News: Search Engine Firm, Submit Express, Ranks Among Fastest-Growing US Companies
Burbank, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 17, 2008 - Search engine marketing firm, Submit Express, for the second consecutive year, has been ranked among the fastest-growing private companies in the country, by Inc. magazine.
Submit Express is one of the founders of the search engine optimization (SEO) industry, and its reputation for integrity and Internet marketing expertise has attracted many new clients over the past years who are seeking to raise their search engine rankings and increase their website traffic.
Pierre Zarokian, CEO and President of Submit Express remarked, ''Our company has been seeing exponential growth for two reasons. First, search engine marketing (SEM) is a hot field. Everybody wants to rank high in the search engines, and as a company that has been helping websites do that since 1998, Submit Express has more experience and a longer track record of success than anyone in the SEM industry. The second reason we've grown is that our own website has achieved top rankings in Google, Yahoo, and other major search engines for SEM industry-related terms such as 'search engine optimization' and 'search engine submissions.' Companies who see our rankings realize that we can help their websites attain similar results for their industry's most important search terms.''
Submit Express came in at number 1,246 on this year's Inc. 5000 list. In addition, Submit Express was ranked as one of the top 100 fastest-growing companies in the Los Angeles, Long Beach, and Santa Ana, CA area (No. 67) and as one of the top advertising and marketing firms in the entire country (No. 113).
Mr. Zarokian added, ''We have recently expanded our services to include foreign language SEO in Spanish, French, and Russian. In addition, we now offer social media optimization (SMO), which includes things such as creating blogs and participating in social media networks to generate more traffic for our clients. We have already seen a lot of interest in these services since their launch a few weeks ago.''
The 2008 Inc. 5000 list measures revenue growth from 2004 through 2007. To qualify, companies must be U.S.-based and privately held, independent -- not subsidiaries or divisions of other companies -- as of December 31, 2007, and have had at least $200,000 in revenue in 2004 and $2 million in revenue in 2007. Submit Express revenue exceeded $5.8 million in 2007. The company experienced a 303% growth in revenue from 2004 to 2007.
Submit Express, which is celebrating its 10th year in business, offers search engine marketing services and tools geared toward small and mid-size businesses. Submit Express has provided SEO service to over 5,000 companies and the free webmaster tools section at www.submitexpress.com has received over 20 million visitors to date. Submit Express also operates a sister company, iClimber (www.iclimber.com), to target corporate-level clientele.
Inc. is a monthly magazine that provides advice, tools and news to entrepreneurs, business owners and CEOs.
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News: Host for Domain Name Auctions, Oversee.net, Unveils Premium Event
Pompano Beach, Florida - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 16, 2008 - Technology media company, Oversee.net, is preparing for a premium domain name auction, to be conducted in two phases.
The first phase will be a live auction on Thursday, September 25, 2008, at 3:00 pm EDT involving 200 of the very best domains from the catalog.
Nearly 168 million registered domain names are effectively out of circulation, leaving few descriptive or memorable names available for businesses to use to launch a new product or service, or to drive traffic to an existing product or service.
To find those prized domain names that stand out from the competition and can quickly generate traffic and brand awareness, marketing executives as well as Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Search Engine Marketing (SEM) experts are now looking to the domain name aftermarket, including auction providers www.moniker.com and SnapNames.com, Oversee.net companies that are recognized pioneers in domain name registrar and aftermarket services.
More than 2,000 of these premium domain names will be included in an upcoming auction presented by Moniker.com at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. New York domain industry conference. The official auction catalog was released today by Moniker and can be downloaded at www.moniker.com/auction.
For bidders unable to attend the live auction, Moniker offers free, downloadable software provided by SnapNames.com that enables a user to view the auction as it occurs and submit bids in real time. Alternatively, bidders can also submit an absentee bid form or sign up for telephone proxy bidding.
Moniker.com co-founder Monte Cahn highlighted the usability of premium domain names for competitive positioning. The quality of domains in this auction represent unmatched opportunities for investors, businesses and organizations to instantly improve their positioning and SEO or SEM results. Some have existing traffic and all offer instant brand building advantages, whether it's launching a new brand or casting a wider online net to feed an existing brand or website.
After the live auction ends, the second phase of the auction begins. This involves an online-only extended auction containing the remainder of the 2,000+ premium domain names. It will take place from September 25 through October 2. Bidders can link to it by visiting www.moniker.com/auction.
