The Direct LifeStyle Blog

Rss and Status Feed Update

2009-12-22T11:45:00.000-08:00

We have decided to postpone these features for a short time, but we would like to wish all our users a very Happy and Safe Holidays!

Best Regards,
Direct LifeStyle

Direct LifeStyle 2.0 beta

2009-12-17T02:04:00.000-08:00

You might notice the new look for Direct LifeStyle. It's a bit more fresh...clean. Let's call it Direct LifeStyle 2.0 beta! It still has a few kinks and cranks to work out until Direct LifeStyle 2.0 Final, but still feel free to submit your Amazing Stories!

Thank you,
Direct LifeStyle

Bug Update: Activation Email Resolved

2009-11-12T13:34:00.000-08:00

As noted in the previous post, the activation email to verify your account either weren't being sent or the link was not activating the account.
This problem should now be resolved and people can being to sign up again. Please contact us if you continue to have this issue or any other issues. As far as those who already signed up but could not activate their account, we will be contacting those users over the next few days with an option to re-verify their account.

Thank you,
Direct LifeStyle

Activation Email

2009-11-05T08:19:00.000-08:00

We are currently aware that the activation emails aren't being sent out to newly registered members. Rest assure we are working to fix this problem. Thank you.

Regards,
Direct LifeStyle

Upcoming 2009 Holiday Updates

2009-11-03T08:27:00.000-08:00

We would like our users to be aware that although we have not updated our blog in some time, Direct LifeStyle is still kicking! Currently we are preparing on releasing a status update feature similar to Twitter and Facebook for our users' profiles.

We are also happy to announce that we will be releasing a feature to our users' profiles that will enable our users to sumbit an rss feed to their profiles which then will submit stories from the feed automatically to Direct LifeStyle.

As time progresses we stride to have our users' profiles become more interactive with other users of our community as well as other online communities.

Thank you and God Bless,
Jon Maduro
DirectLifeStyle.com, Founder

Change in Categories

2009-08-22T00:07:00.000-07:00

Over the next few days we are going to be changing our categories and re-locating stories, thus renaming some of our members story links. In the future, we plan to have our categories sort by news, articles, videos and images. This change is nessecery while our site is still young, rather than wait at a later time when it is too late. We apologize if this change causes any inconvenience to our members, but we feel this change will later benefit our site and members. The good news is that new stories are made everyday in this world and there is plenty to share on Direct LifeStyle.

Thank you,
Jon Maduro
Founder of Direct LifeStyle

Review Our Website!

2009-08-07T02:28:00.000-07:00

Show the rest of the world how much you love Direct LifeStyle! Review our site at Hiztoria.com where people can rate, review, share and talk about websites big and small.

Profile Layout Update

2009-08-06T23:43:00.000-07:00

We may a few changes to the layout for the user's profile. We would love to hear your opinions! Shoot us a comment or email.

-Direct LifeStyle

Registration Error

2009-08-02T16:58:00.000-07:00

Over the last several days, our registration page has been down. We apologize for this. It is now functioning as normal and new users may now register again at http://directlfiestyle.com/register. Again we are sorry for this inconvienience.

Thank you,
Direct LifeStyle

Direct LifeStyle Announcement

2009-07-28T02:41:00.000-07:00

Dear Direct LifeStyle Members,

Over that past several weeks, our website has undergone some upgrades and
changes. We really appreciated your patience during this process. Today
we are happy to announce the Official Relaunch of Directlfiestyle.com.
While there still may be a few bugs, our website is now stable enough to, once again, begin sharing something amazing with the rest of the world. Thank you again for your patience.

You can also follow our updates on this Blog and these Social Communities:

Twitter - http://twitter.com/directlifestyle

Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/pages/Direct-LifeStyle/113780551535

Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/directlifestyle

Share Something Amazing,
Direct LifeStyle

Direct LifeStyle Features..

2009-07-27T14:34:00.000-07:00

Direct LifeStyle has a little bit of something for everyone. From people who want to promote their brand or business to those who just want to share with the community!

Here is a complete list what Direct LifeStyle has to offer -

Vote and comment on stories that interst you

Submit news, articles, videos and images from anywhere on the web

Submit your own content

Save Stories to your personal profile

View your voting and comment activity from your profile

View your profile stats

Add other Direct LifeStyle members as friends and message them from your profile
Join and create interest groups

Use groups to promote your personal brand, business, music band or for any other topic of interests

Share stories with your group

View stories in real time by using the Live Feed

Narrow your search using Category, Tags or Advanced Search

and Finally our best feature is You! Without our members their would be nothing Amazing to Share..

Bug Update: Karma Fixed

2009-07-21T11:52:00.000-07:00

We have just repaired the karma feature which is a point system calcuated within a one (1) year period.

The point system is as follows:
Votes Before Link Went Published = 3 points
Votes After Link Went Published = 1 points
Links Submitted But Not Published = 2 points
Links Submitted And Published = 20 points
Comments = 3 points

Your Karma Stats can be viewed within your user profile.

New Features and Upgrades for Direct LifeStyle

2009-07-18T00:07:00.000-07:00

We are happy to announce serveral new features and upgrades for directlifestyle.com

New Features:
Upload image capture - When you submit a url, direct lifestyle will automatically crawl thumbnails associated with the url submitted. You can also upload pictures from your computer or upload with a direct link to a picture.

Meta description capture - When you submit a url, direct lifestyle will automatically crawl the url submitted for a description for your story.

Friends section in profile - Now your friends can be viewed by all in your profile.

Add to-social bookmarking - You can now share a story from directlifestyle.com to the top social websites with the add to link located at the bottom of every story. You can also share a story using the social bookmarks button from addthis.com

Advanced search - Narrow down your searches and find just what you want.

...and ofcourse we now have a blogger blog and a twitter account where we will keep our users updated with all the latest from directlifestyle.com

Upgrades:
A few template design changes.

Videos & images now show in a shadow box when clicked on.

Added back to profile link in modify profile page.

Bug Fixes:
When clicked on, vote, bury, save, did not automatically refresh.

Current Known Bugs:
Live (all) not showing up.

The karma feature is currently not working.

Upload image capture - if you delete an image, the page must be refreshed in order to select a new image.

Direct LifeStyle blog

2009-07-15T18:33:00.000-07:00

Welcome to the Direct LifeStyle Blog. Our blog's purpose is to keep the community up-to-date with the latest developmental updates, announcements and news related to Direct LifeStyle. We also value our users opinions, any suggestions or ideas are very much welcomed.

Share Something Amazing!

-Direct LifeStyle