Today was a great milestone for Mafia corruption, it witnessed the launched of the new skin that we’ve been working on for a while plus reaching 10,000 registered members, a great achievement in about 6 months of buying the site when it had a little over 3000 members.
The new skin introduced a total revamp of the old theme, below is a comparison of both the old and the new theme:
Old Theme
New Theme
Big improvement? yeah?
We launched a couple of days ago the new design we’ve been working on for Hitmanslife, the design came out looking great and the integration went smooth, I thought i should also point out there we started a competition on two Nintendo Wii’s, each will go for a lucky winner, one will go for the highest donator and the other for the member that refers the highest number of members to the site.
Below is a screenshot of the design, pretty cool eh!
Its been a while since I posted anything related to my online projects, so I thought I should make the 1st post after my month of blogging “downtime” about these projects.
As some of you may know, I bought an RPG game in the mafia niche around 4 months ago, since then MafiaCorruption has been taking most of my time along with the other website, Hitmanslife which I launched after 2 months of buying mafiacorruption, I brought in a partner in hitmanslife to help with the website since MC was already taking most of my time.
Mafiacorruption grew nicely in the past 4 months, when I purchased the site it has around 5000 members, it currently has more than 9100 member and has been growing on a daily basis, HL was a great success as well and it reached more than 5000 members in its 2-3 months of being online.
RPG sites, for those of you who are familiar with them require allot of time to manage, its not like running any other type of community that I ever ran, its very different that a forum for example, with such sites you have to make sure of lots of things, most importantly cheating with multiple accounts, you also need to check mail logs from time to time and sort out issues between members, but its been allot of fun so far and its certainly worth the effort.
I originally had each of the two sites hosted on its own VPS, however the rapid growth that both sites had made me move them to their own dedicated server, upgrading the VPS’s wasnt cost effective, I found a good special on Softlayer and I took advantage of it, btw I highly recommend Softlayer for servers, they are best when it comes to bandwidth quality as well as support.
Other than RPG’s which like I said was the main thing I was working on for the past months are my social networking projects and the blog network, not much happened regarding the blog network, I’ve pretty much stopped adding new blogs to my automated blog network, same goes for the blog network that I originally started with Charl, who also didnt have time for it, I was hoping to get the 1st blog which is gaget related out in Feb. but I faced a very strange issue with Wordpress, maybe ill mention it in more detail in another post.
As for the social networking projects, the new Faye3 version is done! finally after almost 8 months of working with freelance developers but we didnt launch it officially yet, I’ve also been working with Imad on a new social network in a new niche, which I am hoping to finish by the end of March, more details about it soon.
That’s all for this post, hope it wasn’t too long 
Technorati Tags: RPG. MMORPG, mafia RPG, social networking, blog network
Its been a while since I posted anything, but there is a good reason behind the lack of posting in the past two weeks, I’ve been working on a couple of new projects that I will release more info about real soon, the main reason that got me off posting was the purchase of a new website, www.mafiacorruption.com which is an online RPG mafia game, the game is relatively young but growing at a good rate.
I’ve always wanted to own one of those websites, buying an established website was a logical choice, establishing one from the beginning is lots of work, especially with the lack of reliable scripts for such sites out there.
I’ve got big plans for the website, the 1st thing i did was move the site to its own server for faster page loads, which was one of the things the site members were complaining about, the file and data base move was a bit hectic but we came through at the end.
So that’s basically it, I’ll have more time now to update the blog regularly as before, so keep an eye on the future posts.
Quick update on the new blog network I am building with Charl, it turns out the the initial salary we were thinking of wasn’t enough for most bloggers (the experienced ones) so we had to increase the monthly payment and remove any revenue share options.
The 1st blog in the network is going to be a gadget related blog, we registered the domain and the design for the 1st blog should be ready soon, due to the fact that we had to raise the blogger’s salary, were currently thinking of launching only 3 blogs instead of 5 and focus on them only until they are well established.
The original plan was to launch 50+ blogs in 2008, but we’ve decided to launch a lower number (around 20) and have them well established, that’s way better than a larger number of lower quality blogs (in terms of content and traffic).
That’s all for now, I will share a mockup of the new blog skin as soon as I get it.
Thats right, I finally got my 1st Facebook app online, I’ve been wanting to do this a while ago but time didnt help much in the past month.
Your probably wondering what the app is about, well its really a simple application that I and a friend launched, it aims to gather support for Japan’s dolphins, did you know that 22,000 dolphins are killed in Japan, and its completely legal to do that! I 1st saw the news about this on The Insider, they covered the story and included some secret videos that were taken by the Save Japan’s Dolphins organization which aims to rally support of this cause and hopefully eventually putting a stop to this massacre.
The application displays a small box on your profile which includes a small msg. to explain what the app is about and invites you to display this ribbon on your profile:
Hollywood stars like Hayden Panettiere (the Hero’s star) and Matt Damon were among the people that gathered support for this casue, the insder website (link above) has some videos about there visit Japan where the killings take place.
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I’ve partnered with my good friend Charl to create a new blog network other than the network I personally own (currently at 45 blogs), the main difference between the 2 networks is with the new blog network, there will be a blogger dedicated for each blog, writing on a daily basis, myself and Charl wanted to start a project together a long time ago but sadly we didnt find the time to do so.
Charl currently owns around 5 blogs that are doing very well, with our combined efforts were hoping to build 50 strong blogs in the course of 2008 if not more.
So, were currently on the lookout for bloggers in the following topics:
If your experienced in any of these topics and your available to make at least a post per day, please do contact me, were offering a monthly payment + revenue share. Don’t expect big numbers, were only starting out!
While researching the idea of building a network, I came across the below resources which have been extremely useful, and I share them with you in the hope that you find them useful as well:
I’ll be posting frequent updates on this new venture, and give out as many tips as possible while we go through the process of building the new network, So stay tuned!
Technorati Tags: blog network, launching a blog network, how to launch a blog network
Check it out, custom made! logo is still being fixed so that the url of the site is clearer, its also linked to the main site.
Sorry guys, its been a while since I last updated the blog, I haven’t gone on vacation or anything, just busy with my projects, faye3.com has been taking most of the time especially after the partnership with Maktoob.com, were working on a complete revamp of the website and the addition of some pretty cool features.
I’ve launched a couple of new websites, small ones, nothing major, ill post updates about them in my next (hopefully soon) update, I am also planning for a couple of new projects that will hopefully see the light soon, they are still in planning so I am not releasing any more details about them at this stage.
Everything else has been going pretty well, myself and Imad are planning a new marketing push for WH-D which has been well over due, we havent had the chance to properly market the website as we initially planned, both of s gfot tangled in their own projects and havent had the chance to carry out those plans.
Thats all for this quick update, thanks for all of you have visited the blog and waited for updates during the past month! I will post another update soon!
Finally after much delay and lots of hard work, www.faye3.com is now online in its Beta release, faye3 is an Arabic word (a bit Jordanian) which is called to someone who is “cool”
Registration will be open for some time on the website before we turn the website to be invitation based, so register an account now!
Faye3 has lots of cool features, to name a few:
This is the BETA release, so please don’t mind any minor issues (if any) here and there, we will be opening a blog under Faye3 soon to post all the Faye3 related updates on.
Thats about it for now, I will be posting frequent updates on how this youg social network does, the concept of social networking is still new to some people in this region and so is anything web2.0 related, so its going to be an exciting ride and I look fwd. to it!
