We are facing downtime issues!

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 !!

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!

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

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!

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!!

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

R4E at Entrepreneurs Forum Bangalore

January 30th, 2008

Hello All,
Its pretty late now to write about this event but as they say “Better late than never” :)

Last week Entrepreneurs Forum was held at IIIT Bangalore and the agenda of the event was to foster entrepreneurship in India. It became the part of nation-wide ‘Entrepreneurship Mentoring Event’ planned by PANIIT in 16 different cities on January 26 to mentor over 1000 entrepreneurs all over India.

In the second half of the day, 12 selected hot startups were to showcase their idea/business plan/startup in front of strong crowd of around 170 people. And I must say the quality of startup companies were better than any of the event I have seen so far. I guess even better than LeWeb3 in Paris. That is because all the startups were backed by students from IITs and IIMs, arguably the best minds in India. I guess we were the only startup not backed by any IITians or IIMians :) and also ours was technically simple, fun loving, exciting concept.

The event was good content wise but I must say management was not up to mark as many lectures get delayed and also the showcases get delayed. My turn came up just before the live web cast from Honorable Dr. Abdul Kalaam. YES, the highlight of the event was live web cast of the ex-president from Hyderabad. He is an amazing visionary and speaker. He was the best part of the day.



Anyway, R4E presentation went really well and people were excited to hear about a concept like this. Most of the people found the name itself so interesting that they couldn’t resist asking more details about the concept.

One of the organizers liked the logo pretty much and said it is pretty much “International Standard”, is it? definitely because logo is designed by my friend Anjali who is a designer from NID, the best design school in India. You can checkout her website here.

Many people from the audience have even started creating rivalries also, for example the rivalry between IIM Kozhikode vs IIM Indore

Many many congratulations to Mr Naresh and his team for organizing wonderful event and looking forward to attend the event next year. Till then…

Keep Fighting,
Abhishek

R4E at HeadStart

January 18th, 2008

Hello Fans,
There are 2 major events happening for startup companies in India. One is Proto and other is HeadStart. Sadly both the events are on same dates.

We submitted R4E as nomination at both the events. We couldn’t make it to the public demo of the events but it is shortlisted to present before VCs at HeadStart. So I will presenting demo and business plan of R4E at IISc, Bangalore tomorrow.

HeadStart

If you are registered for the event do send me an email, we can meet up.

Thanks,
Abhishek

Features of R4E

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

Rivals4Ever Fan Page is here!

December 17th, 2007

Dear All,
As you know we have launched our new product www.rivals4ever.com at LeWeb3 (considered to be the biggest conference in Europe of its kind).

I have created a Facebook Page for it which will keep you updated about the latest development happening around this venture of ours. If you like the concept please “become a fan” of this page and show your support for it. Access the page from following link

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=17011160002

By the way Rivals4Ever is also a platform to show the world what you stand for. :)
Start the FIRE,
Abhishek