We've been building JomSocial Business Pages for a while. Now we publish new modules to ease the task to build directories.

In a nutshell, JomSocial is a Joomla-based platform for building social networks and community websites with collaboration tools, Facebook-like features and more.

When a social network reaches a tipping point, companies ask for a space to properly be there. If there's no space, users tend to create fake users as a way to promote their business. In 2009, Facebook introduced the Pages, and Google+ Pages were introduced in the past year.

To show you a success case, Contablicos.com is a professional social network, with a business directory:

Our recipe to build a Business Directory, we prefer Sigsu's SobiPro. SobiPro is a powerful directory extension for the Joomla! Content Management System that is designed to easily create multiple directories or content types. SobiPro will allow you and your site visitors to submit, search, filter and view custom content on your Joomla! powered website with ease.

There are well-known directory components (Mosets Tree, Adsmanager, or the old Sobi2); however SobiPro has a dynamic field structure along multiple directories.

After we install SobiPro, and customize the directory; we want a tight integration between SobiPro and JomSocial. So, we've developed and tested in our projects a JomSocial and SobiPro application.

With these apps, we have two great components, and a perfect integration between the social network and the business directory. In the next post, we are going one step further with JomSocial Widgets (coming soon)!

This year has been amazing. In April, we launched our first extensions. In October, given the overwhelming response, we launched our Support Forum.

We use to distribute the new extension versions with an email from support. From the beginning, we have a frequent request to improve it. Now, we want to end 2011 with a solid answer. We are launching our New Customer Area.

In this area, we are going to provide: 3-Month New Version Membership.

With this new membership, we provide a way to download the new versions for your purchased extensions.

To our customers, we are sending you an email with your user and password.

With this improvement in our publishing process, we prepare for the launch of new components and extensions in 2012.

Thank you very much for your continued support.

JomSocial 2.4 is released! The new main features are:

Joomla 1.7 Compatibility, Best Activity Stream Yet, Activity Stream for Events and Group, Improved Event RSVP, Photo Gallery overhaul, Geo-mapping for Photo Album, Drag and Drop Photo Upload, Amazing Photo slider, Email Domain Restriction, Everyone can Comment Option, New View for Featured Photo Album, and more.

The new version has a lot of improvements and new features. The official announcement here.

To continue our effort to support JomSocial Spanish, we are publishing our Spanish Translations, under two variations:

• "Usted" variation (Formal "You"), and
• "Tu" variation (Informal "You" / Casual Honorifics).

Please, let us know if you find any error to improve the translation.

JomSocial 2.4 is coming! The new version has a lot of improvements and new features. You can download or check it here.

In our effort to support JomSocial Spanish, we are publishing an early translation of JomSocial 2.4 Beta 1.

Right now, we are only translating the frontend. You can download and test it. Beta test is Over!

Please, let us know if you find any error to improve the translation.