News: Web Hosting Provider, HostRail.com, Partners with Podcasts
St. Paul, Minnesota - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 7, 2008 - Internet solutions and web hosting provider, HostRail.com, has begun partnering with podcasts, in line with its hosting options and turn-key solutions offerings.
The company provides Internet services on a highly reliable grid technology. HostRail is a privately owned company located in the US with headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota.
The rising cost of web hosting and increased audience downloads have placed a strain on many podcasters who often offer their content free of charge. HostRail's sponsorship exchange program offers much needed relief from these demands.
Dylan Trooien, Manager of HostRail explained, ''We trust that podcasters will be so entirely satisfied with our products' performance that recommending us to their listeners will be something they look forward to doing.''
In exchange for a sponsorship mention on a podcaster's show and website, HostRail offers each podcast free web resources including Virtual Private Servers, Dedicated Servers, bandwidth, among other services.
Christine Prokop, marketing liaison for HostRail added, ''We are actively seeking out podcasters who are interested in receiving free web resources and excellent service. Podcasting is the wave of the future as audiences find expert advice on specific topics through the Internet. At HostRail, we encourage this entrepreneurial trend by offering free services to qualifying podcasters.''
HostRail was founded in 2004 as WhatsYourDomain by Dylan Trooien. The company originated as a domain registrar wholesaler. In 2007, the company expanded into shared and dedicated web hosting. In 2008, HostRail launched a new level of 'Fat' VPS. HostRail is a privately owned company located in the US with headquarters in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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News: Search Engine Strategies, Reveals Finalists, for SEM Conference Awards
Toronto, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 7, 2008 - Search Engine Strategies (SES), has named 43 search engine marketers, as finalists for SEM Conference's First Annual SES Awards.
The 16 winners will be announced throughout SES San Jose during Orion and keynote panels, which are being held August 18-21 at the San Jose Convention Center. The winners will also be recognized in an SES Awards Showcase on Search Engine Watch.
Search Engine Strategies is hosting its first annual SES Awards at SES San Jose in conjunction with its 10th anniversary. Since 1999, Search Engine Strategies (SES) has been the leading international conference series for webmasters, digital agencies, online marketers and corporate decision makers. Over the years, SES has guided search engine marketers of all skill levels through the fast-changing and complex world of search -- the single fastest growing marketing sector.
Kevin Ryan, Vice President, Global Content Director, Search Engine Strategies and SearchEngineWatch.com noted, ''The new Search Engine Strategy Awards offer an excellent opportunity to recognize the best among our peers and to continually raise the bar on accomplishments in this challenging, ever-changing marketing practice.''
The SES Awards are designed to inspire innovation and new ideas in this fast-growing marketing sector. The finalists for SES Awards in the following categories are:
Best Search Engine Ad Platform: Call Genie's CG Advantage; LookSmart AdCenter; and SendTec SearchFactz.
Search Engine with Most Relevant Search Results: Expert System's Cogito Focus (Shift Communications); Local.com (Madison Alexander); and Yahoo!
Most Innovative New Search Engine: YellowBot (Young and Associates); and Expert System's Cogito Focus (Shift Communications).
Technology Platform Search Marketers Can't Live Without : Enquisite (Maven.com); Covario, Inc. (JHG Townsend); and Kenshoo Search SEM Platform (Kenshoo Ltd).
Best SEM Technology Platform for SMBs: LocalLaunch; Enquisite (Maven.com); and Marchex.
Most Innovative Use of Search Engine Optimization: NikeStore (Range Online Media); DoubleClick Performics; and Where 2 Get It Search Locator.
Most Innovative Paid Search Campaign: SearchAdNetwork; Building Blocks for LEGO's Paid Search Media (iCrossing); and Four Seasons Hotels and Resort (Acronym Media).
Best Social Media Marketing Campaign: Alberto-Culver Nexxus (iProspect); Harlequin Romance Report (SEO-PR); and Beaches of South Walton (USDM.net).
Best Business-to-Business Search Marketing Campaign : Microsoft Small Business Center (iProspect); MarketingSherpa (SEO-PR); and Enquiro Search Solutions, Inc.
Best Multi-National Search Marketing Campaign : WebCertain; iCrossing Integrates Global Search Campaign for iCrossing; and SAP (Acronym Media).
Best Use of Local Search: The Container Store (Range Online Media); Storage West Self Storage (Young and Associates); and US Small Business Administration Business Gateway Initiative.
Best Integration of Search with Other Media: Hostage: The Jill Carroll Story (SEO-PR); The Tudors/Showtime (Outrider); and Jaguar XF Oscars (MEC Interaction).
Most Effective Use of Web Analytics: World Travel Holdings CruisesOnly.com (iProspect); iCrossing Measures Results with Mazda Analytics (iCrossing); and Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts (Acronym Media).
