Zocku Owners' Network

Several networks have successfully implemented the new C&B Member Billing system into their networks. We have however found a small problem affected owners of custom domains. 

When you come to enter the Content URL into the Add Fee section of ClickandBuy, the admin center will provide you with :

http://yournetwork.zocku.com/action/billing/clickandbuy 

address whereas you actually need to use your custom domain:

http://www.youtnetwork.com/action/billing/clickandbuy

This will ensure that accounts are correctly created. Sorry for confusion!
Have questions about member billing 2.0 and how you can require people to pay for video access? Contact support@zocku.com! 


 

Hey Guys, 

We pushed an update to the system last night which includes a number of important updates to Zocku networks.

Firstly, if you restrict access to the Videos tab using Member Levels, it will now also restrict access to watching videos. This is great if you would like to make watching videos on your network premium only.

Secondly, if you set media to Approval Only (videos + photos), when you now approve them, they appear in the homepage activity feed right away. We realised that MANY Zocku networks have to carefully moderate the content on their network and as a result the activity feeds may look a little bare. 

Finally, we have now retrospectively activated members on your network to receive your Message All Members if they have previously been active on  your network. From now on, all members will have to opt-in to gain access but all your existing active members will get the emails. 

Cheers! 

We have made significant progress with the new video encoding servers and are in the progress of rolling them out in the next 2-3 hours. We are sorry for the problems caused by this and please feedback if you are still experiencing problems on Saturday morning onwards! 

Update Monday 5th October
We are now seeing considerably better video quality too. Please continue to report any ongoing issues you may be having.  

Hi Guys, 

We are aware that there are some ongoing issues with video encoding which is affecting the success of uploaded videos to your networks. Please be assured that the team is working round the clock to get this fixed and we will update you once it is.

Thanks for your patience in the meantime and sorry for the problems caused with your members. 

Update 1st october 2009 : We are making good progress today with our testing of the updated service. 

Twitter Connect, GOCart Shopping Cart AND Profile Designer are now available in the Zocku Store.

Enjoy! And as always we welcome your feedback.

We are also currently finalising the Merchant Signup Process for ClickandBuy.com for Member Billing 2.0 which we expect to be ready in the next few days. We are currently waiting to hear back from ClickandBuy and they have confirmed they are nearly done! If you try and register directly through ClickandBuy they will not accept you.

Finally, we are rolling out updated video encoding servers this week to improve the sucess rate of encoded videos so failures will dramatically reduce.

Cheers!

Hi Guys, 

In this release we limited the number of Photos and Videos that the Vidoes>Browse tab showed to the last 1000 to dramatically improve the speed of this feature. No videos, photos etc where removed from your network and all are still available. 

A couple of you have asked to restore this the way it was and we will look to do this to avoid any confusion.  

Cheers 

Hi Guys, 

We have pushed an update to the platform which includes some notification optimizations. You will now be receiving notifications for all activity in your groups. Please do let us know if this is "information overload" and we will tweak it in the coming weeks. 

Those of you that have not yet added the Group Videos block to your profiles need to go the Layout Manager and click on the groups profile and then drag the block into the left hand column of the profiles. There has been some confusion over this. 

 
We are also readying Profile Designer, Shop and Member Billing V2 with full support for adult networks which will be launched in the next release. It is a very exciting times for Zocku networks and we can't wait for you guys to get your hands on the new toys.  

We will be posting up the Zocku Monetization Workshop Part 1 over the weekend. 

It was a fantastic start to a 3 part series of workshops by Ruffkin.com's Tim Morton. Many thanks to him and everyone who came along!

Cheers! 

Hey All!

We are pleased to have pushed another release this week which fixes some known issues with the Member Billing system. Specifically that the Member billing system was getting mixed data back from PayPal so it will no longer be disabling your members. It will be up to you to contact your members on their cancellation and decide what to do.

This is a stop-gab measure in the interim while we get ready to begin work on the next-generation adult member billing system.

If you haven't already explored the widget store and installed the new Member Video Chat then please do so. It uses P2P video serving so the quality is really great. It will be replacing the standard video chat system in the coming week and will be fully white labeled for Zocku networks.

We experianced a couple of network outages this week due to our host based in Texas, USA. They have isolated the problem and tell us they have taken measures to make sure it will not happen again.

Finally, we will also start featuring networks on Zocku.com. If you would like to be featured on Zocku.com then please drop me a message!

Cheers!

Today's release includes a new tool for admin's only. The "Admin Toolbar" shows when you are logged into a network that you own, your users do not see it...ever!.

At the moment it only includes links to your admin center but we are looking to use it as a way to give people more control over their networks.

We will shortly be adding an option to hide it and additional functionality as well to keep you better informed.



Today's release also includes a much anticipated premium feature which you will find in the admin system. Full blog post on this coming Tuesday.... Please report any issues you find with it to support@socialgo.com. The WidgetLaboratory guys will be around this weekend as well to help you as well at www.widgetlaboratory.com

More details coming soon.......