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The latest addition to labs is for one extension we have been working with since we started working on Joomla.. or rather Mambo as it was called then !

This extension promises to add a much needed enhancement for one of our favorite & much used extension SOBI2 .

We have always felt SOBI needed a good contact form plugin. But when we started building one, we went all the way & created a full lead management extension !

The plugin shows a contact form below the SOBI listing. The user visiting the listing can use this form to contact the owner of the listing. Once the form is submitted a database entry is made storing all the lead information & a email is sent to the listing owner telling him that a new lead has been added against his listing.

The owner of the listing needs to have some ‘Credits’ to view the details of the lead. Currently we are using the ‘Vodes’ extension to let the owner buy credits using Paypal.  

The admin can configure number of free leads that the owner can view before he needs to buy credits. He can also configure the number of credits needed to view a listing.

This extension is on the brink of release. Check out our Pre release Brochure for more details & Screen shots of the extension.

We have some great news for all you Joomla Social Network administrators & owners.. We have a great line up of some cool Social Extensions coming very very soon ! Here's a quick sneak at them :)

A. Suggested Events

Based on our Network Suggest system, we bring you another suggestions module which will suggest events based on your profile information. As in Network suggest, you can chose what fields you want to use for the matching. Now you will be able to make your Events in JomSocial even more viral ! This will be available for JomSocial first. We are not sure which extension we shall use for integration with CB.. but Eventlist is high on our list of choices..

B. Show Similar Profiles

Want to see profiles on the site similar to the one you are looking at now ? Then this is the extension for you ! When a user visits a profile, he shall be shown top X matching profiles in a module. This will be available for JomSocial as well as CB.

C. Suggest Friends to Friends

Another Facebook feature to come to JomSocial sites, this extension will allow you to suggest friends to your current friends. This will work in a similar way to Facebook.

There's much more in our pipeline than this.. But its still some way from making it to the labs ! We are looking forward to more suggestions from you about these upcoming releases & as you know, your comments make a lot of influence on how they are built ! So comment away !

Its finally in the Labs ! With Social Ads for JomSocial, you can create Facebook like demographically targeted ads to show on Your JomSocial Site. This extension allows advertisers to create their advertisement , Target the users they want to show the advertisement to, Decide if they want to pay by impressions or per click, Pay online & get the advertisement started up right away !

This extension promises to revolutionize Social Networking in Joomla. Demographic advertising which has been in place on Facebook for some time now can be easily added to your own JomSocial based website. Though the first release will be for JomSocial, we shall be rolling out versions with CB & the soon to come Anahita Support as well !

The possibilities of this engine are amazing & future releases will come packed with even more features.

We hope the community appreciates this idea & comes forward with feedback to make the system even better. We shall be blogging about the development regularly & also open it up to select beta testers before the public release.

Read on for more information & some early previews of the system.

TechJoomla Labs is proud to present you with J!Growl.

So, What is J!Growl?

J!Growl is a real time notification system for any kind of notification in Joomla. Simple things examples might be a Growl alert when a a user logs in, or when you get a new message,etc..

We have created J!Growl in such a way that it can be completely customized. It can well be integrated with other components to display their own custom notifications via plugins.

J!Growl gives developers the opportunity to create their own plugins. These plugins can add their own custom notificastions to the site. We will be providing a developer documentation to help you in this.