Posted by: shawn in updates on
Dec 23, 2008
Hey everybody!
My name is Shawn, and as the eMarketing guy here at Azrul.com/JomSocial.com, I just wanted to give you all a quick update on some cool things our JomSocial partners have been working on.
As you may already know, JomSocial Pro comes standard with some nice templates right out of the box (many of you are already using our templates with great success on your sites and some have even edited the styles further to better match your sites' look & feel...way to go!)
Posted by: mark in updates, twitter, plugins, API on
Dec 22, 2008
Posted by: azrul in plugins on
Dec 16, 2008
jReview guys has just released a new version of their review component, and surprise surprise, an application for JomSocial is included as well! Take a look at this sweet screenshot below
Head to jReview 2.0 release announcement here.
Posted by: azrul in twitter on
Dec 9, 2008
Follow us on twitter at http://twitter.com/JomSocial ! I'll keep you guys posted more frequently there.
Posted by: azrul in updates, cmsexpo on
Dec 4, 2008
I am thrilled to be here in Denver for the CMSExpo. Rerely will you see such a large gathering of Joomla developers and users in one place. Regardless of our differences, in GPL interpretation, having conflicting products, we share the same common passion, to see Joomla! grow!.
I will keep you guys posted and yes, JomSocial will be available to the public later today. :)
Posted by: azrul in updates, release on
Nov 27, 2008
Over the last 1 week, early build of JomSocial has already reach our customers. We have launched a pre-release sales since the 18th November with overwhelming responses. For this pre-release, the purchase link were made available, only to our existing customers and those who subscribed for our JomSocial newsletter. I did repeatedly remind everyone to sign up with our newsletter, didn't I ?
Why a pre-release and not just make it available ?. The simple truth is, we are short on staff and would be unable to handle too many customers at the same time. The automated purchase system were not 100% tested at the time and we wanted to be sure that it will run without a hitch. We were also testing a new forum-based support system to see if we will be able to provide an excellent level of support. Not having to deal with thousands of people at one time, at this moment, allow us to tweak our system for maximum efficiency.
Posted by: azrul in tour on
Nov 17, 2008
Over the last couple of weeks, copies of JomSocial has slowly reached the hands of our testers and has actually went live on several sites. Testing went very well and we have had a good feedback. We have been busy squashing bugs and polishing all the little details.
To kick-start the party, we are launching a short series of meetup where I will make a short presentation and answer your questions on JomSocial. You will be able to learn more about the internal workings and some hidden tricks of JomSocial.
For the developers, I would also take some time to show how to create simple application and how to use the API, and various libraries and functions provided by JomSocial.
Posted by: azrul in updates, sef on
Nov 8, 2008
Some of you have been asking about how the sef support would look like. Let me quickly answer that.
Firstly, although we do plan to support as many sef component as time permit, I can only promise support for Joomla 1.5 built-in sef system. They work fine and require almost no additional work on your end. Maintaining support for various sef component out there is not a trivial work.
Posted by: azrul in release on
Nov 3, 2008
Finally, we reach the next stage of our development, public access to our development site!!
For some of you, you might already have access to this site. It isn't really a very well kept secret, but we never publish it. Keeping it secret-ish helps us to tweak certain things while slowly adding new user to test the system. As the number of user increases, we could slowly monitor the system for any performance issues and address them as we go along.
There are still a couple of things that need to be done and we would still tweak a few things before the actual release and you might still see some major enhancement on the final release.
Posted by: azrul in release, presentation on
Oct 29, 2008
I was away yesterday attending Singapore Google DevFest. Aside from getting a misspelled t-shirt, we manage to get a rough overview of all Google developer tools and API. It does gives us some new idea on how we can make use of some Google services within our products.
I also took the opportunity to give a short talk about JomSocial in front of Google engineers and to around 150 over participants there. Nothing fancy, just a quick overview of some of our features.
It cause a little stir among those who knew Joomla. We get the typical questions such as, when will it be available, how different it is compared to some of our competitors.
Anyway, it was a fun day, and I am really sorry that those folks in Singapore get the first public presentation on JomSocial
