Earlier this year we hosted a Blueworld party at the Camps Bay bowls club (next to La Med) for our top Blueworld members, industry people (including Media24 execs) and advertising contacts that we have done business with over the past year. The party went down really well and provided a great networking platform for everyone who attended.
Blueworld went all out this year at the J&B Met. Besides the photographers capturing the MET hype, visitors to this years event were treated to some Blueworld eye candy. Have a look at the photos below.
From everyone at Blueworld Communities we would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy XMAS and your business a successful new year.
Blueworld experienced a great 2008 and we look forward to continuing this success in 2009. Some of the highlights we experienced this year included being acquired by Naspers in a landmark SA internet deal, launching the new look Blueworld, using our platform to launch 24.com’s Speakerbox project, launching the new look for Zoopedup, soaring past the one million page views mark and launching Blueworld mobile.
In 2008 the Blueworld community posted 6441 blogs, uploaded 101 033 photos, created 1034 groups, shared 1854 videos and sent 558 939 sms’s from our free sms platform which accumulated to 1.5 terabytes of monthly bandwidth and a storage total of 95 gigs. Blueworld photographers took 187.460 photos covering in excess of 2.600 events.
As I write this Blueworld is ranked 47th on the OPA for local visitors and 7th on the OPA time spent on site chart with our sister niche social network, Zoopedup, 2nd on the OPA for time spent on site.
We look forward to continue our growth in the new year and look forward to working with you
Please be safe if you travel these holidays and look out for the Blueworld photographers!
In the next few days (week) we will be launching the new layout for Blueworld. With the new layout comes considerable usability improvements, cleaning up of the old layout’s cluttered look, caching technology for high traffic areas and removing of all backend logic from the UI layer. Blueworld will soon reach 6 figure monthly traffic so we need to start engineering for performance - the layout launch is a step towards this strategy.
Also with the new layout we will introduce a content delivery network (CDN) to serve Blueworld’s media. This will further ensure less load on our front end farm and quicker loading times. Click below for larger versions -
The new homepage which now includes Blueworld Bands
The new user profiles which now includes user activity
Blueworld was recently featured in the Media24 staff magazine which goes out to thousands of Naspers employees around the country - click for the big version
Update - We have filled this position - thank you to everyone for their submissions
Blueworld is the leading social network in South Africa and growing strongly every day. We are looking for a design guru with hot css layout programming experience. The designer will have the opportunity to work in a exciting start-up environment with other talented “web-stars”. Blueworld is a vibrant and cutting edge company to work for in a fast evolving space. Our offices are located in Long street in the hip 210 on Long creative suites office block. (Yes, we have a Nintendo Wii for the staff)
The designer will have to adapt their skills to the web and learn and research new technologies on a continuous basis. Working overtime and efficiently to complete dead lines is expected and rewarded.
CSS Design guru job spec
* 5 years css experience - key strong point
* 5 years graphic design experience
* Photoshop experience
* Experience with open source applications such as Wordpress highly desirable, Joomla, Drupal a bonus
* Work well within a team of programmers and project managers
* Good understanding of social networking user interface design
* Fast and accurate under pressure
* Work on exciting projects like Speakerbox and Zoopedup
* Quality technology to do your job - 22′ LCDs; comfy chairs
* Nintendo Wii office tournaments
* Latest cutting edge software technology
* Room to grow inside our company and the Naspers group (we are majority owned by Naspers)
* Working on Long street inside the hip 210 on Long creative suites
* Be featured with us in Newspapers, magazines and online - we famous! (see below)
Test - each applicant will have to complete a test mock up - we will supply a layout design which they need to css within a week
Please contact Charl Norman - 083 351 7917 - to setup a interview
Hi I’m Gonzalo Vargas; Chilean export living in the stunning city of Cape Town. Just getting started as a graphic designer here, at Blueworld. It’s been a great experience to be on the web side of things. Graphic Design is definitely heading towards this direction. Currently creating the look for some of the Blueworld groups through CSS.
I’ve included a couple of images of the last group updates.
We are proud to announce the launch of Speakerbox.co.za a collaboration between BlueWorld Communities and 24.com. Speakerbox is a cocktail of content contributed by the 24.com editorial team and user generated content contributed by the artists and fans that join the social network on www.blueworld.co.za/bands.
Bands can create their own profile, upload music, share photos and videos of their gigs, publish their upcoming gigs and interact with fans. You can see a good example of a band profile here - Black Market Riots.