Sample domains from the catalog include:
Ad.com
Adware.com and Adware.net
AffiliateProgram.com
Arizona.info
Ask.Me
Asset.com
AutoBody.com
BabySitting.com
BankStatements.com
Bilingual.com
BirthdayPresents.com
Blonde.com and Blond.com (package)
Bond.com
Buy.Me
CancerResearch.com
CDCollection.com
Clarinet.com
Conferences.com
CreditScores.com
CTR.com
Date.Me
Deposits.com
DiscountDrugstore.com
ElectronicTicketing.com
FinancialAid.com
HomeRun.com
Kiss.Me
LoanCalculator.com
Love.Me
Male.org
Marry.Me
Men.net
Men.org
Mermaids.com
MovieRentals.com
PartyBoat.com
Pay.com
Poem.com
PokerTours.com
Policy.com
PromQueen.com
Property.net
Recruiter.com
Searching.com (portfolio)
Show.Me
Sleep.com
Stock.com
TicketSales.com
US.org
VideoDownloads.com
Warez.com
Warrantied.com
Watch.me
Web.org
Woman.org
The complete catalog is available on the Moniker Domain Auction Headquarters at www.moniker.com/auction. It contains opening bid range prices as well as helpful data for estimating the potential traffic and value of each domain.
DomainCapital once again will be available to offer financing on domain purchases made at the auction. Led by Monte Cahn, Oversee's Aftermarket and Registrar Division, through Moniker and SnapNames, offers businesses and individual investors a complete array of Domain Asset Management services to protect and grow the value of their internet domain names. Services include name creation, registration, acquisition, portfolio management, appraisal and escrow services as well as after-market sales and live auctions. Oversee provides a single point of contact over the entire life cycle of domain ownership, including name procurement, management, monetization and sales.
Moniker is a top 10 domain registrar and an industry pioneer who introduced the concept of live domain auctions and the industry's first domain appraisal formula. SnapNames operates the largest auction of expired and deleting domain names and gives its customers exclusive first access to the world's largest inventory of high-traffic, brand-able and investment-grade domain names every day. For more information, visit www.snapnames.com and www.moniker.com.
Founded in 2000 by Lawrence Ng and Fred Hsu, Oversee.net is a technology-driven online marketing solutions company, with two primary divisions - Oversee Domain Services and Oversee Marketing Services. Headquartered in Los Angeles with offices in Portland, Oregon, and Pompano Beach, Florida, the company has over 200 employees. Some of Oversee's key brands include SnapNames, Moniker, DomainSponsor, LowFares.com, Low.com and IdentityTheft.com.
For more information about Oversee.net, please visit: www.oversee.net.
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News: Yahoo! Search Engine Firm, Expands Mobile Development Platform
San Francisco, California - (Cheap Web Hosting Directory) - September 16, 2008 - Search engine company and web hosting provider, Yahoo!'s Blueprint mobile development platform, can be used to build standalone applications for Java, Windows Mobile and Symbian devices, in addition to creating widgets.
In addition, it is possible to create mobile web sites accessible via virtually any HTML or xHTML mobile browser. Today, Yahoo! has released developer previews of these new enhancements, further cementing Yahoo! Blueprint's distinction as the only platform enabling developers to create powerful and compelling mobile services that run seamlessly across thousands of different devices. Yahoo! is using Blueprint internally to develop iPhone applications and is in discussion with Apple on how to make Blueprint for the iPhone available to other developers.
Marco Boerries, Executive Vice President, Yahoo! Connected Life noted, ''Developing applications for the fragmented mobile ecosystem is a Herculean effort that often results in developers creating an application that serves the least common denominator of mobile devices with a poor user experience, and an inability to effectively scale. Yahoo! Blueprint solves the most challenging problem plaguing today's mobile landscape -- now with one click, you can write once and have mobile services run across a critical mass of devices and operating systems, potentially reaching millions of users. We believe Yahoo! Blueprint is simply the best way to create mobile Internet services -- and we expect will change the world of mobile development moving forward.''
Yahoo!'s leading mobile offerings are built on Yahoo! Blueprint, enabling them to run on thousands of devices globally. Yahoo!'s new Fantasy Football mobile widget was also written in Yahoo! Blueprint, and includes advertising from major brands, including Chex Mix. Additional key products that have been launched that are written in Blueprint include:
-- the mobile widget gallery in Yahoo! Go 3.0 with content from eBay, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, ABC News;
-- Yahoo! properties including Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Finance and others;
-- Yahoo!'s award-winning Yahoo! oneSearch;
-- and today's announcement of Yahoo! oneConnect, which was created in conjunction with the iPhone SDK
Michael Gartenberg, VP of mobile strategy, Jupitermedia/mobiledevicestoday.com commented, ''Yahoo! is laying the groundwork for an extraordinary opportunity -- something that is potentially more important than building a new operating system. Yahoo! Blueprint will enable developers to write their application and get distribution across many devices -- ultimately achieving Yahoo!'s goal of reaching hundreds of millions of users.''
