people make it perfect

2006-12-25T05:59:00.000-08:00

HiP HiP Hurray for another iranian level 10

Cheer Pendar !
1000 $ nooshe joonesh dar biad cheshme torka :D

More Level 10s

2006-12-12T04:38:00.000-08:00

Congratulations to Faruk for making it to level 10 and winning the $1000 prize. Yay!!

2006-12-11T05:17:00.000-08:00

Versus between yahoo 360 & XUQA.com

We Have a plane to move yahoo 360 users to XuQa.com

Need Instant Help

All Help We Accept

Make XuQa RoYalIty

ssssssssshhhh!

2006-12-04T20:58:00.000-08:00

Peanut Labs .... shhhhhhhhh!

SHAMIM at Level 10

2006-11-16T10:31:00.000-08:00

CONGRATULATIONS to Shamim ! Iran's XuQa Queen! The first Iranian XuQa user to reach Level 10! She has also won 1000$ in cash.

Go show her some love...

BuSe and CAN at Level 10

2006-10-30T19:47:00.000-08:00

CONGRATULATIONS to BuSe and Can ! More level 10s >>> $1000 and eternal glory on Xuqa!

LYNDSEY at Level 10

2006-10-22T22:36:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to Lyndsey who's just made it to Level 10! Adding one more to the small, elite level-10 club on xuqa. She's also won a $1000. Go show her some love...

Party Poker's XuQa Tournament

2006-10-16T07:18:00.000-07:00

Over 150 members showed up at the Party Poker XuQa tournament. Check out the top 10 winners, click to visit their profiles:

New Head of Product

2006-10-13T07:09:00.000-07:00

I'm officially retiring from my position as the Product Guy. (tsk tsk). Ali Kapadia is now incharge of the Product. At xuqa, by product we mean pretty much everything you see on the website.

His MSN is: ask_ali@hotmail.com
His Skype is: alikapadia

This dude is seriosuly awesome (he made Peanut Poker). So if you have feedback, hes the right person to talk to. Since hes going to be making the final decisions on what features we have, how we improve things etc, talking to him will have the most impact.

As for me, i'm going to work full time on developing the business end of xuqa.

Oh and did I say, We're profitable!

more coverage on Xuqa

2006-09-29T21:41:00.000-07:00

XuQa's first level 10

2006-09-25T01:54:00.000-07:00

All hail to the eternal glory of XuQa Queen, Cassy! First one up to level 10. She just won $1000 in cash!!!

Funniest line EVER!

2006-09-21T04:15:00.000-07:00

xuqa truly imitates life because in both places women ask rich guys for their nuts...

- Uday, level 9

XuQa shoutouts and Pimps

2006-09-20T00:45:00.000-07:00

XuQa shoutouts and other product updates will be launching today. Check your XuQa in the evening.

XuQa poker themes have already launched. Go to the item shop, level 5, and you can purchase a custom theme for your poker precense. It looks HOT! (no kidding). Here is a screen shot.

Xuqa On-Demand launching later this week

2006-09-18T12:38:00.000-07:00

Hush. If I tell you they'll kill me. But do check your xuqa account later this week. awesome new feature coming up on your homepage.

Oh, and we're also adding peanut "bank statements" to all accounts so you can see your last 10 Peanut transactions and control your earning and spending. This will show up on your Peanuts page. Spend peanuts responsibly. A Xuqan with no Peanuts might as well be on myspace.

Techcrunch

2006-09-11T15:57:00.000-07:00

See Xuqa's coverage on techcrunch below:

Chat

2006-09-06T18:47:00.000-07:00

New feature on this blog: you can now chat directly with us, LIVE, right from this blog. New chat feature, powered by meebo. scroll down and look in the right hand column.

College Poker Tournaments

2006-09-06T00:25:00.000-07:00

Xuqa is putting together an awesome, nationwide college poker tournament 2006 - 2007. We are in discussions with major channels for on-air coverage. Take a look and give us your feedback.

What next?

2006-09-04T12:10:00.000-07:00

Besides from ongoing bug fixes, maintainance etc, the big question in everyones mind, is what next? And honestly, the best way to decide is to have our users decide... heres what we're thinking... feel free to leave feedback / add your own idea.

1. Develop poker more. Check out the following screen shots.

2. Add a dating / spin the bottle type of game.

3. Monopoly with peanuts

4. Focus on more and better ways people can earn peanuts.

Your feedback / comments are very welcome (and needed!).. lols..

more buzz about xuqa

2006-08-29T08:39:00.000-07:00

Shouting out to all Iranian Xuqans

2006-08-29T02:36:00.000-07:00

I'm going to have an important meeting in Iran with all the Iranian Xuqans in the near future. All of your questions will be completely answered and all of your problems will be fully discussed and tried to be solved. It will be more like a training course. So if you're a Xuqan in Iran, you're kindly invited to join this friendly meeting! I will be very happy to hear all of your comments about Xuqa and everything related to it. ( I = Alex Anderson )
You will be informed of the exact date and location of the meeting soon. Everyone interested in this case, please inform me in Xuqa. I will be very delighted to hear from all of you Xuqans.

Stay Tuned!

Shouting out to all British Xuqans

2006-08-25T19:02:00.000-07:00

I'm going to be in London 31st-2nd Sept and would loveeeeeee to meet up with any XuQa ppl in the area. ( I = Murti, one of XuQa's founders)

If you're in London shoot me an email at murtaza (at) xuqa.com and i'll email you more info. Hopefully we'll have enough people to throw our own little XuQa party =)

Lots of bugs fixed today

2006-08-23T20:26:00.000-07:00

We spent about a week since launch fixing bugs, fine tuning things and finally uploaded today. 50+ bugs were fixed! Phew!

