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We are very pleased to announce the release of Invitex 2.6 which comes with the much awaited Facebook "Request" Invites and some really powerful features like Automated Intelligent Invitations, Google Analytics Integration & much more !  Here is a quick snapshot of the added features. Plus Invitex 2.6 is fully compatible with JomSocial 2.8 .

Facebook Request Invitations

In line with our commitment to give you the best & the latest in Invitations, we have updated our Facebook API plugin to now support Facebook Request Invitations which is the latest suggested method by Facebook to send invites.

Automated Intelligent Invites

This is similar to the email Facebook sends “ Do you know Meg, Ryan, Sally ? ”

Borrowing on some of the logic we use in our People suggest system for "Imported Contact Analysis" , Invitex can now send automated emails to people who are not on your site yet, but are very likely to know a few people on your site. For this, you need to turn on "Store Imported contacts" in Invitex configuration. This is a revolutionary feature that will make your site as intelligent as Facebook :) & drive even more traffic !

In Addition a few more features which you will find pretty interesting are added.

• Google Analytics Integration
• Admin control on the order of Invitation methods in the frontend
• Ask user to "Resend" Invites to previously Invited Email Addresses
• [INVITER_NAME] and [INVITER_UNAME] tags to show Inviter name or Inviter Username in the Invitation  
• JomSocial 2.8 Compatible

Read on to go through the complete changelog.

Taking Invitations to a whole new level with Invitex v2.8

The wait is over.. Invitex v2.8 is ready and released with interesting lot of new features you have been waiting for!

Quick glimpse of Features:

Better Bootstrap utilization and AWESOME NEW UI 

This version brings an awesome bootstrap styling & a new layout to give your site viral invitation tool an irresistible new look ! The old layout is revamped plus we have added a nice new one as well !

Let your Guests send Invitations with Captcha protection

Any visitor/guest user on the site can now invite their friends on the site. All they have to do is enter their name and email and use Invitex.

Social Network Batching

Making requests to different Social Networks in batches so that the users have a seamless experience while inviting their friends.
The limitations that many Social Networks on the number of Messages or notifications we can send using their OAuth APIs. is handled in this batching process.  Which means that a user can invite all the LinkedIn and Twitter friends in one go. However, the application will send these messges to respective network in batches so that your app does'nt hit its limits !

Display Selected contacts in a separate tab, in the Invitation Flow

If you are popular, you will probably have thousands of contacts in your gmail or facebook. With so many contacts, it becomes hard to remember which ones you selected to Invite to the site. This feature will show the selected contacts in a separate tab making it much better from a usability perspective.

Ability to redirect to Invitation on Login with the ability to Skip

Remind your users to send out a few invitations after each login. This feature will allow you to redirect users to the Invitations page immediately after login & ask them to send Invitations. They can skip this ofcourse. Settings will also allow you to let this happen every time or Randomly.

User Information Plugin for Rich Personalised Landing pages

Introducing a new content plugin to make the custom landing pages for Invitex using a Joomla Article & any custom content much more rich and awesome.

There's much more to this release so read on to see what else we have in this awesome release . Plus there is an awesome discount too !

We are very glad to announce the release of Invitex v2.8.2 which adds support for Stack Ideas's brand new Easysocial. Besides adding tight Easysocial integration we also have a improved Payplans integration. Plus bugs reported in the earlier releases are fixed as well! Get it Today !    Read on for the complete changelog. Invitex version ...

We are pleased to announce the availability to SocialAds Alpha 2 for testing. This is another step towards a awesome new stable release for SocialAds. This release Ads a couple of new features from Alpha I & has several bug fixes & stability improvements. 

The Main Features added in this Alpha are Admin Ad creation & Backend ACL for SocialAds. Now as of Alpha 2 the release is feature complete as per the SocialAds 3.0 Roadmap. We will now be concentrating on doing all round improvements in the release for UI/UX , Bug fixes & Stability improvements. 

So your input now is critical. Please help us test this release & file your bugs !  Thank you all who have contributed in testing so far ! Please read on for the full change log including Alpha 1 & Alpha 2.  

You can download the release from the My Subscriptions area. To report bugs, head for the forum & post your comments.

