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2010-03-09 |
| News and New Features Special event: Special Event "get L$20 per listed products" is successful. The Merchants having added products were rewarded accordingly: L$4660 were given (this weekly letter was written Sunday afternoon). The link of the week: inWorldz an alternative Opensim. Kay will be on trip starting Monday 8th to Friday 12th March with no access to emails nor internet. If you have any problems or queries, please post in the forum, and they will be answered on Saturday. Thank you New Features: Tell a Friend button: you can send emails to your friends when you want to inform them about an item, a collection or a store. You will need to be logged in. Selection of images: during the creation of items, collections and stores you can select images in your already uploaded images (tick or not the images and they will be taken or not into account). Next week: Improved CTerminals with Merchant welcome message and referrers program. New Collections and Stores New Collections: *KK* Custom Creations (Custom Fishing Rods) by Kabalyero Kidd ][ . House of Ruin . ][ presents: Android Eyes by Ruina Kessel New Stores: *KK* Custom Creations (Custom Fishing Rods) by Kabalyero Kidd Bugs and Issues So far, 2 bugs this week:
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Get L$20 per listed product for the first 5000 |
2010-03-02 |
| News and New Features I would like to start this weekly newsletter with a Thank You to the already registered users of Cariama who have made suggestions and comments, and a special Thank You to BellaDonna Mocha for her support. This helps a lot to improve Cariama. L$20 per listed product for the first 5000 : Cariama launched a special event that will be spread from March 1st to May 31th 2010: the first 5000 listed products will get L$20 each in cash. If you list 100 products in Cariama, you will get L$2000! Restrictions apply:
The payments in cash are every night. Do not miss this unique opportunity to list more products in Cariama! SL payments failures: In the last two weeks, a lot of "invisible" work was conducted on a recurrent problem: SL payments are unreliable and they can fail silently after a grid-wide update roll-out or when an object spontaneously losses “debt permission”. That is a source of problems for resale item deliveries via the CViewers (vending machine). For example, when a customer selects an item at the CViewer and right-click “Pay”, the CViewer script pays the amount to Cariama and notifies the system about the sale, which credits the merchant and a few minutes later the item is sent by the CBox to the customer; however when the SL payments fails, the CViewer will not make the payment to Cariama, it is the owner of the CViewer who still has the money on his account. In short: when a SL payment failure occurs due to lack of reliability of SL, the customer has the item, but Cariama is not credited, nor the merchant. From now on, resale item deliveries are no longer made till the CViewer payments have been verified: the item is released for delivery when the corresponding SL transaction is verified. This verification does not affect the deliveries for which the payments were made from a Cariama account. New Features: Different features were added in the last two weeks. It is now possible to add in the text of the items, collections, stores and profile an automatic SURL (button “SURL”): the SURL link that you have given in your profile is displayed, and when changed, it has an effect on all the SURLs in the different pages. No need to change all the item, collection and store texts. The Contact merchant option was added: if in your profile you have selected the box “third party contact”, a new button “contact” is proposed now in the item, collection, store and profile pages letting registered customers contact you by email (your email address is not disclosed and you will receive an email from Cariama with the sender information). RSS feeds added!  Three RSS feeds were added: one for the news which can be found in the news page on the right of the titles of each news, one for the marketplace found in the marketplace page on the right in the search section, and one for each seller which is found in each item page. For the seller RSS feed, when you subscribe you will get all new products listed by the merchant; for the marketplace RSS feed all the products listed by the various merchants. In the coming weeks
Except projects CN... and CS..., all those features should be implemented by mid April. The link of the week: Journal of Virtual Worlds Research: Volume 2, Number 4: Virtual Economies, Virtual Goods and Service Delivery in Virtual Worlds . I wrote the second Peer Reviewed Research Paper (tried my best in English). One paper is really interesting, "Licensing Considerations for OpenSim-Based Virtual Worlds" by Shenlei E. Winkler, which highlights legal issues for content creators in OpenSimulator. Cariama is not already present in other opensim worlds due to the different aspects given by Winkler. New Collections and Stores New Collections: Urban Girl by BellaDonna Mocha Gaga - Lady Gaga Fashions by BellaDonna Mocha SM - Sensual Mystery by BellaDonna Mocha Nekish - Fashions for Men and Women by BellaDonna Mocha XM - A Collection Just for Men by BellaDonna Mocha LK - High Quality Woman's Fashions by BellaDonna Mocha New Stores: ! Bliss Designs * Body, Mind & Soul * Affordable, Sensual & Sexy Fashions * by BellaDonna Mocha Bugs and Issues So far, 2 bugs this week.
