Archive for the ‘Features’ Category

Header redesigned!

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

At Rivals4Ever, we constantly look how to optimize the UI to make it more and more user friendly and informative. One of such efforts recently has made us redesign the header. Now the header contains more information and user can access various features of R4E right from there.

This is how the new header looks. Click on the image to have a better view. There is a menu in the header now using which you can easily navigate the whole site quickly.

Friends menu contains following options.

From My Stuff menu you will be able to access everything from one go !

So that is it for now. Please let us know how do you find this feature ? is it worth our effort or still something can be improved ?

R4E SPY!

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

We have started spying on Fan’s activities and it is open for all to see :)

It is a digg spy like feature which we have introduced in R4E and it will show what the world is doing on R4E real time. Well not actually real time right now, we are showing random activities of last week right now but I am sure when the traffic will increase it will be real time.

Spy

Spy page

Check it out and let us know what you think of this cool new feature.

This is getting serious

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Cricket is getting serious in India. Few days ago only selected countries were rivals like India vs Pakistan, India vs Australia, Australia vs England.

But now Indian Cricket League (ICL) and India Premiere League (IPL) has started all new set of Rivalries in cricketing world. Rivalries are not limited to countries now but they have arrived to city level.

Somebody has rightly said “it’s not love that sells sports tickets, it is hatred”. Check out this cool article about the hatred and rivalries I am talking about.

So how can we remain behind in this case? After all R4E is created to satisfy this thirst of passion and hatred :)

Presenting all new section for IPL and ICL Rivalries for all the cricket fans of the world.

IPL/ICL Rivalries

Fans will be able to join IPL and ICL Rivalries and will be able to express their passion about the team they support. They will also be able to create Rivalries in this special segment.

Create Rivalry in IPL/ICL

So rivals, come on and show the world what are you supporting in this “Dharma Yuddh”

Keep Fighting,
Abhishek

We have new galleries!

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Hello Rivals,
We have some cool stuff for you here. We have redesigned the image gallery and the video gallery and have added new features to them which makes it much more exciting and useful.

New video gallery is as below

Video Gallery

and individual video looks like this

Video

So as you can see above you can Share the video, Make it your Favorite and Flag it if it is inappropriate. Favorite videos will be saved in your profile.

Same changes has been applied to Image Gallery.

So guys and gals please go ahead and upload more of them, share more of them and select your favorites amongst them.

Keep Fighting,
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

Features of R4E

Monday, December 31st, 2007

Dear All,
This post is all about current features of R4E. Those of you who don’t know R4E, it will help you to get jump start and those of you who know R4E, it will give you more understanding of these features.

First of all I would like to say that the sole aim of building this product is to utilize passion of people for their support or idol in a meaningful way to get something good out of it. It provides entertainment that is for sure but at the end you get lot of data which can be analyzed to make a decision. Anyways we will talk more about that later, lets start with the features.

1) Create Rivalry
Create Rivalry
Creating a rivalry is a simple one step process.You just need to give both the Rival’s name, select the one you support, select type and optionally you can also add images and brief description about the rivalry to give more information. That’s it. You can start the FIRE now.

2) Invite Friends
Address Book
On various occasions you will be able to invite your friends. After creating a rivalry, after joining a rivalry or just to let them know about R4E anytime. You can either enter email addresses manually or import them from your Yahoo, Gmail or Hotmail accounts.

3) Join Rivalry
Rivalry Detail
You can join any rivalry by just click JOIN link in rivalry detail page. In the next step you will be able to invite your friends to join.

4) Weapons
Weapons Details
Now that it is rivalry it means both are capable or fighting each other tooth and nail. In that case both should have some positive qualities which makes them better than the other. That is what weapons are. The style and shape could be the weapon of Mercedes but strength and service could be BMW’s weapon. So just about anything could be the weapon.And more weapons of course convey a stronger rival. So go ahead support your side by adding weapons in its armor.

5) Weakness
Weakness Details
As the name suggests it describes the weakness of the rival team. Add quality weaknesses of the rival team and let it be rated by your fellow team members to make your rival team weaker and weaker.

6) Upload Video
Video Gallery
An image is worth a thousand words but a video clip is worth thousand images. Here you can upload videos that always fascinated you about your idol. The first performance of Elvis Presley or the rarely seen video of launch of SuperMario- anything could be added here.

7) Upload Image
Image Search
A moment. The moment. Any thing that made you shun away all the other things and just and just watch the story unfolds what you put up here. Upload the moment that would make your opponents freeze and your supporters jump with joy. Let the world know why you support whom you support.

8 ) Passion Talk
Passion Talk
Always wanted to shout at the top of your voice how you could die or kill for the ones you support but never had anyone listen to you? Then here is the best place you could voice yourself and be assured that thousands will hear you. So don’t wait- Just talk!

9) Events
Events
An event is an event. Upcoming or gone. It is a milestone in the life of each rival. The stepping of Apollo on the moon could be an ‘Event’ for the supporters of USA while the awaited release of Hugh Grant’s latest flick too could be an ‘Event’. Just find out what your idol/side is doing and let everyone know.

10) Energy Meter
Energy Meter
Energy Meters shows real strength of the rival or a side. It is calculated based on many factors such as number of fans, quantity and quality of contents uploaded. Don’t let your side down by going down here!

11) Profile
Profile
Your profile shows details such as rivalries created by you, joined by you, your rank, points etc etc.

12) View Fans
View All Fans
You can see fans of your side by clicking on view all fans link on rivalry detail page. Just visit their profile and see rivalries created by them and join if you share the same passion.

These are the major requirements of R4E right now. We are coming up with lots and lots of new exciting features. So hang on for a while!

Regards,
Abhishek