Peanut update: Everyone who had peanuts stolen, are going to be reimbursed by the end of the week. Sorry for that glitch. Its been fixed.

Location update: Now you can select your city & school/uni. We've also added the feature to change your country.

Poker Update: Poker is now (finally!) stable. Hats off to Prosper for working his magic.

Stats on XuQa 2.0

2006-08-19T05:00:00.000-07:00

Since we launched XuQa 2.0:

Daily signup rates have increased 3X!

Average time spent on XuQa has increased 1.5X

Peanut Economy size: ~100 million peanuts

Check out the alexa traffic graph:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=xuqa.com

New ways to get peanuts

2006-08-19T04:56:00.000-07:00

By the end of this week, we're hoping to get XuQa stable and secure (the recent peanut bugs have all been fixed).

Mid next week, we're introducing new ways to get peanuts.

1. Surveys. Users will be able to take surveys for leading brands and get peanuts in return.

2. Affiliate offers. Sign up for affiliate offers (no Credit Cards required) and get peanuts.

buzZ

2006-08-16T13:48:00.000-07:00

Xuqa 2.0, which was just uploaded yesterday, is starting to generate some buzz in the blogosphere. We'll update this post as we go along. Have a look:

GigaOm writes about Xuqa:

Mashable writes about Xuqa:

Updates. Fixes. Changes.

2006-08-14T09:05:00.000-07:00

Someone in the forums had an excellent suggestion about re-doing the actions part. We've revamped actions into one page, with a simple return all button. Thanks a lot for that.

In other news, Poker is now much more stable than before. It doesnt randomly hang up. Its not 100%, but we're working on it.

Emails are currently not going out. The mail que is jammed. Just gotta wait for it to clear.

Bugs we've fixed uptil now:
1. Peanuts not updating after playing poker
2. Profile edit is now fully functional
3. Forum view counter works now
4. Pictures are uploading to all servers
5. UI issues for odd screen resolutions
6. The number of people currently online on XuQa now actually works
7. (about 20 more that i can't seem to remember)

Do note, since XuQa mail servers arn't working right now, if you have an issue, we ask you send us an email directly to feedback@xuqa.com rather than through the contact us form.

Some bugs

2006-08-14T00:12:00.000-07:00

Some bugs we're currently working on.

1. Making Poker more stable. The Smartfox servers seems to randomly hang.

2. Search. The new search engine we're using randomly crashes.

Please report more here. =)

Xuqa 2.0 is LIVE

2006-08-13T16:05:00.000-07:00

Go play with her. Be gentle, while we remove bugs over the next 2-3 days.

**update** the new site has been taken down temporarily for bug fixing. it will be back up in a few hours (sunday night pacific time)

2006-08-13T16:00:00.000-07:00

3:56 pm. She goes live. =)
(now to fix all the bugs!)

Part 4. 2:30 pm. Upload time

2006-08-13T14:30:00.000-07:00

(i havent slept in 2 nights. I don't think most ppl around me have either)

"We're almost done!", famous last words. I hear these every 5 minutes, and yet some thing somewhere goes wrong. Murpheys law coming to haunt us. Knew it was too good to be true. But after almost 10 hours of effort, we're 'almost' through. The devs are finalizing some final server details. Looks like XuQa 2.0 is set to go live within the next hour.

Someone just got up and said, UPLOAD! Its actually happening. Devs are done with debugging. Now sysadmins need to turn on the switch. Tick, tick, tick...

Part 3. 10:45 am.

2006-08-13T10:46:00.000-07:00

Database changes done. Indexing almost finsihed. In the next 30 minutes, the site should be ready for testing. We're going to take another 3-4 hours testing and bug fixing and then will make it live. So far this has been one of the smoothest uploads ever! Welldone ya all. You guys rock!

Programming with broken wrists

2006-08-13T07:33:00.000-07:00

Meet Nomi. The lead development dude. He takes care of all the front end, UI, design, cross browser issues. Also does a amount of the backend stuff. Last week he broke his wrist in a car accident and guess what, he didnt stop programming. He kept punching away at the keyboard and got XuQa ready in time for upload. Now thats heart. I love this kid!

Part 2. Upload continues 7:20 am

2006-08-13T07:20:00.000-07:00

Its me Ali, Prosper head to head on poker. Upload is going very well (didnt expect it to go this well), so we're treating ourselves to some poker. Peanut poker ofcourse. Btw if you don't know already, my grand pa is Poker god =)

Database changes going well. Scripts running. Finalizing some poker client issues. Some UI issues. Seems to be going suprisingly well. hmmmmmmmm. If this luck continues, we should be live within 6 hours (instead of 24).

Inside the scenes drama. Part 1. 4:24 am

2006-08-13T04:28:00.000-07:00

We're about to take XuQa down and begin uploading the new site. Prosper is with Ali, Gorman and co in San Francisco. Its an ungoldy hour for them (4:25am), but they're up and almost ready to make the switch.

I'm here in Karachi with the other development team. Lots of drama here. Our lead system admin got stuck in the monsoon rains (lots of flooding). Lets hope the internet doesnt go down.

