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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Long time we didn’t write anything about SkaDate but that doesn’t mean there’s no news in the camp. In fact, A LOT is going on in SkaDate development rooms.
First of all, we are receiving a lot of useful feedback from our customers on the public SkaDate forum. Especially interesting is the feature suggestion section where our customers let us know what they want to see in SkaDate. If you don’t participate yet, there’s a heap of reasons why you should.
This update is going to be all about feature enhancements and we believe it’s going to make life much easier for all our customers and their users.
A list of confirmed changes for the upcoming update is also available. You should hurry to check it out because there’s still some time left to submit what you find necessary.
Our development dept is humming and romping.
Posted in Products, SkaDate | Tags: feedback · suggest feature
Monday, March 10th, 2008
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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Posted in Miscellaneous, News, Products, SkaDate, chuPPo | Tags: addons · chat · chuppito · engagement · promotion
Thursday, March 6th, 2008
Just a quick note to let you know that we updated SkaDate.com site with a new look. Hopefully this interface is better and more usable. Feel free to leave your comments and suggestions.
Thank you.
Posted in Products, SkaDate | Tags: design · facelift
Monday, February 18th, 2008
We are opening up Ideas exchange board for SkaDate-powered sites. We are receiving active response to our feature suggestion section, that proves that there are people around willing to exchange insight and help each other.
We welcome anyone with a fresh SkaDate installation to take part in this action. In best scenario this can bring incredible value for webmasters and a vast source of information for us to see how we can make your life easier.
We are sure there is a lot to share. Things like our recent discussion of membership models are only a top of an iceberg. Promotion, spam issues, interaction stimulation, keeping members active, anyone?
Now, feel free to participate!
Posted in Products, SkaDate | Tags: community · discussion · exchange · forum · ideas
Friday, February 15th, 2008
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.
Posted in News, Products, chuPPo | Tags: messenger · update
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
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.
Posted in News, Products, SkaDate, chuPPo | Tags: features · forum · ideas · suggest feature · support
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Facebook installation of chuPPo Chat has been updated. We activated the new skin, and added long awaited invite friends feature. Now, with custom user-created rooms and friends invitations this Facebook application is going to add even more value for its users.
Soon chuPPo Chat will have “friends” feature for all sites. It will mean that the logic of the site will pass relationship between users, so those who are friends will enjoy better placement and visibility for each other. This is going to greatly improve user experience on busy sites including Facebook.
Add this app and invite friends if you want to have fun with your Facebook friends online and support chuPPo.
Posted in Products, chuPPo | Tags: chat · facebook · friends · showcase
Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008
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.
Posted in News, Products, chuPPo | Tags: chat · copy&paste · free · text · unlimited
Saturday, January 19th, 2008
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.
Posted in News, Products, SkaDate | Tags: blogging · experts · problems · q&a · reliability · software · support
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
As you might have noticed we released a new skin for chuPPo Chat.
This skin will be default for all new chuPPo Chat installations, existing customers can activate it in chuPPo admin area.
We think user interface tweaking can never be too much. Together with the skin, chat application has got some minor interface improvements. Feel free to comment if your users like the new app. We are going to clear out and polish every single detail based on what your users say. Since community business is always user-centric, you might want to gather some feedback from your chatters.
Good luck in your endeavors!
Posted in Products, chuPPo | Tags: chat · skin · ui · update
