What’s new at Skalfa eCommerce
Now this is big. I mean it’s huge. Today we are widening our community software portfolio (SkaDate, chuPPo) with one more product.
WackWall is an online webservice that allows you to create your own white/private label hosted social network free and within minutes.
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Skalfa Docs is an online wiki-style destination to keep Skalfa products documentation and guidelines. We launched it online some time ago and there’s a lot to put there yet. Please allow us some time to compile everything we have to a wiki format.
We have been contacted earlier with inquiries to help us create online documentation so Skalfa Docs is the answer. Yes, we really want your help feel free to contact us.
Somehow I feel that April Fool’s Day is a valid date to announce something called “WackWall”. But please take it serious. This is going to be one of the most significant things the company ever created.
WackWall comes to enable you to create your own cool full-featured hosted social network for any purpose (family, friends, work, or special interest). What makes it engaging is the fact that it’s FREE and can be done with a few clicks.
We are currently deep in development and testing and I’m going to keep you updated along the progress. Once there’s something public to play with we will gladly invite you all and come up with a more detailed description and plans for future.
For now let me leave you guessing with only a few screenshots:
I’m excited to announce public beta release of Skalfa Ads. If you manage several ad inventories and several sites (does that sound like you?) read further.
Skalfa Ads is a simple banner advertisement rotation management and tracking system.
Current features
- Totally free;
- Create ad channels;
- Upload banner images to channels;
- Place channel HTML code on your website pages and start showing banner rotations;
- Track statistics for channels and for ads separately.
Simple as that.
Future plans
- Arbitrary ads format (not only image);
- Rotation ratio control;
- Advertisement marketplace and free banner exchange systems.
Skalfa Ads was originally developed for Skalfa eCommerce internal needs, now requested by some customers it was elaborated for public use. Such a system can make significant difference for small businesses that often pursue ad-supported business models, such as online dating and community sites. Skalfa Ads comes to help with one place to control placement and track statistics.
I welcome everyone to try out Skalfa Ads and discuss your experience on Skalfa Boards.
We are glad to introduce chuPPito - a small object for engaging users into your running copy of chuPPo Chat. It’s a variable size widget that reflects what’s currently going on in your chat rooms.
You can place this widget anywhere on your site, for example on index page. You can set your own custom widget size to make it fit your page layout. This can be a great little tool to engage your customers in your site activity.
An improtant notice to SkaDate users: chuPPito will be integrated with the next SkaDate update but you can have it in advance. All others chuPPo Chat users, feel free to make inquiries for chuPPito installation assistance.
This particular chuPPito object is connected to chuPPo webcam chat software demo by simply indicating its URL in connection parameters. Feel free to look at this post page source to find out how to install it yourself. We’ll follow up with more detailed installation instructions on chuPPo.com.
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I’m glad to announce that our company has established representative office in Czech Republic early this year in the form of limited liability company, Skalfa Europe s.r.o.. Registry number is 28224621, filed in C 133572. I’m adding new requisits to our “About” section.
We are happy to become closer to our European customers because our presence in Europe grows with years and becomes a substantial market to serve. This is a strategic move to pursue Skalfa international potential.
Thank you.
We have updated chuPPo Messenger application.
Update summary:
- Skin, smilies change support
- Custom languages support
- Usage statistics
- Usage tracking now based on successful IM sessions between members, not on simultaneous users online like before.
Log in to admin area. Now you can see a separate tab for Messenger with its own settings. Feel free to check and let us know if it works well for you.
SkaDate
It’s that time of the product life-cycle again. We are planning next major upgrade for SkaDate, version 7. We are at the stage of gathering all the feedback and putting on paper what should be implemented.
We target the following 3 objectives with SkaDate 7:
1) Several major new features (groups, classifieds, etc.)
2) A lot of enhancements and optimization of the existing features. This is the neverending mission across the product existence history.
3) Performance optimization. We made some custom performance tuning for several big customers. Some of that can be implemented in the main product.
And of course, SkaDate 7 is not going to be a great thing without your suggestions. We found great value of communicating with customers, so new SkaDate can’t go without your contribution.
chuPPo
chuPPo applications do not have any versioning because of the hosted model and constant incremental development. You do not need to download anything, you just see your chat, IM, and recorder getting better, often on a daily basis.
Currently we are eager to hear from our audience what chuPPo can do for you.
Skalfa Boards
Now, for some action go to the new Skalfa Boards and let us know how we can make running your business easier. From now on this is the right place to give us some insight on improving our products.
We are glad to announce that chuPPo extends its set of free offers again.
This time we introduce completely free text-only version of chuPPo Chat with unlimited user sessions.
If you go to your admin area statistics page you will see the following:
As you see in the legend, audio/video sessions and text-only sessions are counted separately! This means can use your a/v sessions up to the fullest while being able to switch to text-only mode.
You can switch between a/v and text modes any time in the main settings tab of your admin area. When you are in text mode your sessions are still counted (so you have a good picture of your site usage) and an unobtrusive advertisement banner from chuPPo is shown below the chat.
You don’t have to pay anything, it’s FREE.
You don’t bother about running out of user sessions, it’s UNLIMITED.
You can set it up instantly, it’s COPY&PASTE.
Go use it now. Your feedback and suggestions are greatly welcome.
What makes a good journalist? Asking tough questions.
David Evans, online dating blogger has got some difficult questions for vendors about the status of software market for online dating and social networking sites on his resource Online Dating Insider.
I felt urge to answer because those questions really represent what people want to know about our product. I’m also giving some insight about fundamental problems and how we solve them.