The site is 80% bug free. We're uploading anyways, since bugs seem inevitable. No worries. We'll upload and fix them. I'm sure the moment we begin the process, lots of dramma will unfold. I'll keep everyone updated real time on the blog every three hours on the progress. Wish us luck!

World Cyber Gamers 2006

2006-08-10T01:22:00.000-07:00

hey every body WCG is on The Way
we want to hold a WC3 TFT in iran with the name of XuQa
iranian players Join us in it games

XuQa 2.0 is launching this weekend

2006-08-09T05:41:00.000-07:00

After months and months of developing, fixing bugs and developing some more, XuQa 2.0 is ready. We're in the final stages of bug fixing / beta testing and expect to take XuQa 2.0 live over the weekend.

A big thank you to all the users who helped us beta test. =) You rock!

So what is XuQa 2.0?

Its an online reality game, where people compete for wealth, status and power. If you win (get to level 10), you get $1000!

Yup. Its pretty simple. Its all about being famous and rich (thats what XuQa 1.0 was about anyways). Get famous by getting people to visit your profile and get rich by winning at Peanut Poker.
Your level (1-10) = Profile views + # of wins at Peanut Poker
Each new level will give you access to lots of cool items and rewards. Get to level 10, and you will win $1000!

We've also added customizable profiles, 6 new actions and 6 hidden ones which you can un-lock (we got bored of just kisses and tickles!), new ways to get peanuts, your own fully customizable poker room and lots more.

Since we've rewritten the entire backend, after the first few days of launch, XuQa 2.0 will be much faster and more stable than 1.0. Thats a promise. =) (error 808 haunts us just as much)

What about features from XuQa 1.0? Blogs, profiles, pictures?

Blogs
We've renamed blogs to forums (because thats what they were anyways). They're super-charged now. Post Flash movies, images and HTML! The forums will be have their own section and will not show up on the main page (in an effort to reduce clutter)

Profiles
Yes. They're all there. In fact profiles are now completely customizable and they're compatible with myspace codes. So no need to make a another profile, just copy paste your myspace one.

Pictures
Yup. In fact we now allow UNLIMITED picture uploads =)

Some stuff to look out for:

1. A lot is changing. We've rewritten the code for the entire site, redone the user interface, added a game play element, poker, etc etc. As a result the site will be down for approximately 24 hours while we make the switch. We hope to get the job done sooner, but we're keeping some spare time for unexpected issues. Note: All that can go wrong, will go wrong (Murphey's law).

2. After the initial downtime of 24 hours, the site realistically will still be buggy (despite our best efforts). So please give us another 3-4 days to hash everything out. During this time, if you see a bug, please send us an email via the contact us page. This will allow us to find and squash bugs much faster. Your email will be read by one of the founders and we promise to read and respond to every email within 24 hours.

3. If you don't like a feature or its implementation / have a suggestion to make things better, please leave your comments either with customer support or via the suggestion box on the left. We've changed a lot of things and feedback from you guys would be very helpful in fixing things we might have overlooked.

Breaking news: AOL blocking mail from Google(?)

2006-08-08T12:32:00.000-07:00

For a couple of weeks, I noticed that mails sent from my Gmail account were being rejected by AOL servers. Any email sent to anyone with a "@aol.com" email address were being returned with an SMTP failure, with the following error message:

Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 12): 554-: (HVU:B1) http://postmaster.info.aol.com/errors/554hvub1.html
554 TRANSACTION FAILED

This message was identical in all returned mails. Now I'm not a spammer, this is my personal Gmail account. So I was annoyed. I checked the content in all those emails (links to possibly spam sites?) etc, but all my emails were perfectly legit. I then went on to an old Yahoo email address I have which I use to sign-up for all websites, and tried sending the exact same email, to the same person.

Voila! It went through. I was exasperated. I called up all my friends / colleagues who have an aol address, and they explained that they were having trouble receiving stuff from Gmail too.

Is AOL blocking Gmail? Has anyone else had similar experiences?

Live Xuqa Radio FM

2006-08-03T15:15:00.000-07:00

Something suprising and awesome happened today. Some Turkish Xuqans have setup a LIVE Xuqa radio station on Winamp, complete with a DJ et all. To tune in, open this URL in your WinAmp:

http://64.247.58.62:1142/listen.pls

Or click the link above if you already have Winamp installed! DJ Arda rocks - don't miss this.

from gizem

2006-07-25T22:37:00.000-07:00

from one of our mods in turkey =)
thanks for the love, you rock too. if you think XuQa rocks,
wait till you see what's coming on August 15th

2006-07-22T01:04:00.000-07:00

The first Xuqa Models contest just started last week, and its in full swing now. Go vote for your favorite hotty =) The winner gets a photoshoot with SOMA Models, professional modelling agency, and a chance to be a real model.

One of the models in the competition, Crystal, has featured for Playboy. Dane has a music career and 17,000 fans on myspace. Listen to them talking with Ali here in the 4th Xuqa podcast.

Vote for a Xuqa Model

Download podcast

(right-click and save the file, mp3 format)

Some one really bored drew up this stuff...

2006-07-12T01:27:00.000-07:00

XuQa 2.0 : Set to launch Aug 15th

2006-07-02T06:36:00.000-07:00

After 6 months in development, XuQa 2.0 is finally set to release in just over a month (launch date: Aug 15th). Some of the major changes are:
1. XuQa is turning into a massive social game
2. Completely customizable profiles
3. Gift shop = no more. Replaced by an item shop. Items need to be bought and give the owner special powers inside XuQa
4. Cleaner and more intuative UI
5. Levels that are linked to your popularity level on XuQa. Higher levels gives you access to cooler items / rewards both inside and outside of XuQa. Watch out for some awesome real world prizes for getting to level 9 /10.

