Campaign for the presidential election 2008 is on the loose. Currently 7 candidates are running to succeed in the first multiparty election in the Maldives. Public gatherings, Debates, Posters, banners, News briefings, media coverage, songs and a lot more is drawn as weapons in this war. The web is still a very young medium for such events in Maldives. But Maldivian politics has had a very huge existence in the World Wide Web in the past and the Maldivian web presence is increasing every day. Thus this year almost all candidates have special web space and domain to promote their candidacy and policies. As an election is a key decision made by the public we believe that the public must be able to easily locate the webs of their supporters and rivals in order to choose wisely. As a leading Maldivian web directory services we have decided to expressly feature the web URL’s related to the Elections 2008 and complete our obligation to create the awareness.

We have created two special sub categories which is elections 2008 and candidates 2008. The subcategory candidates 2008 will contain the webs officially promoting the presidential candidates and the Subcategory elections 2008 is dedicated to list all other web resources allocated to provide news, information, awareness and other similar services related to the Presidential election 2008. For easily locating a special badge will be added on to the thumbnail of the each web link added related to the elections 2008.

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Elections 2008 on MWD

It is now time to end the anticipation on an application by Maldives portal.The Maldivian web directory is now alive with a huge data base of websites and application on and for Maldives in the World Wide Web. This web application will compile the largest online web directory of Maldives ranging from personal blogs to corporate or governments face on the internet. All listings are distributed to categories and at the time rated by visits from users. Browsing by color is a grand feature in this version while user based rating, recommendations and more advanced features are scheduled for the next version. Submit your links or sites you come across while browsing to enrich our database. Website submissions by user will be moderated by our administrators and published within a short duration.

Along with the web directory we have published its official blog which will not only feature the life of the Maldives web directory but we will showcase the Maldives on the web at a level you have never seen before. This blog will contain exclusive reports on Maldives on the web and feature profound details of webs and apps by Maldivian developers. The past present and future of Maldives on the web will be analyzed and exhibited here.

Your support and feedback is highly required to enhance this application, blog content and the service we provide.

Our team has been away from Maldives portal project for a long duration. The project was virtually halted and lacked any remarkable updates during the past 3 month’s time. We have no excuse other than that we have been busy with our personal and official stuffs. But day in and day out we have tried to make this work with no luck due to other unavoidable circumstances.

During the past we had worked on exploring the potentials of the flickr API. Nattu had developed two interfaces to showcase the photographs tagged as ‘Maldives’ and photographs by the members of the unique Maldives groups. Both the application will be officially released soon. We have once again initiated the work of the long awaited wallpaper module and expecting it to be completed in the coming week. We have noticed that there has been a large number of signups to our beta testers. We will not let you down this time. Expect a huge treat from us soon.

Everyone who visits the Maldives.net.mv pages wonders what’s coming up. Asks us the future of Maldives portal. What we are upto, and curious of what they are signing to beta test. That’s how we want it to be. We want every one to anticipate this even when they don’t know what it is. We want the curiosity to be there. but since we have had lots of similar comments id like to explain you a little about Maldives portal.

We have a well planed and developed concept for Maldives portal. We are trying to make our online experience more interactive. As u might have noticed we have a lot of bloggers (nearly 700 blogs registered in mvblogs.org and more which isnt listed), there are around 13,000 or so users who are registered in different forums, there are around 150 professional photographers on flickr, and not to forget all the registered members at vast number of friends networking communities, all these counts are just Maldivian’s. This represents that we have a huge online community. The best part is these are not only people who just wonder around in the Internet without interaction. These are contributors to the world wide web. Web 2.0 and 3.0 (second and third generation of Internet) is the age where the web is developed by the users. Comments, contributions and what we call social networking is the root of Internet today.

Maldives.net.mv (Maldives portal) intends to use the web 2.0 and 3.0 concept and make use of the maldivian Internet contributors in to contributing, using a dedicated project to develop the Maldives, to advertise it, to surface and explore the exquisite of Maldives and its uniqueness, to change the online experience of Maldivians, those interested tourists looking for a vacation spot, corporations willing to invest in Maldives, and all those people looking for a difference in their daily routine. To achieve this the project would dedicate in providing multi varieties of services.

I am sure still you wouldn’t have guessed what we are planing to bring to our users. I think at this time its best for you to stay back and anticipate this . I could tell you that our first module will provide wallpapers by Maldivian professional photographers. We do have confirmation from 10 photographers that they would contribute to us. Another project planned out is Maldivian web directory, some apps targeting the bloggers, and more; not to worry cause one or the other app would definitely be targeted to you. We wish to cover all genre of people by the end of this project but the thing is we still don’t see an end for this project. Hehehe. What we know is this would be a diverse online atmosphere with a sensational experience.

