Hey my friends, Doc here and first I hope everyone had an awesome January. It seems the month went by far too quickly with a good week of February now upon us. Only yesterday we were partying it up for New Years, on a crazy south of the border adventure that can only be described as epic. Let's just say Zero's hot sister is a wild one.
The only thing that can outdo that weekend is the good and crazy stuff we have planned for you this February and upcoming Spring. This stuff of legend will leave Kevin Rose and Eric Bauman cursing all of us here for years to come.
First off, check it out. In the upper right hand corner you'll see a little tab that says
Leaders. Click that and you'll see the new XP system unveiled and in place.
Thanks to the good works of our new developer, we've been able to get back to the plans of building in an experience points system for ShoutWire. How does that work?
My friends, it's like being able to take a long awaited morning whiz (Superman style of course), drinking an ice cold Corona and destroying folks on your 360 hooked to your Samsung 102-inch plasma TV. All at once.
Basically, you gain EXP (just like a video game) for actions you do on ShoutWire. For example, Upload a video; you earn 15 points. Write a Blog; 10 points. Upload Picture: 10 points. Upload Picture of Zero's Hot Sister: 100 points. Ok, so maybe we can't allow the last one but you get the idea. Full details
are here.
After the system rolls for a while, at the end of each month we'll do drawings for various electronics, pure cash and the occasional big, fattie prize. We're talking fattier than a pink bikini garbed and morning-starved Rosie O'Donnell surrounded by buckets chicken and ice cream.
Now with that fresh on our minds...
Image Uploaded by VampireFood to SW ImagesSpammers! Look next door to the EXP link and you'll see
Guidelines. Guidelines is euphemism for 'we will f**king ruin your sh*t if you do not stop submitting crap like, "I Get My Jollies By Spamming Pyramid Schemes" or "The PenIS Mightier, Click Here!"'. We like stories of news, entertainment and the occassional shameless breastesseses. Remember this. Nigerian children are taught to pray '...and lord, please keep Bulshoy away tonight" during their nighttime prayers.
Speaking of night, during a very late, blurry night last week we gave the first test run for
The ShoutPod! Live. As you may recall, we are working on a radio show for you guys. It will feature all the goodness of humor, news reviews, live call-ins and weekly interviews with some hot ShoutWire/YFW featured models. There will be enough eye-candy there to make you rotten. You'll be free to join in the fun and by virtue of Google Daddy, you can call in from your computer as well as your phone. When we're on air, we'll have a tab that lights up and you can also
visit the show directly online.
With that said, we want to thank all of you guys for giving ShoutWire a nice kickoff into 2008. This week we'll be busy working on getting the site back up to speed, knocking out some bugs and shoring up some older features. If anyone is interested, we're still looking to train some new staff writers and radio show crew to help with various things. If that sounds like something in which you're interested, let me know via email in
my profile.
If you have any ideas about features discussed today or other stuff, just let me know in comments below. We're stoked about the direction this year is going and are all looking forward to the sweetness upcoming in weeks ahead. It's going to be a good ride.
-Dockwats