Black Friday, Christmas, Boxing Day, NYE and various other "abnormal" days passed and we're safely in 2014. Whew! This time we decided to let you enjoy your families and holiday shopping with a bit more focus on "offline life". Now, that you're back, let's get our share of shopping spree going (sale! sale!); reflect on the year 2013 and glimpse into the fresh new 2014.
Bearing the weight of passed Black Friday and Cyber Monday together we just have to look into the best short-term discount we can possibly offer, right? It will be...
This discount would be applied automatically for both new and repeat orders, so it's a perfect moment to grab a second, third, tenth license. Think about it - right now you could save $240 by buying Prime!
We have entered 2013 with a long-awaited Dolphin 7.1 Osho release. It was a great evolutionary leap with fresh design, overall quality improvement and overhaul of major use-cases. Osho is and will continue to remain a product we are proud of. Over the year it progressed to 7.1.4, with accompanying improvements of Mobile Apps.
And yet, many Vendors and observant clients must have noticed that 2013 was relatively "slow". The social networking software industry in general has been stagnating for a while, desperate for a new wave of interest. One may argue that it's the Facebook-fatigue effect, rippling in a form of diminishing attractiveness of "my own social network" idea. Or, perhaps, the ever proliferating "cloud services" turn off our inner geeks. The question is open, but we do have our own strong take and vision on what to do next, regardless of the what is the right answer.
Before moving on to the next chapter, we should mention some of the most recent improvements that we've done, and haven't publicised yet...
In preparation to the upcoming Dolphin updates and simultaneous growth of BoonEx Market, we are focusing on further refinement of Market functionality:
- In products browsing, you can now choose "version compatibility" and narrow down the search looking only at the products that are compatible with your current version of Dolphin.
- List of "Trusted Vendors" has been updated. The list depends on our impression of Vendor's reliability - response rates, feedback, reports, disputes, etc. It would also normally take at least a year of dedicated work to attain this status.
- Trusted Vendors now have special fields in their profiles, which they must fill ASAP: * Skills * Timezone * Working hours * Availability * Spoken languages * Country location. This information should help clients to further understand services of Trusted Vendors and establish more efficient client-vendor connection.
There's a big reason behind all the effort of making BoonEx Market better. Further development of Dolphin and BoonEx in general will rely heavily on BoonEx community. And so, we'retalking about 2014...
Looking at what's happening in the landscape of social networking, it is easy to notice how "do it all/all regions/all people" mega-sites are slowly losing their appeal. Teens seem to favour anonymity (Tumblr); geeks love raw content (Reddit); general populace pushes healthy growth of "single-purpose" tools (Instagram, Pinterest, Quora); segment leaders are strong (LinkedIn) and local networks are doing great (Weibo, RenRen, Vkontakte). All in all we may all now breathe out and accept that "Facebook-world" is not going to happen. Great news for aspiring Dolphin-sites operators! Clearly, niche sites with good content have and will continue to have their shot for success. And, while your average Joe may be shaking head in disbelief (thinking that there're too many social sites out there already), the smart ones would be building future leading niche communities.
In 2014 we're going to cater for those smart ones. Dolphin 7.1.5 is coming soon. There will be even more advancement in "mobile" and "touch". And (this time for real) we're seriously close to the first public tests of the mythical... you know who (consider this post image as a "sneaky peek").
Happy New Year, dear friends! We love you!
http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/query?group=status&milestone=Dolphin+7.1.5
Sorry, we can't add new features to minor versions, only minor enhancements.
I do not see any of this when i edit my profile. So where is it?
We make this selection based mostly on "impression". Admittedly, this way we may be including less deserving and excluding more deserving Vendors. Impression, however is often different depending on circumstances and perspective. Ours comes from position of people that get reports and feedback that others don't often see publicly. We do not have any vested interest when selecting one Vendor over another. We may, however, see more
In the case of this site's Market, products should be divided into general categories such as Templates, see more
i don't ever get into any of this but i have been an active part of dolphin since the Expertzzz days and before this is such an unfair way it should be based on 1 the amount the developer contributes toward dolphin
2 how much they help out in forums and also how much support they offer for there own mods
3 a ratio of there see more
AndrewP also so far as my service from him has been.
one of those listed on the 'current' trusted vendors list I have had to go to great lengths to get a module from them to work... not sure how that list was selected, (yes I've read the vague explanation) but it doesn't seem to reflect the experience of many of the members here who are actually customers. Surely, should be taken in to consideration who the customers think are trusted vendors as see more
eager to see the new advances in mobile version
Fine Andrew, if you think ESASE belongs as a trusted vendor then I am requesting you to politely ask him to fix his defective Traffic Inspector module. I also have some messages I can share where he indicated to another Boonex customer that he had fixed the module when the updated date still showed back in February of 2013; in effect it appeared as if he may have been deceitful in order to get a sale; please note I say "may have been", I am not saying he was. I will be see more
I'll pass it on, see how they respond, and make note of the case in further consideration of their listing as a Trusted Vendor.
Never answer when I ask for an email update their modules that paid for Dolphin 7.1
Maybe now resurrected solves some work!
A few days after someone makes a purchase, the site should present a section at the top of the page showing the module they purchased and ask them to review it. I believe that will increase the number of reviews, and the more reviews there are, the more accurate any automated system will be.
BTW, I was surprised not to see my name in the list of trusted vendors. I have been here for over 3 years with 100s of +ve reviews. I believe I only had 1 dispute in all these years and that too was due to some confusion and resolved amicably. Would love to know what extra I need to do to get that premium badge :)
Thanks,
Mods4Dolphin
Suppliers have products that are not on your list.
Good modules when updated as of IlBelloDelWeb.it
Imagine if he withdraws from BoonEx market on account of its evaluation.
How shall we customers who invest in their products?
This is just one example among dozens of others.
Maybe a field to vote in the vendor profile could help.
Create a range of points added to each vote to elevate the vendor for one, two, three, four and five star hotels.
Think about it see more
honestly I don't comment anymore, because where there once was focus on the product dolphin, and the real world, this place has become more like a club of people see more