[login to view URL] Social Networking Website Technical Specifications
1. Avatar customization - Ability to create customized avatar, based on personal preferences
2. Avatar Navigation - Avatar has ability to navigate throughout, or between rooms
3. Branding of web pages - Web pages customized with logos, look, feel, and navigation
4. Collaborative buddy-shopping - Generate revs by interactive shopping cart
5. Content push - Content (any media) presented to targeted member on pre-programmed basis
6. E-mail campaigns - Blast e-mails to groups, specific lists, or entire community membership
7. Emoticons - Symbol used in text communications, or instant messages to convey an emotion with a message
8. Entourage - Ability to create groups with same common interests, friend circles, locate friends
9. Establishment of groups - Creation of groups by community members, or by community administrator
10. File posting and sharing - Post a file that can be shared with other members of the group, or the community
11. Friend invitations - Ability to invite friends into room/entourage
12. Free buddy calling - Phone calling between members of the same community
13. Group moderation - Filter to allow approved content to be posted, once approved by moderator, or other reviewers
14. Group preferences / control - Ability to pre-set the level of access to shared files on a group basis
15. Home dashboard - Welcome screen, listing current status, etc.
16. Hyperlinks
17. Links anywhere in interactive room for user movement to destination (product displays, online catalogue, offers, or other sites, etc
18. Individual preferences / control - Ability to pre-set the level of access to personal information
19. Instant messaging (chat) - Online, intra-community personal instant messaging system
20. Instant Message (IM) - Real IM chat capabilities allows users to “mingle” with one another while in rooms
21. Intra-community messaging - Intra-community e-mail messaging with alerts
22. Member invitation (invite a friend) - Ability to invite a friend to join the community–within your group
23. Member profile (user format customized) - Ability to create user profiles, including personal information, pictures, hobbies etc.
24. Member sign-up - Systematic sign-up process that enables additional information-gathering / promotions
25. Message board - Discussion Forum, Bulletin Board and Announcements
26. Online advertising - Enabling of sponsored content, banners, IPTV, infomercials, audio-video, etc.
27. Photo gallery - Posting of pictures with a photo album format for viewing
28. Profile - Ability to update personal information for social networking snapshop, picture, hobbies, interests
29. Refer-a-friend Send an invitation to multiple friends to link to community
30. Registration - Capture critical data on users (age, hobbies, interests)
31. Reporting - Reports on number of subscribers, by group, postings, and/or special feature usage
32. Search for members - Search for members between desktop and community buddy lists
33. Search for profile information - Search for information based on data noted in profiles (hobbies, languages, etc.)
34. Simulated 3-D Virtual World (2.5-D) - Browse away from 2-D static landing page to interact in 3-D environment
35. Shared contacts and calendar - Ability to see contacts in a group and post events on shared calendar
36. Sponsorships - Advertisers have ability to “own” a room, branded as they will (banners, displays, infomercials, audio-video…)
37. Voting, or member polling - Polling with real-time results tabulation
38. Web log (blogging) - Community members can chronicle their experiences for other members to share
39. Billing for usage & services - Billing and payment for content and services
40. Calendar alerts - Event alerts posted by administrator of the community
41. Content usage tracking and payment processing - Community owner, or individual members, can sell posted material with usage tracking, payment processing, or royalty administration
42. Customized virtual chat rooms - Provide a place for community members’ avatars to meet online
43. Desktop icon - A custom-designed button for a direct link to specific community website
44. Desktop search engine - Integral Web/File Folder search capability allows members to search within the community
45. Distance learning - Online training delivery via community, on pre-programmed streaming media basis
46. Hidden name & calling ID - Protect identity of community members wishing to remain anonymous when communicating
47. In-scene advertising - Enable advertising to be viewed as a natural part of the virtual scene
48. IPTV - Enable communities to become independent TV stations who can broadcast direct to a member PCs
49. Location-based advertising - Enable advertising to be viewed based on location of viewer
50. Marketing analysis tools - Tools to analyze data collected from the community members
51. Media download - Ability to upload/download media such as music, ring-tones, or videos from the community to PC, or other devices
52. Micro payments - Pay for ring tones, media downloads, or gaming
53. Moderation of chat rooms - Monitoring language to control, or over-ride, socially unacceptable language
54. Online auctions - Ability to create, track and bill for goods sold on a online auction site
55. Online karaoke - Enable community members exchange karaoke recordings
56. Online shopping - Added revenue opportunity by offering products via built-in shopping cart
57. Online training - Online training delivery via community, on pre-programmed streaming media basis
58. Personalized avatars - Allow community members to visually personalize their cartoon identities
59. Podcasting - Distribute community media productions to members to view on their PCs or portable media players
60. Private communities - Member safety from users being approached by unwanted traffic
61. Profile-based advertising management - Manage advertising based on selected viewer profiles, or location, or unique user attributes
62. Security for files - Provides secure file sharing
63. Shopping cart - Online shopping using secure payment system
64. Surveys - Tools to conduct surveys with answers, collected into a marketing database
65. Task list - A task list can be posted by the community administrator, or group leader, with progress tracking
66. Tray alerts - Notification of community messages and other events to members while they are logged-in
67. User generated content (UGC) management - Tracking and management for user-generated content