We did it!! PlayLinc 2.0 web has gone LIVE in beta. Months of work since the holidays have paid off. Its still lacking a lot of features that are still in development, but they are coming. We have a long way to go, but we just passed our biggest milestone of them all, and its awesome.

If you want in on the invite to the beta, its easy, just let me know and I will send you an invite key. Im running the program, so its pretty easy for me to come up with them when needed, I just make new ones hehe. Seriously though, let me know and I’ll hook you up. This new 2.0 version is fully web based, and a working model of what will soon be embedded into live sites. For example, say we partner up with Lanwar.com and I log into there using my [lw]Sargonas[GumiBear] user name. At the same time, I will automaticaly be logged into playlinc in the background under the name ‘[LW]Sargonas[Gummibear]@lanwar.com’. If this aim name does not exist, it will automaticaly be created the first time on the fly for me. Then a skinned version of what the web 2.0 is will be meshed into the site, or in a seperate popup window, or in one of a plethora of other possible ways, its all up to the desires of the site owner and our design team. A way to bring all of the gaming communities together into one, it will be glorious… lol

Eat your heart out xfire. Everything you do we can do now, and we have 3 times that number of things on the boards to add… and some are already in place (like free dedicated servers to run some of the top 15 games).

The future of online gaming and online social networking is about to collide like never before, and I am a key architect in it…. its overwhelmingly awesome, truly.

On a side note, I hooked up the admin for mygamercard.net with a beta key… and lo and behold, I’m now listed on their “celebrity” leader board of 260 or so gaming industry celebs… hehe, rawk on. Phear my xbox live gamercard!!!

So we have been working away feverishly towards a launch of the beta version of our 2.0 software. The goal was to launch an invite only beta of it today at Noon. However, all has not gone according to plan.

We have really focused on some key stuff for the last two weeks, getting things in line and  putting together a functional, although feature lacking, beta. Then again, its a beta, and not meant to be complete anyways. If we were going for complete, it would be a release, now wouldn’t it?

Thing were on track once we cut a few un-necessary features and realigned some planning. On saturday night we had a fully ready version, all that needed to be added was support for the beta access control systems I designed for us to help control the number of beta users. Once that was put in on sunday, there were 4 more features we decided to be put in, and here is where things took a turn. Somewhere between there and this morning something went it that went kaput, and now its 3:30 and our noon launch window is passed. However we are on the right track to make amends and looking well, I don’t think it will carry on past the end of today, or noon to morrow at the latest. Our devs are some seriously talented people.

Outside of that, things are good… I’m planning as I can on the side to get ready for the super-party on Saturday that I am throwing back up in Louisville at my parents house. If your part of my local social circle up there and haven’t gotten an invite, let me know ASAP and I’ll get you the details, its going to be HUGE. For everyone else, watch for pictures to be up in the gallery after the weekend.

On a final note… I think I’m missing Nikki… which has put everything in a off-kilt perspective that doesn’t make like easier in the least for me…. *sigh*