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Online game economy
Video Gaming industry hasn’t been this popular ever, average video game users are just climbing up by minutes. Video game industry is already a huge economical power house and it’s getting huger. The scenario is a lot different than what its used to be 5 years ago. Console games are not making money, while online and mobile games are taking over the market. Currently online and mobile games generates about 35% of total game industries revenue, and it’s market share growing. The way it’s going Consol game will be a relic like thingy in near future. So why is such a boom we are seeing in gaming economy? Console games revenue model was typical selling the game model, which don’t exactly fit for today’s gaming economy. On the other hand today’s online and mobile games got strong revenue models, based on user demand & supply rather than sales revenue, well most of them. For example- FarmVille, created by Zynga, an online gaming company based in San Francisco, has become a web phenomenon, played by more than 56 million people within three months of its launch, making it the fastest-growing social game on the internet. After the United States, Britain has…
Leading ecommerce platform review: dashCommerce
We all aware of that finding an open source software based on Microsoft technology is like searching for needle in a hay stack, let alone a suitable one. dashCommerce is one of those very rare open source .NET ecommerce platforms in the wild, other two available option you have- DotShoppingCart and nopCommerce (we will come to these two in the future). dashCommerce formerly known as the Microsoft Commerce Starter Kit, is a complete CMS (Content Management System) and ecommerce open source solution. Current stable version dashCommerce 3.0 is quite flexible and robust in nature, as it’s incorporates all three major components of an ecommerce application: Product Catalog Shopping Cart Order Fulfillment Key Features Key features of dashCommerce: One page checkout Drop-In skinning / themes Configurable shipping and tax rates Drop-In Provider Model for- Shipping Providers Payment Providers Tax Providers (US and Canada only. Real-time. Tax tables are updated monthly. Requires Yearly Subscription) Coupon Providers Simple model for creating Sku’s Partial Refunds Product cross sales & automatic thumbnail generation for images. Fully Localizable, currently translated into 11 languages. Drawbacks Well until now everything sounds cool right? you found a .NET ecommerce platform, which happens to be open source and…
Leading ecommerce platform review: PrestaShop
PrestaShop is what we consider a one-stop shop and a lot simpler to install and setup than most open source ecommerce platform. This is a scalable open source platform, which means it can grow as your business grows. PrestaShop is a free solution, and their easy-to-use back office tool allows anyone, regardless of skill level, to use and maintain an online store (sort of like ecommerce for dummies ). PrestaShop is available under the Open Software License and officially launched in August 2007 for small to medium-sized businesses. The software, which is based on the Smarty template engine, has approximately 24,000 active stores as of August 2009. Two dude name Igor Schlumberger and Bruno Lévêque from Paris founded PrestaShop. Official PrestaShop 1.0 was released on July 31, 2008. PrestaShop is based on LAMP solution stack. This makes it preferable choice for new startups, small or medium size companies looking to start online shopping web site. The makers of PrestaShop have an official marketplace for priced modules and themes entitled PrestaStore. The store houses both free and paid modules (Note some paid modules can be very expensive). They also have a turkey based e-shop solution dubbed as PrestaBox which runs on…
Leading ecommerce platform review: Magento
Varien a LA based Web firm turn ecommerce platform provider developed Magento, one of the most vibrant, feature rich open source ecommerce platform. Varien was founded in 2001 which worked with osCommerce. They originally planned to fork osCommerce but later decided to rewrite it as Magento. Though Magento version 1 publicly launched on March 31, 2008, the official development started way back in early 2007. Magento is built on components of the Zend Framework. It’s available under the Open Software License version 3.0. Since version 1.1.7 some parts are licensed under the Academic Free License version 3.0. On April 15, 2009 Enterprise Edition, a paid for version of Magento is being introduced for large companies. This version provides a service agreement with Varien and starts at $11k+ USD/ year (It’s a shit load of money-well it’s definitely worth though). So if you are counting evolution lifecycle Magento is just 2 years old, seriously underage compare to all those expensive horn blowing propriety ecommerce software. But guess what? It’s all the things anyone can expect from professional web stores. Honestly I’ve never seen another ecommerce platform well architected and well designed as Magento. It’s robust, simple to use/customize and dripping with…
e-commerce evolved
