AbleSpace and AbleDating – combining social networking and video with dating in one package
Apr 29, 2008 by Veiko Herne Social Networks
AbleSpace and AbleDating (social network & dating software) has all the professional features that will be enough for you to create sites like YouTube, MySpace or Date.com in one package. I’ll review them a little bit below.
It has been developed by Abk-Soft, US Company with Russian roots and employing dynamic staff of over 30 freelance programmers from Russia managed from US.
Their main product contains lot of interesting modules, like 3D virtual city, Flash technology based profile editor to replace HTML, CSS profile customization, Video Chat, Video Sharing, Friends, Groups, Flash postcards, VoiIP technology based telephone, Flash based chat rooms, Flash games, Romantic virtual 3D chat rooms, Greeting recordings, Classifieds, Photo Gallery, Personal Blogs, Biorhythms, Love Match calculator, Instant Messenger, Mailbox, MP3 Player, favourites, forums, etc.
The administration allows setup the site for various community purposes, allowing three level memberships, affiliate programs, banner rotations, free trial memberships, newsletters, auto approvals, unlimited number of languages, e-mail and phone number automatic filtering, etc. Currently it supports PayPal, WorldPay, GoldPay, 2CO, NetBilling and PaySystems gateways but can be configured to any payment gateway for small fee.
Their templates based architecture allows changing site look and feel instantly using growing number of ready-made templates.
The installation service is free or if you want to do it yourself, its five simple steps following the screen and can be completed in minutes.
The product comes from two versions:
Existing site owners can also buy their 3D city module to any of site for $400.
Able Space social networking software
The main page starts with cool online videos, new videos and cool new people. It contains also special notice messages, direct links to site functions and to success stories, site tour and site info pages.
The site main functions are 3DCity, voting other members by their pictures, viewing photo albums, videos, making friends, 3DChat, online chat, blog, forum, groups and events.
The registration for Able Space social community site will ask your date of birth and your sexual gender besides email, username and password which was odd but common for dating sites. As next step you are able to upload your photo or skip this step and you are ready to go.
From your profile page besides your statistics, you are able to view your biorhythms, upgrade your membership, edit your profile, upload photos/videos/audio and hide profile.
Users are able to perform search from other members and view latest members directly from your member profile page.
You are able to write the headline and essay about themselves to their profile and there where no questions about my favourite movies, books and music to answer.
As next step, you are able to upload your photos, audio and videos or write a blog.
Members are also able to setup their personal settings, like email notifications for user mails, user interest, and subscription of newsletters, automatic login, change the password and hide or delete the profile.
When viewing other profiles, users are able to send mail, send a wink, send a postcard, add to favorites, send IM, start a video chat or phone conversation and play the game.
Site members can be searched by several criterias using basic or advance search, search can be saved and results sorted by rating either in profile view, gallery view or list view.
The online section gives the list of users currently online, using IM, new users, birthdays, featured users, users I viewed and users who have viewed me and from rating section, you are able to rate other member picture as Oh, No; No, Thanks; Better Not; Well, Maybe; Nice!, You’re Hot and Oh, Yes.
From the friends section, I was able to send Invite friends emails and list users from same criteria as from online section but I didn’t figure out how I can I invite others to be my friends.
Mails can be organized to folders and mail section shows also winks sent and received. You can select persons who have sent winks and whom you have sent winks to be added to your favorites and organize your favorites list.
For music files, besides the song name and description, users are able to add a picture. Somehow all those music files where starting to play as playlist and I wasn’t able to figure out how I can search and find other music. So maybe this was only mentioned to my personal music collection.
Videos can be rated, commented, subscribed, saved to my favorites or profile, embedded and included to your blog entry. Video page shows the statistics and other member videos, but not related videos and videos cannot be tagged.
Videos can be searched by Top Plays, Just added, most commented and Top rated, filtered by category or timeframe.
Picture albums can be searched by New Albums and Popular albums and users are able to comment others pictures.
The blog section is listing blogs by most recent and most active, users are able to perform keyword search using both of the views.
Besides HTML tags, you are able to add pictures to your blog posts and use HTML to comment other blog entries.
Forums are organized by categories and posts can use BBTags, image tags and smiles. You are able to preview the post before posting. Inappropriate posts can be reported and deleted or edited by author or quoted to reply.
Ads section allows to publish classified ads and other members are able to search ads and respond directly to the advertisers.
From groups section you are able to search groups by categories or create your own group. For the group you are able to specify is it a open join, hidden group, do members have right to invite others to join, does it have public forum and can members post to forum bulletins. Groups can have a photo and you can invite others to join.
