G-Prop and U-Gen News

Posted on April 19, 2008
Filed Under Building work | | Written by Gary Reid

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I just want to update the world on the progress of G-Prop (Web 2.0 Property Application) and U-Gen (User Generated Geo Directory).

Our development time over the last 3 months has been taken up with custom work and a couple of large projects so progress has been much slower than we expected. We also have a very large project starting very soon, which again will take some development time from the projects.

G-Prop is on track we will be rolling out a live beta site in conjunction with some local estate agents shortly to give the system a full live test with a few thousand properties and users.

Our main fear with G-Prop is the complexity of the system. It requires quite a lot of custom PHP modules, such as FFMPEG. We know from experience the challenges some have with software installation so be aware of the requirements.

What we may offer is a leased, hosted version to make it easier for people to get the system without going through the pain of rebuilding PHP.

Many have asked for the price as yet it hasn’t been decided, but it won’t be cheap.

Elliott will be working on getting the software ready but it depends what problems come to light during the live testing. The current public alpha at Locationate doesn’t contain all of the new features but we will be updating soon.

The same applies to U-Gen.

I’d like to say thanks to all those people who have contacted us about the applications, we have over 500 people on the list to inform once the software is released and we really want to get it ready soon, but I’m not going to make any promises on a specific date.