CityDNK Social network of your city.

“It’s cozy in gathering”

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If you are familiar with the Internet, that, for certain, you faced time to time so-called ‘City sites’.

For a city it is frequent the first site with which people begin the acquaintance to the Internet. This place where people search for the actual information, post advertising and communicate at city forums, discussing anything they like.

In big cities, such as Ekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Nizhni Novgorod, city sites attract more than hundred thousand users monthly.

These sites turn to be successful business projects, bringing quite good

dividends to their founders.

“A city-site + social network”

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CityDNK perform as the ready solution for creation of a city-site with elements of social network.

The city portal informs, directs, forms tastes and entertains throw its’ information. The social network provides dialogue, self-expression and helps to spend free time for users with pleasure.

Our experience of creation of the largest and commercially successful sites in several regions of Russia, allows to confirm that the approach offered above guarantees attraction and retention of an audience and advertisers.

The CityDNK Capabilities

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Self-expression of the user

The engine allows each user of a site to create his personal web-site (usually it is a third-level domain) for conducting a blog, loading of photos, videoclips, music, documents and creation of own forums. Also the system allows the user to "adhere" private domain to a personal page. All materials published by users can be commented and estimated by other users. Never the less, there is a possibility to limit access to those or other materials. As a result, the active audience becomes "binding" to a site.

Any materials of this project, can be commented and be estimated by participants. Besides these traditional possibilities, CityDNK provides such services as «I am in the picture», «I am going to attend this event», «I recommend this file» or «I am in the map», promoting closer intercommunications between users.

The CityDNK Capabilities

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Dialogue of the user

Forums are one of the most traditional platforms for dialoging on interests. Two variants of a forum display – “threaded” or “linear” – can be provided on user’s choice. There are possibilities to format messages, add files and download pictures. “Moderation functions” allow to carry out a full spectrum of office abilities from messages correcting to punishment of participants. Forums can be both: private (on user’s personal mini-site) and public (global, considering the whole system).

All registered users can communicate in a private order due to service of private messages. Service is executed in the spirit of traditional internet messaging services. A user can also sort his contacts in various groups that is especially important for active participants (columnists and direction headliners).

The CityDNK Capabilities

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Social connections. Service "Friends" allows to establish special connection between users - it is possible to read new materials of friends in a tape. A specialized module allows creating an add-in to the social web, as it is in popular social webs “twitter” or “facebook”.

Personalization. User’s settings allow each participant to choose a preferable way of designing a web page and to adjust various modules: forums, subscription etc.

Newswire. Any users’ actions can be shown in a special newswire on-line. For example: «a new user has just registered», «your friend has uploaded new pictures», «Smith has got acquainted with Johnsonn» and so forth in one hundred variations.

Communities

“City-site” CityDNK

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Regional orientation of the project (CityGuide) is expressed by following means:

City forums - the basic platform of communication.

News. Any quantity of newswires and sets of articles. The system of distribution of access rights allows to appoint editors among users, including in a mode of preliminary check of materials.

Culture, Sports and other activities

“Places” - vacation spots, and any other place in a city can be connected with a current event that takes place there, current people, who attend this event. It is also possible to download a photoreport attached to that event and let the participants mark themselves in the pictures. This is a way to form a list of ‘personalities’ and “faces” of a very place.

“City-site” CityDNK

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“City Map” – modern mechanism of dealing with a virtual map with a possibility of users involving in the process. Participants can mark themselves on the map, add photos and notes.

Guides – The project’s editor can place any sort of information manually. Also introduction of various directories from foreign publishers - yellow pages, local telephone directories, etc. is possible

А free-of-charge mailing service can be implemented into the site.

Photo hosting and file sharing are also available.

Poster advertisement – cinemas, theatres, city events, city calendar. Average users can add events in a mode of preliminary check by editors.

Weather – automated service.

CityDNK productivity

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The built-in code downloading optimisation.

The multilevel caching system considerably reduces use of processor time and file system, up to 10-15 times according to statistics.

Two-level frontend (the separate fast controller for pictures and files)

Ability to work with an allocation unit. The modular principle of construction of system allows to distribute work on several servers.

Optimisation on the client (fast loading of page)

Zooming images on demand allows spreading resource-intensive missions in time to “smooth” moments of intensive using the system.

“Technical features of CityDNK”

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Users can download several photos a one package (at use of the additional third-party module) or in the simplified mode of mass loading (the built-in means)

Information system of the project allows to create new kinds of connections between objects, to register and display various events in system, to accompany any objects (photos, records, users, news and sections) with tags and count any kinds of ratings.

System allows authorization of user on any number of the adhered domains.

System completely separates code from the data files, and from visualisation tools (interfaces). Appearance can be easily changed by simple change of templates.

Resulted site can be presented in any left-to-right written language. Administrative interfaces can be translated without expenses to any European language.

“Elaborations, developing and support CityDNK”

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Systems architecture provides restyling with minimal investments;

It exists a possible of new data structures rapid creation (picture stories, for example)

Module system of applications (JavaScript, web 2.0) perform easy installing of specified elaborations into the system;

Restyling and technical support of your project is also provided;

“Summary”

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Elaborated solution for an outstanding city-site, based on modern technologies;

5 region projects successful implementation experience;

Implementation time – 1 month;

6 months of consulting and support ;

Business infrastructure and services forming recommendations;

Contact us

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If presented technology “CityDNK” attracted your attention, and you are thinking about starting up a city site or an outstanding thematic website, based on social networks, direct your questions to: denisov@nn.ru, ilya@osipov.ru

or contact us: +7 8314 1001 20 for further information.