The events section shows all events, events user has created, events user are attending, create a new event, show your calendar and add new entry to calendar. All calendar entries have short and long descriptions, start date and time but no duration. Entries can be deleted from calendar view by clicking to cross without any notification.
Events can have public comments, photo and RSVP with attending, maybe, no options and possibility to include one or two quests.
Events can be added to your calendar directly from event homepage.
Besides private IM, there is 3D Chat, Chat and 3D City to use.
Chat is text based chat room functionality written in Flash, where you can use smileys in your text and setup text colours for yourself and others. Users are able to choose between several chat rooms.
3D Chat offers virtual reality chat rooms like Green Airship, Lovely Battlefield, Swimming Pool, Romantic Bar and Coliseum where users are talking in bubbles. You can setup your character from your profile.
3DCity needs the Quest 3D Player to be installed as Active X control.
AbleDating
AbleDating offers similar functionalities as AbleSpace with more comprehensive profile search using personal and partner match information. To see the full list of features click here.
Conclusion
AbleSpace or AbleDating will offer lot of functionalities in one package (MySpace.com, Youtube.com and Date.com combined) so it could be an ideal solution for anyone starting to run professional community/social networking sites. The 3DCity was something unique and seems to be most of their license price.
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Veiko Herne is lifetime entrepreneur, currently working as Independent Consultant with over 30 years experience in IT and starting his activities in Internet since 1993. After establishing and managing one of the most successful IT companies in Estonia after the collapse of Soviet Union, he later managed worldwide interest to his analytical financial accounting and HR management software packages from New York until September 11th. He is currently living in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
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June 18th, 2008 at 11:04 am
I am very happy with the service provide before and after the software was installed and ready.
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June 19th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I bought their software and so far have no complaints.
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June 19th, 2008 at 12:55 pm
Although those who are in dating business seldom say which software they use not to gain competetors, I should say this one is really great. I am just a starter but really love it already.
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June 19th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
Yes support can be sometimes not very fast, but if you look at the demo and read the letters from your thankful customers after one month of work, it will be ok for you. They are great, those Russian guys. I use this software for 4 domains already. Wonderful! Cool!
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June 19th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Best Abledating Script!The best module-structured script of all similar projects at web!
Simply put: made very professionally. Thanks for the product.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Well I bought this software and before that I contacted 4 people from this site http://www.abledatingreview.com/
They gave me a very good reference of this software, one of them even by the phone.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 12:25 pm
Very good work Abledating. Creative and clean. Good communicator. Will do business with echer again.
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June 23rd, 2008 at 12:26 pm
very good design work !! thank you abk
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June 23rd, 2008 at 12:28 pm
Abledating Support was easy. That have a phone number you can call as well as a support ticket system that they answer pretty quickly.
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June 24th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
I have been searching for a complete dating solution for so long before I finally found AbleDating. The first time I went on their demo’s site, I though I was dreaming
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June 24th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
So many features, so little time to test all, what can I say, see for yourself the best peace of software in dating, and comunities online.
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June 24th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
The software is very good They have got a very smart support
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July 7th, 2008 at 5:00 am
So many good reviews. All of them seem to be fake. These guys think quite different: http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=305517&highlight=abledating+russian
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July 9th, 2008 at 10:12 am
All bad reviews are written by the dating software developer’s competitors.
Imagine you have tried a dating software package and find it absolutely bad. You buy another one and are completely happy about it. Are you sure you will post bad dating software reviews? Or you will want more and more people use this bad software and lose hope in dating business and go out of it completely? Or you will tell everyone please do not use this bad dating software please use this one I have bought it is good I earn a lot of money on it? Never. And imagine now you are a dating software developer. Will you post bad reviews about your competitors? Sure! It is much simpler than inventing new features.
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October 17th, 2008 at 2:22 am
I studied different scripts before I bought this and was so dissapointed very nice looking from the start, but then everything froze up and ther was only 3 of us testing it 30 second delay in the av chat and they dont have a way to watermark pics, like it says on the website.and when i complained they hung up on me and wouldnt answer my emails im glad i bought this with my credit card the company is going after them, and if you dont believe me check the BBB in california the have a big F.
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October 18th, 2008 at 9:48 am
guten tag,
kann man auch nur das tool 3dchat erwerben???
mfg
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December 21st, 2008 at 5:57 am
sinceramente il servizio di assistenza è pessimo rispondono dopo una settimana e senza risolvere il problema , la grafica è ottima ma molte funzionalità sono limitate per una semplice modifica si parte dai 300euro in su. Il money back guaranteed è una chimera leggere attentamente le condizioni prima di acquistare.
