When you login to your account home, you will see there's something change on the layout.
Since a social website contains lots of different contents aggregate in the home dashboard, it's
hard to give a clean layout for people to browse with.
Nowadays with the Ajax technique, we are enable to bring multi contents in one page with real- time data.
We choose tabs for classicfied different contents in home dashboard.

Instant Share, Add Bookmarks, and Update Status are locating top part of the page.
We classicfied these as the functions for quick interaction tools.

The crews activities and mashups contents are in classicified in the middle part of the page.

Now, the Muecs Marketplace have included inventory management features for all shop's products.
Here you can set an Email Alert for the minimum stock inventory for every products.
Your Eshop will send you an E-mail monthly report, when your number of stock are lower than the Email Alert level.
By default it is set to 0(zero).

  Also by caluating thi, you have to define the inventory method in the beginning when you create the shop.
  See Below:

 During add and edit products, you modify or add the inventory of the specific product.

See figure 1 and 2 in below.

Figure 1:

 

Figure 2:

Recently, Muecs have received e-mail from Mahalo, Elliot C.R. Cook [elliot@mahalo.com].
He have mention some of the articles contents he found in Muecs Community was copied from Mahalo.
From Mahalo, the "Human Powered Search Result" created by the post person from their site.
Which involved the Copyright Infringement of those contents, therefore our administrator have to remove the contents. 

Here is a offical warning post for a crew that have seriouly contain this issue.

http://crew.muecs.com/xboxfans/page-290.aspx

For me personally, if that site don't allow to share their "grabbed" contents.
Well, find another one site or put your own words, so no one will put argument on your stuffs.

Oops, "grabbed" contents , you think everything they really wrote by theirself? 

Latest week, we have finally made our own search functionalilty in Muecs.com.

The search enable people to foucs more about the specific type of contents they want to search in our website.
Basically, our search are going to find things in few services from Muecs.  

By default, if you do not choose any options, the search engine will display all type of contents in the result.
(Community Contents, Crews, People, Shops, Items, Activities)
You can choose one or more options from "Filer Options", the options will show up once your mouse move over the link.

In the first display of search results, our search engine are only show few row of result for each type of contents.
In each section of search contents, you can view the full list of results by chicking "More Result" in the bottom of every section.

In the example below, I choose Community Contents and Crews in options for keyword games.
Therefore,the search only display the result for these two fliter options.

We designed a new layout in Muecs main page.
Here we used a concept of city as a new theme to express about social platform.

We think this is appropriate, simple and clear desgin for Muecs now on.

You can check out our new main page design in :  http://www.muecs.com/Default.aspx

Every four years Summer Olympic Games started at 08/08/2008 8:08 P.M. took place in Beijing.
Muecs based in Hong Kong, we also celebrate the happeniess momnet for all countries and athletes.
In order to allow people remember and participate this events, we have updated a banner for Olympic Games 2008.
Which this banner are linked to Olympic Games 2008 official website, so there is the website for people to keep track of the sports they interested.

So why it said, "cheers to allathletes!" ?
In this events, we want to bring a message to all of you that, "Forget about politics and focus on athletes preform".
Because by sawing the news last few weeks, and some people use this game as an offensive excuse on speach and
devious means behind, trying to harm to China, and some Middle East countries.  So we hope this message can bring to people
and let them remember the meanning of Olympic Games logo.

There's also a community created for the Olympic Games 2008, you can join as in there.

Share and discuss any media contents about the events.

We are welcome you to Beijing 2008 Olympic Games community in Muecs.

Last week we released the Email Notification setting  feature in account Profile. 

When you go to edit your profile page, you will see a new tab on the top, Email Noticfication.
Where it include some of the setting for notify you through email.

Here is the screen of it:

Do you have Google toolbar in your web browser?

Do you realize when you access to Muecs.com , the PageRank shows right now and not 0 anymore?

I'm Glad to see the biggest search engine recongized our website.  It will be improve our contents in search result.
Recently, I saw more people came from Google search, joined by their interested topics in Community.
That's a good sign, the SEO does worked.  Johny and I spended about 2 weeks in last month tried improve our website
contents ability to search by the popluar search engine in the market.
And for sure, Google is our site biggest source from search.

We tried search advertising approach before, but that was not working well as our expected result.
So for some of the new startups, I suggest you guys not using search advertising in the beginning.
Until you earn some revuene from your website, you may consider to do that to that.

As the report show of last month until July middle, other than people from US and Hong Kong, one of the growing were from German.

Since end of May, we announced to release public account register in beta stage, over 1000 people signed up from that date to June.
This is a good start for us, and some of the tech blogger reviewed Muecs.com.

Here is some of the blog post, by the way thanks you all of you who supportting and gave a great comments about us.

http://www.mlogger.de/2008-07-05/muecs-verwalte-alles/

http://scottpenton.jaiku.com/

http://sylvaindrapau.com/2008/07/03/nouvelle-plate-forme-sociale-muecs/

http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/beta/muecs

 http://www.heilmile.de/rss/Web2Null/2008/07/04/Muecs

http://www.web2null.de/muecs

http://www.techissimo.com/2008/07/18/muecs-nuova-comunita-per-conividere-interessi-hobby-e-amici/

Other that widgets, we released the Bookmarketlet Tools in our tools series.

It's easy to install in your web browser for bookmarking in your Muecs Bookmarks App.

Last week, we were starting to build the API for Muecs.com.  The first thing we tired to do was making the widget and badge above the API.

It was kind of funny to make those widgets, because all of these stuffs are based on XML, Javascript and HTML.

So it's depends on the design, able the widgets have flexibility for everyone to embed it on their website or blog.

This week, we released the Profile Badge and Crews Widget that built on top of our API.

Profile Badge is basically a javascript code that display information about you, and the services you currently use in Muecs Contents Mashups.

Crews Widget is a gear to display the activities in your joint crews in Muecs Community.

You can give it a try to display your stuffs with customizable color in : http://www.muecs.com/tools/

This is a sample of Profile Badge from Muecs test account.


Both badge and widget are basically similar customize setting for it.

Which every editable color fields are allow to choose color from the color wheel beside it.

It's pretty simple to config and generate your own widgets for you.

Then you can copy and paste the embed code into your website or blog, and please make sure your web browser is  javascript enble.

Here is my crews widget demo.

So what's next?

We will build more difference types of widgets from Muecs API's data. 

The coming one we are considering of is the listed items in Marketplace of people.

We think this is useful for people who use want to sell their products, not just have impression of their products in our platform.

It also them to display their products in websites they can embed the wideget on.