24.com are now partners with BWCOM. Mybroadband published the scoop – you can catch it here

This is huge for BWCOM and we look forward to collaborating with 24.

Some quotes from the scoop

24.com CEO Russel Hanley says that the acquisition gives the company access to both Blueworld’s established online community and their social networking technology.

Hanley highlighted the fact that Blueworld Communities’ audience is complimentary to the 24.com audience and they will definitely look at synergies in future. The 24.com CEO further pointed out that the Blueworld Communities technology will enable them to target certain niche social media markets in future.

“We are very excited to be a part of the 24.com family and look forward to leveraging their assets to further expand our social network’s market reach.,” said Charl Norman from Blueworld Communities.

“We also have a very strong youth demographic which compliments 24.com’s older user base. We are very proud of the social media platform we have built and look forward to exploring synergies between our technology and existing 24.com brands to further expand our niche social network strategy.”

I can’t say much but watch this space !

We have added two new areas on Blueworld aggregating some of our user’s data.

Blogs.blueworld.co.za is a summary of all the user’s blogs – Visit

Photos.blueworld.co.za is a summary of all the user’s uploaded photos – This is the biggest area on BW with 100+ photos being uploaded each day firmly cementing us as one of the top photo sharing sites in SA – Visit

Both areas are updated dynamically whenever users update their blogs and photos. Next up on our dev schedule is to do the same with videos.blueworld.co.za and chuck bluetube.co.za – Which is now a stand alone site. This should be done by tomorrow as our video sharing code was completed for the KFC campaign last week.

Here’s some screen shots – Blueworld Blogs – blogs.blueworld.co.za

Blueworld Photos – photos.blueworld.co.za