Best Web Analytics Platform: Omniture; and Coremetrics (Lewis PR).
Most Advertiser-Friendly Search Engine: Call Genie Interact Voice with Open Location, Open Mobile and Priority Placement; 7Search.com; and Matchpoint.com.
The finalists in the 15 categories listed above will be judged by a panel of industry experts and the SES Awards editorial staff, and the winners chosen based on innovation in methodology and execution, achieving success goals, excellence in tactical execution, and overall approach and category relevance. In addition, the SES Awards editorial staff will exclusively select The Editor's Choice award winner.
Incisive Media PLC is a specialist business information provider, based in the UK with offices in North America, Hong Kong, India and Mainland China. The company's activities are currently built around ten core industry sectors - mortgages; marketing services; financial technology; retail investment; capital markets; risk management; insurance; legal services; private equity and photography. Information is provided via a wide range of channels--in print, in person and online. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange (FTSE: INM).
Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC is the marketing services division of the company and incorporates leading websites Search Engine Watch, the ClickZ Network and its associated events series including Search Engine Strategies. These properties were acquired from Jupiter Media in 2005.
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News: GoDaddy Web Hosting Firm, Donates $50K to Humane Society
Scottsdale, Arizona - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 6, 2008 - Web hosting domain registrar, GoDaddy, assisted the Arizona animal rescue effort, with a $50,000 donation, for the Humane Society's annual telethon.
Go Daddy also used its expertise to organize online donations, helped answer phones and kept the live event's Web site running smoothly. If you watched the telethon you know Go Daddy donated in 'GoDaddy-esque' style too - having their CEO's own dogs deliver the donation on live television.
Bob Parsons, CEO and Founder of Go Daddy noted, ''Max and Chief are quite the dynamic duo.''
This is the third consecutive year Go Daddy co-sponsored the telethon to help animals.
Tim Crum, Executive Director of the Arizona Humane Society remarked, ''Members of our organization are still talking about what a huge help Go Daddy was to us from the start. One year, Go Daddy jumped in to save the telethon's online component, the next year they helped to significantly increase our online contributions and this year they helped us reach our goal in donations.''
While many companies are cutting back resources these days, Go Daddy is expanding its workforce, recorded an Internet-first for number of domain name registrations and made more charitable donations already this year than last.
In 2008, Go Daddy has helped disadvantaged children, Parkinson's research, domestic violence victims, homeless teenagers, flood victims and now abandoned pets, which might otherwise have to be euthanized.
In a typical year, the Arizona Humane Society shelters nearly 50,000 animals. The annual telethon not only raises much needed money for these animals, but also provides educational programs, including how to better care for your pet, fight animal cruelty and adopt a pet.
The Go Daddy Group, Inc. has more than 28 million domain names under management. Go Daddy registers, renews or transfers a domain name every second. GoDaddy.com is the world's No. 1 domain name registrar according to Name Intelligence, Inc. GoDaddy.com is also the largest paid hosting provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. During 2007, The Go Daddy Group registered more than one-third of all domain names registered in the top six generic top-level domains, or gTLDs, including .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz and .mobi.
GoDaddy.com has also been honored by various industry organizations and publications as Best Registrar and Best Hosting Company already this year. In 2007, Go Daddy was named Arizona's Most Innovative Company and Business Leader of the Year.
For more about the Arizona Humane Society please visit: www.azhumane.org.
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News: Google Web Toolkit, Extends GoGrid Cloud Computing Interface
San Francisco, California - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 6, 2008 - Cloud Computing service provider, GoGrid, has recently been selected by the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) team, as a prime example of the Google AJAX development framework in action.
Justin Kitagawa, lead front-end developer for GoGrid noted, ''When we started the GoGrid project, we wanted to push the boundaries of both front end and backend technologies. We were heavily influenced by Google Maps, the new Yahoo! Mail client, and several other state of the art AJAX applications. We wanted to have a thick client feel in the browser but with the performance of a thin client. Thick clients tend to require a much larger download and overhead, yet provide a richer experience, while conversely thin clients are much faster but less engaging visually.''
GoGrid is being showcased on the GWT Featured Project Page. GoGrid's rich, interactive graphical user interface (GUI) is built using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT), an open-source Java development framework which enables GoGrid to provide a quick, responsive and interactive user experience. GoGrid is nominated for Best Virtualization Solution for the LinuxWorld 2008's Product Excellence Awards.
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) allowed GoGrid developers to code, debug and test strong software development best practices and produce a fast, rich, friendly User Interface. GoGrid launched the Cloud Infrastructure product first with a Graphical User Interface and later added an API (Application Programming Interface).
Michael Sheehan, Technology Evangelist at GoGrid added, ''We felt that it was important to reduce the barrier to entry first, and extend the programmatic functionality to developers and system administrators with the introduction of the API later. The use of GWT allowed our developers to be able to do much more with fewer errors, delivering a more robust and graphically pleasing experience to the end-user.''
