Information and news about SkaDate community site software.
Project website: SkaDate.com
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
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
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 3rd, 2008
Now, after a couple days of well-deserved vacation we are back to business armed at all points! We hope 2008 is going to be a prosperous year for you!
We are very pleased to announce the launch of our first ever January discount campaign “Community StartUp Package”. With great discounts for all Skalfa community products you now have an opportunity to start your own full-featured community website with the up-to-date widgets like video chat, messenger, face photo crop option and many others.
The beginning of a new year is always an important period. This is the first time we have offered our products at a special price. Since our start up we have concentrated on quality and value received, delivering quality to every single customer. For the New Year we are all about helping out new businesses. With Community Startup Package from Skalfa you save a cool $600.
“Community StartUp Package” special offer includes all necessary community widgets for successful startup with a discount: SkaDate Unity software, ChuPPo applications (3 months FREE) and FaceJuggle (3 months FREE).
If you compare the regular prices for the offered products you will find out how big the discount we provide in this special offer. Let’s check: SkaDate ($795 or $295), 3 months of ChuPPo applications ($441), 3 months of FaceJuggle ($75) are now in the package only for $700 (Software solution) and $250 (Managed solution) instead of $1311 or $811 accordingly.
The information about the differences in SkaDate pricing solutions you can find here.
All Skalfa eCommerce community products are now offered in one “Community StartUp Package” at a highly reduced price. This offer is only available during January, 2008.Feel free to contact our sales support team via chat, email or phone regarding the offer.
You can order “Community StartUp Package” on our website.
Posted in News, SkaDate | Tags: addons · business · community · discounts · special offer · startup
Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
We have been working hard during 2007. Now it’s time to be rewarded with a few days off for holidays.
Our support and technical departments will be closed from Dec 29 to Jan 2 so our staff members can finally spend some holiday time with their families. You can submit your support tickets, pre-sale inquiries, and orders during that time, they will start being served on January 3.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Posted in FaceJuggle, Miscellaneous, SkaDate, SkaLinks, chuPPo | Tags: holidays · schedule
Thursday, December 20th, 2007
OK, it’s just about time for Skalfa Claus to raise his tousled head out of development docs and announce the December revision of SkaDate: version 6.560
Here’s what we got for you in this release:
- New template
- Upload photo at sign up
- Username choice blacklist (admin, office, support, etc…)
- Instant AJAX username check at sign up
- Index page thumbnails resize fixed
- In the match template of the activity scheduler, the admin can set the amount of matches to be sent, and the match list is randomized each time an email is scheduled
- Profile custom HTML can be turned off
- AJAX chat user sex is displayed with an icon
- Admin can see which photos are password-protected or friends-only
- Suspended users are always taken to you-are-suspended page at sign in
- A profile can be optionally invisible until the admin approves it.
- Number of users in your area statistics
- Total number of site users statistics
- Birthday list
- URL field type added
- Multiple admins
- A snowfall of minor fixes, optimizations, and enhancements.
Features and enhancements for this release were chosen primarily from our customers feedback, partially from what you guys asked on this blog. Keep up the good work so we can do the product even better.
If you don’t have anything to play with during Christmas holidays this version of SkaDate is perfect choice. Run to check demo and submit your feedback.
Posted in News, Products, SkaDate | Tags: features · update
Monday, December 17th, 2007
With the coming holidays we are happy to announce a special offer, “ChuPPo Xmas Gift”, which gives you 2 FREE months of ChuPPo chat!!!
ChuPPo Xmas Gift is a limited offer which starts today and is only available until December 31. If you want or already have this powerful audio/video chat application on your website, now you have an opportunity to use ChuPPo FREE for 2 months without any limitations or restrictions!
We want to reward all of you for the feedback you always provide. The product gets better on a daily basis because of you. In return we want to support you with a nice gift and stimulate the growth of successful web communities.
For those who are not yet familiar with ChuPPo, it’s a Voice/Video Chat/Messaging Software aimed to enhance communication opportunities on any community website. The user features includes webcam streaming, user-created chat rooms, private messaging, video/audio control and smiles set. ChuPPo Admin Panel allows controlling interface language, customizing rooms, tracking usage statistics, etc. Following new trends, ChuPPo is a frequently updated software package.
Join us this Christmas and enjoy!
Our current customers can get 2 FREE months of ChuPPo by contacting our support team!
ChuPPo chat has everything for high quality communication which is so essential for people especially on holidays. We advise you to have ChuPPo integrated, because it will attract more users to your web-site. People love interaction and are happy to use all opportunities to talk, hear and see each other. Communication should be fun and it is… with ChuPPo chat!
Merry Christmas!
Posted in News, SkaDate, chuPPo | Tags: chat · free · special offer
