Habitat for Humanity-La Crosse Area Partners with Frucle.com to Raise Money for New Homes

Habitat for Humanity and Frucle.com have partnered to help raise money for new homes in the La Crosse, Wisconsin area. Frucle.com will be giving away free advertising to local businesses who generously donate to the Habitat for Humanity annual “Raise the Roof” event.

La Crosse, WI – Habitat for Humanity’s annual Raise the Roof event will take place on February 19, 2011 with a goal of raising $25,000. With Habitat for Humanity homes costing between $90,000 and $100,000, this event will raise about one quarter the cost to build a new home for a low-income family in the La Crosse area.
To help meet the $25,000 goal, Frucle.com reached out to Habitat for Humanity to offer free advertising on their rapidly growing new social media site to all local businesses who donate for this great cause. Cori Skolaski, Executive Director of Habitat for Humanity-La Crosse Area, says, "We are really excited to partner with Frucle with Raise the Roof; it will be a great benefit for our supporters and sponsors!”

Frucle.com is offering 2 months of free advertising for local business through their unique incentive-based advertising model. Incentive-based advertising takes local businesses and creates advertisements for their users in the form of valuable coupons, all totally free of charge. This helps the businesses reach out to new customers and helps Frucle.com’s members save money when meeting up with new friends that they met on the site. “This is a wonderful event that will have a positive impact on everyone involved. Habitat for Humanity is an amazing organization that has helped countless people over the years. Frucle.com is proud to support and raise money for the annual Raise the Roof event.” – Ryan Alarid, Chief Executive Officer, Frucle, INC.

About Habitat for Humanity-La Crosse Area
Habitat for Humanity is a nonprofit, ecumenical Christian ministry founded on the conviction that every family should have a decent, safe, and affordable place to live. They partner with homeowners and the community to build simple, decent, and affordable housing in their communities.
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Frucle 2.0.7 Released!

Frucle 2.0.7 has been released! The major updates this week are improved support for Internet Explorer, and the ability to add attendees to events without having to edit the event. A list of updates are below.

1. Implemented improved support for IE8.
2. Added the ability to add attendees to hosted events through the add/edit attendee interface on the Meetup & Save (MUS) page. This allows the host to add attendees without having to edit the event (which causes a notification to be sent to all invitees).
3. Added created date to album viewer.
4. Updated the disabled state mechanism on all buttons.
5. Fixed bug with the "Set as Profile Picture" button in the edit album interface cropping the original graphic as well as the profile picture.

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Cheers,

The Frucle Team

Frucle.com Developers Give Back to the Open Source Community

Frucle.com developers understand the demanding features and resulting complexities that webmasters are being asked to deliver for their organization, that's why they created JQByte, designed to provide fellow web developers with Jquery plugins that simplify complex business-imperative issues.

Las Vegas, NV - Today, website design and user experience is becoming a primary focus for companies of all sizes. JQByte is designed by the web development experts from Frucle, Inc., the new social-networking website that helps users make new friends in their local areas. The JQByte team understands the demanding features and resulting complexities that webmasters are being asked to deliver for their organization, and their goal is to provide fellow web developers with Jquery plugins that simplify complex business-imperative issues.

The first plugin they’re providing to the open-source community is called StickyForms. StickyForms will make form auto-completion a breeze using the extensive and impressive Jquery framework as the backbone of the plugin. “Giving back to the open source community is something that I feel very strongly about. Open source code has helped me and so many other excellent developers deliver the high level of end product that has become expected. I felt obliged to give back to a community that has given all of us so much.” – Ryan Schwartz, Frucle, INC CTO.

The first plugin, StickyForms, is a method of capturing and saving all values submitted in a form to be autofilled on subsequent visits. The plugin provides a number of options to allow complete control of the sticky behavior of the field elements, and the ability to control the scope of the behavior across a site.

JQByte will be continually developing new plugins for the open source community that simplify complex webmaster problems. The StickyForms plugin and upcoming plugins can be found at http://www.jqbyte.com

Frucle 2.0.6 Released!

Frucle 2.0.6 has been released! The major update in this release is the ability to view and attend public events of your friends without the need of being invited.

Frucle 2.0.6 Updates:

1. Updated event query to include events completed within past 24 hours.
2. Made the public events one is attending/hosting visible to friends on their external profiles.
3. Added event attendee friend activity to the Stay Connected page.
4. Implemented functionality for individuals to "sign-up" to attend a public event without the need of being invited.
5. Fixed bug with the event details commenting post button jumping in Internet Explorer.

Check out the latest updates at http://www.frucle.com.

Frucle's next big release will be the introduction of groups which is on schedule to be completed by end of October.

Cheers,

The Frucle Team

Frucle 2.0.5 Released!

Frucle 2.0.5 has been released! This was a major release that included a number of key enhancements that greatly extend our functionality, including our new Find New Friend filters, new Photo controls, and our faster Friend Browser in the Stay Connected page. We've also converted all user's ages to age ranges. Please see the complete list of updates below.

1. Released our new Find New Friend filtering options. This update allows ours users to filter by all gathered profile data in a clean, simple interface.
2. Released new photo controls for changing album thumbnails and making a photo within an album your profile picture.
3. Converted all visible ages to age ranges to help protect our user's privacy. (Michelle - you let your friend know this was taken care of).
4. Updated the friend browser within the Stay Connected (SC) page so there is no longer a delay when clicking the arrows to browse friends.
5. Added a handle to automatically display the friend preview dialog when the site is accessed from the link within the "new friend request" email notification.
6. Added visibility to the number of friends a user has within the SC page.
7. Added adbrite tracking scripts.
8. Simplified suggested friends logic to quicken the generation of the suggested friends accordion on the Identify Yourself (IY) page.
9. Fixed bug with the change password dialog not functioning.
10. Fixed bug where an extra comma would occasionally be displayed in the selected interests listing.

The Frucle team is continually working toward helping our users find new friends in their local areas, stay tuned!

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Cheers,

The Frucle Team

NV Unemployment at All-Time High, Frucle.com Helps New Friends Save Money

Las Vegas, NV – According to the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the state of Nevada unemployment rate has reached an all-time high of 14.4% statewide and 14.7% in the Las Vegas metro area alone. With hard economic times hitting the United States, Nevada especially, Frucle.com has launched a new breed of website complete with free coupons for its members that gives them great deals at local haunts.

Frucle.com’s goal is to create new and lasting friendships that start in the virtual world but transcend into the real world. “By offering great coupons at some of Las Vegas’ hottest bars, restaurants and attractions, Frucle is helping all of its members save money and meet new friends at the same time.” – Mary McShane, Frucle, INC Chief Operating Officer. With record shattering unemployment, Frucle.com is poised to help as many local residents as possible through this troubled time with the best deals and discounts available.

Frucle is also helping out local businesses suffering in this economy by offering free advertising to to help ease marketing costs as well as creating more foot traffic into their establishments. By offering promotions such as these, Frucle.com is generating new and exclusive money-saving coupons for all its members at a very rapid rate with new coupons and discounts are being added every day.