Saturday, April 12, 2008

Web Hosting Applications Firm, Parallels, Acquires ModernBill


Renton, Washington- (The Hosting News) - March 27, 2008 - Server virtualization firm, Parallels, has entered into a merger acquisition of ModernGigabyte, the creators of the ModernBill automated billing system, while preparing for its Summit 2008.

Parallels will acquire all of the assets of ModernGigabyte, including products, services, intellectual property, and staff. ModernGigabyte products include: hosting and service provider billing system, ModernBill, real-time payment and credit card processing service, ModernAuthorize, automated delivery system for SSL cetificates, SSL Factory, automated domain registration service, ModernDNS, and real-time fraud checking service for online ordering, FraudGuardian. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Parallels plans to maintain the current pricing structure of the products.

ModernBill may be offered along with Plesk for a complete reseller package, for dedicated hosting providers. Parallels ISV partners that have deployed the Application Packaging Standard (APS), will have a ready to deliver solution, for hosting companies to sell products.

The latest version of ModernBill is hoped to be the ideal complement to the Parallels family of control panels including Plesk, Virtuozzo, Parallels Pro and Helm. Development will continue to be performed by our development team and support processes will remain in place to ensure no interruption to your existing business. The acquisition will provide access to a wider array of resources to maintain the product more efficiently and effectively over the long term.

In the near future, Plesk will be bundled with ModernBill by many of Parallels channel partners, to provide one of the most advanced control panel integrations produced to date.

Finally, Parallels is preparing for its Summit 2008, scheduled to take place in Washington DC from May 19-20, instead of its regular gathering in Louisville for its 4th Annual Hosting Workshop. Parallels will combine its resources to offer all of the traditional labs in the past, along with the new activities scheduled.

Parallels (formerly SWsoft) is a worldwide leader in virtualization and automation software that optimizes computing for consumers, businesses, and service providers across all major hardware, operating systems, and virtualization platforms. Founded in 1999, Parallels is a fast-growing company with 900 employees in North America, Europe, and Asia.

To learn more about the Summit, please visit: www.parallels.com/summit.

For more information about Parallels, please visit: www.parallels.com.

Do You Have What It Takes for Affiliate Marketing?

Affiliate marketing isn't for the weak of heart. If you want to be successful and make money from it, you need determination and motivation. Without these qualities, you simply can't make enough money to benefit. If you haven't yet become an affiliate marketer but have been thinking about joining "the game," here are some things you should know about the business. You might even benefit from reading this if your marketing campaign has grown stagnant.

• Can you focus on a specific product, service or range of products and services? The best affiliate marketers have a sharp focus on a niche market. Find something that you know about and enjoy doing, or else you increase your risk of failing.

• Can you stay with one affiliate for a long time? Don't go from affiliate to affiliate. Find one or two and stick with them. It might take some time at first to see some success, but it'll happen if you’re patient.

• Can you keep going as you learn? Everything on the Internet is constantly changing. Affiliate marketing is no different. But you can't take time to learn everything before you start your campaign. Learn as you go and implement new ideas and information as needed.

• Can you market yourself as well as your products? Of course it's good to market your products, but you can gain trust in the online world by marketing yourself and creating relationships with customers.

• Can you offer something to potential clients? The most successful affiliate marketers achieve success because they offer advice, free products or quality content to people who visit their websites. Promote your services or products without exaggerating, and people will trust you.

newsflashr - Single-page aggregator to fast-track headline news!

Few days back we wrote about popurls - a single page aggregator to track what’s happening in the world.

Today we are reviewing newsflashr, a newly launched single page aggregator with much more options.

As explained by its founder Gal Arav,

The advantage newsflashr offers when compared to other automated aggregators, such as Google News, is that by extracting popular keywords from the news headlines at all the top news sources, our system makes it transparently obvious to the user why certain news topics are being given more attention than others.

What immediately catches eyes is top navigation menu to switch between 8 different categories - world, business, elections, technology, science, health, showbiz, sports. So you can choose to read only what interests to you!

Those who prefer to navigate sites using tags, a “hot news topic cloud” is displayed in right side in each category.

Other options includes…

  • option to sort headlines by time (freshness) or alexa rank (authority)
  • option to adjust topic freshness
  • aesthetic options like changing background color, font-size, etc

With so many options to customize, newsflashr seems promising. We wish good luck to Gal’s newsflashr!

Link: newsflashr

Further Reading…
  • PopUrls - best place to know what’s happening in the world!
  • MyToday - Free RSS Feed to SMS / Email Service!
  • Best Sites To Compare Blogs, Forums, Wikis, CMS, Messengers and more!
  • NetMeter - Free Bandwidth Manager To Keep Track of Internet Usage! [Windows Download]
  • 3 Free E-Mail Image-Signature Generators To Style Your Email Address!