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April 9th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
Yup all the comments here are probably able date people. I had a friend who has this and made big mistake in getting this software. It has many many bugs. They do that in purpose so you can get back to them to try to do modification for you and that’s more pocket money for them. Again don’t get any of there products has on there demo it has no bugs and once you purchase it they will give you the one with the bugs. Also they seem to be scammers. So beware of this company.
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April 14th, 2009 at 3:47 am
Abledating aka ABK Soft is a SCAM company. Dmitri Rudakov rips off his customers.
Read more about AbleDating Scam at http://www.datingscripts.biz/2008/04/01/abledating-is-a-scam/
The best dating software which you can find is Wazzum. Wazzum dating software is full of the important features you need and none of the stuff that you don’t need. Check out Wazzum.com
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Scammed by Wazzum
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July 6th, 2009 at 9:24 am
Here you can see http://www.sitelogr.com/s/wazzum.com that the most “objective” dating script review site http://www.datingscripts.biz is hosted on the same IP with Wazzum.com and mythailife.com which was unfortunately closed by Michael. Here is a screenshot, just in case: http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/8039/wazzum9.gif
That means, datingscripts.biz = wazzum.com = Michael Pennington = Scam.
Nice job Michael, a lot of efforts in breaking the hearts of all your competitors at once, but better if you corrected the numerous bugs in Wazzum! Especially PHP vulnerabilities. We, your clients, should not have suffered because of your wish to harm the competitors. You not only scam your clients, your business practices as well are dishonest. What a shame!
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April 25th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
abk-soft, buy at your own risk, i paid my money and got nothing,not even bugs, these people are scammers. Or you always go find out for yourself.
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May 3rd, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Hey JohnC aka Tim aka Emil Sarnodoev, with the post from Kyrgyzstan, is everything ok there?
John C Says:
July 7th, 2008 at 5:00 am
So many good reviews. All of them seem to be fake.
If you can not compare with your shitty SkaDate with AbleDating, can you at least keep silent and die as a man?
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May 5th, 2009 at 5:56 pm
I run the site http://www.ustillup.com It’s a late night chat, dating and social networking site for “late night encounters”. I now get over 60 new members a day and that number is rising steadily. I anticipate, and mark my words, that I will be extremely rich in less than a year.
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Mircea Goia
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May 5th, 2009 at 7:00 pm
@UstillUp.com, we wish you luck!
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June 29th, 2009 at 1:16 am
After reading this kind of comments I google for abledating scam and found a lot of bad reviews.(
It’s a pity to see how Abledating posts fake good reviews and even created a lot of fake web sites on the net with fake reviews.
I won’t buy it and won’t recommend abledating to anyone!
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July 1st, 2009 at 10:28 am
The web-site http://datingscripts.biz is 100% affiliated with Wazzum.com. You’ll see that if you visit that site. It accuses scam absolutely all the companies in the world without having any prove and say that the greatest product is Wazzum. I think that this is more than strange. Don’t let that site mislead you. Wazzum.com is just a copy of WordPress. Seems that the software author has problems with his solution. Found his profile on WordPress Support site:
http://wordpress.org/support/profile/1226652
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July 5th, 2009 at 8:20 am
We are looking for other people that feel they have been SCAMMED by the “American” company called Wazzum also known as Michael Pennington. We are filing a Multi Plantiff Federal lawsuit against them for running what we believe to be the largest marriage SCAM in U.S. history. We are wanting to file this this month and there will be NO charge for the Attorney. You can call me direct if you have any information.
This number I see on the Wazzum site (1-503-616-2206) is a Skype number, and leads to Thailand, just checked it. Michael Pennington’s Wazzum is a one-actor show. Is this software good? Do not know, you can try this link:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&newwindow=1&ei=f3ZPSp6IPNKetwfs5YisAQ&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=wazzum+vulnerability&spell=1
Does he provide any support? Do not know, for me he did not, moreover, I was blocked in the support system.
Can I get any refund? Do not know, he says I can not, and I can not afford going to Thailand to get it.
You can read this man’s personal blog about his love for MCDonalds and more important things here:
http://www.mythailife.com/
He has another merry blog, http://www.datingscripts.biz where he reviews dating software. If you look at the “objective” reviews, you will understand what I am talking about. Long live Wazzum.com!!!
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September 17th, 2009 at 2:11 am
i bought tube creator, able dating and mixer and im dissapointed… for over 2 months i have problems, incompatibilities and no technical support from them..
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