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Sub-Categories |
2010-02-16 |
| News and New Features "Calm before the storm": Not much to say this week. Have you already commented your profile? New Features: The sub-categories were created; you can define more precisely in which categories/sub-categories your different products are best referenced. If you discover a sub-category that is not proposed yet, please submit it and it will be added. I must admit it was relatively difficult and long to implement the sub-categories for an already online website without interfering too much with the system, thus if you observe a related bug, tell me and it will be corrected. In the marketplace page, the new criteria "free" and "resell" options are proposed in the search section. Concerning the search section in the marketplace page, the numbers given for each category and sub-category are the numbers of products, even when a search is done for collections and stores. CViewer V1.2 with 4 items is now in the Tools Package. Next week: background scripting that will concerns phase 2, nothing visible. The link of the week: Virtual Economy Research Network. Bugs and Issues So far, 1 bug this week.
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Some hard work this week |
2010-02-09 |
| News and New Features Not far from the Million: We have reached 200 products for sale, Thank you! However, you would think it is not much compared to the others! You are right, but we have all started with 0 products and Cariama can only improve in this field. The new features proposed every week and the marketing approach in February will help to boost registration of new users of Cariama. New Features: As said in the title, working hard on the CViewers, the inworld vendors, and the demo option were the main objective of last week. The CViewers with 6 products were improved inworld (two display bugs were corrected) and now the CViewer with 10 products is proposed. Instead of proposing the CViewer with 2 products, we will go for a 4 products by end of the the week. I strongly suggest to upgrade your CViewers to this new version V1.2 (re-link the one you want to replace, delete it, place the new one more or less at the same place, and link!) The COne, the CViewer with 1 prim and modifiable, is not done yet, but will be available soon. On the website side, you can now order the listing of the product shown on the CViewers: this gives you the ability to decide which product should be proposed first and in which order. For your information, all the CViewers are updated hourly and the display is reset and restarts with the first product in the listing. A new option is also proposed which will help to save time: you can add in the listing of one CViewer the list of another one ("import" button), like a copy and paste. The selection of the items, collections and stores for the CViewers is not well designed, but modifications will be implemented in the future. The Demo feature is available: for each of the product you propose for sale, you can decide to associate a demo that can be obtain by the customers via the website ("get demo" button below the "buy now" button when the demo is present) or inworld thru the CViewers. Next week: the free category, the resell category and sub-categories. The link of the week: Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun Is Changing Reality, a very interesting book written by a reference, Edward Castronova. New Collections and Stores New Collections: Hidden Surface Eyes by Buffy Surface Hidden Surface Accessories by Buffy Surface BellaVista by Incandescent Ember Sky Candy by Incandescent Ember Fountains by Icterus Dagger New Stores: Hidden Surface by Buffy Surface Sky Candy Stor by Incandescent Ember Bugs and Issues So far, 3 bugs this week.
