Did you know that you can enable "Request password by email address" on your Forgotten Password page with a simple web.config change? Most websites in the wild require a unique email address per user - it's a fairly specific use-case to share emails. I am suprised that this is not shipped defaulted to "true"on new installs to save a lot of pain and suffering. Here is a DotNetNuke SQL script to change duplicate email addresses.

If you use OpenID, LiveID or any other 3rd party authentication provider you may want to know how many users are using each method to connect.

You may have noticed Smart-Thinker has a sleek new look! The old skin served us well but it was time for a change. When SmartSocial (the free DotNetNuke Social Networking Suite) was announced we thought we'd better jack up the website a lot.

We want your opinion - do you like the new skin or not?

As of the 14th of January, 2009, the Smart-Thinker product suite, hereafter known as “SmartSocial”, will become entirely free. This will include all modules and source with no portal restrictions.

This version introduces a new beta feature called Location Search which you can see in action on PokerDIY. Users can drill down by Country, Region and finally City (user data-driven) and search for users at each level. The Smart-Thinker Groups module, Event module and any other location-based module will be able to take advantage of this. For example, you might drill down to a particular city and the results page will show all users, groups, events etc for that location.

This version integrates with the Ifinity Sitemap provider and has some SEO benefits. You can read the Full Release notes here.

There is a very interesting proposal/debate going on on the Smart-Thinker Forums regarding the leveraging of multiple customer's buying power to pay for Sponsored Enhancements (Crowdsourcing) to increase the Smart-Thinker productivity output.

The basic idea is that a list of estimates is done for all major feature requests. Customers can then "bid" to sponsor a feature and have a say in the specification and requirements for the feature. When the full amount for the project is reached and the majority of project sponsors agree on the spec and deliverables then the enhancement is developed. The majority once again must sign it off for it to be accepted. The full detail of the proposal can be found

Publish Ventrian News Article events to your profile feed and output your profile URLs to Google Sitemaps with Ifinity