Just stay tuned for what is to come.

We are now almost finished with our first module on Maldives portal. The title of this article is the theme for this module. As you might have guessed by now, we are currently working on a wallpaper module. This module would be dedicated to provide high quality desktop wallpapers by Maldivian photographers. We have now 10 professional photographers willing to contribute their content as a start off for this project.

All work on database and the layout design is now completed. A major part of coding is also finished at this time simultaneously we are currently working on finishing the landing page, TOC and fine tuning the application. We expect a working beta of wallpaper module to be released by the end of this month.

Signup here to be one of the first to experience maldivesportal

Our team has been in a busy routine during the past weeks and still is. Exams, Office shifting, and Official Projects kept us away from Maldives portal. We are still struggling to find time for this project; nevertheless we are contributing the little time we have got to the development of Maldives portal. Our first working beta would be released within a very short period of time.

In the past we have worked with developing more ideas and are concentrating on making a concrete foundation. We assure a well loved platform for our users. We hope you all put up with this delay and stick with us.

We initiated beta signups on Maldives portal at 19:00 15th March 2007 and we received 63 beta signups by 19:00 16th March 2007 and signups are still climbing the ladder. We are pretty excited that we received more than 50 signups within 24 hour period. This really shows that there are a lot of people out there who are anticipating Maldives Portal. This gives us more strength and a lot more hope that this project could be a huge success. We assure you all that we would definitely deliver a system beyond what you are anticipating. And we are confident that with the help of you all we could deliver a greater application.

Our team thank you for the support you are giving us.

We have now publicly opened signup for beta testers. When ever we reach a beta testing face we will randomly select testers from all the volunteers we have received till then. We will notify the selected via email detailing beta login information and little information of the application they you need to help us with.

To perfect the Maldives portal project we have decided to follow a beta period of minimum one month for each separate application we launch. And during this period we would very much need the support of beta testers (that is YOU) testing our applications on different platforms and environment, suggesting modifications and perfections and kewl ideas and almost any kind of feedback and critique. We will always accept comments by our users and at all times we work in making this project a huge success and very much user friendly.

So head up to our beta signup page and invite yourself to contribute to this web 2.0 project.

Blog about Maldives portal and spread the word to your friends. Meanwhile check out this blog for recent updates.

The idea of Maldives.net.mv has been running for quite sometime, however the original colors started to form up recently. We introduced a splash page since 15^th February 2007 and na2 started the rough sketch of the project. Shared this idea with smoothdv , intox and afu who got interested and volunteered full support. With the help of mindjet application in a small time a mind map was drawn and the team first met up on the 1^st of March 2007. At this meeting we decided that the blog needs to be online soon and discussed various kewl applications and elaborated the currently built up mind map. On the 2^nd of March our development blog was launched. It was then decided that we would be very much interactive with our users and keep our users updated on the project. Hence updates of what and all we are working out will be summarized on these weekly round-up in the blog. And instant updates on specific cases will be seen frequently.

On the 03^rd of March once again the team met online (instant messaging is really convenient). Tasks were delegated to everyone and deadlines were set for some of them. At the mean time an online mind map was drawn using mindmeister and much detailed map was developed by the collaboration of everyone. First beta of the online web directory of Maldives is targeted to be launched on the 1^st of April and a 2 weeks beta period is scheduled. A corporate identity will be archived by 10^th March 2007 also the logo be finalized by 06^th of March 2007. You could be expecting to see our logo on the 10^th of March or sooner than that.

We are now developing the database and compiling the admin section and user management interface. also we working on the GUI of the web application.

There goes a short summary of what we have been working out in the past days. We will be keeping you all informed via this blog. Stay in touch.

Mean while if you have any ideas or would love to lend us a helping hand feel free to communicate us via email. You can always reach us from Maldives@maldives.net.mv or personally me via talkinelf@maldives.net.mv

Maldives.net.mv is a project initiated with the sole purpose of providing multi varieties of service. Our targeted audiences are Maldivians, interested tourists looking for a vacation spot, corporations willing to invest in Maldives, and all those people looking for a difference in their daily routine.

The carefully planned project will be implemented service by service. One of the major eye catchers at the initial stage is the Maldivian webdirectory. Following it will be the travel guide. Email service, blogging service and much more to come. All these services will also consist of more exciting stuff than the name suggests.

Lead programmers of this project are Na2, Intoxication and SmoothDv while the project is overseen by talkinelf as Project Manager and ViperX as Assistant Project Manager. Lead in Graphics and designs are Na2 and ViperX.

Once the applications a launched to the public the whole project will be community driven. Our users will become the future of this project. Hence we would accept any views, comments, suggestions and feedback on the project as it proceeds.

Stay tuned for a diverse online atmosphere, and a sensational experience. There is a lot to come

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