e shtunë, 30 qershor 2007

New profile: Britney Spears



We put Britney Spears profile in MyGrowUp.com: http://www1.mygrowup.com/growup/user/bspears

This is a public editable profile, we encourage you to edit the profile to make the profile the best profile of Britney Spears on Internet

e premte, 22 qershor 2007

Richest Coverage of Michael Jackson by MyGrowUp.com


We put full coverage of Michael Jackson's grow up history in MyGrowUp.com: http://www1.mygrowup.com/growup/publicPeriodList.htm?userId=15114

We are continues to enrich Michael Jackson profile by organize his Bad Tour, Dangerous Tour, History Tour, Victory Tour etc into easy to navigate by time line and tag.

e enjte, 21 qershor 2007

How to organize your photos, videos and any files in MyGrowUp.com


In this era of digital information representing various parts of everyone’s life, MyGrowUp.com
solves one big problem for everyone – how to streamline the cluttered digital information of your entire life.

Starting from your babyhood to now, you (or your parents) can submit photos, videos, journals, school essays, and nearly everything to MyGrowUp.com.

  1. In "Period" page, create your album in time line.


    In every year, you can also create multiple albums.


  2. In "Period Detail" page, you can view items in different layouts.
    • Icons list.
    • Detail view.
    • Slide show.



  3. When you add or edit photo, video and any other item in MyGrowUp.com, you can attach different tags on one item. Then in "Tag" page, you can view items by selected tags.




e martë, 19 qershor 2007

How to add friends to view your MyGrowUp profile?

MyGrowUp is private and secure: only the people you wish to view your profile will be able to do so. Once you sign up to MyGrowUp you can invite your friends and relatives to see your photos, videos, journals and any type of files in MyGrowUp.
  1. Make sure that the share type of your user account is "Friend". You can change it in "Edit Profile" page. (In "Periods" page, click "Edit Profile" link to open it).
  2. Ask your friends sign up in MyGrowUp.com with "Friend" share type.
  3. Go to "Family/Friends" page, Click "Add Friend/Relative" link, select friend type.
  4. Wait for your friend accept you as a friend.
  5. Once your friend accept you as a friend, you and your friend can see each other from "Family/Friends" page.
Use above steps, you can add relatives to see your profile.

If your account share type is "Relative" and your friend's account share type is "Friend", you can see his profile but he will not be able to see your profile.

How to build a large social networking web site: (MyGrowUp.com)

I have been designed and implemented two large scale web sites. MyGrowUp.com is the latest one. Here I would like to share the secrets of how to build a large web site which uses 100% open source solutions and can scale up to hundreds millions of user subscriptions. Here are 10 things I am going to talk about:

1. Can I build a large web site with all free open source programs? what is "The Gang of Four" open source architecture?
2. How to scale your database so you can easily add more database servers to serve increasing subscribers.
3. What is the best open source cache solution to maximize database server performance
4. How to store tera bytes of multimedia files by adding cheap file servers dynamically.
5. How to load balance your web applications so you can easily add more web servers to serve billions of requests
6. What are other open sources that are necessary for a large website such as Video convert and streaming, server healthy monitor etc
7. What is the best solutions for hosting your web site (If your funding is limited, never go to big hosting company such as RackSpace, also never host by yourself)
8. How to make your web site known to mass without spending big marketing money
9. How to use Javascripts to design some fancy web 2.0 interface (such as those used in MyGrowUp.com)
10. How to integrate your service into Facebook F8 platform

Addition: How to implement a small web site for your business

Internet provides the best foundation to anyone who got a good idea and can put it into success without having funding from venture capital. I benefit from it and I would like others to share it.

Here I will talk about question 1 in the list. I will get motivation to continues on question 2 to 10 next time if there are many diggs on this article. Besides, I do not have complete answer on some item such as Facebook integration because I am still working on it.

1. Can I build a large web site with all free open source programs? what is "The Gang of Four" open source architecture?

Yes, 100% yes. You can build a large and reliable web site without paying a penny on software. The phrase "The Gang of Four" is another term for the popular LAMP (or LAMJ, so I called): Linux, Apache, MySQL and Php/Pearl (or Java). People may ask - are they reliable? I do not want to spend long writing to answer this question. Here I just give some well known web site I know which used these programs:
1. Linux: Even big enterprise such as Citigroup, Goldman Sachs used Linux as production servers
2. Apache Tomcat: Walmart is one of the largest online shopping site, its massive web servers are based on Apache Tomcat
3. MySQL: A lot of Goolge, Yahoo services are using MySQL, others include MyGrowUp, Digg, Facebook and more.
4. Php, Java: too many to list here.


Please digg.

e hënë, 18 qershor 2007

Upgrade JSTL from 1.0 to 1.1

In MyGrowUp.com, we upgraded JSTL from version 1.0 to 1.1.

1. Use Tomcat >5.0
2. Download jstl.jar and standard.jar to WEB-INF/lib
3. Change include tag from
<%@ taglib prefix=”c” uri=”http://java.sun.com/jstl/core” %>
<%@ taglib prefix=”fmt” uri=”http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt” %>
to
<%@ taglib prefix=”c” uri=”http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core” %>
<%@ taglib prefix=”fmt” uri=”http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt” %>
4. In web.xml, use tag


What is MyGrowUp.com

MyGrowUp.com helps people to securely organize their life-long digitalmemory (pictures, videos, journals, music...ETC) in 2-dimensions: bytimeline in vertical and tags (catagory) in horizontal. Thus greatlysimplifying the way people manage their growing-up memories.

In the long term, this web site targets every one; however, initially itwill be most appealing to parents, whom are interested in creatingprofiles for their children. However, as generations pass, parents willpass this down to their children and eventually MyGrowUp will cross theage barrier.

Just because MyGrowUp is geared towards an older niche, it doesn’t meanthat it wont attract younger users. Think about it this way, time neverstops; everyone eventually will grow old and eventually settle down. Once they get there, MyGrowUp will be there for them. That is why MyGrowUp hasso much potential as a social network. It is geared towards a later andlonger stage in life, adulthood, where users will not only use it forthemselves but also for their children. The seemingly self replenishinghost of users will allow MyGrowUp to grow as a social network, andhopefully a morbidly obese one...

Jawad Shuaib, the founder of Shuzak.com wrote in his article “6 StartupLessons For The Year 2007” [1] "There may never be a site as big as MySpace again." As the president of MyGrowUp I have one question: “How many middle age men or grandparents do you see on MySpace?” Theconvenience and of MyGrowUp and the demand for such a tool will propel itto compete even with social networks such as Facebook and MySpace.[1] http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/6_startup_lessons_2007.php