Key Highlights of the Bluepring Platform include:
-- Faster development time -- develop your mobile content quicker and more efficiently than ever before;
-- Beautiful user interface -- optimizes and renders the presentation of your content based on the unique device capabilities;
-- Powerful feature set -- such as maps and location based services, with more features expected to become available in the near future;
-- Thousand of devices -- runs across a wide range of phones, from smart phones to low-end devices; and
-- Completely open -- anyone can develop their application, with customizable features and monetization options.
In addition to being the mobile platform for Yahoo!'s key mobile offerings, Yahoo! Blueprint contains a full SDK for third-party developers. By submitting Yahoo! Blueprint applications to Yahoo!'s mobile widget gallery, developers can make their applications available potentially to millions of mobile users around the world. To date, mobile users have downloaded applications written in Yahoo! Blueprint across thousands of mobile devices from manufactures including Research in Motion®, Nokia, Motorola, and others, getting a user experience specially optimized for their device. Developers can now turn to Yahoo! to alleviate the cumbersome process of porting and rendering their application across a wide variety of devices, while also taking advantage of Yahoo!'s extensive mobile distribution network.
In a series of partnerships that Yahoo! hopes will expand the adoption of Yahoo! Blueprint on the mobile Internet, Yahoo! has teamed up with leading mobile web development houses Crisp Wireless, m.Net Corporation and Netbiscuits to offer their extensive client list the ability to have their mobile web properties developed on Yahoo! Blueprint. These partnerships should allow for a substantial increase in the distribution for the enablers' clients, as well as align Yahoo! Mobile with some of the largest mobile web development companies today. These partnerships are the latest step in Yahoo!'s efforts to link developers, publishers and carriers into an integrated mobile ecosystem.
Michael Weaver, Vice President, Strategy for Crisp Wireless noted, ''Crisp Wireless is excited about furthering its relationship with Yahoo! through its accreditation to offer Blueprint to our premier network of mobile content sites. It is a win-win scenario for all parties involved -- our clients will have the ability to be Yahoo! Blueprint compliant, and further expand their mobile audienceand Yahoo! will have access to some of the biggest brand names and most visible sites on mobile web.''
Horden Wiltshire, CEO of m.Net Corporation remarked, ''Our partnership with Yahoo! for the development of Yahoo! Blueprint widgets is a terrific opportunity to showcase our creative capabilities knowing that the outcome will run across most devices in the US.''
Michael Neidhoefer, CEO of Netbiscuits explained, ''We are honored to be chosen by Yahoo! as a preferred mobile Internet enabling and publishing platform. Blueprint is a milestone in mobile widget development. Integrating Blueprint into the Netbiscuits platform was an obvious step to make it easier and more efficient than ever before for publishers to create mobile websites and widgets with one platform which run perfectly in the most popular mobile browsers on this planet as well as in Yahoo Go 3.0.''
To learn more, please visit: http://mobile.yahoo.com/developers.
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News: Web Hosting Tutorials for DotNetPanel, Released by DemoWolf
Nova Scotia, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 15, 2008 - Web hosting industry flash tutorial firm, DemoWolf, has launched a set of two new tutorials, including 22 for the DotNetPanel end-user series, and the DotNetPanel reseller series, consisting of 15 demos.
DotNetPanel is a hosting control panel growing in popularity among Windows hosting providers. With these two new tutorial series, web hosts who offer DotNetPanel to their customers will be able to offer help in using DotNetPanel by making these tutorials available from their support pages. These tutorials cover all aspects of using DotNetPanel.
Rob Moore, President of DemoWolf explained, ''When web hosts purchase tutorials from DemoWolf, we customize them for the host by placing their company logo in the first and last frame of every tutorial. By making support tutorials available to customers, hosting companies are saving upwards of 80% on their support tickets because instead of calling your support department, customers will watch the tutorials, and get the instruction they need themselves.''
DemoWolf now claims to be the largest tutorials provider in the hosting industry, offering over 2000 flash tutorials for hosting companies, including 600+ voice tutorials (flash tutorials that include voice audio narration). DemoWolf is also the fastest growing tutorials provider, adding between 100 and 200 new tutorials every month. Available tutorials include cPanel, Plesk, Helm, H-Sphere, DotNetPanel, Virtuozzo, Direct Admin, Email and FTP applications, Domain Registrars, Private Nameservers, phpMyAdmin, WordPress and many more. New series to be released shortly include PayPal VOICE, H-Sphere 3.1 (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice), and Plesk 8.3 for Windows (end-user and reseller series, voice and non-voice).
DemoWolf has also extended their summer-long sale due to popular demand, whereby all their tutorials are on at 50% off regular prices. This sale is extended through to September 30, 2008. Orders received during regular business hours are usually filled within 1 hour, while off-hours orders are filled the following morning.
