September 2008
Monthly Archive
Thu 18 Sep 2008
It is 2:00 am now and our application went live on Orkut and the response was tremendous. In the first hour we had 190 people trying to make their life popular. This application utilizes the power of cloud computing so we were not worried about the load. We just want to make sure that our application stays in newest application for at least 3-4 days and our viral channels should be fairly used by our clients.
Everything was so perfect and within 24 hours we got 2200 users using our application. To our amusement 90% of the users were girls. Girls really like to tell about their life and they surely do want to get famous. And this was good for us because our application sends updates to all friends and everybody has a soft corner for girls. Boys want to know what the next door girl is doing and girls always want to know who is doing what.
So why don’t you give it a try and start promoting your life. Be ready to live a glamorous life.
Fri 12 Sep 2008
We are doing great with this application with over 200 new clients registering daily. Below are some basic facts about Chess 2.0 League:
1. New application launched on the same day and we remained on newest addition page for less than 24 hours. Within 24 hours we managed to get approx 1200 new visitors on the first day and got a placement on the third page. If we would have been on the newest section for about 3 days then I am sure we would have made to the first page in Orkut Apps directory.
2. After the application was removed from newest apps we had to use these 1200 visitors to help us spread our word virally. We had very little hope to get new visitors from Orkut app directory as 90% of the people do not browse each page.
3. Good point was that nearly 80% of the people updated their email address which means we could send them emails whenever their opponent would make their move and in this way they would be reminded again of the game they are playing on Orkut. The strategy worked well and every day we execute about 600 games.
4. Our motive is to build an application with consistent traffic and we are glad to say that we are constantly increasing traffic everyday by about 5% by utilizing viral channels effectively.
5. We provide support through community on Orkut and it feels great when chess lovers say that we are the best on Orkut.
It does not need to be on the top to be the best but to get to the top you need to be the best. So lets wait and see in how many days we get to the top. Our fingers are crossed. 
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Play Chess 2.0 League on Orkut now.
Thu 11 Sep 2008
Appointy is our first software as service product centered towards social platform to help businesses to grow their business exponentially. On 6th September we executed our first strategy and everything went as we thought. We got about 800 unique visitors on the first day followed by another 850 visitors on the next day. Within 4 days Appointy was seen by 3340 visitors from 96 countries and the conversion ratio was better than we thought. Below is the screen shot of our stats.
These are the websites talking about Appointy.
- www.go2web20.net
- www.killerstartups.com
- www.feedmyapp.com
- www.listio.com
- www.stumbleupon.com
In short everyone believes that this is a great tool to manage and market your business and its free. So why not give it a try and see for yourself.
Appointy.com, Grow your business exponentially.
Fri 5 Sep 2008
As you all know that NEN has nominated us for India’s Hottest startups 2008. Our listing is live now and you can vote for us.
To vote follow the link below:
It would hardly take 2 minutes to register and vote for us. So please vote for us. Thank you in advance for voting.
XtremeHeights Team
Mon 1 Sep 2008
Google has silently released its own browser named Google Chrome. Their logo colors are very googlish and they have incorporated security features that we have only seen so far in the beta releases of IE8.
The user interface is well designed and it gives lot of space to websites. You will feel like you have opened a website in full screen mode yet you will see headers. There is no status bar but still it manages to show the loading message perfectly.
Speed of the browser is faster than Firefox 3.0 and it is indeed next version browser for web2.0 applications. It uses a Skia graphics engine developed by Skia Inc., which Google acquired in 2005. Google is not only planning to capture the desktop market but also mobile market. This vector graphics rendering engine makes high end visual effects possible. It is tiny in size and is capable of delivering very high quality.
Default page is yet another Google break through. It shows you most visited links and you can click it and open the page directly. This is really going to save you lots of keyboard typing. You will definitely love this feature. I wonder why anyone else can’t figure it out.
Cross browser issue is yet another concern for software developers. But the good thing is that Google has thought well on these issues and their engine is based on Webkit engine and to our surprise it rendered all of our applications very smoothly without any changes. This is a great move by Google.
From Developers point of view Google has embed developer console which is definitely not going to replace firebug but at least it will help them to debug codes better than IE. In future version you can be sure to see some great development tools.
And finally browser war will get more intense and this will only make browsers better.
