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noreply@blogger.com (roham) — Mon, 25 Dec 2006 05:59:00 -0800

HiP HiP Hurray for another iranian level 10

Cheer Pendar !
1000 $ nooshe joonesh dar biad cheshme torka :D

noreply@blogger.com (roham) — Mon, 11 Dec 2006 05:17:00 -0800

Versus between yahoo 360 & XUQA.com

We Have a plane to move yahoo 360 users to XuQa.com

Need Instant Help

All Help We Accept

Make XuQa RoYalIty

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noreply@blogger.com (Murtaza) — Mon, 4 Dec 2006 20:58:00 -0800

Peanut Labs .... shhhhhhhhh!

SHAMIM at Level 10

noreply@blogger.com (Alex Anderson) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:31:00 -0800

CONGRATULATIONS to Shamim ! Iran's XuQa Queen! The first Iranian XuQa user to reach Level 10! She has also won 1000$ in cash.

Go show her some love...

BuSe and CAN at Level 10

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:47:00 -0800

CONGRATULATIONS to BuSe and Can ! More level 10s >>> $1000 and eternal glory on Xuqa!

LYNDSEY at Level 10

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 22 Oct 2006 22:36:00 -0700

Congratulations to Lyndsey who's just made it to Level 10! Adding one more to the small, elite level-10 club on xuqa. She's also won a $1000. Go show her some love...

New Head of Product

noreply@blogger.com (Murtaza) — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 07:09:00 -0700

I'm officially retiring from my position as the Product Guy. (tsk tsk). Ali Kapadia is now incharge of the Product. At xuqa, by product we mean pretty much everything you see on the website.

His MSN is: ask_ali@hotmail.com
His Skype is: alikapadia

This dude is seriosuly awesome (he made Peanut Poker). So if you have feedback, hes the right person to talk to. Since hes going to be making the final decisions on what features we have, how we improve things etc, talking to him will have the most impact.

As for me, i'm going to work full time on developing the business end of xuqa.

Oh and did I say, We're profitable!

more coverage on Xuqa

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 21:41:00 -0700

XuQa's first level 10

noreply@blogger.com (Murtaza) — Mon, 25 Sep 2006 01:54:00 -0700

All hail to the eternal glory of XuQa Queen, Cassy! First one up to level 10. She just won $1000 in cash!!!

Funniest line EVER!

noreply@blogger.com (Murtaza) — Thu, 21 Sep 2006 04:15:00 -0700

xuqa truly imitates life because in both places women ask rich guys for their nuts...

- Uday, level 9

XuQa shoutouts and Pimps

noreply@blogger.com (Murtaza) — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:45:00 -0700

XuQa shoutouts and other product updates will be launching today. Check your XuQa in the evening.

XuQa poker themes have already launched. Go to the item shop, level 5, and you can purchase a custom theme for your poker precense. It looks HOT! (no kidding). Here is a screen shot.

Xuqa On-Demand launching later this week

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 18 Sep 2006 12:38:00 -0700

Hush. If I tell you they'll kill me. But do check your xuqa account later this week. awesome new feature coming up on your homepage.

Oh, and we're also adding peanut "bank statements" to all accounts so you can see your last 10 Peanut transactions and control your earning and spending. This will show up on your Peanuts page. Spend peanuts responsibly. A Xuqan with no Peanuts might as well be on myspace.

Techcrunch

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 15:57:00 -0700

See Xuqa's coverage on techcrunch below:

Chat

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 6 Sep 2006 18:47:00 -0700

New feature on this blog: you can now chat directly with us, LIVE, right from this blog. New chat feature, powered by meebo. scroll down and look in the right hand column.

College Poker Tournaments

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 6 Sep 2006 00:25:00 -0700

Xuqa is putting together an awesome, nationwide college poker tournament 2006 - 2007. We are in discussions with major channels for on-air coverage. Take a look and give us your feedback.

What next?

noreply@blogger.com (Murtaza) — Mon, 4 Sep 2006 12:10:00 -0700

Besides from ongoing bug fixes, maintainance etc, the big question in everyones mind, is what next? And honestly, the best way to decide is to have our users decide... heres what we're thinking... feel free to leave feedback / add your own idea.

