powerful content management system, initially implemented, to get the changed site up and running quickly.

The new refreshed site can be seen at Vaccitest.

We worked with them to deliver a fresh, clean and new design that would better accommodate their monthly newsletter format. We also, installed a content management system so the new editor can update, post and maintain the website themselves. The site also manages comments for individual postings and general comments and submissions to the editor. Finally, we did work to make sure that the site is optimized for search engines going forward.

They wanted a site that is more interactive for their members and we be helping them work toward that in the near future. Good luck to Mensa Calgary, we look forward to working more with them and helping to improve their community.

1. It can now convert URLs automatically into a short URL using ArunaURL. This helps free up space so you use up less of the 140 character per message limit.
2. You can now drag and drop an email onto the VTwitter Zimlet. The first 140 characters of that email will be entered automatically into the message to be sent to Twitter.

VTwitter is available on Aruna Email now. It can also be downloaded for Zimbra ZCS administrators to install on their Zimbra installations.

The initial version was launched 4 days ago and there has already been 1000+ downloads of the software. The Aruna Send widget is available immediately and can be found here.

We will continue to maintain and develop the software releases for Aruna.

Here is the announcement of the Zimlet release from Aruna Labs.

Vtwitter is released as open source software and the code will be available to anyone that wants it. We have set up a Vtwitter project page for more info, licenses, downloads, source code and documentation.

We will maintain the app / source code and provide periodic releases to the public but we encourage everyone to make suggestions, comments, report bugs and submit ideas (and code) to make it better. We have set up a dedicated Vtwitter discussion forum on the Twitter Community site over at TwitTown. Please direct any questions, comments or support issues there.

There are some screenshots in the Vtwitter User Tutorial for those interested.

Happy Twittering!!

Note: This is Beta software, do not install on production systems. Currently, Vtwitter is only working with Windows IE 6 and Windows Firefox 1.5 browsers. There is a problem in the Twitter API that, when we find a workaround, should enable all other Zimbra compliant browsers.