Site Direction, Future, and Features 07/23/10

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It has been quite some time since any formal update has been made on this site.

I am pleased to announce the scope of this site is changing!

Over the past few years, social networking has went from a curiosity to a staple of media and personal communications.

We at kecksolutions are embracing this movement, and have done our best to stay on the bleeding edge of this technology.

One thing you will notice, is we now have a meebo bar along the bottom of the site..

This will allow you to log into many of your favorite messaging platforms, including facebook.

In the near future, we hope to have a much deeper integration with this service, allowing for your friends list here to be accessible to chat with, and notifications pertaining to this site and our services to be available in this bar.

Furthermore, we will continue all current services, and complete all current development projects on this site to provide a fuller service..

We are also expanding, and bringing in new community aspects and features.

Adding features like "Facebook Connect" will allow a faster, and trusted method of registration, as well as a link between what you do here or there.

Being able to interconnect services to provide a rounded social experience is going to be a cornerstone of all future projects here at kecksolutions..

Before too many directional changes take place though, a few house keeping tasks must be completed.. A wide range of updates and integrations... Service levels for new betas to be released, and, our applications need to move from being API source dependent, and move into being database dependent.. The APIs we use to provide services, have become more strict, and the only way to maintain quality service, is to put all info into a database once a day, and pull our info from our databases for the data to be used.. This in turn, will also lower our bandwidth threshold and allow for heavier use and more users..

The features set to come out, will include:
A more robust and confirmed friends system.
Sending gifts to users.
Site based currency systems, earned by ads or purchased.
Membership levels. (no changes in current service offerings, only new features will be effected)
Dating Personals, which will be ad supported, memberships to remove ads and get better visibility. That means free to use the service, send, and receive messages.
More forum topics, less restrictions. To allow a more open and freely moving community.
Age Verification and Identity Verification.
Phone Service Dashboards.
Support Systems.
Employment Opportunities.
Classified Ads.

We will also be adding more Xbox related services in due time, and have some in development!!

It is our goal to continue to use the PhPBB Platform.. In a worst case scenario, we will implement Joomla with PhPBB and all accounts will be migrated, in one seamless change..

Many of our free services will become ad supported though, and memberships will remove ads, but no services that currently exist will be withheld from free members..

At current, planned memberships costs are $20 / year for Silver $25 / year for Gold and $30 / Year for Ultra.. Membership levels will also have discounts for paid services, such as our web hosting, web design services, and phone service. It is not yet determined, but we may include pre pay phone service with all paid memberships, and calling credits... The prepay can be used as a calling card, from a pc, from a voip ata, or added as a second phone line on select cell phones with internet service.

For any questions, PM me!

Thank you for choosing kecksolutions.com!!!