1. Develop poker more. Check out the following screen shots.

2. Add a dating / spin the bottle type of game.

3. Monopoly with peanuts

4. Focus on more and better ways people can earn peanuts.

Your feedback / comments are very welcome (and needed!).. lols..

more buzz about xuqa

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 08:39:00 -0700

Shouting out to all Iranian Xuqans

noreply@blogger.com (Alex Anderson) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 02:36:00 -0700

I'm going to have an important meeting in Iran with all the Iranian Xuqans in the near future. All of your questions will be completely answered and all of your problems will be fully discussed and tried to be solved. It will be more like a training course. So if you're a Xuqan in Iran, you're kindly invited to join this friendly meeting! I will be very happy to hear all of your comments about Xuqa and everything related to it. ( I = Alex Anderson )
You will be informed of the exact date and location of the meeting soon. Everyone interested in this case, please inform me in Xuqa. I will be very delighted to hear from all of you Xuqans.

Stay Tuned!

Shouting out to all British Xuqans

noreply@blogger.com (Murtaza) — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 19:02:00 -0700

I'm going to be in London 31st-2nd Sept and would loveeeeeee to meet up with any XuQa ppl in the area. ( I = Murti, one of XuQa's founders)

If you're in London shoot me an email at murtaza (at) xuqa.com and i'll email you more info. Hopefully we'll have enough people to throw our own little XuQa party =)

Lots of bugs fixed today

noreply@blogger.com (Murtaza) — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 20:26:00 -0700

We spent about a week since launch fixing bugs, fine tuning things and finally uploaded today. 50+ bugs were fixed! Phew!

Peanut update: Everyone who had peanuts stolen, are going to be reimbursed by the end of the week. Sorry for that glitch. Its been fixed.

Location update: Now you can select your city & school/uni. We've also added the feature to change your country.

Poker Update: Poker is now (finally!) stable. Hats off to Prosper for working his magic.

Stats on XuQa 2.0

noreply@blogger.com (Murtaza) — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 05:00:00 -0700

Since we launched XuQa 2.0:

Daily signup rates have increased 3X!

Average time spent on XuQa has increased 1.5X

Peanut Economy size: ~100 million peanuts

Check out the alexa traffic graph:
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/traffic_details?q=&url=xuqa.com

New ways to get peanuts

noreply@blogger.com (Murtaza) — Sat, 19 Aug 2006 04:56:00 -0700

By the end of this week, we're hoping to get XuQa stable and secure (the recent peanut bugs have all been fixed).

Mid next week, we're introducing new ways to get peanuts.

1. Surveys. Users will be able to take surveys for leading brands and get peanuts in return.

2. Affiliate offers. Sign up for affiliate offers (no Credit Cards required) and get peanuts.

buzZ

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 13:48:00 -0700

Xuqa 2.0, which was just uploaded yesterday, is starting to generate some buzz in the blogosphere. We'll update this post as we go along. Have a look:

GigaOm writes about Xuqa:

Mashable writes about Xuqa:

Updates. Fixes. Changes.

noreply@blogger.com (Murtaza) — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 09:05:00 -0700

Someone in the forums had an excellent suggestion about re-doing the actions part. We've revamped actions into one page, with a simple return all button. Thanks a lot for that.

In other news, Poker is now much more stable than before. It doesnt randomly hang up. Its not 100%, but we're working on it.

Emails are currently not going out. The mail que is jammed. Just gotta wait for it to clear.

Bugs we've fixed uptil now:
1. Peanuts not updating after playing poker
2. Profile edit is now fully functional
3. Forum view counter works now
4. Pictures are uploading to all servers
5. UI issues for odd screen resolutions
6. The number of people currently online on XuQa now actually works
7. (about 20 more that i can't seem to remember)

Do note, since XuQa mail servers arn't working right now, if you have an issue, we ask you send us an email directly to feedback@xuqa.com rather than through the contact us form.

Some bugs

noreply@blogger.com (Murtaza) — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 00:12:00 -0700

Some bugs we're currently working on.

1. Making Poker more stable. The Smartfox servers seems to randomly hang.

2. Search. The new search engine we're using randomly crashes.

Please report more here. =)