A Big Hello to the Joomla Community in Malaysia !  Techjoomla is proud to be associated with Joomla Day Malaysia as a Community Sponser. Whats more we are giving away some really cool goodies including hand made Newspaper bags from Nirmalya Trust, India & a never before discount of 50% to all attendees of Joomla Day Malaysia on all our pro...

Want to lower the entry barrier to your Social Network for LinkedIn users ? We have a 2 part solution. A. LinkedIn Connect ( Which will allow you to login using LinkedIn to your Joomla/JomSocial Site)B. LinkedIn Profile Import ( Save your users the trouble of having to fill our their profile again & just import it from LinkedIn) In this blog, w...

Recently I gave an interview for JoomlaSverige, the Swedish Joomla community. We are reproducing the interview here in English, with their permission. You can read the Swedish version here http://joomlasverige.se/joomla/tillagg/13-snabba-fragor-till-parth-lawate Parth Lawate tell us about you and your companyThanks so much for interviewing me !I am...

SocialAds 2.5 - Kickass Advertising features like Zones, Layouts, Coupons & ofcourse Social Targeting for your Joomla Website SocialAds 2.5 is here ! We are super excited to tell you we have come out with a brand new version with the most awesome features which are sure to take your Ad revenues to a whole new level ! In case you havent heard, S...

We are super excited to announce the immediate availability of SocialAds 2.5 Code named "Awesome Sondra". This version comes jam packed with some awesome features that we have been teasing you about over the last couple of months. With over 100 features & bug fixes together, this is truly a "Mega" release for us. Besides the coolest of features to help you earn even more money, SocialAds 2.5 is 1.6 compatible & can now also work with a simple Joomla installation sans JomSocial or CB if you do not want Social Targeting. So now Joomla sites without Social networks can also benefit from the awesome ad designer & cool features that we have packed into this release. We have also added partial support for German, French & Italian languages from this release. We are soon introducing a Translation partner program that will help willing people to contribute translations & get free subscriptions in return !

The Major feature additions are as below..

• Zone Management for full flexibility
• Ad types ( Text, Text & Image, Image banners)
• Ad Layouts for full flexibility in Ad Design
• Zone based pricing
• Multiple Ads per module
• Ad orientation ( Vertical or Horizontal)
• Coupon manager to let you offer promotions to your Advertisors

To read more details of these features & see screenshots, you can read our past 2 blogs"Something Bubling in SocialAds 2.5" & "SocialAds 2.5 features. Another teaser". For an in depth look, head over to read our updated documentation here.  Users with active subscriptions can download the extension immediately. 

Price Change annoucement : Note that starting today the pricing for SocialAds is hiked to 70$ for 6 months & 120$ for 12 Months.  But we have a coupon code which will work till end of May to help you get it at a much lower price. Use the Code : SOCADS35 to get a 35% disount on SocialAds as well as all our other extensions !

Please click on Read more for the Upgrade Instructions ( important !) & the change log.

Its a great pleasure for us to be here & at And Beyond, the grandest & the bestest & the coolest & the......( well i am out of adjectives here ! ) Joomla conference ever ! With 200+ Joomla developers & integrators from over 35 countries here, its going to be great to meet the greats in the Joomla community & get a chance to ...

Its a great pleasure to announce that 6 more of our extensions are now Joomla 1.6 compatible ! Joining the 1.6 native extensions are Network Suggest, People You May Know & Mutual Friends for both CB & JomSocial. Note that in case of JomSocial , all these extensions are also JomSocial 2.2 compatible. Besides the 1.6 compatibility, we have also included quite a lot of Bug fixes & some feature additions in all the extensions. For the full changelog, please click on read more. Users with active subscriptions shall be able to download the extensions in the My Subscriptions area.

With these releases, now the major extensions that are still in development for Joomla 1.6 compatibility are J!Bolo, SocialAds & J!MailAlerts. Of these you can expect SocialAds & J!MailAlerts to be out by end of next week, while J!Bolo will take more time as its undergoing a full rewrite. Stay tuned for more updates !