I've attached screen shots below. Don't forget to leave comments =)

new xuqa toolbar

2006-06-30T23:00:00.000-07:00

hello earth, we're testing a new xuqa toolbar and would love your feedback. this is what it looks like:

It has links to your most frequently visited xuqa pages (profile, scrapbook, friends) as well as direct search options to find your xuqa friends and search the web. And it plays music for free too! This has been co-developed by our friends at Bizbar, and its 100% spyware and virus and other bullshit free. You can try it out here.

Try the new xuqa toolbar.

I would really love to hear what you're thinking! Talk back, and hey, happy 4th of July! Live it up this weekend :)

Interesting article

2006-06-26T14:05:00.000-07:00

Fred Stutzman has posted an excellent article about social networking, which discusses Xuqa and other promising social networks. Personally, I'm impressed by Fred's insights into monetization and game mechanics, which I think are key to the future of social networks. Its rare for an outsider to focus on these things, kudos to Fred! :)

Updates...

2006-06-23T07:04:00.000-07:00

Since my last post, we've been going full steam on XuQa 2.0 development. Few updates to watch out for:
1. Some time in the next 2 weeks, we will release an alpha version of Peanut Poker (suggestions for a better name are welcome) on this blog.
2. Product specifications for XuQa 2.0 are almost finalized. Development will begin sometime late next week. Once we have some screen shots, i'll post them here.

Ranking for people based on profile views

2006-06-16T03:13:00.000-07:00

The concept: Everyone has profiles on multiple sites. Some people are more popular than others. Want to see how you rank up against your friends in terms of popularity on different sites (profile views). This app will aggregate your profile views from multiple sites (xuqa, myspace, xanga, blogger) and will combine them into one uniform number. Simply punch in your friends email to see who wins the popularity contest. Oh and every profile view will also get you a peanut! Your thoughts and comments are veyr welcome (we're still in the brainstorming stage).

note: Graphs are from alexa (very useful site for website owners)

2006-06-15T12:18:00.000-07:00

Top Nav

2006-06-15T11:19:00.000-07:00

I was playing around with different ideas for a simplified top navigation bar and ripped one of Orkut... lols.. how does a simple text top nav sound?

Below is a mockup Amyn made today (his final one for the day me thinks). Thinking if simplifying the main login page (inspiration: google, duh!)

Apologies and moving forward

2006-06-13T04:18:00.000-07:00

To all XuQa users:
On behalf of the XuQa team, we apologize for not keeping everyone updated on XuQa product developments. We really should have spent more time discussing product plans and taking feedback from you all. Moving forward we promise to update this blog atleast once a week, with product plans, screen shots and to contantly respond to your input.

Some updates on the XuQa team:
We've relocated fully to San Francisco (have our own offices now!), spent long hours figuring out how to make XuQa better, revamped peanut poker and more. Following are some preliminary screen shots from the new poker interface.

the end of podcasting. say hello to my cell phone.

2006-06-09T19:37:00.000-07:00

Here are the 3 of us, waiting and bored in an office lobby. The security guy didn't like us much :p

No more Xuqa podcasts - audio only is too much of a bore, and don't know about you guys but frankly I can't listen to the same thing for 20 minutes. Yes, I can't listen to myself anymore :p

This is my new cell phone, and it has a great 1.3MP camera. I figure other people have decent cameras on cell phones too. So I'll be using my phone (and I hope you'll use yours!) to start a series of Xuqa Videos. Hit me up on Xuqa if you want in :p

2006-06-09T19:31:00.000-07:00

"I believe that end user facing Internet companies can (n)ever predict if they will get traction with any resonable accuracy.

They just need to launch, listen, learn, and change." - Munjal

Spot on. Well done on the continuing Riya story series!

great story from a great start-up

2006-05-31T07:00:00.000-07:00

Riya is a photo facial recognition company, and one of the best start-ups around. Here is a very interesting story from Munjal about their start-up experiences, and a must read for would-be entrepreneurs.

This makes me want to write about the first 60 days of Xuqa :) Maybe I should.

LOL

2006-05-20T00:43:00.000-07:00

Podcast3 - misty the PORNstar

2006-05-11T00:11:00.000-07:00

the long-awaited podcast with *misty magenta* is finally here. Right-click and save the file as an mp3 before playing for best results.

Download Here.

xuqaleb lovin'

2006-05-10T11:34:00.000-07:00

soooo much XUQALEB LOVIN' haha, from Fraidy Kat's collection.

Podcast2 - Celisse, Erica and Peanut Poker

2006-04-29T00:06:00.000-07:00

Right-click on the title and save the file for better, uninterrupted playback. If you like it, or want to be on the podcast next week, holler at your xuqa podcast host here :)

Meeting up

2006-04-20T15:42:00.000-07:00

XuQa founders are running around the country to meet XuQa users. We really want to meet you all and put faces on the names we hear ever so often (our awesome xuqalebs!). If you're interested in meeting us too, drop an email to feedback@xuqa.com with your address and cell phone number and we will definately try to drop by =)

peanut poker a week away from release

2006-04-08T02:58:00.000-07:00

We think Poker is taking the college world by storm. Or already has. So we went ahead and built peanut poker that you play with your peanuts, xuqa-style.

