Simplifying Goal Creation Is Our New Goal

One of the things we are currently working on is improving the UI (user interface) for the home screen so that using the system is more intuitive.  We have received feedback from several Beta testers that site is difficult to use.  We the creators know the site like the back of our hands but we overlook the fact that a lot of people that are coming on to the site for the first time might not think so.  We want to focus on goals, so there are several things we can do.  We could relocate the tabs bar to the top or have a big entry bar for people to enter goals or just put the tabs in different sections on the page.  We have a lot of options right now but it's going to take some time. 

Also we are making Facebook friend invites a bit easier to use and less laggy.  During testing, the Facebook accounts we used did not have over 200 friends and the system acted fine but now during Beta we are seeing a lot of users with over 500 friends.  We now verified that the Facebook friend invite becomes laggy and unresponsive with Facebook accounts with over 500 friends.   No worries, that is also something we are working on. 

In Response to Facebook Deals

Today Facebook announced Facebook Deals which will allow businesses to post up deals for people who checkin.  Facebook is offering this service for free, here is more details about it: Link.

My first thought is that Dennis Crowley's arrogance cost him $125 million....he could have sold Foursquare to FB earlier this year but instead decided to hold out and now he is going to get crushed.  Not only him but all the other location-based apps such as Gowalla, Loopt, MyTown, SCVNGR.  Remember a few months ago when Facebook announced Facebook Places and they said they weren't here to crush the location based apps, well who would have saw this coming right(sarcasm)?

But does anyone else think that FB is trying to hard to crush the competition? They recently updated their photos app to crush Flickr and now Deals which is going after all the location-based apps and Groupons.  Seriously who wants to pay for Groupons or any of the location-based apps when its free on Facebook?

I personally think this whole scenario is possible because tech start ups stopped innovating, companies rather create FB apps then go up against them.  While this is happening FB gets bigger and bigger and crushes all the smaller guys. This is the reason why my friends and I decided to create a new type of social network, focused on people who are adventurous, people who want to be social off the computer, people who wants to improve themselves thru creating goals.
MyLifeRank.com doesn't have the expectations of ever overtaking FB, but we believe it’s about time someone tried to make something unique and not another FB app.

Beta now open, it's been such an exciting day! But we are only getting started....

We opened our Beta today and we had a great number of signups and we have a feeling signups will quickly fill up soon! :)  It's been very exciting from all of us at MyLifeRank, watching people sign up and seeing what we have blogged, tweeted and emailed about for the last few months. 

Remember this is still in Beta stage so there will be a few little bugs we still need to hammer out but for the most part we haven't had much complaints.  So join today and test out the site and tell all your friends!  Let us know how you feel with our Feedback button and feel free to add George T, Milos G, Dylan R as a friend on MyLifeRank! 

5 More Days Until Beta....also signed up for Indiegogo

Wow, it's getting really close to BETA time :) We are wrapping up our Token feature so that it integrates with our gaming system; we feel it will add another layer to competition and enjoyment for people. In addition, Tokens will play into our bigger plan down the road with businesses but we'll get into that later.
Everyone who signed up for the beta on the front page will be emailed on November 1st to register and they will have first priority, everyone else will be first come first serve. The video previews I have up are kind of outdated now especially the How-to use one.  Many things have changed, so I will be posting up a new one probably a day before Beta opens. There will be a help guide also within MyLifeRank that shows how to use all the features as well.

Last thing is we just put MyLifeRank on Indiegogo.com which allows users to contribute if they feel strongly about MyLifeRank.  For those interested, the link is here http://bit.ly/ceQShV

MyLifeRank Search Engine Preview

This is a video preview of the Search Engine of MyLifeRank!  For a bigger video check it out here.

New How To Use Video Released!

This is a how to use video for MyLifeRank that shows the basic functionality along with some helpful tips.  This video should be useful for those signed up for the private beta.  The features shown in here are still in beta stage and things will probably change in the future along with new additions.  Also for those who haven't seen the site yet, this should be a real treat as well :)   For a bigger YouTube version click here.

To Build Something Better...Web 3.0 Generation

From George:

Recently I read an article on TechCrunch on How Facebook can become bigger in five years than google is today and it was a very interesting read in terms of what Facebook could do within their ecosystem.  With the amount of users Facebook has, they can very easily make new apps or features industry leading instantly.   But what really intrigued me was how the author ended the article, it was a call for people to build something better.  He questioned why no one was trying to build a better social network and said he will help as much as he can for anyone who is trying to and even offered a connection with a VC.  Well unfortunately after I reached out to him, he neither helped nor made the connection for us with the VC.  But we at MyLifeRank shares the same view with him in terms of why no one even tries to compete with Facebook anymore.  All of the new start up sites these days are either an add-on for Facebook or an app within Facebook, seems like everyone has just given in. 

Well today Mashable put up an article showing a global map view of all social networks from 2007 and 2010 and it's truly amazing to see how things have changed in the last three years.  These days with the Internet it's all about innovation, if you stop innovating you get crushed. 

I am not saying that MyLifeRank will ever overtake Facebook but it does show how much things can change within a very short time. I do believe there is a place for MyLifeRank and our unique network can very well change how the Web 3.0 generation will turn out. Almost everything you seen on the social network map for 2010 relates to something a person does online, very little actually encourages or motivates people to go outside to socialize. The very term of being "social" has been defined with the Web 1.0 or Web 2.0 generation as doing things with your friends online or engaging in what they have done in the past. MyLifeRank wants to start the Web 3.0 generation by offering a network and the tools necessary to get people to get off the computer to socialize.