After a lot of work and even more bug fixes, we released what we're calling Version 1.1 of the PMS Social Suite on Sunday night. Those of you who asked for features will see much of what you asked for. You can go back to the post that suggested you watch our FireBoard RSS Feed and see that we've delivered what was promised, plus a few more extras. Let's go through the new features:

• Cached Search/Research Cleaned Up - The Yes/No box for Research next to the Cached Search field in the Find Friends tab has been eliminated in favor of the more simple Research Button. This should provide a much easier user exerpeince.
• Skip Login Option on Manage Shouts - There's a new checkbox on the Manage Shouts tab for "Skip Login." If you know that you're already logged into Digg, you don't have to wait for the login/logout procedure (and recognizable footprint).
• Shoutback Articles Tracked - You can flag an article that should get a shout back to your friends. When performing shouts, if you digg a friend's shouts that has not dugg this article, it will send them a shout. You can specify the text of the shout with variable substitution, including URL of an article to randomly pick from the list of tracked and shouted articles. If you've got 5 articles in your shoutback queue and your friend has asked you to digg 5 stories, they'll get a shout back for each story in your queue.
• User Configurable Saved Queries - You can now name your queries and click "Save Query" and a new button will appear that loads that query for you.
• Track Whether a Friend Allows Shouts - There's a new field in the grid called "Allows Shouts", as well as a query filter. An interesting query to perform is Mutual=Yes and Allows Shouts=No. Those are people that can shout to you, but you can't shout to them because they've turned it off. Drop them! We've also added a button called "Check Shout Ability" which manually checks whether you can shout to them.
• Track Shouts From and Shouts Ignored - We now keep track of how many shouts we've processed from each friend and how many you've ignored (due to keyword filters or random percentage). If you've got friends that send you a lot of shouts but never digg your stuff, kick them to the curb!
• Friend Tagging - You can add custom "tags" to your friends on the manage friends and tracking screens. For instance, you might tag someone as "Reliable" if they digg a high percentage of your submissions. You can access your tags from the Multi Shout dialog via the GM Script in Digg, thus allowing you to select shout recipients according to how you've marked them. Need something dugg right away -- select everyone tagged as reliable and shout to them first.
• Article Tracking - There's a new tab called "Tracking" where you can keep stories that you're interested in. You can research who is digging these stories and even track buries in real time. Select a group of stories, then calculate which of your friends are digging those stories. You can enter a specific Digg URL, or the grab all the submissions of your user.
• Download to CSV - Premium users now get an option to download any table to CSV.
• Watch Articles for Buries - You can now watch for articles that are being buried in the tracking screen.
• Firefox 3 and Imacros V6.0.6.9 Now Supported - If you're still running FireFox 2, you still need Version 6.0.4.1 of Imacro to be safe, but we've now tested FireFox 3 and the Aug 1 (latest) version of Imacro. Consider that combination a beta. Everything appears to work, but give us your feedback.

Check out the Videos!

We're continuing to pump out videos explaining how these features work. Key videos you'll want to watch are:

• Friending People with Specific Keyword Submits on Digg - How to add a list of friends by just entering a keyword. This replaces the functionality found in the venerable Digg Friend Finder with something much more useful.
• Friending Top Topic Submitters - Want to follow the submitters of a topic on the front page? Add a list of friends based upon a Digg Topic
• Finding Friends Who Digg Stories - How to get the list of friends based on a URL of a Digg Story.
• Automatic Digging of Shouts - Process your incoming shouts the easy way.

And of course, you can browse through all of our videos from the Video menu link at the top of our page. Head on over to YouTube and subscribe so that you'll find out as soon as we release another one (which has been almost daily, lately).

What a Deal!

All of that, and we didn't even increase the price! In fact, we've released the tracking tab as a freemium feature. Consider that a free beta for a lot of new functionality, because at some point in the not too distant future we're going to pull tracking back into the Premium features. But for now you get to try it out for free.

If you check the PMS Social Suite Forum, you'll see that we still have plenty of new features planned. The question we've got for our users is which would you rather see: more features related to Digg, or should we start to implement the feature set we currently have on new social networks? What social networks should we go after next? StumbleUpon? Propeller? Mixx? What would you like to see?

Here's another question. If you're currently a freemium user, what would we have to add to get you to sign up for Premium?

As always, you can comment on this article, post in the forums or just contact us.