Austin Lifestyles Features - features planned for the upcoming release of AustinLifestyles. We are seeking developers, beta testers, interns, advisors, and suggestions. email austinlifestyles@austinlifestyles.com or connect to use on twitter or any of our social networks. decisions, issues and questions custom from scratch, community server, dolphin, ning, joomla, drupal or insochi? why? which existing sites does this most emulate in look and function? How close to this level can we come? who is the best developer(s) for this project? budget, what will it cost? what features will be easy? what features will be difficult to implement? why? what is the best staging plan? what features are left out below? general features user timeline or "lifestream" like facebook, friendfeed, profilactic, swurl, or tumblr user blogs - choice of simple format or wordpress user video pages with ability to push out to multiple sites and ability to embed videos from other sites user articles permalinks: articles, blogs, news, shared photos, shared music, shared video, groups, events, classifieds integration of phpBB, vBulletin registration security images email member profile basic and advanced searching (zip code searching) matchmaking for users with similar interests "groups" for special interests integration with "facebook connect" look and feel of livingsocial openid sign in like springnote major sections people dining and restaurants housing movies and film health, fitness and sports photos music books food and drinks gaming user features profiles online/offline user status notification personal media gallery (video, audio and pictures) personal blog friends list guestbook gmail like mailbox conversations archive events classifieds lifestream (like friendfeed, swurl, kwippy, profilactic) friends timelines (like my swurl timeline above) everyone's timelines share and import your feeds - blog, del.icio.us, stumbleupon, digg, google reader, last.fm, youtube, flickr, picassa, gtalk, twitter, amazon wishlists, linkedin, netfix queue, yelp, upcoming, clutzr, facebook, rss feeds, live journal, typepad, plazes social broadcaster (like ping.fm) simultaneous update aim, gtalk, igoogle, wap, iphone/ipod touch, sms or email to a multitude of social networking sites - bebo, blogger, brightkite, custom url, facebook, friendfeed, hi5, identi.ca, jaiku, kwippy, linkedin, livejournal, mashable, myspace, plaxo pulse, plurk, pownce, tumblr, twitter, wordpress.com, xanga group by blogging, micro-blogging, and status updates video broadcasting (like tubemogul) simultaneous update youtube, yahoo, myspace, metacafe, revver, aol video, dailymotion, blip.tv, veoh, stupid videos, sclipo, howcast, 5min, vimeor, crackle, etc. upload video, launch and promote videos, track videos business directory sections - business, music, books, movies, food, drinks, restaurants, gaming, homes use some elements of livingsocial.com and yelp integration with facebook, myspace, and bebo and the lifestreams on this site electronic coupons with social broadcast user reviews moderation - users with ability to ban and give time outs administration panel site pages builder fields builder database builder navigation menu builder Social gadgets Google Friend Connect provides a core set of social gadgets such as member management, message board, reviews, and picture-sharing. The key gadget is the members gadget. This gadget provides core social features for your visitors: sign-in with their existing Google, Yahoo, AIM, or OpenID account invite and show activity to existing friends from social networks such as Google Talk, orkut, Plaxo, and more browse member profiles across social networks connect with new friends on your site Austin Lifestyles is changing! This website is in transition and we've formed a "Board of Advisors" (so far 3 members @moomoney , Eric Rice @spin on twitter) and Stan Ginsel who worked on the production of "Friday Night Lights" and we'll be rolling out a new iteration within the next 60 days. We already have an alpha site that's well underway, you can visit it now. Austinlifestyles.com will provide not just a cool domain name, but a fluid, highly navigable social media and social networking community. It will be a compelling site that will be not just be "sticky" but it will be so seductive the users will not want to leave it. It will be a totally immersive experience, and be the obvious hub for interacting socially with other like minded Austinites. In addition to viewing show segments and locating participants in the show, you�ll be able to gain additional information on local entertainment, community events and issues, shopping, dining and real Estate. It will incorporate a directory of Austin resources, with user reviews and the ability of the users to add their own links. On the users profile page, there will be embedded tweetstreams from twitter and content pulled from their various social networks and social bookmarking services (eg. del.icio.us). Highlights: Directory: The existing directory on http://austinlifestyles.com will be transformed in to a user driven directory where the users can add entries, post videos files and comments/reviews.etc and we'll keep all the categories that we now have. It wil be database driven. Entertainment/Music: In addition to locating venues profiled in the show, users can play what they want, when they want from their favorite Austin artists. They will be able to create playlists. Dining: Users will be able to choose and store their favorite restaurants and also create a preference profile that we'll use to make suggestions to them. They will also be able to find friends in their network with similar dining preferences. Shopping: We�ll have the option to add a full-on