Click on the link above to try it out. You have to be logged into Xuqa. The poker is still in beta testing, but it works reasonably well.

Oh and did I add, lots of lovely ladies are doing poker too :) so what's stopping you?

XuQa Podcast - Paul Ryu numa numa dance

2006-03-26T11:07:00.000-08:00

If streaming the podcast doesn't work for some reason, I recommend downloading and saving the podcast as an mp3 file. To do this, right-click on the title above, and select:

IE: Save Target As
Firefox: Save Link As

Choose a destination. Download should work fine.

RSS + podcasting

2006-03-20T17:04:00.000-08:00

Update: the xuqa podcast this weekend is now scheduled at 1PM EST, Saturday March 25th. It will be about Paul Ryu's dance video. All xuqa users are welcome to call in, though priority will be given to xuqalebrities, as noted on the unofficial list by Notorious. You need to install Skype, and add me. Show will be available on iTunes, and this blog for downloading on Sunday.

notice all the funny looking buttons and icons all over this blog? I was up all of last night and figured it was about time we allowed readers to subscribe to this blog via feed readers, and voila ~ here you go. now you can read this blog without really coming here at all =)

...and in case you're wondering what the funny ipod is doing here, I'll be hosting our first-ever xuqa podcast this weekend! The show will be for approximately 15 minutes, and I plan on interviewing a couple of long-time xuqa users on air. The show will be available on this blog for downloading, as well as in your iTunes player & other web-based podcasting services. If it's fun, I'll do it every week.

If you're interesting in being on air this weekend, comment here or find me on xuqa.

finally

2006-03-14T04:58:00.000-08:00

i just realized that i last posted screenshots of the new interfaces on 2.23.2006. and we're finally uploading today, 3 weeks later. this has been the wackiest, weirdest, and toughest upload since we started xuqa, and hopefully it will happen today.

Xuqa will be down for 6-8 hours today while these changes are being done. i'm sorry for the interruption in service, and we hope to be back to our usual helpful state as soon as mySQL allows. In the meantime, enjoy PACMAN :)

Just got heavier...

2006-02-26T13:39:00.000-08:00

Ladies and gentlemen, our bank account just got a liitttle heavier.
Thanks to all those who donated the little they could to our fund raiser, XuQa will continue to show the world how to reaaally have fun online. With this dough, here's the game plan:

Go party REEALLLY hard for like one weekend.
Wake up with a hang over sooo heavy that we can't see the Error 808 on XuQa.
Put our faces in the toilet and throw everything we've got in there.
Go to work totally shit-faced and try to figure out why the hell there's an Error 808 on XuQa
after 8 full hours of not being able to get XuQa back up, go back and do it all over again.

HAHA. Let's have a champaign guys, XuQa gets a chance to throw one last punch at the facebook! Yay!

new interfaces in the works

2006-02-23T15:00:00.000-08:00

Here are some screenshots of a new blog page, and a new home page. Feel free to bitch slap my layouts to heathen hell :p oh and if you look closely, you'll see a cool new feature :)

Next up: XuQa 1.5

2006-02-18T11:40:00.000-08:00

Back to the old style
The last few months, we tried to bring structure and processes in XuQa development cycles. XuQa got a lot more stable, but we lost our start-up steam. Few days ago, we decided to return to our old style of development. We packed our bags and moved into the office. We're experimenting with a new work time-table. We work 4 days (pretty much 24/7) and take the next 3 days off. It remains to be seen whether this is sustainable.

Today we uploaded XuQa 1.3: Basic tagging, Ajax, photonotes (will enable them in a bit), new browse pages, bug fixes, blog polling and a few other things. We had been trying to upload these changes since the last 3 weeks, but bugs kept poping up. I guess it took a continous 72 hour stretch to get the job done.

XuQa 1.5: [Next Saturday]: Advanced tagging, (maybe) tagged groups, solving the Unlisted issue, XuQa friend finder, a new front page (global as well as index), updated photo browse and detail pages, importing photostreams from external sources (like Flickr, Yahoo Photos), more Ajax stuff, and regular bug fixes.

2006-02-14T13:52:00.000-08:00

Celisse : crowns and jewels for coining the term 'XuQalebrity'

In other news: watch out ppl, lots of awesome stuff, including tagging, groups (tagged groups), peanut poker, cell phone msging on the way

Xuqalebrities

2006-02-06T00:56:00.000-08:00

The first xuqalebrity Hall of Fame has now been created by Notorius and others here.

If you're not in here, you're not really a xuqalebrity sonny. Applications being accepted now. You need to be approved by a 2/3 majority vote of existing xuqalebrities, as set out in this blog here.

welcome back Thadd :)

You will be missed

2006-02-03T09:18:00.000-08:00

Simona. Thadd. Paul Ryu. Ogden. Maxiim. Amber. Ashley. Matt.

This is a sad day for all of us. And it's all over the blogs. You guys were part of the site from the beginning. You were more than xuqalebrities. You were the first xuqa family. Just like if you were here building it with us.

You guys have your lives back :p but we hope that you will come back from time to time to spread the love to us and your thousands of doting crushes / kissers / ticklers and fans. Xuqa will always miss you, and will always be waiting.

The General Theory of Energy

2006-01-31T14:40:00.000-08:00

Ali and I, 4 years ago come up with a theory on how the universe works (lols no kidding). In our own little world, we believed it true. Ali presented it at an Intl. conference at Bi Kanor (the Russian space facility). He won the grand prize. Then we went to college and forgot all about it.

