Youniverse's personality quiz comes to VisualDNA Shops, as do a whole load of exciting new features

Lots of hard work from our team over the past few weeks has resulted in a ton of new features and fixes for our VisualDNA Shops widgets. For those of you who don't know what our Shops are, they are mini VisualDNA quizzes (of the sort you get on Youniverse) which profile your personality and recommend things you might like.

You can put one of these as a badge on your blog, and then every time someone buys a product they like from your shop, you make money as an Amazon affiliate. It's completely free to set up, although if you want to get more out of the experience, you can subscribe to our Professional Edition. This gives you the option to add specific products you think your blog readers will like, the ability to assign them to different personality types, and a detailed analytics page, so you can learn more about your users. If you're a Stephen Fry fan, let him give you a brief intro and a guide to adding products.

But I digress slightly... What I really wanted to do here was tell you about the new VisualDNA Shops features launched yesterday.

1. We've added a new shop! For people who wanted a more general widget to place on their blogs, we've developed a special version of Youniverse's personality quiz for our Shops repertoire. Perfect for fans of Youniverse and personality quizzes everywhere!

2. Our VisualDNA Shops homepage has been given a snazzy makeover to make it friendlier and easier to use.

3. You can customise a splash to fit your widget, so it can sit on your web page and fit in with your site's design.

4. Professional Edition users can also now turn off our VisualDNA product recommendations and only show their own assigned products. Personalisation at its best!

5. We've also added a VisualDNA Shops favicon. 

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