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Product: RSS Happy Holidays!By James - 24th December 2008
Happy Holidays!
Firstly, thank you all for your continued commitment and trust in us! We've been very busy dealing with external issues the past few months that did put this project on hold, however, we're looking in to bringing this site back to life and increasing our user base dramatically in the coming weeks with a full out marketing campaign. However, we can't do this without your support. We understand the distress and upset caused by our lack of updates, however, this was for very good reason as we felt it best to remain silent until we were in a position to continue ClubTropica, and thankfully we are now in a position to do this (Woop!).
ClubTropica's targets and aims have also changed slightly. We plan to go out with a full out advertising campaign pre-client launch. We would like to see how popular we can get ClubTropica before pursuing the final touches to the client. Right now, we have all the graphics, server, and 75% of the shockwave complete, however, we did have to put the project on pause back in August. We will be doing our upmost to release the client, however, in the mean time we want to try and promote our on site features that are far more powerful than other websites out there.
Currently we have (But not limited to):
- Profiling with multiple pages using a WYSIWYG (what-you-see-is-what-you-get) editor.
- Creating groups with the WYSIWYG editor (And charge for membership!) - All with their own private forums.
- Webmail and custom Email - Both obtain a free, paid for, or even sell your own email addresses and earn.
- Domain Names - Both obtain a free, paid for, or even sell your own sub domains/domains and earn.
- Applications & Games - You can add applications and games to your account for free or for a fee, and you can easily make your own applications and offer them free or earn monthly or for a one off fee.
- Upload albums and photo's using your mobile, iPhone, or your PC for all, friends, or just you to see.
- Blogging tools to give daily updates about your life published in a news feed.
- Community Events and Games - We have now brought back the Waiting Room Chatroom.
- Private messaging - send messages via your PM system to other CT users with powerful message filtering and forwarding (Including forwarding PM's to an email address!)
What else is coming? Well, great question!
- Instant Messaging - including group conversations on any page of our website.
- Voice Chat - Free phone calls on our website to other CT users, both using your mobile/PSTN landline or by using a headset.
- SMS Messaging - Send SMS messages to other users anonymously (but linking back to you on replies) or from your own mobile number.
- Ability to have a ClubTropica Debit card to transfer Isla's to Real Money.
- Competitions, events, and more news and updates on ClubTropica.
- Multiplayer games and many more applications in our apps store.
- Launching the Community Rep Scheme and Safety Officers.
We urgently need developers to help us create as many great and fun applications for our apps store, these can range from simple RSS readers to full blown multiplayer flash games should you please. (But please, no pre-release retro's ;]). We are willing to give one2one support to any PHP developers willing to create applications both on the phone and via AIM. Also, for every successful application created and added, you will be added into our competition to win one of three CT T-shirts, five 1 year PC security suites, free advertising of your application (great if you are charging a fee!), and many Isla's! If you are interested, please join this group and you will find all the information you require there.
To conclude.. many thanks for all your continued support, and we would love to hear your idea's, views, and even how you can help support ClubTropica in any way (the more help we get from you the better ClubTropica can be!). Please Send us a ticket telling us how you can help by selecting "I would like to help ClubTropica" in the category list.
James