Today, we interviewed this dude who had worked at top research labs around the world (BAE, Defence Dept. etc etc). Very interesting guy. Spoke for like 3 hours with him after which i basically wanted to get back to theoretical physics. Eventually one day, I will....

Until then, heres a thought:

Close to the speed of light, time dialates, length shortens, mass increases. Most physics students know how to derive formulae from special relativity, but my questions is HOW? If mass = cummulative number of atoms : what makes it increase? Does the kinetic energy due to motion add 'mass'? Similarly, if length is defined as (x) number of atoms in a row (roughly speaking), then why does that decrease? And time : how? (sure i know the formulas, but i never understood why?). Sci-fi writers have loads of fun with this, but really if I am travelling at 0.99 c, will i actually age slower? Is biological time different from scientific time? (by now you're probably really bored, so i'll shut up) =)

XuQa ppl we need your input

2006-01-19T01:59:00.000-08:00

XuQa folks: these guys want to partner with us with the following product. Would you all want some thing like this? Thoughts / comments / feedback?

Ever leave home with an away message up on AIM and wish you could check your messages from wherever you happen to be? Of course you have! For years, people have wished for a way to see the IMs they've been received since leaving home without actually being home. Now, a company called IMCourier, founded by a pair of college students, has something that'll let you do just that. It's totally free to use, and you don't get bombarded with ridiculous pop-up ads or spyware programs. To get started, you sign up for a login account at IMCourier.com. Then, you download a small program that runs in the background on your home PC. The software links with your login account at IMCourier.com. That's it. Now, whether you're at a friend's PC, a library computer, a T-Mobile Sidekick, or pretty much anything with a web browser, you can log in and see all the IMs you've got since leaving home. You can even respond to the IMs right from your personal panel. IMCourier works with AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ.We want to bring IMCourier to your XuQa profiles. Chances are, you check your XuQa profile from all kinds of places other than your own PC at home or the dorm. Adding an IMCourier login panel to your XuQa page will let you check your IMs in the same fluid motion without having to visit different websites. What do you think?

Xuqalebrities

2006-01-16T06:45:00.000-08:00

So there's an interesting term xuqa users have invented: Xuqalebrities, defined losely as...

a combination of a Xuqan and a Celebrity; a Xuqalebrity is someone who is admired, loved or hated (in effect worshipped) on xuqa. A Xuqalebrity enjoys being in the center of the spotlight, and is often an opinionated individual. Xuqalebrities always have dedicated followers regardless of the hour of day or time of year. Some popular early Xuqalebrities that are part of Xuqa lore are Misty (stabbin') pheonix , Rondelle Trinidad, Noah Kronemeyer, Celisse, Matt, Scott Ahearn and Paul Ryu.

I love the word so much I think we're actually going to make a section on the site about it, with Xuqalebrities featured for the masses to see.

2005-12-21T09:27:00.000-08:00

Some Xuqa holiday luvin' from Kory Masters. Check out
her Xuqa holiday collection here.

2005-12-19T23:28:00.000-08:00

they're making a documentry on XuQa and US!!! yay!!!!
(sorrie cant give more details right now...)

2005-12-13T23:57:00.000-08:00

SOCIAL EXPERIMENTS

by . . at University of Kentucky @ 11:46 AM on December 08

lol well honestly i think once you fix the peanut issue...the mafias will collapse.... it's quite odd really :) to see people doing really real things that people wuld do like in a shortage of money or something...
that's why there were mafias in real life... so here we are creating mafia families to get the peanuts flowing from one another :) pretty awesome if u think about it

2005-12-09T00:22:00.000-08:00

Firefox definitely gaining mkt share, is up from 10% from our server logs a few months ago:

	Browsers	Percent
	MS Internet Explorer	68.5 %
	Firefox	25.7 %
	Safari	3.2 %
	Netscape	1 %
	Mozilla	0.8 %
	Opera	0.2 %

2005-11-28T18:10:00.000-08:00

From the Blogs today:
(haha)

Oh my god I'm having sex right now!

posted on 9:09 PM

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by Steph "yessss" Thoresen at Bentley College @ 8:35 PM on November 28

why r u on XUQA if ure having sex? damn thats when u know its a serious addiction

2005-11-27T16:24:00.000-08:00

Newness. Some fresh changes to the interface, one of which doesn't seem to be any good. That's the new Blog UI ofcourse. We put in 10 lines of random posts under each category when we really only should have put 2. Quite unreadable right now. And needs quite the fixing hrmmm.

Of the new features XIR is my personal favorite - Xuqa Inteliigence Reporting hahahaaa. Sounds grandiose, men-in-blackish. Play with the new stuff and let us know what you think.

2005-11-22T08:21:00.000-08:00

I was reading through an issue of Business 2.0 and it hit me how far we've come along. I actually recognized so many VCs, people and companies they talked about. For a lot of ppl that were mentioned we've actually met them face to face. Shit!

In other news, lots of product improvements lined up this week. You probably noticed a few already. Blow up doll, hand cuffs, a cute little puppy, are lined up for the gift shop this week.

Oh and we've opened up XuQa for Canada and UK. =)

2005-11-18T23:11:00.000-08:00

this dude ran after us today with a super soaker. Playing StreetWars organized by the shadow government. I'm beginning to really like this guy : )

2005-11-14T22:39:00.000-08:00

http://cfserv.dickinson.edu/dickinsonian/detail.cfm?1380

2005-11-13T08:26:00.000-08:00

Sorrie all those that have been having issues with the site :

STUPID HOSTING COMPANY : Sagonet.com

Their network has been having issues since 5 hours now. ARGH!!!#$#$#Q!@@12!!. They called it routine 'maintaince'.

