Blendapps

New Facebook and Popup buttons

To make it easier for you to market your Blendapps Chat Rooms we have now added two new features, acctually it is two new buttons…

• To encourage your users to add the chat room to their Facebook account we now have a button for just that. If a user clicks on the button the Blendapps Chat Facebook Application is installed on their Facebook account and your chat room is added to it. So within seconds your users can chat from Facebook with their Facebook friends and with the members of their Ning network. This is a great way to spread your social network beyond just one site! This button can be found at the Facebook page at chat.blendapps.com.
• If you do not want to have a chat room on your Ning page you can instead use this button that opens the chat room in a popup. A great way to get your users chatting while still being able to participate in the rest of your Ning site. This button can be found at the Ning page at chat.blendapps.com

Fully Customizable
Both buttons are fully customizable. You can easily change the text, so if you want to use another language than English that can be done without a problem. With some knowledge in design/CSS you can also change the complete look of the buttons if you want.

I hope you like these new features, let us know either way at getsatisfaction.com/blendapps.

4 Comments

1. j.Wings says:

   Thursday, November 27th, 2008at 10:52 pm

   Ive been using userplane on my site for a couple of years now, and im excited to try your implementation with ning. Weve been hoping for something like this for a long time.

   One question: Userplane recently implemented a free version of their “minichat” text window into a userplane (directory version) room. Do you have any plans to offer this as well?

   The dream scenario is that minichat would be available on the front page of the site with users logged in under their own screen name automatically, and guests logged in as anonymous. Then registered ning members could go to a deeper page that allowed full webcam access.

   anyway, just a thought. I love what you have accomplished already

   J.Wings

2. Andreas says:

   Monday, December 1st, 2008at 10:49 am

   Thanks for you comment & great that you like what we have done!

   We have been looking at the userplane minichat, and are considering including it in the Blendapps userplane implementation. Exactly how this implementation would look and when we can be done with it I can not say at the moment. Userplane has quite a few cool features that we want to include in our offering eventually, and minichat is one of them.

3. Autumn says:

   Saturday, December 12th, 2009at 9:28 pm

   Half the time when we enter a chat room through Blendapps on Ning we wind up in an EMPTY ROOM. Servers are splitting the rooms for some unknown reason.

   When I click “join chat” it should take me to the room where everyone is chatting, instead the server splits and it takes me to a room where NO ONE is chatting, even though all my friends say they are in fact in the room and chatting with X amount of people.

   You all blame Userplane, they blame you, someone just fix the darn thing and you wont see anymore complaints (duh).

   We’re pretty much fed up with both companies at this point anyways, but it would be nice if we felt our concerns were actually read and cared about.

4. Autumn says:

   Saturday, December 12th, 2009at 9:29 pm

   sorry that should be “open chat”. We’ve emailed Userplane they blame you guys.