The worst of my fears have been realized. My personal website project,  dabarkads!,  has been sidetracked by our new web ads project in the office. I barely can’t touch my PC at home after office because of tiredness. As planned, we (might) launch the project on October and hopefully the next weeks would be smooth sailing so that I can spare some time for my project to at least release it in Alpha testing stage and send invites for alpha testers.

To give you an insite on the (tentative) features of dabarkads!, here are some:

• By invites only – Membership for the site are by invites only. I am just doing this to control the members of the site, to make sure that members are comprised of a certain “group” of people.
• Affinities – Invited members get to select their affinity or interest group within the site.  Different affinities mean unique profiles for each members in terms of content.
• More profile control – A unique feature for dabarkads! Members can change the positioning of items inside their profile, providing more control and uniqueness for member profiles.
• Web 2.0 – The site will use Web 2.0 technologies for more attractive design and ease of use.
• Discussions – Most social networks sport a forum to initiate discussions among members. I believe that not all sites need a forum for discussions.  That is why I made discussions in dabarkads! simpler and better.
• A place for literaries – Another unique feature.  Members get to contribute their literary works to the site and get reacted upon through comments in the process.

I fervently hope that I can implement all these in the site and that I will have more time for it. Wish me luck.