One of the most exciting features we've been planning for BlogBaker is integration with ActiveBoard. We know that many of you have accounts on ActiveBoard and are looking to start a blog to go along with your board. We are planning a number of features that will allow interaction between your blog and ActiveBoard including:

• Recent threads widget for BlogBaker that will show your recent activity on ActiveBoard.
• Common profile and avatar system between ActiveBoard and BlogBaker.
• Eventually, a common templating system between ActiveBoard and BlogBaker so you can more easily customize your look-and-feel on both sites.

The first step in this process will be integrating your user accounts on ActiveBoard so they can be recognized by both systems. Beginning early next week, we will be adding a simple migration wizard on ActiveBoard for upgrading user accounts to the new system.

Please let us know in the comments if you have any questions about user integration :)

Next week, my team will be rolling out a new photo gallery feature which will change the way you manage your photos!

Any image you upload (jpg, gif, or png) can be added to one or multiple galleries; You can easily check which photos are in which galleries on the media list page.

A gallery menu option will be added under Media in the blog administration panel. This will allow you to manage all your galleries and create new ones! Aww. isn't the koala cute?

You can easily add an image to multiple galleries by selecting them during the image upload process!

The gallery widget is coming soon! Watch this post for updates

Again, we're very excited to roll out this feature. Having used wordpress for 2 years myself, I never found a good gallery plugin.

With the blog rolling out soon from now... the time came to (finally) make a Spamfilter for all Sparklit products.

You can set a link threshold in Administration > Settings > DIscussion; this will automatically flag posts as SPAM.

We are planning to integrate this with all of our other products by the end of July 2010!

EDIT: We've added the spam filter to our Webpoll and Mini Survey Products! Bye Bye Spam!!!