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Holidays

For the moment I am in the process of relocating to Germany and the rest of the team has taken their holidays. Please excuse the lack of support and the slow answering time.
Unexpectedly I have no internet connection here and it takes up to 3 weeks for them to come and connect me. I will try to find a hotspot to at least answer emails.

Version 1.13 of Our Networking Script is Released

After a long wait we have finally released Etano Community Builder v1.13.
It's a huge release and filled with goodies for you. We marked it as beta for now but I think it is pretty stable. We will keep testing it over the next few

A Review of the Previous Weeks

There's been some time since my last development news so I thought I should bring everyone not involved in the forum up to date.

We had a week of delay because my credit card was "hacked" and all money taken from it.
Since I am such a control freak,

Reaching the Critical Mass with Your Site

Today I stumbled upon a very interesting blog post about "critical mass". While it doesn't tell you how to reach critical mass with your site - this is entirely up to you, it does help you better understand what you need to do and what to focus on in order to acquire and retain users. Also make sure you read

Upcoming Features for Your Community

Just wanted to let you know about what we've been working on lately:
- I previously announced that we have video support in Etano in the form of "My Videos" - a feature like the existing "My Photos". Well, we've now added support for videos in comments and blog posts. We've created a new bbcode button which

Video support for Etano Community Builder

We finished integrating videos into Etano. This feature will be released as a plugin after we release v1.13 of Etano.
This video plugin allows members to post videos from Youtube, Metacafe, Revver (possibly more).
Not only that but members can also upload new videos to Youtube directly from your site, with no need for them to ever leave your site. And they're not asked to provide their Youtube

Google Launches an Web Application Platform

As you might know, Amazon offers some web services for data storage, virtual servers and database.
From the research we did for a customer who wants to host

3 Million Cities db Integration with Etano Community Builder

One of our customers provided us with a database of 3 million cities in the world to integrate into Etano community builder.
The database, available for purchase from geodatasource.com comes in a tab-delimited format.
The gold edition which we integrated is 400Mb in size and seems pretty complete. The nice thing about it is that it contains the longitude and

A Script That Bad That We Won't Create an Integration Bridge for It

I usually don't write bad reviews of the scripts we come in contact with but this one is so bad that it's just not worth messing with. I'm talking about V3chat instant messenger which they charge $55 USD for.

As I said in my previous post we're integrating third party

Third Party Scripts Integration Ready

During the last month we've been busy building bridges and integration scripts for some forums, chats, instant messengers and other scripts. This will be the main activity for the next month too. We also released some patches to improve the stability, fix some issues with Etano community builder and add some small core features.
Major core features will be added from end of February (video