News: Hosting Service for Website Blogging, Debuts for Explorers and Adventurers
Boulder, Colorado - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 5, 2007 - New social blogging community for explorers and adventure enthusiasts, MyExpedition.net, has debuted with its blog hosting web site, offered completely free to join and requiring no prerequisites to qualify for membership.
David Isserman, owner of MyExpedition.net noted, ''Our goal is to provide the adventure community with a blogging site dedicated to their expeditions, adventures and travels. We believe that MyExpedition.net can fulfill this need and we encourage all of those interested in learning more to sign up for a free account.''
MyExpedition.net accounts feature photo galleries, public and private profiles, up to 10 different blogs under the same account, the ability to have multiple authors, and the opportunity to search and befriend other members of the MyExpedition.net community. In addition, blogs accounts feature RSS feeds to allow users to syndicate posts and podcasts throughout the web. With a simple one-click process, users can also ping weblog indexing services, including Weblogs.com, Blo.gs, Ping-O-Matic and Technorati.
Mr. Isserman added, ''Ideal users of the MyExpedition.net blog accounts would include sea kayakers, mountain climbers, trekkers, scientists, professors, students and anyone else involved with field research, exploration or adventure travel. While some members may choose to remain private, others will have the opportunity to search for other like-minded users to connect online.''
To signup for a free MyExpedition.net account, simply go to www.MyExpedition.net and click ''Create Account.'' The signup process will take approximately 3 minutes. During this process, users will be able to select one of over 30 completely customizable blog templates, provide a title and description for the blog and begin posting immediately.
MyExpedition.net is a free blog hosting website for explorers and adventure enthusiasts to post photos, videos, podcasts and journal entries on their travels and expeditions. MyExpedition.net is owned by St. Louis-based Isserman Consulting LLC.
Denver, Colorado - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 5, 2007 - Enterprise search solutions for business and government, ISYS Search Software, has released its ECI Adapter, in order to enable customers of EMC Corporation's Documentum Enterprise Content Integration Services (ECI Services) to access data indexed by ISYS:web and to federate ISYS:web's search results.
ECI Services is a federation engine that processes and distributes queries to corporate content already indexed by various third-party search tools; it then normalizes and displays the consolidated results. This level of functionality provides end-users with a comprehensive access point to search all of a corporation's content repositories from a single window.
Ian Davies, Founder and Managing Director, ISYS Search Software explained, ''EMC has a well-established reputation for delivering market-leading information infrastructure solutions, and we've found that a significant portion of our customer base relies on its enabling technologies. Through our ECI adapter, EMC customers are able to gain greater access to enterprise content at a much lower cost than competing solutions, all of which increases the value customers derive from their investments in ISYS and EMC.''
By creating its ECI Adapter, ISYS now provides ECI Services customers with a cost-effective, high-performance search engine, enabling customers to include ISYS:web indexes in their searches, as well as providing administrators with the ability to incorporate content not already indexed by other tools. In addition, ISYS' ECI Adapter communicates with ISYS:web via HTTP, allowing the server to exist virtually anywhere and still provide quick, accurate results.
ISYS and EMC are longtime partners. ISYS:sdk, one of ISYS' flagship products in its enterprise search software suite, provides the indexing and retrieval backbone for EMC's EmailXtender and DiskXtender products. For more about this, and other ISYS OEM partnerships, please visit: www.isys-search.com/partners/oempartners.html.
Established in 1988, ISYS Search Software is a global supplier of enterprise search technology for business and government. The company's award-winning software suite offers a broad range of search, navigation and discovery solutions for desktop search, intranet search, SharePoint search and embedded search applications. ISYS has been deployed by thousands of organizations operating in a variety of industries, including government, legal, law enforcement, financial services, healthcare and recruitment. ISYS serves its global base of customers via operations in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom. The company's customers include the International Data Group, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Boeing, Cisco Systems, EMC Corporation, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Miami Police Department, Sheppard Mullin Richter and Hampton, LLP, TOWER Software, the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Department of Justice.
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News: Web Hosting Reseller, Applied Innovations, Supports ASP.NET 3.5, Visual Studio
Boca Raton, Florida - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 4, 2007 - Web hosting firm, Applied Innovations, a Microsoft Gold Certified provider of the Windows-based ASP.NET, Microsoft SQL server, shared and application hosting solutions, now supports ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 on all of its hosting plans.
The new version of ASP.NET, developed by Microsoft, introduces a variety of new features not available in the previous version of the popular development framework. Namely, ASP.NET 3.5 supports Language Integrated Query (LINQ), allowing developers to utilize code written in LINQ-enabled languages. It also offers more robust ASP.NET AJAX integration, allowing developers to create more efficient, interactive, and personalized web experiences compatible with most browsers.
Jess Coburn, CEO, Applied Innovations noted, ''We are committed to providing developers with the most efficient, cutting-edge technologies needed to build robust and user friendly Web experiences. ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 allow developers to create applications in a new, more effective and user-friendly environment. It is important our customers have access to these new resources and important to us to be able to offer them.''
Through its relationship with Microsoft, Applied Innovations has worked with ASP.NET 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 since the products were released in early beta versions. With the announcement, Applied Innovations has also introduced two new hosting promotions--offering up to 6 months of free hosting with full support for Visual Studio 2008, Visual Web Developer 2008, and ASP.NET 3.5.
In the fall, the company added two new reseller plans, to allow developers to host unlimited ASP.NET sites on reseller accounts.