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At 4 weeks from Phase 2 |
2010-02-02 |
| News and New Features Advertising with Cariama: So far each classified and featured item displayed in the advertisement section have received an average of 20 hits for approximately 5000 pages viewed per week. It is not bad if we compare to the number of hits of other websites, even better in terms of price/hits ratio… You never advertised, start at L$15. This month Cariama will advertise in Second Style (already online), in SLUniverse and in a third one (not decided yet). New Features: The Merchant Profile page is available. You fill the form, button "profile" here and you can give information about yourself, your products, your sales conditions, and other useful information (image, description, website, SURL) and your listed stores. A link to your profile is proposed in the item, collection and store pages (the Seller Box on the right). A Forum is now integrated in Cariama. You will need to synchronize your current Cariama password with the forum password the first time you access the forum when logged in. Different categories are proposed and you are welcome to post. Next week: CViewer (2 and 10 displays), COne (CViewer with 1 prim), CViewer listing enhancement (be able to propose the best products first) and Demo feature (giving the possibility to send a demo to customers via the website or the CViewers). A lot of work on the desk. Where are we in terms of planning:
And we are 4 weeks from Phase 2. The link of the week: SecondLife Herald. Bugs and Issues So far, 2 bugs this week.
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Boolean search and BBCodes |
2010-01-26 |
| News and New Features Information concerning people visiting Cariama's website since October 1st, 2009:
More information will be given in the forum, which may be useful to have a better target of the customers. Boolean search is now available at the marketplace. When you search for a specific product, you can use the well known Boolean operators:
Other operators are proposed () >< ~ here. The BBCode options were extended to accept links of images with [ img ]url[ /img ] and direct integration of other items, collections and stores in the text. How it works: you determine the ID of the product that is given in the address (e.g. for http://www.cariama.com/item.php?id=101 it is 101) and in the text of your product you insert a direct link by adding the following [item]101[/item]. When displayed the text will show the direct link as *MJ* Shorty flexi hair-3colors. This new feature is also available for collections and stores. Moreover, if you prefer to have named links, you add [item=101]other product[/item] which will be shown as other product in the text. The new CBox V1.2 is proposed in the Tools Package. This version was tested in Mainland and private sims. It offers better reliability during the hourly update and is 5 times faster than version V1.0 and V1.1. I recommend to upgrade to this new version, but it is not mandatory if have not experienced problems in the past. When upgrading a CBox, you just need to replace the script (please read the READ ME notecard given in the Tools Package). Next week "Merchant profile" and if finished the forum. The link of the week: KZero. Bugs and Issues So far, 1 bug this week.
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Going smoothly |
2010-01-20 |
| News and New Features The past week was a very calm week in terms of new registrations and uploaded items, although the number of pages viewed were still at approximately 5300 for the week (stable since 4 weeks), and new visits were observed coming from SLUniverse, Men's Second Style and Second Style. The advertisement campains were paid till the end of the month and they will be extended to February. Concerning new features, the "enable/disable status" function was added. It is now possible to enable or disable the display of the items in the marketplace and for the different CViewers. This feature is proposed during the creation process or when you edit an item (after the marketname line in the form). A button was also added in the sellweb page which gives the possibility to change the status of a group of items at once. The display of the items in the sellweb page was improved. Now for each item you have the marketname, the price, the total turnover made, the rating, the category, the permissions, the number of hits done via the webiste, the mature and resell status (in greed enabled, in red disabled). Most important, the status of the item is also given: ok means the item is seen as active, but offline that a problem occured (offline CBox, sim down ...) When an item is offline, it will be shown at the top of the list of items. Also for the list of items, you can now order the list depending your needs: you will find different arrows for the first item, you click on them and the list will be ordered, if you click again, it will be ordered in the opposite way. In the CBox section, when one is selected, you will find two new columns: the used column, which indicates if the object, texture or notecard is already used for one item, and the status column which indicates if it is offline or not. The CBox was improved: when many objects, textures and notecards were present in the inventory, it could go offline during the hourly update. The problem was resolved and it will be tested for the coming week in the Mainland and in private sims. The new CBox will be then proposed. Also, the update process was speed up by 5 times. A forum is under construction and it will be proposed soon. The link of the week: Metaverse Roadmap. An inactive website but with interesting information. Bugs and Issues So far, 3 bugs this week.