Many cloud computing providers have chosen to make their offerings visually complex or offer no Graphical Interface whatsoever. GoGrid released its Cloud Computing Infrastructure offering in March 2008, solely with the Graphic Interface because no other providers had looked at delivering ease of use AND control in the cloud at the same time.
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is designed to enable developers to code high-performance AJAX applications by writing the front-end in the Java programming language. GWT compiles the source code into highly optimized JavaScript. Part of the reason that GoGrid chose GWT as the development platform is because GWT produces AJAX apps that:
Load faster than hand-written JavaScript apps
Use smaller, more compact, cacheable code
Automatically support IE, Firefox, Mozilla, Safari, and Opera
GoGrid's easy-to-use graphical interface and now the GoGrid API deliver functionality and strong programmatic control, satisfying the technology requirements of novices to tech-savvy system administrators and developers alike. Users looking for a feature-rich Cloud Computing environment with a fast, flexible and elegant Graphical User Interface (a feature that is missing from Amazon's EC2 offering) now have a GWT-featured, Cloud Computing leader, GoGrid.
GoGrid is a new Cloud Computing hosted, internet service that delivers true "Control in the Cloud." GoGrid enables system administrators, developers and IT professionals to create, deploy, and control load balance cloud servers and complex hosted virtual server networks with full root access and administrative server control in minutes via a unique web control panel or API. GoGrid delivers portal controlled servers for Windows, multiple Linux operating systems (Red Hat Enterprise and CentOS) and supports application environments like Ruby on Rails. Free f5 hardware load balancing and other features are intended to give users the control of a familiar server environment with the flexibility and scalability of the cloud. GoGrid is nominated for Best Virtualization Solution for the LinuxWorld 2008's Product Excellence Awards.
ServePath is a leading managed server provider, delivering custom solutions and managed services to businesses that need powerful Internet hosting platforms. Thousands of companies worldwide look to ServePath for its reliability, customization, and speed. ServePath has a Keynote-rated A+ network and guarantees uptime, backed by a 100% uptime, 10,000% guaranteed Service Level Agreement. The employee-owned company has been in business for six years and operates its own San Francisco data center. ServePath also provides colocation services through its ColoServe division.
With the largest index of websites available on the World Wide Web and the industry's most advanced search technology, Google Inc. delivers the fastest and easiest way to find relevant information on the Internet. Google's technological innovations have earned the company numerous industry awards and citations, including two Webby Awards; two WIRED magazine Readers Raves Awards; Best Internet Innovation and Technical Excellence Award from PC Magazine; Best Search Engine on the Internet from Yahoo! Internet Life; Top Ten Best Cybertech from TIME magazine; and Editor's Pick from CNET. A growing number of companies worldwide, including Yahoo! and its international properties, Sony Corporation and its global affiliates, AOL/Netscape, and Cisco Systems, rely on Google to power search on their websites. A privately held company based in Mountain View, California, Google's investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers and Sequoia Capital.
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News: E-Commerce Solutions Host, Ebix NZ, Ranks in Top Five Companies
Lilburn, Georgia - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 6, 2008 - International supplier of software and e-commerce solutions, Ebix, Inc.'s subsidiary, has been ranked 4th on the list of the most exciting companies to watch for in New Zealand.
The local newspaper, National Business Review (NBR) reported the listing. NBR is the largest business newspaper in New Zealand. The ranking is provided by the prestigious newspaper based on surveys conducted by the New Zealand based strategic business consultancy firm New River. Ebix NZ was the only software company who made it to the top five list. Ebix NZ was ranked 4th behind three insurance companies, namely - ING Life, NZI and AMI.
Two large insurance brokers AON NZ and Crombie Lockwood were rated 5th and 6th respectively. Two large insurance companies Vero and Sovereign were ranked a joint 7th.
A CMMI 5 Company, Ebix, Inc. is a leading international supplier of software and e-commerce solutions to the insurance industry. Ebix provides a series of application software products for the insurance industry ranging from carrier systems, agency systems and exchanges to custom software development for all entities involved in the insurance and financial industries.
Ebix strives to work collaboratively with clients to develop innovative technology strategies and solutions that address specific business challenges. Ebix combines the newest technologies with its capabilities in consulting, systems design and integration, IT and business process outsourcing, applications software, and Web and application hosting to meet the individual needs of organizations.
With sixteen offices spread across the United States, United Kingdom, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, India and Canada, Ebix employs insurance and technology professionals who provide products, support and consultancy to more than 3,000 customers on six continents. Ebix's focus on quality has enabled its development unit in India to be awarded Level 5 status of the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model Integrated (CMMI). Ebix has also earned ISO 9001:2000 certification for both its development and call center units in India.
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