Never ever host with sago networks. They are unreliable beyond belief !!!

2005-11-04T13:22:00.000-08:00

darnn what a messed up B day :(

12 AM - site down : i rush to the office. Glad asad was still there: Asad and Prosper fixed:

6 AM - moms pushing me. Its Prosper. Its an emergency. Prospers like murti site down. NONE of the system admins are asnwering their cells. (everyone was off for Eid holidays)..

after that: Asad wakes me: murti got your email. Need any help. I ask him to get in touch with Prosper, which didnt really work out (some how his number wont dail)

Afternoon: Prospers like murti i've fixed it but it could blow up again. Until a system admin finds the cause. Me moniters all day. I had to go out in the evening and left my mom to moniter the site (she did a pretty good job at it =)

hmmmm. Pretty much summarizes how the year has been. But without all this it wouldnt make good story...

Can't wait for the fireworks for next week..... Rock n Roll boys -

2005-11-04T10:32:00.000-08:00

a Skype IM convo between Prosper and me recently:

[10:24:29 AM] Prosper says: k.lol
[10:24:43 AM] Prosper says: im finally takin a shit man. u should be throwin a party for me
[10:28:36 AM] Ali Asghar Moiz says: hahaaaa
[10:28:39 AM] Ali Asghar Moiz says: finally
[10:30:34 AM] Prosper says: lol. there's at least 10lb of shit in here. yuck
[10:31:53 AM] Ali Asghar Moiz says: fuck
[10:31:55 AM] Ali Asghar Moiz says: uhoh hahha
[10:32:00 AM] Ali Asghar Moiz says: this is the funniest
[10:32:18 AM] Ali Asghar Moiz says: im talking to you in the bathroom on skype
[10:32:22 AM] Ali Asghar Moiz says: lord
[10:32:28 AM] Ali Asghar Moiz says: what is wifi gonna do to the world

2005-10-29T03:47:00.000-07:00

Need Gift Item developers

We're looking to hire on per item basis ppl who can make some really funny and kool gift items. If you're good in photoshop OR Flash, it should do the trick. Interactive flash items are the greatest in demand. If you're interested, drop me an email (murtaza.m.hussain(at)gmail.com)

2005-10-18T09:36:00.000-07:00

2005-10-18T08:57:00.000-07:00

This kid carried relief aid for his family up a mountain of 15,000 feet!
Ali, myself and the villagers (their hospitality was remarkable)
Standing on the ruins of their mud-brick house
Make shift graves

2005-10-18T08:42:00.000-07:00

that isnt taken from a chopper (we were that high)

2005-10-18T08:28:00.000-07:00

Fallen school (kids got buried under there) Our very own dedicated Taxi :p

2005-10-12T09:22:00.000-07:00

Over 100,000 feared dead

The army along with the government are understating figures. This estimate came in from the Edhi Foundation (Pakistan's biggest chiarity). There have been smaller Earthquakes, including one in Karachi today (4. some thing).

We're leaving on Sunday for Islamabad. Taking a bunch of antibiotics from here. Other than that, will buy stuff from there. Conditions are really bad...especially in small villages. Aid workers have reached large cities but the smaller towns have been ignored and will probably continue to be ignored. We're trying to take a few trucks worth of stuff to a few such villages.

Once we're up there, ill try and post pictures here. We've raised $6500 so far (thats a butt load when converted to ruppees). Atleast 2 truck worth of supplies. Thanks to everyone who donated!

2005-10-10T02:00:00.000-07:00

2005-10-09T10:53:00.000-07:00

* thanks for the donations so far. If you wish to donate more than paypals limit, please email me for the bank wire info

* from now on, i'm taking over this blog as an eye-witness reporting blog.

Sunday, Oct 9th 2005

Ali and I went to various donation centers. Army bases were turned into make shift donation centers. People in the thousands (and i mean thouands) were giving away masses of stuff - from milk, water, biscuits, to blankets, cell phones and cereal. I have never seen people give so generously before. At the base i was at, in 5 hours people have away enough stuff to fill four C130 aircrafts! (if u dont know C 130 are HUGE ARMY aircraft for transporting entire armies).

Also spoke to Faisal Edhi on the phone today (son of Abdul Satar Edhi - the man who runs Pakistans biggest chiarity and operates the worlds largest network of ambulances). He was like get whatever you can and come over. We need all the help. I've booked tickets for Islamabad. Waiting for money to come in from the awesome folks at BV, Mark and a few other advisors. Hopefully it will add up to couple of trucks worth of medicine, tents and blankets.

Once again heres the link to donate

2005-10-09T02:44:00.000-07:00

Some of the XuQa team are here in Karachi, Pakistan. Up north a terrible earthquake (7.6) hit about 24 hours ago. So far 18,000 people are reported dead and this number is expected to double or tripple. Ali and myself are planning to go up North to donate supplies. We've raised a decent amount of money so far (from advisors, investors etc) but the more we get, the more we can do. Dollars when converted to Rupees go a long way.

There are hundreds of thousands of people whose homes (and everything they own) has been destroyed. Sparing like $10-20 for most of us is not an issue. Please do help out.

Click here to donate via paypal

We will keep you posted on how things develop.

