Archive for February, 2008

We are facing downtime issues!

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Hello All,
Our hosting provider MediaTemple (mt) is giving us hardtime right now and due to that we are R4E is going down several times today. Please bare bear with us for sometime. We can not believe that (mt), which is hosting sites like techcrunch.com and mashable.com can go down like this. May be it is just the grid server which is going down.

PS: please don’t create Rivalries which can hurt religious sentiments of people. Let’s keep R4E a clean place where healthy rivalries take place.

Thank you for your support.

Abhishek

We are Famous !!

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Suddenly overnight we are famous !!  why ? because we just got covered in mashable, killestartup and number of other blogs.

Thank you very much for all the bloggers who  felt us worthy of mentioning on their blogs. You can access those articles on below link.

http://mashable.com/2008/02/27/rivals4ever

http://www.killerstartups.com/Social-Networking/Rivals4evercom—Create-Rivalry/

I will keep posting other blog links as soon as I get hold of them.

Thanks again everyone :)

Abhishek

R4E in Spain!

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008

It looks like R4E is slowly getting momentum amongst bloggers. A Spanish blogger, Diego wrote about it in his blog about web 2.0 websites. You can read the article here in Spanish and here is its English Version.

The best thing about the aricle is his this sentence “Excellent way to start on Monday adrenaline downloading on the Web” :)

Glad to see people finding the excitement for which R4E is meant for.

Thanks Diego.

Abhishek

Few Updates

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

Hello All,
At R4E, we are constantly improving existing functionality and adding new features to make it more interesting and exciting. Today we are going to announce few of such changes.

There is new category called “Recently Popular Rivalries” which will list rivalries having maximum activity recently.


“Upcoming Rivalries”
section will list rivalries recently added by fans.


“All Time Favorite Rivalries”
  will list rivalries which are most popular amongst the fans so far.

We are sure that these sections will make Rivalries more relevant and easy to browse. Currently we are working on features which will give more control over Rivalry data to Creator and to fans over their own contents.

Can not wait to release those changes, keep fighting till then. :)

Abhishek

Social Networking is here!

Monday, February 18th, 2008

Hello All,
It is bit late but I am glad to announce exciting new features of Rivals4Ever.com which will make it more exciting and engaging. R4E is more social now.

You have a bigger and better profile on your “My Page” now from where you will be quickly find and add your friends using “Find Friends” option.

“Passion Wall” will act as a wall like facebook or scraps of orkut. You will be able to quickly share small talks amongst your friends and with other users of R4E.

“Invitations” will keep you updated on the invitation you have sent or received from friend.

“Feeds” are same as mini feed of Facebook which will keep you updated on the latest activities by friends.

“Stats” are familier statistics of a user.

“Friends” will show list of friends on R4E.

“Account”, you will be able to modify basic information like picture, password, mailing preferences from here.

In short we have integrated Social Networking into R4E now.

There is lot to learn still and your feedback will help us doing that. Please keep sending them.

Keep Fighting !!

Abhishek

Feedback Needed!!

Monday, February 4th, 2008

Hi All,
First of all let me thank you for visiting this blog and taking time out to know more about R4E.

Recently I communicated with Rohit, an IIM student whom I met at Headstart. He gave very interesting feedback about R4E and suggested some features we must have. After that I realized we need a feedback mechanism using which users can immidietaly send their inputs, thoughts, hate messages ;) etc etc.

So here it is.

Feedback Link

As shown we have kept “Feedback” link right after invite friends link so that it is easy to spot and by clicking which you will get Ajax pop up as shown below.

Feedback Popup

So please get on and give us feedback to make R4E exciting and engaging. Your feedback is the most valuable asset we have right now.

Thanks,
Abhishek