Welcome to 2008!

Happy New Year to you all. I trust you all had a good holiday.

Personafile served a heck of a lot of customers over the holiday weeks, answering all sorts of product questions. Our servers were pretty busy. The overall page views increased substantially in December and that pretty much seems to be continuing (although not quite as "hot" as Dec 20th - Dec 30th).

More and more customers are learning about or using [i] Gain to shop on the Internet. A few accounts are very active in this regard; two I can think of have > $100 balances. Not bad for found money! If you are not familiar with [i] Gain you can learn more at: http://www.personafile.com/iGain.html

Starting on day one (OK, make that day 2) of 2008 we got busy working on a bunch of new things:

1. With CES and MacWorld in progress/coming, there is work to do to get all these new cool products in Personafile. So that's a work in progress.

2. We added two main buttons to http://www.personafile.com/: Products and [i] Gain. The Products button brings you to four pages that "show off" the Personafile Product Database in a differents ways:

-http://www.personafile.com/products.html: a snapshot of our Product Database. Well almost, it currently show about 30% of the products within that are categorized. We will be working to get more products listed here in the coming weeks.

-http://www.personafile.com/new-products.html: new products that we've recently added to the Personafile Database.

-http://www.personafile.com/topvisits.html: the top products by user visit. These are the "popular" products within Personafile.

-http://www.personafile.com/product-recalls.html: Our product recalls "clearinghouse". Product recall listings with [i] links to Personafile products pages matching those recalls.

3. Also, we've introduced a new product categorization model that will be expanded over time.

Take a look at: http://personafile.com/Apple-iPod-nano-3rd-Generation-8GB-2-000-Songs-(PRODUCT)-RED-MB257LLA-P885909100211.htm

In the Data Panel section, Market Data pane, you will see 3 new links:
compare all iPods
compare all MP3 Players
show all Apple iPod nano products

The first two allow you to navigate through the Personafile product database to compare all iPods and MP3 Players. The third link shows all Apple iPod nano products within the context of all Apple products. Its fun to "visualize" your product in this way in its relationship to other products. All existing product pages currently contain the "show" link, the "compare" links are different for each product (and frankly most products don't have them yet, but the model is in place and we'll be working on more "compares" in the weeks ahead).