shopping cart and sell products on the site. Retailers will be profiled on their own pages and they can be added to a users preferences. A user will be able to build up a set of shopping preferences. For example, a someone can store Frys, Best Buy, the Apple Store, etc. etc. on his shopping page and read customer reviews and find friends with similar shopping interests. Real Estate: New homes will be searched via a powerful home search tool we have already developed, you won't need to develop this but it will need to be integrated. We will also offer used home search tools as well. Community: Community issues discussed on the show will be highlighted and explored via the social networking tools included as part of the site. Community networking additions include: People: They will add friends so easily they won't want to stop, they will even be able to graphically say what kinds of friends they're seeking and get suggestions for friends. The vendors we set up can also be as easily added and it will be so cleverly integrated in to the friend selection process they won't be aware of commercialism. But the product sellers will be perceived more as friends. User profile pages will be rich with links their tweetstream on twitter, friendfeed, jaiku, linkedin, del.icio.us, etc. and will list their other social networks like the column of social networks you see on the left of this page. Open Mic: Users will be able to create content on the fly using their webcams or upload content. They'll be able to push this content automatically to a dozens of video sharing sites like YouTube and will do link insertion that will direct traffic back to our site. There will be links to their video content on their profile page. Social Network: Users will not only be able to build a social network on AustinLifestyles.com they will be able to connect their networks on twitter, FaceBook, MySpace and others to their AustinLifestyles network. They'll also be able to add all their contacts on Gmail, yahoo, Plaxo, hotmail, live mail, etc. automatically by sending them an invitation. Video: users will be able to easily upload videos or create them on the fly with their webcams or video enabled cell phones. Community Calendar - using eventful, google calendar and upcoming.org Community Blogs - using Wordpress and mu? Our goal is to create the obvious Austin, Texas social hub with networking, media sharing and discovery of great dining, housing, music and more. Web Development and Social Networking Strategy for AustinLifestyles.com AustinLifestyles.com was conceived as a showcase for Austin people and homes, to feature video Home tours of the famous, not so famous and others who reflect the unique Austin lifestyle, with much the same format as the MTV show "Cribs" but with emphasis not just on homes and cars, but the workplaces, workflow, and gadgets and high tech gear of the people inhabiting the showplace homes. This would have the impact and effectiveness of an "infomercial" for the homebuilders without the appearance, look and feel of an infomercial. It would take on more of the character of shows like moglogic.tv and geekbrief.tv and be centered around unique Austin lifestyles. Before you can have rich social networking, you to do some basic groundwork. The foundation of a successful SEO / Social Networking program consists of the following building blocks: Keyword-rich text. The majority of a site's pages should contain the words and phrases the target audience types into search queries. Pages should appear somewhat focused on these important keyword phrases, and the phrases should be featured prominently on the page. Otherwise, the page won't convert well or receive consistent search engine traffic over time. Keyword research and copywriting for individual HTML tags are a part of this building block.. Information / site architecture and page layout. Search engines and end users must be given easy access to keyword-rich content. How text, graphic images, and multimedia files are arranged on a page tells search engines and site visitors which content the site owner believes is most important. URL structure and technical architecture figure into that as well. Link development. Commonly referred to as link popularity this is the number and quality of objective, third-party links pointing to a URL or Web site. Of course, not all links pointing to a site are objective, third-party links, but those types of links aren't always the most credible. SEO Strategies for austinlifestyles.com 1) Optimize use of video utilizing web 2.0 strategies via video sharing / upload sites / possibly live video/audio feeds. We have developed an automated push technology that will upload our videos to youtube, yahoo video, myspace video, metacafe, google video, revver, AOL Video, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo, Howcast, etc. Here are some of the video sites already set up and branded "austinlifestyles" YouTube, Yahoo, MySpace, Metacafe, Google, Revver, AOL Video, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Veoh, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Howcast 2) Optimize titles, headings and page linkings to raise site visibility to the search engines. 3) Create accounts on additional social networking sites such as MySpace, facebook, twitter, del.icio.us, flickr, furl, jaiku, ma.gnolia, netvibes, yelp, etc. and many others refer back to main website for linkage. We already have the austinlifestyles name set up as a user account on over 300 social networking, social bookmarking, live streaming, and video aggregator sites. Here are just a handful and there is a more complete, but still partial, list at the bottom of this page. Lijit Search

http://austinlifestyles.com/sites