Its been a while since we wrote the last blog post about SocialAds 2.5 & upcoming features. Last time we just showed you a little bit of what was planned. This blog post will take you through the rest of the planned features. We got very tied up with a lot of releases & klind of forgot to get this out !  SocilalAds 2.5 may come any moment now .. while you wait, here's what to expect :)

Need to get those special features of Social networks like Facebook & LinkedIn ? Grow ! Engage ! Monetize ! Viral Invitations system for Joomla, JomSocial & CB. J!Bolo. Facebook & Gmail like Chat for Joomla,JomSocial & CB Facebook like demographic ad system for JomSocial & CB Buy Now ! Buy Now ! Buy Now ! Need More features like...

Invitex 2.0 comes with a host of new features & loads of bug fixes. The biggest of the features are a new Invite Method called Social Networks which uses native APIs to import contacts & send invites, which is extendible via Plugins. In this series, the first plugin we have is for LinkedIn ( Facebook shall be added real soon !) . Also added is support for Social Network plugins from Open Inviter.

Besides this, we have support for JomSocial & Alpha User Points, a brand new email template, Invitation expiry, a plugin event to allow integration with Affiliate programs ( We have worked with Dioscouri on this one for their Amigos Affiliate system) , ability to select allowed Invite methods, a revamped admin with easier configuration & best of all ability to send emails via a system plugin for those who dont want to go into the trouble of setting a cron job.  Phew ! Thats quite a list.. But thats not all.. It comes with a ton of bug fixes & UI improvements. And last but not by any means, the least... is native support for Joomla 1.6 ! Yay ! This is our first 1.6 release :)  Please read on for the full change log. Subscribers can download the release from My Subscriptions. The documentation has been updated but the screens in the same shall be updated shortly. Have fun with the mega release !

SocialAds 2.1 is out. This is mainly a bug fix release with no extra features as such. Its a recommended upgrade for all using older version of SocialAds..If you are still on SocialAds 1.X its time you upgraded your installation to the 2.X series which is a major feature upgrade. Those with active subscriptions can find the new release in the My Subscriptions area. Please read on for full change log..

Checkout Our Joomla April Fools Joke for 2011....

• Have you even felt the need to Blog when you are travelling ?
• Have had this constant urge to publish that article right then & there ?
• Just realised you had forgotten to unpublish that Holiday Notice ?

{jb_lightbulb}Worry not.. Joomla Mind Control is here !{/jb_lightbulb}

While people have been busy building Admin apps for Joomla that work on the Iphone & what not, we have been busy taking it all a step further. The release has been delayed due to constant architectural changes with Joomla 1.0 then 1.5 & now 1.6 coming. Due to our long development cycle we have had to always adapt our code to the latest release  :(

{jb_pin}We know Google is trying to get people to Move with Google Motion, but we realise that people are really lazy & want to give a solution that people will actually use.. Please read on for details on downloads & how to use.. {/jb_pin}

JBolo 2.9.2 is mainly a Internet explorer ver 7 & 8 compatibility release to fix some known issues in IE 7 & 8. Also from this version on IE6 support is officially dropped. It also has some UI fixes that will also make it work better in other browsers. The JBolo 2.9.X series from here on will only have maintenance releases & all new fea...

Summer months in India can be supremely hot with temperatures going as high as 48 Deg C in some regions ! What better way to beat the heat than water ? We grabbed our chance to get drenched & splashed with colours on Rangapanchami. Check out our "Coloured" faces at our Photo Gallery ! At Techjoomla & Tekdi Web Solutions we believe in having...

Introduction Joomla can now finally take a REST! Techjoomla has released the long awaited REST API for Joomla. The release is released under the GPL license & is completely free to download & use. Built on an architecture similar to XMLRPC, this API is easily extendible using plugins. So if you have an extension need a REST API for it, just...