"stay@" is the real-social-networking-service(RSNS) website that connects host families to guests/students/travelers/friends.

Hello. This is stay@.

You know two month has passed since stay@ was opened!
Increasing rate of members is three-fold in this month in comparison with last month.
Now stay@ members are 211 from 30 countries!
We hope that people all over the world will use stay@ as a way to actually go on a homestay or just to have cross-cultural exchange. :D


This e-mail will introduce how to use the key functions of stay@ and explain newly added functions.
Please read to the end as there is important information.

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New Functions
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[*]The disclosure rating system has been added

You can see the information very easy!
Disclosure rating is a function that shows you as 5 ranks how much informaitons of members or host pages are opened at stay@. It makes you be able to know whether a member(host) is reliable or not.

* If you are a member, you can get rating points by inputting your name, gender, self-introduction and so on.
* As for host page, you can get rating points by inputting homestay introduction, uploading your photos, setting your category...
* Getting points is also depend on the times of your loging or writing "Tsubuyaki".

See more detail ---> http://stayat.info/news/13


[*]The photo can be attached to message

The photo can be attached to message.
It makes you easier to let others know about yourself to send your photo(picture) that you cannot open in public.

If you send your pictures each other before you meet, you have no difficulty to find out each other.
Moreover after your homestay, it is good to send pictures to your host families.


[*]Invite your friends to stay@. Much easier!

You can invite your friends to stay@.
There is a link right above of Mypage "Invite your friends to stay@".
To click this link you can send an invitation.
When the friend who received your invitation become stay@ member, it will be automatically mutual friends.
Let's invite your friends more and more who are inretested in homestays, cross-cultural and so on.


[*]Categories have been changed.

Main world wide official languages have been added at language category.


[*]Added Bloadcast

Bloadcast has been added.
You can see videos on the right side of stay@.

Please update Adobe Flash Player when the bloadcast does not work correctly. ---> http://www.adobe.com/go/getflashplayer


Aside from the above, we are also working to optimize the design and navigation menus.


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How to use the functions of stay@
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[*]Invite your friends at stay@. ^-^)/|(^-^

Why don't you invite your friends at stay@?
There is a link right above of Mypage "Invite your friends to stay@".
To click this link you can send an invitation.
When you and your friend become mutual friends, you can write introduction each other.


[*]You can get high rank to write "Tsubuyaki" or login frequently!

The disclosure rating depend on not only how much information you show, but also how many times you write "Tsubuyaki" or login.


[*]Dear Host families, your host page is "under construction", isn't it?

You can edit your host page to click "Edit my host pages" on the center menu in your my page.
If you are ready to show your host page, don't forget to check "Make host pages public".


stay@ would like to hear your comments! New functions will be added and improvements will be made from your comments.
Please write us from below.
http://stayat.info/contact/

FAQ [Frequently asked questions]
http://stayat.info/faq/

==About limited-access setting. (Apologizing) =====================
We have realized that our server provider that stay@ is using had made limited-access for the server security problem.
So the other countries except Japan could not access stay@ http://stayat.info/ for 2 weeks.
Now the limited-access setting has been removed.
We are sorry about it.
We will be sure to check and manage it and not to be happen again.
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stay@ team
Takahiro Kambe

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