Around the office, we love taking new services for a test run. You never know when you’re going to find the next “must have” feature for our users. When Facebook began rolling out @facebook.com addresses, we had to take a look.

There’s been a lot of good commentary on the scope and impact Facebook Messages will have on the email using community.  That’s a big community, by the way, and it happens to include my mom.  Bless her heart, she signed up for Facebook last week, and now I have to explain that email, chats, and text messages aren’t separate things anymore.  It was difficult enough explaining the difference to begin with! For our MailChimp users, I thought I’d go into a little more detail.

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We first launched our Inbox Inspector tool in May 2007. It was pretty revolutionary at the time (ahem, imho) to be offering a “one-click” testing service like this to the masses. Unfortunately, it also seemed fairly expensive to most people. $39 for three tests seemed high (still, much cheaper than an embarrassing email design mistake). Over the years, we kept reducing its price, eventually whittling it down to under $5 per test.

But we’re pretty excited to announce that we’re now making Inbox Inspections totally free…

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Here’s a really quick tutorial that photographers and designers might enjoy. MailChimp’s RSS-to-email feature isn’t limited to pulling in RSS feeds from blogs. You can link it to virtually any RSS feed. If you’re a photographer who posts stuff to sites like flickr, this means you can spend less time writing newsletters, and more time doing what you love (but at the same time, updating customers and prospects with your latest work).

Here’s how to build an automated newsletter that pulls content from flickr…

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As 2010 drew to a close, we wrapped up a pretty important project that’s gonna make designing professional emails even easier in MailChimp. We created 36 new Start From Scratch email templates that introduce a plethora of layout options, and a host of new controls to repeat and hide content modules, auto-resize images to fit in a template, and a whole lot more. Fabio, our resident email template master, already blogged about all of the fancy features and layout possibilities, but you may have missed it while sipping eggnog by the fire and enjoying your favorite holiday program on the tele.

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I’m snowed in today. So this was a very timely email from Bonobos:

Notice the “unrated version” link at the top left?

Clicking that link takes you to another soupy landing page…

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