This morney we spliced the rss feed and created an upcomming rss feed. So now your able to keep informed from both sides of the event world via rss. Meaning you can see what event is coming up today or tomorrow. listing from today onward (the future), or you can see what event was recently added which could not be coming up till the next year or so. There are also numerous new feeds through out the site. User based feeds where your able to see what the user has been up to, example “cyberpunk has added new photos etc”, recent blog feeds which shows all the recent blog entries from all users.

Keep an eye out for more feeds as the development continues. Enjoy the new feature

Regards

Its been awhile since our last upgrade to our 1.5 platform. Well SURPRISE (DIGITAL CONFETTI EVERYWHERE). Yesterday marked the day of the launch of events.in876.com version 2.0. We launched the product at the emerge e-commerce expo (click for details) and here for photos.

The revamped site features a weighty list of new features all adding great value for you, whether your a promoter or a party go-er or a business event shark, whatever you are there’s a category there for you with features to make it seem as if that calendar was made specifically for your type of event interests. An email was sent to notify all registered users of the upgrades and how they should recover their passwords.

It only gets better from here on out. For the long time users thanks for the support over the past year for the newcomers welcome to events.in876.com.

oh btw if anybody wants feel free to add me as a friend on events.in876.com here’s my profile, it lists all my other social networking profiles as well which you may feel free to add me to as well.

This week we started making the rounds in the local press with a honorable mention in a weekly technology article in the Sunday Gleaner dated November 18, 2007 Click to Read

Because of the Gleaner Article we indirectly made Tech Jamaica 

On Monday November 19, 2007  top tech blog for the Caribbean  Silicon Caribe Posted an interview we did.

Thanks to all involved in our appearance in the local media this week, bloggers keep blogging and don’t forget tell a friend.

The in876 Brand is steadily gaining strength, we have a new brand building campaign in the works and at the center of the transformation is a brand spanking new logo.

Developed by Powell Interactive the logo boasts elements we see and love from “web2.0 movement”. Strong colors and smooth gradients. We currently have two styles one for events.in876.com and hotspots.in876.com.

The masthead updates should be online within a week or so.

Recently I bought a new HTC smart phone, armed with gprs & wifi internet access the next logical step for the in876 network was to go mobile.

This process will be a long and hard one for some site, but for others we managed to complete the task in no time. The url’s for mobile access are:

http://m.in876.com && http://mobile.in876.com

there you will find links to:

• Movie Listings
• Upcoming Events
•  Day’s Weather
• Hotspots (Completely mobile)
• This Blog
• News and Sports Headlines (RSS Feed From Gleaner)

Hotspots.in876.com is the first of the network’s sites to have a complete mobile interface available, we are still populating the database with all the hottest locations in Jamaica (876) so soon you do not need to be in front of your PC to find a top restaurant or bar to chill out.

As always spread the word about this new feature, because you know the developers here are always one step ahead of the rest.

If anyone wants to link to any of the in876 network websites your free to do so. Accompanying that gesture is pretty button images to use for your linkification (made up word). view the link to us page

I know I know. the horror right. With the amount of projects the in876 Team seem to have You guys are tired of signing up. We anticipated that. Therefore we put in the work, and what fun it was, to enable one registration to any of the in876 sites to be a registeration for all of the sites.

Therefore tom registered to Tech.in876.com then tom can just head over to Events.in876.com and login with no problems. Simply Beautiful. Hope you all enjoy it.

So far only two sites have been enabled with the universal login feature. that is. Events.in876.com and Tech.in876.com Its just a matter of time though before deployment to the entire network.

View The weather for the day, Recommend that party your friends just shouldn’t miss While your at it oh and of course don’t forget to see what movies are in theaters this week. This functionality is now available on events.in876.com. On the Today cell which is highlighted in orange you’ll notice a few icons on the top. Hover over them and you’ll see the text information for their respective functions or purpose. Click on the icon of choice. Weather, Movie info or Click the little mail within the Today cell / box and enter your name, your email and the email of up to 6 of your friends.

Here are some screenshots that’ll help you understand a little better.

Pretty cool huh.

So.. the idleness of the developers has led to each party having the ability to post their own video promotion material. (which will of course have to be approved by us :). The promo video will be accessible to the general public via a small icon under your parties title on the jamaican event guide. Enjoy the new feature ;).

Currently there’s just a promotional video taken with my silly cellphone so excuse the ugly quality. However I’m sure when your uploading your own video promotion for your event it’ll be as best quality as possible eh eh eh..  Click the little tv icon under the event title and watch the magic unfold

New mastheads are into rotation for the various categories on the site. Lemme know what you think of em. we hope you like the little house keeping thats going on. now the site has more eye candy than you can throw Crayola crayons at.