Nagios & MySQL Betas available and Proving Grounds now public

We have two new beta JumpBoxes available in the Proving Grounds:

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BestPartyEver.com Dashboard Sreen

Have a look at the latest Screenshot of the BestPartyEver.com Dashboard.
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BPE alpha 3.0.1 build 1276

Well it has certainly been awhile since our last release, yet we are happy to announce BPE alpha 3.0.1 build 1276.

Details of this Release:

  • Blogging feature implemented for users (utilizes xmlrpc -> wpmu)
  • New landing/central dashboard page for users.
  • Addition of first of many top come badges
  • Many many minor bug fixes, most notably the date picker on the party creator

Here is a screen shot of the new dashboard

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Next release should take bestpartyever into full fledged “beta” status.. oh yeah. But more importantly the vendor/business system will be in.

Ciao.

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Six new production JumpBoxes and now there are 20

We crossed a big milestone today with the release of 6 new production JumpBoxes.

With the addition of these applications there are now 20 different applications available as production JumpBoxes.

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4 new production JumpBoxes, 7 new betas

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We have our first graduates of the Proving Grounds:

are all now battle-tested and available for production use and purchase. Thanks to all the Proving Grounds members who submitted feedback and helped us work out the kinks in these apps.

We also have seven new applications that just entered the Proving Grounds:

Drupal, SugarCRM, Wordpress and PunBB updated

We just released new JumpBoxes for Drupal 5.3, SugarCRM 4.5.1h, Wordpress 2.3.1 and PunBB 1.2.16. In all cases the main changes in the apps revolve around security and general bug fixes so upgrading is recommended for all users.

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BestPartyEver.com v3.0.0 ALPHA Build 1202

Release notes for build 1200

This is a minor release that addressed mostly minor bug fixes, code optimization, and the addition of a few marketing pages. Have a look at the new page for the party planning tools.

That is all, have a good Thanksgiving.

Revenue Model for web2.0, can it be?

As much as I am tired of hearing “web2.0″ thrown around I am a bit more exhausted to hear the drone about web2.0 companies not having a revenue model to speak of.

We have one, oh my! shhhh.. dont tell anyone in our space that we actually make money beyond adsense, banner ads, and affiliate links :)

This is the screenshot of the photoshop comp for the “buy” page of bestpartyever.com. *Subject to change* Bottom line is we have a proven and reliable revenue model that bolts right into our “web2.0″ social goodness.

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BestPartyEver.com v3.0.0 ALPHA Build 1164

Release notes for Build 1164:

These release was all about the new checklists. Users can now track and save multiple to-do item lists.

Quite a few other smaller fixes went in as well.

  • New Party To’do lists
  • Bug fixes to guestlists
  • Badges for user to paste on other sites…
  • The To-do lists utilize the hcal microformat, which will come in handy later for doing exports.

We will likely do a small release early next week to address a few CSS issues and the like. We plan to release v3.0.1 mid December which will deploy the new Vendor platform.

Awesome.

Screenshot of the new Checklists.

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Eight new JumpBoxes available with the launch of the Proving Grounds

We just launched the JumpBox Proving Grounds, our new private community for JumpBox users where you can get early access to beta and experimental JumpBoxes. Eight new beta JumpBoxes are currently available for free through the Proving Grounds, but you have to be a member to get them so request your invitation today.

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Website Builder Launches 11 new templates

We are happy to announce the launch of 2 new series of templates for the flare9.com website builder system.

Urban Series 

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Tuner Series 

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The movie was awesome, but this post is about a milestone we reached with our party ideas and party planning website bestypartyever.com.

As of today, 25 days since we launched the ALL new (v3) website, our 300th user just registered. The velocity of user sign-ups is increasing . I think it took over 15 days to get the first 100. While of course we are aiming for 100k users in the next few months, we’ll take the first 300 and be dang happy about it.

Takeaway:

Build it and they will come.. Um, No.

Ponder this:

BestPartyEver.com v3.0.0 ALPHA Build 1093

Release notes for build 1093 of BestPartyEver.com

This release focused mainly on deploying the new budget calculator in the Party Planning Tools.

  • New party Budget Calculator using Inline editing and AJAX for all users
  • New pages for party ideas
  • Tag clouds for party idea types
  • General UI/CSS and bug fixes
  • Added Connection Character encoding support for Code Igniter Active Record

Screenshot of new Budget Calculator

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Screenshot of new Party Ideas page

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BestPartyEver.com v3.0.0 ALPHA Build 1025

Release notes for Build 1025

This release is mainly bug fixes and SEO improvements. Although we did bootstrap in the preliminary recommendation engine. Relevant party ideas, parties, and vendors now show on users party, and party idea pages.

That is all :)

Screenshot of Guest list / Add guest. Uses inline editing, Ajax, and hcard microformat

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PR critique from a PR Professional

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Linda VandeVrede over at ValleyPRBlog.com shared her thoughts on Sally’s PR style.

“Sally Strebel (aka Bizgirl on Twitter) has some of the best PR advice I’ve ever heard for new businesses: “Whoever is biggest and baddest in the room, don’t be afraid to go up to them.”

Read the full post here. 

Sally is VP here at Obuweb, and Founder and CEO of BestPartyEver.com, a party planning social network.