Affiliates

There are now affiliate offers underneath candidate's profiles for Canadian Beauty, UK Beauty and American Hottie to give candidates a 'vote boost'.

A single offer can only be filled out once, but each app user has about 5 offers they can complete. You can fill out an offer more than once per candidate, but we're working on displaying the right number of votes. Right now votes only show up for the first offer you've made for a candidate. Expect that fix to be up later tonight.

This week

We are adding Incentivized offers for votes. We are also looking to purchase a Facebook Group. And we finally fixed our app appearance in IE.

American Hottie

We've surreptitiously changed the name of one of our Facebook applications to 'American Hottie' from 'America's Next Top Cutie'. Gladly, the change seems to have gone unnoticed and we can get back to marketing this application.

*Update* The name changed again to 'Are you an American Hottie?'. It will probably stay that way for at least a week.

Oh and we added a Canadian Beauty store.

Winners

Congratulations to Robyn, Tanya, Carmen, and Sharmon on winning their respective regions in Canadian Beauty. I'll be mailing out the prizes tomorrow.

Congratulations also go to Casey who was America's Next Top Cutie Winner (Cycle 1).

We're introducing Judges for the next cycle in each of the contests, and will be introducing some more apps this week.

Also, we're thinking of organizing a Facebook Dev. meet-up sometime in January. And my other sister was visiting from Australia. She just got engaged. Woo-hoo!

Introducing Good Guys

Our newest app Good Guys is forever helping Girls find Good Guys.

It's really no coincidence that our next app was to help girls meet guys. It seems like we've just published two apps (America's Next Top Cutie and Canadian Beauty) that facilitated guys meeting girls.

It's time we leveled the playing field.

New Servers...

Every once in a while it's good to get excited. For most guys it could be that new car purchase, when I was a kid it was getting a new pack of hockey cards, and for Alex and myself that feeling now comes when we upgrade our server.

We're upping our hosting costs from a steady $130 a month to a cool $350+. This new server will allow us to grow and provide even faster load times for our users. Also, we're going to be introducing an incentive program, hopefully, in the next few days that should help server costs and hopefully provide us with some extra income.

Things aren't tight, but we could really start making normal salaries, especially since we're working on things 24/7.

Oh, and we've over 70 000 users on facebook. Around 7000 active.

Mark out.

Had the craziest dream last night...

I'm not sure if it's lack of physical activity, the cold weather, or eating too much pre/post Hallowe'en candy but I've just got to share it, for fear that someone else will have the same dream and claim they thought of it first.

Black Holes

You heard it hear first, the centers of black holes are all connected. Don't ask why, don't ask how, it was my amazing discovery.

You'd think that I'd dream about girls or something. Maybe even a little professional sports, but no, the one subject that really fascinated me for like 3 years in my childhood gave me the craziest dream in quite a while.

It's always cool to have vivid dreams. This one just struck like lightening.

Mark out.