DemoWolf continues to add new tutorials to the inventory, and will be releasing voice versions of Horde, SquirrelMail, and Plesk 8 for Windows shortly. DemoWolf now has over 1800 ready-made custom branded tutorials for the web hosting industry, including tutorials for cPanel, Plesk, Helm, H-Sphere, Virtuozzo, Direct Admin, Email and FTP applications, Domain Registrars, Private Nameservers, phpMyAdmin, RVSiteBuilder, and many more. DemoWolf is the fastest growing tutorial provider in the industry. Tutorials currently in production include WordPress, phpBB2, WHMCS, CubeCart, Plesk 8.2, Drupal, and Gallery.
For more information about DemoWolf, please visit: www.demowolf.com.
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News: Website Applications, Widgets Platform, Debut at DEMOfall 2008
San Diego, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - September 15, 2008 -
The Toolgether firm has unveiled its new online marketplace and platform, designed to allow for the creation, use, sharing, distribution, embedding, and monetization of web apps and widgets.
The service launches into private beta today and the first 500 to sign up here (http://is.gd/2gRW) can gain access to the site to share their Web apps and webify their offline apps quickly and easily.
Chris Shipley, Executive Producer of DEMO Conferences noted, ''As cloud computing adoption grows and more software applications move online, many companies and consumers will move away from traditional software and embrace the growing number of Web apps and online tools becoming available. Toolgether introduces a unique platform and marketplace to help IT professionals, developers and countless computer hobbyists turn their offline apps into Web apps for easy sharing, distributing, embedding and monetizing.''
When the service goes into public beta in a few months, small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) and publishers can utilize the Toolgether marketplace to search, discover and find helpful apps to embed in their Web sites and blogs in order to boost productivity and bring added value to their customers and visitors. In addition, consumers can visit Toolgether to find helpful tools in a variety of categories. For example, possible tools could include: -- Education: school tuition comparison; online test preparation tool -- Health: BMI index; drug and symptom lookup -- Legal: promissory note generator; provisional patent application generator -- Parenting: fertility calculator; college IRA planning -- Personal Finance: mortgage calculator; investment portfolio analysis -- Mobile: SMS message sending tool; location-based services tools -- Travel: get real-time traffic info in an area; find hotel and restaurant info in an area -- Web: find Google page rank; SEO analysis of a Web page -- Social Networking: find connections between your Twitter friends; find out who among your Digg friends routinely Digg your submissions -- Video/Photo: image resizing tool; Web video converter tool for easy conversion of different video file formats to flash video (.flv files)
For users who have created simple desktop apps and want to webify, share and monetize them, they simply use Toolgether's Web Application Interface Builder. In five simple steps, the user's app is ready for sharing with friends, family and others. And, Toolgether even gives these users a platform for monetizing their apps by sharing in revenue when others embed the apps on their sites and blogs. Initially, the Toolgether Web App Interface Builder works for Java-based apps, but will later support other programming languages.
Toolgether lowers the barrier to bringing simple command line applications online. With Toolgether, users don't have to find a domain name and hosting provider, create a Web site, or code in HTML. With Toolgether's unique platform, casual developers, IT professionals, computer hobbyists and others can effortlessly webify their existing Java-based applications in minutes to create useful online Web apps that can be easily shared, embedded, and monetized.
Toolgether is flexible with no vendor lock-in. Developers can host apps at Toolgether, or on their own servers, desktop, and notebook computers, or embed the apps on a site or blog hosted elsewhere.
Anyone can use the apps and tools on Toolgether's site for free -- or pay a small monthly subscription to embed the widgets on their own Web site, blog, or Intranet. For developers, the site offers a place to distribute their applications and an opportunity to generate revenue from those apps. To learn more or be invited to participate in the private beta visit http://www.toolgether.com.
Produced by Network World Events and Executive Forums, the semi-annual DEMO conferences focus on emerging technologies and new products, which are hand-selected from across the spectrum of the technology marketplace. The DEMO conferences have earned their reputation for consistently identifying tomorrow's cutting-edge technologies, and have served as launch pad events for companies such as Palm, E*Trade, Handspring, and U.S. Robotics, helping them to secure venture funding, establish critical business relationships, and influence early adopters. Each DEMO conference features approximately 70 new companies, products and technologies. For more information, visit http://www.demo.com.
Headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and founded in March 2008, Toolgether is an online marketplace and platform that allows anyone to create, use, share, distribute, embed, and monetize Web app widgets. Toolgether offers developers, IT professionals, and countless computer hobbyists an easy way to 'webify' offline apps in a matter of minutes.
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