Siaram
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Hello fellow x10 members.
A good friend of mine and myself of course started in mid September 2007 to build a social networking site. We realized that there were already many operating, however we had a vision to create a site with some key focal points in mind.
Firstly it had to be extremely user friendly so even your grandparents could find their way around and navigate easily through the various pages, functions and features. Secondly, it had to look professional, enough so that people would take it seriously and not discard it and bounce on first glance. Thirdly it had to be an "Everyone's" site. No one is exempt. Young and old, black or white, straight or gay Chinese or American. Everyone needed to feel welcome and no one should be left out. And finally and yet not least, it needed to be fun and "sticky" enough to keep members wishing to return.
Since September, we have come an extremely long way with just the two of us and are very proud so far of what we have accomplished from the ground up, but realize it will always be a work in progress. For this reason, we seek the wisdom and guidance of some good people to constructively guide us in areas of weakness so we can make fixes to certain issues as well as compliment our strengths so that we may take those particular areas even higher and to the next level.
Some of are features include:
-A private member reminder calendar on every profile page where people can click a day to add an event or reminder. After submitting it will highlight the specified day and reveal the reminder in a balloon upon mouseover as well as email the member 24 hours before to remind them they have an event coming up the next day.
-The "Trading Post" which is a place where members can buy or sell items directly from their profile page to other iBuzzz members within their own country or nation. Complete with description/price and picture if available. This feature will be expanded to global sales should it become popular within the site.
-i-Spy, a feature to reveal the last 20 members to view your profile page as well as a "stealth mode" that will block the i-Spy feature for sensitive members who like to lurk or appear offline.
-Template color chooser to select the color that best suits a members mood or preference.
-An auto updating live chatbox we built from scratch showing ava's of last 18 members to use it and custom selected smiley's members can utilize at the click of a button.
-Many rooms for specific topics. "The Stage" for music related content. "The Arcade" for game related content. Even "The Catacombs" for adult or R-Rated 18 and up content.
-Global chat. A place where people can pick a selection of 20 different nationalities to speak with their fellow countrymen/woman complete with an English and Native tongue rss updating news headline for that country. Well we have the English now. The native tongue news will be there within a week for those countries to which it applies like Russia, Philllpines, Brazil etc...
-And of course it come chalk full of all the other features you would expect in a social site such as Buddy alerts, a "Scratchpad" for members to post videos, music, and text on their profiles, gifts sending, and more.
So that being said and sorry it was so long winded, we really wish to hear your feedback. And keep in mind, we have set the site up so that people can't experience 90% of the features without logging in. We wanted basically to force people to join so that they didn't just see a chatbox and figure that was it. Once they join, all the options, features and functionality open up to them. And also bare in mind this was all done by only 2 people. We don't have a "team" of developers, designers, graphics artist and the sort.
We appreciate your comments and look very much forward to hearing what you have to say.
Regards,
Vision and Siaram
iBuzzzz Admins and Owners.
A good friend of mine and myself of course started in mid September 2007 to build a social networking site. We realized that there were already many operating, however we had a vision to create a site with some key focal points in mind.
Firstly it had to be extremely user friendly so even your grandparents could find their way around and navigate easily through the various pages, functions and features. Secondly, it had to look professional, enough so that people would take it seriously and not discard it and bounce on first glance. Thirdly it had to be an "Everyone's" site. No one is exempt. Young and old, black or white, straight or gay Chinese or American. Everyone needed to feel welcome and no one should be left out. And finally and yet not least, it needed to be fun and "sticky" enough to keep members wishing to return.
Since September, we have come an extremely long way with just the two of us and are very proud so far of what we have accomplished from the ground up, but realize it will always be a work in progress. For this reason, we seek the wisdom and guidance of some good people to constructively guide us in areas of weakness so we can make fixes to certain issues as well as compliment our strengths so that we may take those particular areas even higher and to the next level.
Some of are features include:
-A private member reminder calendar on every profile page where people can click a day to add an event or reminder. After submitting it will highlight the specified day and reveal the reminder in a balloon upon mouseover as well as email the member 24 hours before to remind them they have an event coming up the next day.
-The "Trading Post" which is a place where members can buy or sell items directly from their profile page to other iBuzzz members within their own country or nation. Complete with description/price and picture if available. This feature will be expanded to global sales should it become popular within the site.
-i-Spy, a feature to reveal the last 20 members to view your profile page as well as a "stealth mode" that will block the i-Spy feature for sensitive members who like to lurk or appear offline.
-Template color chooser to select the color that best suits a members mood or preference.
-An auto updating live chatbox we built from scratch showing ava's of last 18 members to use it and custom selected smiley's members can utilize at the click of a button.
-Many rooms for specific topics. "The Stage" for music related content. "The Arcade" for game related content. Even "The Catacombs" for adult or R-Rated 18 and up content.
-Global chat. A place where people can pick a selection of 20 different nationalities to speak with their fellow countrymen/woman complete with an English and Native tongue rss updating news headline for that country. Well we have the English now. The native tongue news will be there within a week for those countries to which it applies like Russia, Philllpines, Brazil etc...
-And of course it come chalk full of all the other features you would expect in a social site such as Buddy alerts, a "Scratchpad" for members to post videos, music, and text on their profiles, gifts sending, and more.
So that being said and sorry it was so long winded, we really wish to hear your feedback. And keep in mind, we have set the site up so that people can't experience 90% of the features without logging in. We wanted basically to force people to join so that they didn't just see a chatbox and figure that was it. Once they join, all the options, features and functionality open up to them. And also bare in mind this was all done by only 2 people. We don't have a "team" of developers, designers, graphics artist and the sort.
We appreciate your comments and look very much forward to hearing what you have to say.
Regards,
Vision and Siaram
iBuzzzz Admins and Owners.
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