2005-10-09T02:34:00.000-07:00

Source: BBC.co.uk

2005-10-08T09:59:00.000-07:00

Williams =) Go ephs!

2005-10-04T00:00:00.000-07:00

5 (freaking) GBs of Photo Upload

XuQa is (unless theres a random site somewhere) the first site in the world to offer 5 GB of photo upload. No more keeping pictures on your PC and being selfish abt them.

Don't believe that this is true? Login to www.XuQa.com and upload all those crazy drunk ass pics.

2005-09-28T07:53:00.000-07:00

extract from anonymous blogs (no changes have been made to the original post)

POST
Am I the only one who thinks that this whole thing is pointless? Facebook is much more interesting, and doesn't have all the unecessary adornments that Xuqa does.
add a comment ↓ 9 comments

by Gary Hagins @ 10:45 AM on September 28
Pointless? No. It's entertainment... most of these forum-type posts don't muster more intelligence than a B-Net kiddie and it's pretty hilarious (and simultaneously oh so depressing) to read such things.

by Thulasi Shamasundar @ 10:43 AM on September 28
I agree with that last comment. The blogs are extremely addictive and if I'm near a computer this is the site I'm usually on writing something in one of these things. ON facebook there's isn't much to do unless someone writes on your wall. I spend a couple minutes on facebook incase someone has added me as a friend and then I come to this site.

by Alane Nunez @ 10:43 AM on September 28
I think xuqa is way better for talking to people from all over. When it comes to people from your school they really limit it to the opposite sex, but that was obviously their intention and anyone who doesnt want to hook up on here wont. Facebook is more personal, and is used more to connect you to the people you ALREADY know, and make fun groups!thats my take

by Kirill Smirnov @ 10:43 AM on September 28
Well, when they first built a car, everyone was like "wtf, we have horses, why would we use this complicated peace of junk?"

by Sara Boeding @ 10:42 AM on September 28
I was disagreeing with the post, not your comment, obviously, you posted just before I did

by Rondelle Trinidad @ 10:42 AM on September 28
theres only so much you can update your profile and join groups on facebook. Xuqa has novelties which some people like and others dont like the crushes and gifts. Also it has this blog feature which facebook has still yet to put on its site. So yeah, you theorectically can have people from the 900 plus colleges all over the United States talking to each other in this blog form which we are doing now.

by Greg Godwin @ 10:42 AM on September 28
this has been entertaining for me since yesterday

by Sara Boeding @ 10:41 AM on September 28
I disagree...I think the blogs are an obvious advantage of this site, although I must admit, it's difficult for me to be productive b/c I'm so addicted to this thing.

by Greg Godwin @ 10:40 AM on September 28
this post is pointless

2005-09-26T17:54:00.000-07:00

Cookie bug...
for some people using IE, the site doesnt let you login/register and asks to enable cookies. A quick fix is using Firefox / mozilla. Give us a couple of hours and it should be fixed. Sorrie for the trouble.

2005-09-26T13:56:00.000-07:00

Jesup : Media lab. Our old home.

2005-09-26T08:24:00.000-07:00

Kool Advance Search

Hey people!! go check out the kool advance search feature.

And plz stop uploading pics from profile pic uploader; do it the right wayyy pa pa plz!!!
Go to PHOTOS page n do it

Cheerio

2005-09-25T16:39:00.000-07:00

Heres proof abt Ali :p

2005-09-25T16:24:00.000-07:00

hookah sessions in frosh quad (katya dont kill me for posting that pic :p

people make it perfect

More Level 10s

ssssssssshhhh!

SHAMIM at Level 10

BuSe and CAN at Level 10

LYNDSEY at Level 10

Party Poker's XuQa Tournament

New Head of Product

more coverage on Xuqa

XuQa's first level 10

Funniest line EVER!

XuQa shoutouts and Pimps

Xuqa On-Demand launching later this week

Techcrunch

Chat

College Poker Tournaments

What next?

more buzz about xuqa

Shouting out to all Iranian Xuqans

Shouting out to all British Xuqans

Lots of bugs fixed today

Stats on XuQa 2.0

New ways to get peanuts

buzZ

Updates. Fixes. Changes.

Some bugs

Xuqa 2.0 is LIVE

Part 4. 2:30 pm. Upload time

Part 3. 10:45 am.

Programming with broken wrists

Part 2. Upload continues 7:20 am

Inside the scenes drama. Part 1. 4:24 am

World Cyber Gamers 2006

XuQa 2.0 is launching this weekend

Breaking news: AOL blocking mail from Google(?)

Live Xuqa Radio FM

from gizem

Some one really bored drew up this stuff...

XuQa 2.0 : Set to launch Aug 15th

new xuqa toolbar

Interesting article

Updates...

Ranking for people based on profile views

Top Nav

Apologies and moving forward

the end of podcasting. say hello to my cell phone.

great story from a great start-up

LOL

Podcast3 - *misty* the PORNstar

xuqaleb lovin'

Podcast2 - Celisse, Erica and Peanut Poker

Meeting up

peanut poker a week away from release

XuQa Podcast - Paul Ryu numa numa dance

RSS + podcasting

finally

Just got heavier...

new interfaces in the works

Next up: XuQa 1.5

Xuqalebrities

You will be missed

The General Theory of Energy

XuQa ppl we need your input

Xuqalebrities

Oh my god I'm having sex right now!

posted on 9:09 PM

Kool Advance Search

Podcast3 - misty the PORNstar