http://www.mediology.com/blog Thu, 26 Oct 2006 01:40:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The launch of Mediology.com was an important step in our maturation as a company. Although we have been actively working on a variety of projects, many of which are listed on our site we never found the time to work on our own Internet presence. Although most of our products and ... http://www.mediology.com/blog/2006/07/19/mediologycom-website-is-launched/ The popularity of the beta of iPals.com has been fantastic. I had mentioned in a previous post that we had an influx of about 400 new users. That number topped 550 in a very short time. This popularity just from word of mouth and maybe type in traffic has been a ... http://www.mediology.com/blog/2006/03/28/ipals-not-enough-hours-in-the-day/ iPals beta has been promising. Plenty of traffic and posts. One of the members decided to set up a site for members interested in custom styles. Catchy name too http//stylemyipals.com. Although a "true" launch won't be for a while these are the type of spin off sites which are vital to ... http://www.mediology.com/blog/2006/03/23/ipalscom-styles/ Wow, I never anticipated we would beta launch the and have over 400 users sign up and begin testing in just a couple of months time. Unfortunately, we dont anticipate a REAL launch for several months due to some other projects which are slated to begin more or less right now. ... http://www.mediology.com/blog/2006/03/20/ipalscom-picks-up-over-400-users-in-beta-launch-2/ The ipals project had us pretty busy all winter. The last of our major module additions is working in beta however we are not making it available to users until we work out all of the bugs and are able to button up the back end. The music and video players ... http://www.mediology.com/blog/2006/03/13/ipalscom-media/ Recently I was involved in the negotiations for a domain name. The buyer had already contacted the seller however she, the buyer, was not willing to shell out the $10,000+ and wanted me to negotiate a more favorable price. The buyer owns a ecommerce site which is successful. She sells "widgets" ... http://www.mediology.com/blog/2006/03/10/why-are-some-domain-names-so-valuable/ 1. Multi Blog Support 2. Custom Styling using css 3. AJAX Comment system with custom ajax client side javascript. 4. Validation System for input forms. 5. Interest Sharing 6. Favorite Lists 7. RSS Support 8. Friends - ( Add, remove, activate, block ) 9. Image Gallery - Full album support with private and public albums 10. Groups ( Private, ... http://www.mediology.com/blog/2006/03/03/completed-ipals-features-and-coming-features/ 1) Adding a user photo is a little bugged and needs some work as it does not always work. 2) Adding multiple photos to your photo gallery does not always work. Maybe due to size being to much. Need to figure out a better way to adding photos that are larger ... http://www.mediology.com/blog/2006/02/26/last-of-the-major-ipals-bugs-fixed-or-almost-fixed/ Late 2005 and early 2006 we found ourselves particularly active with regard to domain acquisitions. We purchased approximately 150 over a 3 or so month span. Among my favorites in no particular order are: ipals.com, gametopia.com, bloggerlines.com, amatureweblog.com, notebook-forums.com. Although the preceeding were MY favorites they are not necessarily our most valuable ... http://www.mediology.com/blog/2006/02/25/some-of-our-recent-domain-acquisitions/ Ok, fixed all email issues. Fixed almost all CSS issues. Made it easier to figure out how to update CSS. Fixed links. We're getting there! It's going to take a while to work through all of the bugs but so far so good. http://www.mediology.com/blog/2006/02/09/more-ipals-fixes-done/