Friday, March 31, 2006

Colonies.com launched the first stage of its mobile application today at noon.  You can now download hot Real Tones and Ring Tones, Cool Wallpapers, Join Mobile Chat rooms, and subscribe to Lifestyle notifications all with your mobile phone or mobile device. 

  

Tired of being bored while sitting on the bus on the way to school, or on a lunch break at work?  Sign up for Mobile chat and meet and talk with other members in the community with your mobile phone.  There are currently two mobile chat rooms:  The VIP Room and The Board room.  Find out for yourself what goes on in each of the rooms.

 

There are lots of great Ring tones and Real tones you can download no matter what your taste is.  There are some funny Real Tones you can surprise your friends with too.  

 

Wallpapers!  Change that boring background image you have on your mobile phone by downloading mobile Wallpapers.  We will be adding some of YOUR great content to the list (with your permission of course) so that everyone can download that great picture you took.

 

Get some cool alerts sent to your phone by signing up for Lifestyle mobile subscription.  How about receiving a joke of the day?

 

How did Joe get that Mobile Badge on his profile?  Easy, just sign up for a mobile service while you are logged in and you’ll immediately get a Mobile Badge on your profile too.  

 

But this is not all.  This is only the beginning.  Soon you’ll be able to have access to our site, anytime, anywhere. You will no longer be restricted by a needing a computer, school rules, or curfews. You will soon be able to opt-in to receive your comments, messages, and notifications to your mobile; update blogs and galleries; and send photos from your camera phone to your profile. We’re going mobile and you’re coming WITH!

To get to the mobile section, click on the 'Mobile' tab in any community.

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Tags:mobile Published by Colonies.com: 5:22 PM Updated On: 3/31/2006 at 6:55 PM

Monday, March 27, 2006

Last friday we implemented a new way of seeing which of your friends are online from every page in the Notificaction Summary. Because of an overwelming amount of suggestions from you guys, we have made a couple more changes to this new feature to make it work better.

1) We have moved it from the notifications area in the notification summary and place it between the "online status" and [Logout] button. This also means that the numbe rof online friends you have will no longer be included in your current total notifications number.

2) It will not longer alert you when one of your friends comes online. The number will increment though and when you hover over the "Online Friends" Icon, it will show you which of your friends are online, and if you click the icon it will take you to a page displaying each member with their member card so you can either go visit their profile or IM them.

We hope these changes make this new feature much more useful and much less intrusive.

If you have any comments on these changes, please leave them below.

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Published by Colonies.com: 8:04 PM

Sunday, March 26, 2006

Now you can see a count of how many of your friends are online on every page when you are logged in.

HOW?

Just look in your notification summary in the top right hand corner of the site and view the "Online Friends" section. When your friends come, online you will be notified and when you click on the "Online Friends" icon (), you will be taken to a list of all your friends that are online so you can chat more easily with them.




Let us know what you think of this new feature by adding a comment to this blog post.

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Published by Colonies.com: 4:30 PM Updated On: 3/26/2006 at 4:46 PM

Wednesday, March 08, 2006

Capacity crowd of 30,000 swarm fortified wall of Old Quebec to witness Canada’s first-ever Red Bull Crashed Ice

 

Gabriel Andre defeats six-time undefeated champion Jasper Felder of Sweden and over 90 Canadian and international racers to claim championship title

 

QUEBEC , Mar. 4, 2006 – In a wild and unforgettable race to the finish, Canada’s first-ever Red Bull Crashed Ice was unleashed to a maximum capacity crowd of 30,000-plus spectators in Old Quebec. When the ice spray settled, Gabriel Andre from Prince Albert, Sask., toppled over 90 other racers to become the first Canadian to hold the coveted title of Red Bull Crashed Ice champion.

Among the finalists was Jasper Felder of Sweden, the six-time and previously only champion in Red Bull Crashed Ice history. Felder utilized his speed and size to reach the final four, but couldn’t overcome Andre’s home ice advantage:

 

“It’s amazing to win the first Red Bull Crashed Ice in Canada,” said Andre.  “This sport was made for Canadians, and it’s nice to remind Sweden who the kings of the ice are. I can’t wait to defend my title.”

 

Featuring a 400m ice-track with a 34m vertical drop, the new-school sport of Red Bull Crashed Ice met head-on with the old world charm of Old Quebec, transforming its skyline by winding its way through and around the city’s famous fortified wall. Starting at Les Portes St-Louis and culminating at Place d’Youville, the course featured a series of berms, turns, whoops, jumps and steep chutes. At the heart of the action were four hockey-equipped skaters charging down the S-shaped course head-to-head in a race to the bottom, reaching speeds of up to 50 km/hr.

 

“I’m disappointed not to win, but Gabriel skated some great races and earned the title,” said Felder. “I’ll be back, so don’t count me out in the future.”

 

To determine a champion, consecutive heats of four skaters in a double elimination bracket narrowed the field down during the main event from 64 racers to a final four. Andre took home the first prize of $5,000, with second-place Wade Hocking of Kelowna, B.C., winning $3,000, third-place Sylvain Houle of Rockland, Ont., $1,500, and fourth place Felder $500.

 

 

Red Bull Crashed Ice also introduced the first-ever application of Frozen Motion camera technology in a live forum. Twenty digital cameras freeze the action and rotate 170 degrees around, providing groundbreaking views from behind, around, and over the athlete’s shoulder.  The footage will be featured in a post-production video of Red Bull Crashed Ice, with details on a national broadcast to be announced soon.

 

About Red Bull Crashed Ice

Since Quebec produces some of the world’s best and most fearless hockey players, its capital city was a fitting location for the seventh Red Bull Crashed Ice. Thousands of people from around the world have witnessed the breathtaking and action-packed new sport of ice-cross downhill in cities with rich hockey roots, including its debut in Stockholm, Sweden (2000), Klagenfurt, Austria (2001), Duluth, Minnesota, USA (2003, 2004), Moscow, Russia (2004), and Prague, Czech Republic (2005).

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Published by Colonies.com: 1:52 PM Updated On: 3/8/2006 at 2:19 PM