At The E Club, we believe that elegance - in web design terms - is a synonym for simplicity and appeal to everyone. And we believe that The E Club+ is achieving such elegance.

The original plans for The E Club+ back in August 2011 were for it to be a backup for The E Club Social - The E Club Social Beta - maybe with a few new features thrown in. If The E Club Social ever malfunctioned or ever got shut down (neither of these happened), The E Club Social Beta would become the new The E Club Social.

A few months into this plan, The E Club Social showed no signs of malfunctioning. So, on September 21, 2012, The E Club Social Beta became The E Club+, no longer a beta-testing backup for The E Club Social. So, what does this have to do with elegance and simplicity? When The E Club+ was still The E Club Social Beta, it was supposed to be a mirror to The E Club Social itself, with the same designs and features. But when The E Club+ was born, we had freedom to do anything at all possible with the site. Since The E Club Social wasn't very simple or elegant (no offense), we decided to go in the other direction with The E Club+ and make it very simple and elegant.

Although its name changed, The E Club+ is still the same site as The E Club Social Beta, with the same features and original members (plus a lot more since then), but we changed its URL from http://theeclubsocial.wall.fm (adding the "beta" to the end would make it too long) to http://theeclubplus.wall.fm (to match the new name), and later to http://plus.theeclub.info (like it is now). After the name change, tons of things, from tiny details to site-wide changes, were changed and upgraded to make The E Club+ the greatest of The E Club's social networking attempts yet. (The E Club Family actually had three; The E Club Social, The E Club+, and The E Club Zone, which flopped and was phased out.)

After about ten months with this renaming that basically transformed the entire site, The E Club+ is now standing strong at its best so far. With a lot of members, a line of awesome services, a bunch of epic features, and very detailed design, The E Club+ has now proven that the simplicity and elegance we modeled it to have is a success. Since July 2011, The E Club Social has 9 members. Since August 27, 2011, The E Club+ has double that amount, 18 members. And we hope this is just the beginning of The E Club's social networking endeavors and The E Club Family itself.

As The E Club Family Websites continue to advance in social networking, we have made a few changes to The E Club's social networking division, solely promoting The E Club+ (also listed are updates about The E Club's social networks):

• The E Club Zone has been phased out. In all of our efforts to save it, we couldn't find a way for it to be integrated into The E Club and its various social tools. Instead, we're focusing on The E Club Social and The E Club+.
• The E Club+ now has 13 members! The E Club+ was created over a month after The E Club Social, and our latest innovation beat The E Club Social by 4 members (so far).
• The E Club+ Blog is being improved. As The E Club Family gets more advanced, the designs and styles of The E Club+ Blog (among many other sites) are being modified and improved. For example, when you click on a search box or a form field, it has that fancy blue border. That's part of the redesign.

More updates will be posted here, so stay tuned.

As you may know already, The E Club+ is introducing advertising, more organized and improved Profiles, +Pages, +Entertain (formerly SocialTV), +Website Marketplace, and so much more. This is part of our transition from The E Club Social Beta to The E Club+.

You could call this "fall cleaning", or The E Club+ hitting a couple breakthroughs in social networking. We've created a help guide for The E Club+, hosted by The E Club. We've improved The E Club+ Profiles, adding site RSS Feeds, more information (still not personal), and more organization. Many bugs on The E Club+ have been handled, and the News Feed has been improved and optimized.

By the way, we've changed our name to The E Club+ Blog! Our URL will always be socialblog.theeclub.info.

As said in the last entry, The E Club Social Beta has become The E Club+. Now, we have taken a step farther in the transition from The E Club Social Beta to The E Club+.

First of all, with some collaboration from Wall.fm, The E Club+'s main host, we have successfully changed The E Club+'s URL to http://theeclubplus.wall.fm! This makes The E Club+'s URL a whopping 2 characters shorter than before (it's even shorter than its "shortened" URL: http://s.theeclub.info/tecplus!), and it also matches its real name. The bad thing is that I've made so many links to the old URL, and those links are officially invalid.

Also, we've changed the logo AND favicon for The E Club+. Check it out below:



Last of all, we've been changing the names of The E Club+'s services. For example, SocialTV is now +Entertain, because now members can share videos and Flash games through it. No, Google+, The E Club+ is NOT copying from you. I don't know how many times I've said this, but I made it up for a then non-existent social network that I could make. I came up with The E Club+ even before Google+ came out. Of course, I didn't copy the "+"s before each service's name, either.

We hope to have many more exciting improvements and changes for The E Club+ in the future. For now, those of you who didn't join The E Club+, join today!

In our efforts to redefine social networking, we need a more original name for our latest attempt at it, The E Club Social Beta. So The E Club Social Beta is now...The E Club+! No, Google+, I did not copy from you when I renamed The E Club Social Beta. I thought of it even before Google+ was released.

(Cross-posted from my blog at The E Club+)

At The E Club Family, sharing is one of our top priorities to improve. That's why we created the ClubIt! Button over the summer. The ClubIt! Button, when clicked on, went to the Feed at The E Club Social, where members could write a message about the site that they just came from.
Eventually, we tried AddThis, with the ClubIt! technologies incorporated, but the sharing menu didn't really work, and there weren't enough customizations that would fit ClubIt's needs. Besides, it was a little slow in loading.

So, a couple days ago, we switched the button's platform again to AddToAny's JavaScript API platform. This allowed for every service that AddThis had, plus some coding for sharing integration on The E Club Social and The E Club Social Beta. Plus, we made it asynchronous, which means that the button loads around the same time that the page it's on loads. Take that, Google +1 Button! If you want to learn more about ClubIt!, click here.

Thanks to AddToAny, the ClubIt! Button has been almost perfected. Now, you can even share pages using The E Club Social and The E Club Social Beta! You can do all of this instantly.

Here's what the original ClubIt! Button style looked like, along with a working model of one of the latest designs:

Welcome to The E Club+ Blog, the resource for all things The E Club Social and The E Club+, aka The E Club's social networking division. Here, we will post about...

-The E Club Social and The E Club+ technology and innovations.
-Information about various other social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
-Other important updates and features from the rest of The E Club Family.
-Why we can make a difference on the social web.
-Various topics

Members of The E Club Social and The E Club+, make sure to check back here once in a while to make sure you're not missing anything that could maybe involve you.

Enjoy The E Club+ Blog!