We launched AlterEgo, our free 2-factor authentication service, back in May (here’s the back story, if you missed it). When we first launched, it was only available as a web app, which is nice and universally accessible, but not quite as snappy as a native app on your smartphone. And when it comes to logging in to an app, snappy’s really important. So the guys in our mobile lab built AlterEgo apps for iPhone and Android. Now, it’s super easy and super fast to add an extra layer of security on top of your MailChimp account. If you haven’t tried AlterEgo, you should activate it for your MailChimp account (it’s free), and then download the app to your smartphone:

• Download AlterEgo for iPhone
• Download the Android app

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MailChimp is about to hit a pretty special milestone—we’re fast approaching our millionth user. This calls for a celebration, and since we always celebrate by giving away free stuff, we’re really going over the top for this one.

When we hit a million, we’ll give away 1,000 plushies, 2,000 chimp hats (the chimp hats for humans, not to be confused with the the chimp hats for cats or our Pyow-cat-shaped hats for humans and dogs) and 10,000 shirts. If history is a guide, they’re going to disappear in no time.

If you want to get in on the action, bookmark this countdown timer.

You can also sign up for our marketing list to get notified when the giveaway is imminent, and follow us on Twitter and Facebook.

From all of us, thanks for using MailChimp. Here’s to another million!

There’s an extremely cool feature in MailChimp that not a lot of people know about, and we’re trying to change that with some big upgrades:

The Email Beamer
Every list in MailChimp has a private email address. You can send a message to that private address using Gmail, Outlook, Apple Mail, or even your iPhone or iPad, and we’ll automatically forward it as an email campaign to your list.

This means you can publish MailChimp campaigns while you’re away from your computer, on the road, or sitting in your makeup chair before the show (yep, someone asked us if this was possible).

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MailChimp’s signup forms are already pre-translated to a few dozen languages. But some of our users want the ability to manually translate each piece of the process in their own way. So in v6.3, we did that. When you go in to your list’s form designer, you’ll notice a new “Translate” tab:

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We’ll be launching v6.3 tomorrow morning (Monday, 9/12/11). The changes will propagate to all 900k+ user accounts by end of day Tuesday.

Some really cool updates to announce, plus one big policy change…

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