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New feature: Group Edit |
2010-01-12 |
| News Different changes were made on the website this week. You may have seen that the marketplace page has been changed: the category section has found its place under the search box, and the featured item are on the left side, like the other pages. The change was proposed by a Merchant. The Group Edit feature, also known as bulk edit, is now functional, more on that in the New Features paragraph. The main picture in the item, collection and store pages is now in the dimensions of the uploaded picture with a maximum of 500 pixels for the width. The two unsolved bugs (previews and email sales notification) were solved. Some words for the coming 6 months planning. Currently Cariama is in Phase 1: debugging and implementation of different features. In the coming weeks you will see:
Lots of work in the coming 3 months. After Cariama will enter in Phase 2, proposing the service to other worlds than Second Life and boosting the upload of products. The link of the week: Moolto New Features Here it is, the Group Edit. You can now change the characteristics of different products at once. You tick in the sellweb page the different items you want to change, select the “Group Edit” button in the item menu, and you can change the price, the category, the tags, the permissions, the number of prims, the mature status, the images and the resell option. New Collections and Stores New Collections: Starry Redux eyes by Ruina Kessel New Stores: ][ . House of Ruin . ][ by Ruina Kessel Bugs and Issues So far, 2 bugs this week.
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Here starts January |
2010-01-05 |
| News Last two weeks were very calm and everyone was opening Xmas gifts, celebrating the New Year and enjoying a good moment with friends and the family. I wish to all of you to have a very good Year 2010. Currently we are at 145 products, that is not bad 15 days after the opening. Maybe the website is not clear, or it is not too much emphasised, but reselling products of others (affiliate program if you prefer) is possible inworld with the CViewer and as a merchant you set the commission you are giving to the resellers. Again, Cariama takes no commission on sales made inwold and with the website! For the coming two weeks Banner ads were placed in SecondStyle and Men’s Second Style, and SLUniverse will be the option for the last two weeks of January. The link of the week: Massively, daily news about MMOs. New Features Due to bugs in the CViewer and a very specific problem with one CBox located in the Mainland, the ressources of the week were put on resolving that first and not working on the "bulk editing" feature. Cbox V1.1 and CViewer 1.1 are now available. Both have in the management menu a "Reset" and a "H/S" button: the "Reset" button resets the script if needed and the "H/S" button stands for Hide or Show the over-text. A third button is present in the customer menu, “Cariama”, which gives the latest information about Cariama. For the CViewer, a "Demo" button in the customer menu is also proposed but this service is not enabled yet (in the future it will be possible to send a demo of the product). It is not mandatory to upgrade to Cbox V1.1 if you have not seen problems (please see the bugs section thereafter), however I would suggest to do so if your Cboxes are located in Mainland, or if you want to have the new "Reset" and "H/S" features. For the CViewer it is mandatory to change to version 1.1. In the HowTo page the explanations are given for easy upgrades. New Collections and Stores New Collections: Christmas by Tekilah Elytis Goddess by Tattoo Lane Featured by Dedric Mauriac Stores and Houses by Michael Magic, Primitive Art by Kay Noble New Stores: Sculpties Up In Here by Tekilah Elytis Dedric Mauraic's Gadgets by Dedric Mauriac Coalcliff Designs Live Streaming Radios by Lord Coalcliff Bugs and Issues So far, 5 bugs discovered this week.
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Happy New Year |
2009-12-29 |
| News This week debugging was again the main objective. Trying to figure out what can go wrong is not an easy task. The second objective of the week was to finalize the selection of the different medias in which Cariama will place advertisements. So far, already two ads were placed for January, one in SecondStyle and another in Metaverse Messenger. Three other medias have been selected. The link of the week: Virtual Worlds News. New Features The bullet point list is now available with BBCode, it can be placed with [ list ][ * ]text here[ /list ] or [ list=d ][ * ]text here[ /list ] and different bullets are available:
The CViewer is working although minor bugs have been seen. Due to the new restriction our dearest LL will soon apply on the size of the scripts, this week will be aimed on the CViewer scripting: correcting the minor bugs and reducing in size the script. The next feature will be then the "bulk editing": the possibility to change several item characteristics (e.g. price) in one step. Soon, both CViewers and CBoxes will give the possibility to show or hide the over-texts. Bugs and Issues So far, 3 bugs and 2 issues.
Happy New Year |
