Archive for June, 2008

Zend And Brain Alliance Enter in Partnership For the Finnish Market

Today, Zend Technologies and Brain Alliance Solutions Ltd entered into a partnership and marked the first partnership of the PHP company in Finland. The new partnership entitle Brain Alliance solutions Ltd to resell Zend’s products and deliver Zend’s PHP related training courses in the country. Zend’s products include Zend Studio for Eclipse, an integrated development environment, Zend Guard to encrypt source code written in PHP, Zend Platform which is a platform for critical and scalable web services, and Zend Core which is a certified stack of PHP. “With partnership, we strengthen our position as a PHP focused solution provider. And we can offer larger scale of solutions and services to our customers.” says Jukka Hassinen, the CEO of Brain Alliance Solutions Ltd. “It has been nice to see that the use of open source technologies such as PHP and Zend Framework has grown in Finland. Our clients have indicated their interest to get training related to PHP and Zend Framework.” says Mr. Hassinen who went to Israel to make the partnership contract with Zend together with consultant Mikko Hämäläinen, at the same they met the one of the founders of PHP, Zeev Suraski.

Panther Express Delivers the Pictures that Make the Sales at PriceMinister.com, top French eCommerce Site

E-Commerce and Internet retailers need to get their product images, video and rich media delivered smoothly and quickly if they want to move product. Panther does that. Panther significantly improves the user experience by creating an online environment that is…

Technorati Media, The Advertising Network from Technorati

Technorati have recently joined the blogging advertising network business by launching their Blog Ad Network Technorati Media . The new service will compete with ad networks such Federated Media and Glam, and will provide advertising on CPM basis with negotiable rates. Early advertisers on the network include Honda, Acura, Toyota, t-mobile, Adobe, HP, Sandisk, MSFT, Verizon, Sun, Sony, Visa, Nike, Scion, Chevrolet, Paramount, Universal Pictures, 20th Century Fox and Best Buy, according to TechCrunch. This have been after that Technorati raised $7.5 million of financing according to a regulatory filing.

Cube Evolution Chooses SourceGuardian To Protect Its Software

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UK – June 24th, 2008 – SourceGuardian , an encryption product developed in-house by Newcastle-based Inovica Ltd., keeps Cube Evolution’s Web Content Management System from falling into the wrong hands. When Cube Evolution created its CMS software, CEO John Dudley realized the product was vulnerable to programming theft. Any customer who purchased the system could easily see the source code and take any of the programming language.

BlogRolled, You can Monetize your Blogroll also !

Shawn Nafziger have just launched BlogRolled , a new service to help bloggers monetize their Blogroll and make even more money. The concept is very easy, you register as a blogger and then you select one of the blogrolls available and related to your website. Place piece of code in your pages and you are done. Every month payment is made to your paypal account and you can find a detailed report on your payments. For advertisers BlogRolled aims to help with search engine optimizations. Advertise choose from one of the available categories of publishers, and once they purchase a link it will be automatically available within 48 hours, sounds very long but you should expect great results depending on the bloggers that are sharing their blogrolls. Interesting idea to monetize blogrolls and benefit from Natural Search Benefits, User Friendly and Benchmarks.

How to create an optimized version of your website for the iPhone in symfony 1.1

Symfony blog have a very interesting article to help you create an iPhone version of your website . This is made easy with the new native support for different mime types introduced in Symfony 1.1. symfony 1.1 introduces native support for different formats and mime-types. This means that the same model and controller can have different templates based on the requested format. Thanks to the new format support in symfony 1.1, developing websites that supports Web Services, API or the iPhone has never been easier. Supporting a new format is as easy as creating a new set of templates

Google Notebook Integration with PHP

Vikram Vaswani have written an interesting article over IBM developerWorks on processing and integration of Google Notebook data with PHP . In the article, the author explains how to use the Google Notebook REST API to build PHP-based client applications. Google Notebook is a free service that allows users to save and share notes and Web clippings in an online journal. A REST-based API allows developers to build customized PHP applications around this service using SimpleXML. In this article, you learn how to use the API, with examples of reading notebooks and notebook contents using PHP.

50 Cool Things You Can Do with Google Charts API

If you know Google Charts, you might have a look at this great collection of 50 cool things you can do with google charts API . If you just want to have fun with charts, for mapping, tracking, Integration, Finance, Business, Education, At Home, Showing Off, or any other thing, be sure to check this out ! Chartophiles, have you heard that Google has made it incredibly easy to generate your own slick-looking charts? It’s true, and all it takes to make one is the ability to read and edit a URL. This has made it possible for lots of people to get creative with charts.

Firefox 3 Download Day, A New Guinness World Record Is Coming

The Firefox community is joining forces this Friday to realize a new Guinness world record for highest software download in 24h ! Firefox3 is going to make the Buzz this week and certainly getting higher market share against Internet Explorer. The official date for the launch of Firefox 3 will be posted really soon in the next days, so for now you can pledge to get Firefox 3 during Download Day to set the Guinness World Record for Most Software Downloaded in 24 Hours. Until today 718,034 pledges from all over the world, 15% of them from US, then 7.5% Poland and 7.5% from Brasil. You also could be involved and be part of this mission impossible http://www.spreadfirefox.com/worldrecord .

XRMS, Open Source CRM, SFA and BI Solution

XRMS is a web-based application for managing business entities such as employees, customers, contacts, activities with those contacts, etc. XRMS could be classified under CRM, SFA or BI, and basically if your company needs to manage relationships with your customers and business partners, XRMS should be able to fulfill your needs. You can use XRMS to integrate and manage your sales, service, and marketing data in a single information store. XRMS has the enterprise capabilities to become a single system of record for storing activities, files, and other interaction data with your customers, employees, partners, and prospects. And, it is easily extensible to support your own processes and procedures for interacting with and supporting your customers.