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. …
There is commotion floating around the net that MyBlogLog will cease to exist next year (2010) January. According to ReadWriteWeb and Search engine land, “sources closed to project” said Yahoo will shut down MyBlogLog next month. Oh! That means just less than 30 days, and no one knows? That’s disappointing! I understand MyBlogLog isn’t hotshot it used to be, but still a significant amount of blogger does use it. It’s been 5 years since MyBlogLog started putting visitors’ faces and profile link on the blog/site. Those who are not well aware, …
We ought to know a lot of malware target Internet Explorer in the past. Obviously in last few years why we have seen a huge number of users are switching to use alternative browsers such as Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Opera. Which used to be a safe computing practice before by many industry experts, but it seems it no longer is; Reason a huge number of malware targeting the most popular alternative Firefox. There is a sneaky new spyware initially pretends to be an Adobe Flash Player update and, when executed on a user’s …
I am well aware that there is millions of folks out there just use windows firewall and antivirus, which comes as a bundle with windows. Well if you want something out of the ordinary and a bit crazy about safety “ZoneAlarm Suite” might be a good candidate to start on. Security software suite are today’s hot business, reason- 75% risk increase on online identity safety and the percentage just keeps going up. Check Point’s Zone Alarm division is refreshing its Zone Alarm Extreme Security Suite. The suite has more than a dozen segments …
There is no doubt that social networking is thriving, well in most parts of the world. It’s so popular that, even a six year old kid knows there is something like-bebo, MySpace, facebook (not in any particular order). Like most of the web 2.0 stuffs Social networking’s popularity relies on power to engage massive community. The enormous success of social network startup like-facebook, twitter, bebo, MySpace definitely attracting hungry businessman. Why? Off course they are trying to figure out a way to utilize this to gain profit.
To be honest 99% social network still lacks any business model that can produce cash, apart from advertising revenue. More …
Most of we probably very well known to the term LAMP, a solution bundle of software, usually free and open source software, used to run dynamic Web sites or servers. Since the original expansion of this stack was Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP (python, Perl etc. programming language) the acronyms made up from first letter from each one. Anyway back to topic- Sun Microsystems today launched its own answer to the LAMP stack “ The GlassFish Portfolio”, which it termed "the most complete, open source, high-performance Web platform" available. That’s a very good news, since Sun GlassFish Portfolio is open source and cost-effective, and could help companies looking to run low-cost, scalable applications. …
If you aren’t yet familiar with Co.mments, it’s a comment tracking system/service which gained quite a boost in popularity among self hosted WordPress users at the time of its launch. Well after couple of years of service, finally it came to an end as yesterday they announced that it will shut down. Pity it will be just one month short of their third anniversary. Every year we saw hundreds may be thousands of start-ups pops up with innovative offers, but more than 75% of them perish under the wheel of time that’s the story of rapidly developing web industry. Unfortunately …
Those who were making some handsome cash with AdSense referral, bad news for them is AdSense Referrals were retired at the end of August 2008. But while closing down one Goggle did open up to new dimension to publishers by starting to offer AdSense for feed. But hey there is more, Google just announced a public beta for AdSense for Games. Yes that’s right beta users of AdSense can display video ads, image ads, or text ads within online games to earn revenue. They’ll be able to show these ads in placements they define, such as interstitial frames before a game, after a level change, or when a game is over. Sweet isn’t it? Hold on before …
Google finally jumped on the Virtual World band wagon, by launching 3D virtual environment platform “Lively” on June 09, 2008. But before you started saying “Ah another Second Life” hold your horses, Google’s lively isn’t entirely a world, on the contrary it’s a virtual space/room, which you can embed to your own web page or blog or even on Facebook profile. To run Google’s lively you should be running either Windows XP or Vista and your browser is IE or Firefox. The whole lively virtual space exists within your browser through a plugin provided by lively. The space and character visualization presents through Flash, so you will need to have …
No matter how well you do domain hack, ICANN defined top label domain name (TLDn) is still adequate and does not reflect uniqueness. It’s estimated that only 17 percent of the original four billion domain addresses remain, and will be depleted in the next five years. So the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a non-profit organization that oversees the Internet’s top-level domains, planning to open up registration of generic top-level domains (gTLD) to anyone who can afford it. Imagine reaching the Apple store at an .apple or .mac Web address, or finding auctions on .ebay. Certainly a lot of we are looking forward to ICANN’s decision to vote on a motion that would allow generic top name …