There was a time when e-commerce was either costly bespoke development or extension of popular CMS . But those days are long gone, last few years e-commerce development really started to take off. e-commerce has its own platforms to choose from for easier and rapid development and deployments. e-commerce platforms gain immense amount of popularity not only among clients but as well to the developers due to the fact is: It’s easier and faster to go in production phase. Able to deliver feature rich online stores. Integrated SEO, analytics functionalities. Easier to install, deploy and maintain. Searching and sorting makes easier. Scalability Import/export support for products listing saves huge amount of time. Integration of payment system on the fly. The impact of e-commerce software/platforms on e-commerce industry is just revolutionary. Whole aspects of how do you run an online store simply redefined. I still remember when “osCommerce”, a PHP based open source e-commerce platform was introduced back in 2000 when I was still a college student. The platform received overwhelming popularity, within a short span of time of release. Off course the lack of an add-on/plugin architecture, security vulnerabilities limited its growth compare to initial reception. Anyway that’s another story,…
Online shopping series A: Spare Parts Warehouse
The mass improvements of Internet technology and virtualization bring us in a stage where we nearly buy/want to buy everything from online. But as the online shopping spree grows so is the online scam and fraud. There are thousands of online shopping sites out there with lowest quality products (that they can’t sell on site), some with zero customer care, much worse some are just crooks/frauds. So they only way to be safe is buying from someone reliable, certified by proper authority. In United States BBB online reliability program is one such scheme, where they scrutinizes online companies to adhere some basic guidelines to make online shopping safer for consumers. Spare Parts Warehouse is a member of BBB online reliability program, which is a fantastic online shopping place for laptop parts such as laptop batteries, hard drives, AC adapters, DVD/CDRWs, LCD displays, etc. Spare Parts Warehouse is a subsidiary service of Dayton, OH based UCR LLC, which has a long illustrated 22 years of service track. Apart from just laptop parts sales, they do have an outstanding Laptop LCD Screens & Laptop Screens repair service, which is well within the reasonable cost. And hey they are an Authorized Laptop Repair…
ICANN will test non-roman character TLD
Up until now ICANN, the organization that assigns Internet domain names was busy with different TLDs to make free domain hosting more custom, but always limited within roman characters. It’s been a long time coming. A little over seven years ago, ICANN, committed to the idea of providing support for internationalization of those names. ICANN has now announced that the first sites using fully internationalized domain names will be accessible to Internet users starting Monday (15th Aug 2007). On Monday ICANN will begin testing of whether allowing the character sets of 11 languages to be included in top-level domains (TLDs) causes widespread online anarchy. Currently, the use of non-Roman characters is allowed in all portions of the domain name before the TLD extension. As a result, a site with content that’s entirely in the Japanese alphabet can have the TLD name portion of its URL in Japanese, yet the TLD still needs to end in an “.org” or “.com” in Roman characters. The changes that come Monday are an important step towards the ultimate internationalization. ICANN’s president, Dr Paul Twomey says- This will be one of the biggest changes to the Internet since it was created….This evaluation represents ICANN’s most…
The minority report is real, thanks to MS Surface
Let’s begin this with a very simple question, what is the most fundamental means of interaction with a physical object? Undeniably the answer would be “Touch” or “Grab”. Microsoft re-introduced that very basic method of interaction recently at the D: All Things Digital conference in Carlsbad, California, with the launch of Surface. Six years ago Stevie Bathieche and Andy Wilson of Microsoft had a concept to mix virtual and physical worlds to bring a rich interactive experience. Half Dozen years later, Microsoft today revealed its plans for Microsoft Surface, the first product of its class. The technology, the formerly code-named Milan, lets Microsoft turn a seemingly ordinary surface, such as a tabletop or a wall, into a computer. Surprised? Don’t be, because it’s just the beginning of the end of our fundamental thought process when it comes to digital content manipulation. With MS surface you can actually grab the data or digital content with your hands and move between objects with natural gesture like touch, slide etc. Isn’t it so close to “Minority Report” like world? Well Pete Thompson, general manager of Microsoft’s surface computing group did say “It will feel like Minority Report”. The concept is simple: Users interact…
Online business portal-Alibaba
There was such a time when business community used to gather in country clubs or aristocratic restaurants/bars to exchange views and information for mutual benefits. Those sorts of clubs still do exist, which are strictly limited to members and memberships are hard to come by. But business world did changed a lot, especially when more and more industry started to have their cyber journey. In this new age we have new kinds of portals, the online portals where business community gathers for mutual benefits, by breaking down the aristocratic, national, international, and cultural barriers. Sounds world-shattering isn’t it . As you must know by now that, we are living in age which sometimes referred as crowdsourced or more popularly as “Web 2.0” era. There are lots of social community portals, where people mingle, find friends, mates for their social life. But business isn’t just about meeting people, which require a lot more, since common benefits are at stake. So obviously business needs to have its own portal or community, where sole purpose of people’s gathering is one common goal-“Doing Business”. So let’s get on with it, here is my choice for this series: Alibaba Most probably the biggest and most…
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