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It makes us feel proud and very much glad for helping Joomla Day Boston 2013, by sponsoring a mobile app for the event. The app features in covering the entire event program, speakers, Social tweets and more !! So if you are hosting any of the Joomla Day events, then Tekdi Web Solutions and Techjoomla would definitely love to contribute for the eve...

JBolo Beta 1 with Group Chat is here!  This version brings most awaited group chat feature to current JBolo. This blog will give you a quick overview of what to expect from JBolo 3.0 beta release. There's this & plenty more under the hood including an API based architecture which will allow us to release mobile apps for JBolo in the near future.

It's a great pleasure to announce (finally ;)) that our super flexible E-commerce solution for Joomla is here! For those who haven't heard about this yet, here's a recap!

In all the years we have been working in Joomla, we have continuously been frustrated with the lack of a shopping cart solution that's plug & play & at the same time is robust & scalable. There are lots of Carts in the market. But for most applications, they are just too huge & come with a lot of overheads.

Hey all Joomla Day Organisors ! We are now offering a sponsored Mobile App development to get your Next Joomla Event an awesome smartphone app for IOS & Android. We have developed several event apps to date & have seen that these are a pretty cool value addition for both attendees & Sponsors.  Here is what our App can do for your E...

We are pleased to announce that SocialAds 2.9 has entered Beta! This version brings some pretty major features to the advertising scene in Joomla. This blog will give you a quick overview of what to expect. Note that this is a beta release & should only be used for testing & not on Production sites !

A Whole New Charging Option with Campaigns & Budgeting !

SocialAds 2.9 beta brings a whole new Charging Model. With this new model, SocialAds will now let you make a Pre payment to add balance to your account, then create Campaigns, set budgets & create Ads against them without having to pay & checkout for every Ad. Google Ads, Facebook & LinkedIn Ads already work on this model.

Switching to this model is optional. If you prefer to use the Pay & Checkout per Ad model, you can keep using this same. If you wish to switch, we have provided a quick migration tool that will convert your user's existing ad balances to the new model on a prorata basis.

Ad Balance & Billing

Once you are on this model, the users can use a 'Add Balance' process to prepay funds to their account on your site. A Nice looking Ad Billing view shows a history of all transactions as well as full details of how its being spent.

Campaigns & Budgets

The user can create campaigns & set a Daily budget against the campaign. Ads will be created against campaigns. SocialAds will show Ads till the daily budget is exhausted.

Beautiful with Bootstrap !

We have completely revamped the front end views of SocialAds & added some awesome Bootstrap magic. Now you don't have to wait for 3.0 to get a beautiful interface for SocialAds ! P.S. SocialAds will be 3.0 compatible by March end in the version 3.0 .

100+ Bug fixes & many Feature improvements

This version of SocialAds as of now has fixed 132 Bugs & added 6 features including the features mentioned above.

Help Us Beta Test & Give us Feedback

In order to do more inclusive development, we try & get our subscribers involved whenever possible in the planning & development process. This is your chance to help us test the beta release & also give valuable feedback on improving it. Jump on to our Beta testers Discussion forum. You can find documentation on how to setup SocialAds Beta 2.9 with Campaigns & Budgets here. 

Read on for the full changelog

Last week we wrote about a sneak peek into the new JTicketing Android app. This weekend, we got a fantastic opportunity to use it for an actual event. Techjoomla was a proud sponsor for the recent Joomla Day India that happened on 9-10th February 2013. And that's not it, our own J!Ticketing was powering the event booking engine of Joomla Day a...

Team Techjoomla was at the Joomla Day India (Mumbai) this weekend, and what an event it was! We had Ryan Ozimek (Ex-President, OSM), David Hurley (Development Team Leader) and Ofer Cohen (OSM Board Member) fly in from USA and Israel. Additionally, more than half a dozen speakers from various parts of India made up for an exciting lineup of talks for both days. We also had an enthusiastic audience from several parts of India, and all of them were more than willing to soak in every bit of the knowledge the community wished to impart! This also marked the alpha release of the JTicketing app for Event Managers. Read more about it at the end of the story. The Joomla Handshake #jhandshake too was ideated, you can view the video on Ryan's Vine.

Hello all, we have released a bug-fix version of People Suggest. Here is the changelog: People Suggest version 1.3.1 changelog- - Bugs fixed (4)   #15226  If we select the "Import fields" for suggestion preferences in backend,and user keep them blank in frontend ,the suggestions shown are in less in number than actual.#15221  Clicking on "Recommend...

Hello all, we have released a bug-fix version of Email Beautifier today. Take a look at the changelog.

Here's a sneak peek into the Jticketing Event Manager app that was used for Validating Joomla Day India 2013 Tickets !

Hello Everyone!! Joomla! Days are organised by local Joomla user groups to spread more knowledge about Joomla amongst the regional audiences. The event aims at providing the unique opportunity to Share, Inspire & Collaborate with Joomla users, developers, trainers and service providers along with pre and post networking, Q&A, and food ! Techjoomla ...

Everyone using Jomsocial like how they show those nice popup windows when you add friends, send a message or join a group.

In a project where you integrate more features or other extensions into Jomsocial, it's important to use the same look and feel for the popups so that there is a consistent look throughout the site. With Jomsocial's plugin architecture it is possible to add your own popups and actions. We're demonstrating here an example, which allows you to group your friends as Friends/Family/Acquaintances etc

Hey All !  We have joined hands with Joomlart this week to bring you our greatest deal ever ! Whats more, this deal is part of the Humble Bundle project which has the goal of raising 1M$ for the Joomla project. So buy this deal today & do your bit for the Joomla community while getting a once in a lifetime chance to buy awesome products wo...

Hey All !  We have joined hands with Joomlart this week to bring you our greatest deal ever ! Whats more, this deal is part of the Humble Bundle project which has the goal of raising 1M$ for the Joomla project. So buy this deal today & do your bit for the Joomla community while getting a once in a lifetime chance to buy awesome products wo...

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.