We are moving SkaDate software blog to our parent company (Skalfa eCommerce) blog. This is for easier posts management and for easier tracking of our products since most our customers use more than one.
We have released 6.495 update with important security patch today. Feel free to log in to customer area to download and apply the new changes.
NOTE: If you are running version 5 (SuccessPoint) or 6 (Unity) and not willing/able to upgrade in full, please change (merge) your components/components.profile_list.php file.
Find this piece of code:
switch ( $display_mode )
{
case ‘gallery’:
case ‘details’:
$this->_display_mode = $display_mode;
break;
We’ve been testing and packing the new revision several days more than originally planned because we didn’t want to release in a rush. Experience shows that you don’t need to hurry when making the final step. Feel free to try demo and let us know what you think.
We install a lot of sites and do a lot of modifications. At this point we are ready to accept competent third party help. Sometimes our overload doesn’t let us satisfy everyone’s needs, and we have to adjust the price tag as a filter. This is not good, since some portion of our customers left to seek qualified help themselves.
Now are glad to announce that we are ready to help third parties earn with SkaDate. You can make modifications for our customers if you are able to provide sufficient programming and service quality.
This is a truly win-win-win offer since:
1) Customers get recommendations from us which we will only give based on our conclusion about the third party developer competency.
2) Skilled developers can earn money making direct communication with the end customer, without having us as a mediator.
3) We have a more satisfied customer base which is our direct interest.
At this time we will only accept US-based companies/developers.
Send your short summary with company or personal technical background (including contact information) to exe AT skalfa DOT com, so we review it to decide to work together. It greatly helps if you previously did SkaDate modifications for our customers.
While we are furiously working on the new substantial SkaDate update, there’s some time for fun. Feel free to check out our “SkaDate dating software” Myspace profile. If you got a lot from SkaDate, send friend requests
Just a short note about the new update in the download area. It contains minor fixes and interface tweaks. No major problems found in the main release, so, we’re working further and listening to feedback and reports.
Meet SkaDate Unity — seismic move ahead in Online Dating and Social Networking web site software.
South Bend, IN, June 13, 2007 — Emil Sarnogoev, Skalfa eCommerce CEO is happy to announce SkaDate Unity — the sixth release of the famous community software package.
“SkaDate Unity is a ‘features’ release,” Emil Sarnogoev says. “We’re excited to offer something that fits our customers and their users even more than the previous version did. We have been satisfying public demand, performed intensive testing, and observed the industry for the last year. Now you can get the results of all this work.”
The technical side of the new release deserves attention because you are safe from the usual stability issues of all new releases. The platform is not new just made even more stable with new features by twelve dedicated full time programmers and testers.
“SkaDate SuccessPoint, the previous version, was a huge success due to its stability and usability. The platform was thoroughly tested in a production environment on more than 500 sites,” Nurlan Jumakaliev (CTO) says. “All updates for it were minor fixes, user interface tweaks and 3rd party add-ons integrated. We used this robust base for the new features of SkaDate Unity.”
The new release introduces modern features of social networking sites. Now you can have any hybrid of dating and social networking site, since this is the tendency that the industry leans to. Review the list of SkaDate social networking software features.
“Current Internet communication trends show that people want it all in one,” Sarnogoev says. “In your copy of SkaDate Unity software you have the unified business tool to build the site that people want to use.”
Another valuable addition is that SkaDate Unity goes with native integration of the complete set of chuPPo webcam software (video chat, messenger, recorder). These applications open up great opportunities for rich media interaction between users. chuPPo contributes to site stickiness, because users quickly get addicted to the new level of communication.
SkaDate is the premier provider of online dating and social networking business solutions for startups using SkaDate software as its heart. Many businesses adopt Hosted Community Site Solution which is perfect for those with no in-house technical staff and background. SkaDate sets up sites of different scale, ranging from niche home-business startups to high-volume projects with strict business plans and established distribution channels.
“We’ve been maintaining all kinds of businesses based on this platform since 2004″, Denis Juikov (COO) says, “Looks like it works for people.”
Wow, we’ve got big news here!: SkaDate Unity, our sixth release is on the shelf. Following our good tradition to meet deadlines, we’ve got it on the first day of summer, making the vacation time a hot season for starting a business.
This time we had even more fun than at the release process of SkaDate SuccessPoint, the predecessor. More developers, more features, even more stable platform, and a lot more people waiting for the gem to be unleashed to the market.
SkaDate Unity is a pretty much hybrid of social networking and dating site software because of the new features it introduces. It’s worth to note chuPPo product line fully supported and natively integrated.
Posted in Industry Take at 3:18 pm by Emil Sarnogoev
Recently I thought about what can make a successful community site. So far it seems that any successful social software explicitly or implicitly imitates offline behavior of its users. In short, people like to do what they always do without the need to learn something revolutionary new or adopting unrelated new action patterns.
When you muddle through Wal-Mart signs, you hope to catch a glimpse of what you need instead of getting down to the product placement system. It’s funny how much time you can spend on that. Finally you ask an assistant to tell you exactly where your cornflakes pack hides. The same approach you use when you navigate sites. No will to understand the 4 level menu hierarchy, no time to read everything through, you just shoot everywhere until you find whatever seems to resemble what you originally need.
Extreme cases of such behavior are not-so-savvy Internet users. Frankly saying your business hunts exactly for them. Smart sites know that and adjust accordingly. Of course, this applies to every aspect of user experience, including how your features work to help you interact with other people. Maybe later Internet is going to change human behavior dramatically, so far using offline-dominating trends gives great benefits.
Blogging example
Why is blogging a phenomenon as a widespread and successful communication/self-expression tool? Blogging is basically a good way to let people know that you’re still kicking. On the other hand, reading blogs is finding out how the person has been since the last time you interfered. Recent posts on various topics are the answer to your “what’s up?” question that you face your friend with after a couple of days.
People say a lot of things - their own thoughts, thoughts on others’ thoughts, their take on events, well-known things, plain had-breakfast-with-jeff-and-jenny talkings are also an important part of everyone’s life. Other people listen to it, express their own opinions, comment and argue. In fact, if you are listened by other people, it encourages you to talking further, refining your thoughts. If you are an authority on some questions, people listen to what you say and quote you later to other people. In fact, gaining some respect and authority makes you addicted to gain even more. Up to the point when you can make money out of thinking, talking, and writing. Now, recognize all this in blogging.
While forums do not really belong to anyone of the participants, blogs are `homes` for authors and they are taken appropriate care in terms of design and content.
Social networking sites
Imagine, you are in your teen age and got a cool new friend. What do you do? You talk the hell out about yourself. You introduce her to your best friends; you take her home to show what your bedroom is like; show all your photos, childhood and prom videos; play all your favorite CDs; get her know all your weird hobbies. And you want the same shower of information in return.
It’s good that MySpace offers something more than that, like viral marketing and promotion opportunities, its primary use is still showing off, self-expression and what’s-up communication. There are a lot of social networking sites nowadays, of different sizes, features and level of user-friendliness. I believe those of them adopting better offline life imitations will eventually win users. Thus MySpace stole Friendster traffic for just loading pages faster and implementing on-demand features.
So, how do modern community sites reflect our offline life? Your take?
And the corresponding question: How can the most obvious offline life people habits and patterns of behavior be reflected on the Web to create successful startups?
