Product updates: Localized list of online email service providers, changes to the messaging feature

One of our major targets for this year is to grow our network and become more international, opening up more and more opportunities for our members to profit from new contacts. Along these lines, we updated the list of online email service providers which in the Address Book Comparison and bulk invitation functions.

We’ve added new email providers for China, Spain, Italy, Russia, Poland and Korea, giving our members living in these countries the opportunity to invite coworkers, business partners, acquaintances and friends directly using online address books. The invitation process is very easy: Just select your preferred webmail provider in the drop down list and then select contacts you want to invite to join XING or find out which of the contacts are already on XING. As always, we guarantee the security of your data: it will only be used for a single scan and will be deleted immediately afterwards. XING always uses the most recent, recognized data protection and encryption technologies to protect your personal information.

Decidedly the best: For 10 successful invitations, or if one of your invitees decides to become a Premium Member, you’ll also receive one month Premium Membership for free.

Apart from that, we’re busy polishing up the “Messages” section of our site, too. Here are two changes this week geared towards ensuring even more convenience for our members:

• The order of the columns for your Inbox and Outbox will be changed. Lots of people intuitively click the left-hand link here to view a message, and end up on the sender’s profile page. So we’ll be swapping around the “Subject” and “Recipient” columns to make sure this problem is avoided from now on.
• Another shortcut: From this week onwards, you’ll be able to click “Next” and “Previous” to jump directly from one message to another – without having to go back each time to the overview after reading every message or having to open messages in a separate browser tab.