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    We have released SocialAds version 2.9.4 which contains minor bug fixes for reported bugs. Please check the changelog given below.  Change Log for v2.9.4 - Bugs Fixed #21349: FOF is not install with 2.9.3 package #21389: changes to check if advertiser is non admin Update now

We just made an awsome commit to our REST api on github. This has  introduced support for Joomla 1.6! Yes you can now use the super simple REST api on Joomla 1.6 as well! Get hold of the REST api on github - https://github.com/techjoomla/Joomla-REST-API I hope all of you find this release useful. I can already imagine so many mobile app develo...

We have just release new versions of he following free extensions. These releases fix some long pending issues & also add support for Joomla 2.5 Profile Completeness for CBProfile Completeness for JomSocialLogged In Home Page You can download all these releases in the free extension area. Note that you need to be logged in to download

The all new Profile Completeness Module for CB & JomSocial has been launched by Techjoomla.com! This module is completely free ( You Just need to register for free ) & can be downloaded from the free extensions area. Its a great complement for our CB Network Suggestions and JomSocial Network Suggestions.

Read on for more info!

We have released Profile Completeness module which is compatible with Joomla 2.5.x and Joomla 3.0.x. We have dropped support for Joomla 1.5.x from this version on.  Read the changelog given below.  Download it for free.  GET IT NOW!   Changelog for Version 2.5 : - Compatible with Joomla! 2.5.x & Joom...

Hey all, We are happy to announce the immediate availability of two popular free plugins 'PDF Embed' & 'Return to top' for Joomla 2.5.X & 3.X. These plugins were originally released by our parent company Tekdi Web Solutions. In order to consolidate all our Joomla extensions under one banner, we are releasing the new versions on Techjoo...

We are very delightful to give you an offer of three modules in one pack for jomsocial users,Featured in Jomsocial.

Featured in Jomsocial pack comes with three set of modules that show the respective featured items in jomsocial.

• Featured Albums: Shows the albums that are selected as featured by the admin in jomsocial.
• Featured Videos: Shows the videos that are selected as featured by the admin in jomsocial.
• Featured Users: Shows the users that are selected as featured by the admin

Includes

3 Modules
Language

Pricing

6 Months Subscription : 20$

12 Months Subscription : 35$

So a module for just 6.66$ ! Buy it Now !!

Read on for Screenshots

Hey All, We are releasing Broadcast 1.5 Beta for testing it with integration with Easysocial Here is Changelog + Features: #25628: Integration with Easysocial#25629: Joomla 3.2 compatibility + Tasks: #8323: User selection pop up box for queue in admin#25659: Make changes in install file of broadcast as per new structure to install FOF and Techjooml...

J!MailAlerts 2.4 is now available & comes with a host of bug fixes & addition of 2 Major features.With this version we add the ability to pass data to the plugin tags & use the tags multiple times in the JMA template. For instance, you can now use the JMA latest news tags like [jma_latestnews_js|secid=1|catid=1,3,32] & pass it the parameters that are normally stored in the plugin params ( just like you would with Joomla content plugins) . This adds a mightly lot of flexibility to JMA plugins. Please read the documentation in this relation.

The second Big feature is the ability to send insert Ads ( using our SocialAds extension) in JMA Mails. So now your advertisements can reach your users via email even if they havent visited your site in a while. You can configure the SocialAds JMA plugin to show ads from specific zones in positions you can set in your template using tags. Special care has been taken that an user will never be sent an email only containing Ads. The SA plugin shall only be triggered if there is any other content to send. More details about this will follow in the SocialAds release in a couple of days. The plugin will be part of the SocialAds package.

Another small feature is the addition of a CSS Editor in the JMA template editor. This will make it dead easy to change your JMA template. Just paste the html part of the template in the normal editor & paste the CSS in the CSS window.  Besides these there are tons of other fixes & small features. Plus there is Jooma 1.7 Support !

Update Instructions :  Please note that we are now generating a random Cron Secret Key on every install to ensure your security. So Please update your cron job according to this new key after you upgrade.

All Paid & free plugins have been updated & are available for Download. Please read on for the full changelog. Please note that ver 2.4.1 has been released to fix a bug with the url in simulating the emails

J!MailAlerts ver 2.3 is now available with Joomla 1.6 Support ! The extension is free from download in the free extension area. All the plugins are also updated to support Joomla 1.6. Note that though all the plugins have been updated to 1.6, all extensions that we support might not be ready yet to work with 1.6. This is a common package release &a...

A Minor update to J!MailAlerts core extension has been released today.. We have added a new feature so that the Sync sets the date back to a Day/ Week / Month as per your default settings so that when you run the cron immediately after the sync, the component will find valid users to send emails to..  Another feature added in the earlier relea...