Previously, the company had offered a single, standard WebSeller plan. With the changes, Applied Innovations now offers three unique plan choices. The new entry level plan, WebSeller Lite, starts at $17.95/monthly and includes 5GB of disk space, 80GB of monthly data transfer, and support for up to 25 hosted domains. With WebSeller Pro, the newly introduced high-end plan, hosting starts at $89.96/monthly and includes 20GB of disk space, 300 GB of monthly data transfer, and unlimited hosted domains - including unlimited access to ASP.NET.
All plans feature a unique array of developer oriented services, including support for ASP.NET 1.1-2.0; .NET Framework 3.0; Microsoft Silverlight; ASP.NET AJAX; PHP; and both MySQL and MS SQL databases. WebSeller plans are fully private-labeled and hosted with the HELM control panel system on Windows Server 2003.
To learn more about Applied Innovations, please visit: www.appliedi.net.
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News: Friendster Web Hosting Social Networking Site, Incorporates Three Languages
San Francisco, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 4, 2007 - Social networking webhosting site, Friendster, is now available in the top three languages utilized on the Internet, so that 56 Percent, or two thirds of a billion users, may use it in Chinese, Spanish and English.
Users and visitors have a choice of languages to navigate the site, enter content and use Friendster's complete set of social networking features.
David Jones, Vice President of Marketing at Friendster remarked, ''Support for Spanish, used by over 100 million Internet users, including as many as 19 million in the United States, extends Friendster's addressable market to more than half the world.''
Friendster has implemented multi-language support on a single domain -- Friendster.com -- to promote communication and interaction among users who speak different languages. A large percentage of friend networks on Friendster cross borders and continents, requiring multi-language support to be implemented in a single, global web site. While other social networking sites create separate sites for different countries or languages, Friendster is the first global online social network to employ this single-site approach to allow and encourage multi-cultural exchange and communications -- regardless of language -- among users around the world.
Mr. Jones continued, ''Friendster has a large number of bi-lingual users who would like the choice to enter their content and use the site in major non-English languages. Additionally, countless users are looking forward to inviting their friends and family who speak these languages to join them on Friendster.''
Users can permanently or temporarily set their language of choice via links at the top right of every page of the Friendster.com web site or via the ''Settings'' link. Friendster is the #1 social network in the Asia Pacific region and the #3 branded online social network in the world. Today, Friendster has over 54 million registered users globally and 27 million monthly unique visitors as of September 2007.
In the Asia Pacific region, Friendster has over 35 million registered users and 24 million monthly unique visitors(2). Friendster is a top-100 web site in 17 countries on four continents, with active users in more than 75 countries.
ith more than 54 million members worldwide, Friendster is a global online social network. Friendster is focused on helping people stay in touch with friends and discover new people and things that are important to them. Online adults, 18 and up, choose Friendster to connect with friends, family, school, social groups, activities and interests. Friendster prides itself in delivering a clean, user-friendly and interactive environment where users can easily connect with anyone around the world. Friendster has a growing portfolio of patents granted to the company on social networking, with more expected over the next several months. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, Friendster is backed by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers, Benchmark Capital, DAG Ventures and individual investors.
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News: Search Engine Strategies (SES) Chicago, to Feature Post-Conference Workshops
San Diego, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - December 4, 2007 - Search Engine Strategies (SES) in Chicago, through December 7, 2007 at the Chicago Hilton Hotel, will feature President of SiteTuners, Tim Ash, in two live presentations on Landing Page Optimization.
Changes in landing page efficiency can dramatically improve the profitability of your online marketing programs. A half-day, fast-paced and practical hands-on training workshop on "Landing Page Testing Hands On: Developing Your Action Plan; provides a crash course in landing page optimization and testing. It will also help attendees to develop a personal action plan that is tailored to their specific business. The workshop will be held during the post-conference training day on Friday, Dec. 7th from 1-5 p.m.
Mr. Ash noted, ''Landing page optimization is no longer a secret. It has rapidly become the most powerful method that smart Internet marketers use to build a lasting competitive advantage. Well-optimized landing pages can change the economics of your business overnight, and turbo charge your online marketing programs.''
The workshop will address best practices in: -- Defining and measuring the appropriate conversion action -- Modeling the financial benefit of landing page testing -- Understanding the psychology of your audience -- Critical steps in the visitor's decision process -- Picking the right testing method -- Avoiding common testing pitfalls.
All participants will receive a detailed workbook and lecture slides based on Tim Ash's upcoming book Landing Page Optimization: The Definitive Guide To Testing and Tuning For Conversions. Short lecture segments will alternate with practical hands-on work. Participants will complete structured workbook exercises to apply each module to their situation. By the end of the session you will have a complete action plan that can be immediately implemented. All workshop participants will receive a free copy of Mr. Ash's upcoming book, ''Landing Page Optimization,'' availability in January 2008.
Mr. Ash added, ''Many online marketing and acquisition managers may have significant online marketing programs, but don't know where to start with landing page optimization. The workshops and book are great assets to marketers who want to shorten their own learning curve and become a more effective landing page tuner.''
SiteTuners delivers alternative landing page design, using a proprietary TuningEngine technology, running 1000x larger tests on the same available website traffic and considers variable interactions, producing much faster and better results than alternative testing methods. SiteTuners offers a choice of payment options including pay for performance. It also handles all of the work, with minimal impact on clients' staff since there is no need for conversion testing or statistical knowledge. SiteTuners is an operating division of Epic Sky, Inc., a privately held company headquartered in San Diego, California.
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