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We are excited to announce that the most anticipated JomSocial 2.2 Nueve has been released. This is the ninth major release for JomSocial, hence we named it Nueve(Spanish for nine).

So what's the biggest thing in 2.2? No doubt it's Joomla 1.6 compatibility. Many of our users have been waiting to pair up the best social networking tool with Joomla 1.6. We are glad to report that you can now deploy JomSocial 2.2 on Joomla 1.6 without any problem!

JomSocial has always room to expand. This time, we have three new experienced members to join our team. In total, we have 26 people, both part timers working around the clock and full time team members working in the office. We would like to welcome Izuddin (front end developer), Fuqaha (customer support/customer experience specialist) and Amer (web developer). Each of them will be paired with an older member of the JomSocial team to get them started on the project. 

PS: We are currently working late tonight to get ready for the release of JomSocial 2.2. So, stay tuned for that!

Times are getting more and more exciting for us. JomSocial expand its wings and are adding more people to the team. It's official! JomSocial has finally registered itself in the USA. We have now an address in the USA, and soon will set up an operation there. Our address in the USA is:

990 Linden Dr Ste 203,

Santa Clara, CA 95050 USA.

We are currently looking for sales & billings candidate to join our team. Also, we need a technical support candidate to be able to help our customers for support during the US Pacific Time. We are flexible with the working location, so we do accept candidates who wish to work remotely from home. Candidates for our support team must be fluent in PHP and have experience in Joomla.

So, if you are interested in this post, do email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Do send me your resume and elaborate on your PHP and Joomla experience.

It has been a while since I wrote a blog here because I was quite tied up with the development and support. When I initially joined the company, it was a pretty small development firm back in 2007. Slowly, it grew into a large team consisting of over 20 people. I am really happy to see such progress and looking at the growth of JomSocial since it's initial birth really gives me a great feeling of satisfaction. I have seen the ups and downs of the software but I must say that you guys are super amazing and wonderful customers! Never have I seen such great spirit, really!

Just like every plot, there is a happy ending to it.  I am sad to say that I will be moving on and will be leaving the ever so wonderful team of JomSocial and Sookachat :(

This will be my final blog entry contributed in JomSocial's journal and I am very grateful to know and meet every single one of you. I would like to take this opportunity to apologize to anyone if there are mistakes done on my end, or if I may have caused any dissatisfaction whilst I was here.

I guess some of you might be confused on how the development path might go on, not to worry of course, ROME wasn't built in a day and of course it isn't built by a single person. There are a huge number of great developers , moderators which will still be serving you, Jewei , Fazli , Neil , fuqaha , Lars , Brandon , John Gybels , Kai , Dimas , Johnny and so many others. They will still be regularly attending to your issues and I am very sure that they will perform their duty spectacularly!

To all customers, Thank you once again for all your great support and keep the spirit burning!

To the entire JomSocial team, Thank you very much for your great hospitality here!

All the best in pursuing all your social networking needs with JomSocial!

I am very excited to announce the new availability of JomSocial 2.2 RC1 which will also mark the end of the beta testing. I understand many customers are waiting patiently for Joomla 1.6 compatibility and we've worked very hard towards this for the new release. As updated on our development twitter account, http://twitter.com/jomsocialdev,  the number of commits for 2.2 release was 3,000,  more than double the commits for 1.8 and 2.0.

It is almost impossible to have all new updates for JomSocial 2.2 tested in all different environments. The RC release will ensure that all new updates are stable and that you will enjoy smooth experience with JomSocial 2.2. Once all errors are eliminated, we will then gear towards a final release.

Are you guys ready for another Joomla! Day? I hope you are because we are preparing to attend Joomla! Day India 2011 in Pune. A few of us will be there throughout Joomla Day from 12-13 March 2011. Let's see what we have for the attendees:

1. Lanyard by JomSocial designers
Get a splash of creativity from the same team of designers who brought you JomSocial. Want to sneak peek? Here's the design:

2. T-shirt giveaway.
We have several JomSocial T-Shirt to giveaway and it's really a cool shirt. We have the design ready but we will put it under cover until we arrive in Pune.

Here’s something I would like to share with our partners and affiliates or even potential affiliates. As you would have already known by now that our affiliate program pays 20% commission for each sale you refer. One thing you might not know is that we also have a tiered commission structure where affiliates can earn up to 35% in commission for referring more than $5,000 sales per month!

Our affiliate program has been very successful thus far and we intend to improve on it even more. We made slight changes to our affiliate program to provide affiliates with much more benefits for promoting us. Affiliates will still be credited with the sale after directing a user to our site who buys the trial version and subsequently decides to continue after the 30 days.

JomSocial's Unlimited Developer Access is the best tool for website developers. Within minutes, you can setup a full-featured social networking site that your clients have always wanted, without paying for another license. But what else that you can do with it?

1. Leverage your blue ribbon.

Having a blue ribbon in the forum means that you will get the recognition as our valued developers and will receive technical support for any domain that you have. The tag is a good indicator for members seeking for professional help in Service Required forum.

Hey guys, so this month, RocketTheme released a template based around JomSocial - we love it and so I thought I’d post a brief to tell you about it...

We are heading for a week long holiday to celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year 2011. This is the year of the rabbit and is often associated with Calm, Gentle and Persistence.

The team will be taking a few days off in observance of the holidays. Our support will be limited from 31st January until 7th February 2011 . There will be lesser staff attending to your issues so we hope you would excuse the possible delay on our support.

Feel free to read about our latest development news on Social Stream and Advance Search.

The team wishes you a great year ahead.