Geekie.org Launched!

This post has come a little later than it should have, but that can hopefully be excused due to the excessive amount of work we all have had in the last week.

Not only has Geekie.org been successfully launched and promoted on time - starting March 1, 2007 - but we have also set up a number of services to go along with this new site. As previous posts here have revealed, we have the new Geekie.org Apps suite, composed of e-mail, calendar, docs & spreadsheets, instant messaging, and personalized start page. These services have been installed and ready to go, at no cost, and may be requested now by either posting a comment or replying to the appropriate thread in the Geekie.org Apps forum on FreddyWare Forums.

And that brings us to the next new service, being the newly re-established FreddyWare Forums on the same domain as this blog. Accessible at http://www.geekie.org/forums/, the new FreddyWare Forums site runs on the open-source, free, Simple Machines Forum software, and is considerably easier to use and maintain than previous forums we have attempted to create. This time, there will not be a FreddyWare Army System multiplayer game, but rather an arcade integrated into the forums which has - at the moment - 82 Flash games!

FreddyWare@School has already published an article relating to the release of Geekie.org, Geekie.org Apps, and the FreddyWare Forums. I welcome you to our rapidly expanding network of sites, and hope that you will join us. (Unfortunately, user authentication can no longer be integrated as it once was with FreddyWare@School, FreddyWare Forums, and Articles Base!. I am devising of a manual synchronization method which will copy the usernames, e-mails, and encrypted passwords from one database to the other, allowing users to sign in with the same set of credentials; however, it will not be single sign-on like Windows Live ID, Google Accounts; Geekie.org Apps can not be included in this new authentication method, as it has its own single sign-on platform powered by Google.)

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Early availability of Geekie.org Apps

It seems that Geekie.org Apps (mail, calendar, docs & spreadsheets, personalized start page, chat) has been made available earlier than I anticipated.

The comment made on http://www.geekie.org/freddyware/2007.02/free-tools-for-our-users.8.web saying

Change of plans - though requests can start March 1, the service will not be active until after March 15. A server migration will also occur on the 15th of March.

must now be contradicted. As our DNS records were updated sooner than anticipated, Geekie.org Apps is now fully up and running. Instead of requests starting March 1, users may immediately ask for accounts. However, prepare for a scheduled server migration (and therefore downtime) on March 15.

The home page we have set up for Geekie.org Apps is located at http://apps.geekie.org and contains links and information for the services included. In case you wish to access those sites now, you can go to Geekie.org Webmail, Geekie.org Calendar, Geekie.org Docs & Spreadsheets, Geekie.org Start Page, and Geekie.org Chat / Google Talk by downloading the Google Talk client - or by logging in to Webmail and using the built-in AJAX interface. However, keep in mind that logging in to Geekie.org Apps is different from logging in to Geekie.org’s home page (blog); though, it is possible for you to choose the same username and password for both.

Go ahead and request your accounts if you wish. All accounts are functional @geekie.org e-mail addresses, with 2 GB of space and neat & tidy Gmail interface. Go ahead; try it now!

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Free online productivity tools for Geekie.org/FreddyWare users

Users who have previously dealt with FreddyWare@School, FreddyWare Forums, or other sites of the FreddyWare Solutions Enterprise Network may have previously tested out FreddyWare e-mail solutions, including but not limited to, FreddyWare Webmail powered by Google Apps for Your Domain, FreddyWare.info Webmail Beta, and other similar interfaces.

With our loss of the freddyware.net domain name, it is no longer possible to utilize the Google Apps site for @freddyware.net e-mail addresses. FreddyWare.info e-mails have been limited to site functions and workers since this problem occurred. Users were usually not offered @freddyware.info e-mail addresses.

With the launches of two new sites, Articles Base! and Geekie.org, however, we have re-setup Google Apps to work with Geekie.org. This grants users new tools usually offered as Google Accounts, including 2 GB of free e-mail space, absolutely free chat between @geekie.org and other Google/Gmail users, free access to Docs & Spreadsheets (online productivity suite, compatibility with older Microsoft Office and ODF, collaboration supported), and personalized start page. Google’s innovations have benefited us all.

Articles Base! is also being fixed at the moment, and has not been successfully launched. Once Geekie.org is officially launched and promoted on March 1, 2007, we will start opening up @geekie.org accounts. (It would be satisfactory, however, if users would have accounts on the Wordpress platform on this site before they request accounts; I could better track members this way. Please comment on this article.)

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