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Dynapp Partners with The Planet

July 22nd, 2010 admin

The Planet, a privately held dedicated hosting company, yesterday announced that Dynapp, Inc., a provider of dynamic website and applications building tools, has adopted its new Server Cloud as an added service for its existing hosting platform. The company says that headquartered in Macon, Ga., Dynapp provides a broad array of applications and services for websites and web based businesses, all built on its proprietary content management system. Additional Dynapp services include development of ecommerce systems, email newsletters and other web related requirements.

It avers that the Dynapp framework eliminates the complexities associated with website development and management by offering “plain English” directions for its users. The company adds that Dynapp also provides hosting solutions for its clients who opt to have Dynapp manage their websites with around the clock support.

“We expressly designed Server Cloud to meet the requirements clearly articulated by our customers,” said Tom Blair, Vice President of Global Sales for The Planet. “Customers rely on us for high availability, seamless scalability and generous bandwidth, which they’ll find in our new Server Cloud. There’s already been tremendous interest in this new offering, as an important and attractive option to add to their existing hosting capabilities, because of the significant value it provides.”

“Our clients count on us for unequivocal service and reliability,” said Dynapp Chief Technology Officer Wes Byrd. “We’ve had a number of questions from clients about cloud solutions, so we carefully evaluated a number that we felt were possibilities. Hands down The Planet provided the best solution for our business. The fact that bandwidth is included with each virtual server, accompanied by predictable pricing with no surprises, provides us with assurances that our clients will find this to be a good product for their specific requirements.”

Source : web-hosting-news.org

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Content Management AG Unveils CM4all Sites

July 20th, 2010 admin

Content Management AG (CM-AG), a provider of web-based applications, today unveiled its latest product innovation, CM4all Sites, at HostingCon 2010. The company mentions that this premier North American conference and trade show for the hosted services industry is being held in Austin, Texas, between July 19th and July 21st.

It explains that CM4all Sites is based on a completely revamped CM4all technology and a new GUI while retaining most of the proven administrative APIs and the existing hardware architecture. An integral part of CM4all Sites is the company’s new widget technology which allows for convenient drag & drop, configuration, and arrangement of all website elements. Built-in widgets range from contact forms through weather forecasts to social media connectivity with Twitter and Facebook. CM4all Sites also offers a variety of options for presenting multimedia content, enabling users to embed both their own and external videos on their websites without a hitch. They can also choose from various image display styles. CM4all Sites is designed with an open widget API that allows for continuous development of widgets by the company, OEM partners, and external software engineers.

The company further explains that another innovation is the new entry into the site creation process. When starting CM4all Sites for the first time, users select a main category and a sub-category for their website. Those choices are used to create a completely pre-configured website at the push of a button. Users never have to start the site editing process from scratch.

It states that a unique WYSIWYG editor with full drag & drop functionality, a dynamic Office-style toolbar, and an “undo” function allow direct editing without pop-ups for superior usability. Users who are already familiar with web design can switch from standard mode to the newly created expert mode at any time to take advantage of a wider range of formatting options. To facilitate file administration, CM4all Sites also includes a comprehensive file browser with an interactive drop zone for easy uploading of the user’s own images and files to the user’s webspace.

The company claims that the improved template model enables users to fully customize the included set of pre-defined CSS-based design templates. Colors, fonts, and images can be individualized, and end users can upload their own logos and images to integrate into a design template. In addition, OEM partners have the option of handling the custom design and content creation process for novice users to further extend their sources of revenue.

It avers that in addition to the completely fresh product architecture, the well-known customization options of CM4all products have also been considerably enhanced in CM4all Sites.

“We have been developing our existing site building solutions for the past decade and will continue to do so. But the time was also right to take advantage of the full capabilities of today’s technologies to create our vision of the leading site building solution for the next decade. We are proud of the results and look forward to fully leveraging the possibilities of CM4all Sites with our network of existing and new OEM partners worldwide in the years to come,” explains Robert Schovenberg, CEO of CM-AG.

Source : hosting-news.org

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Is media coverage of Danica Patrick hurting the small NASCAR Nationwide teams and their sponsors?

July 18th, 2010 admin

One would think with all the added exposure that Danica Patrick, driver of the JR Motorsports No. 7 GoDaddy.com Chevrolet Impala brings to the NASCAR Nationwide Series, a potential sponsor on the fence about supporting a low budget team for a bargain, would jump at the chance to get involved. Many of the smaller Nationwide team owners and their sponsors would disagree.

“I am sure it is a bargain for GoDaddy,” says Darrell Blanton of Blanton Motorsports, Inc. “The exposure they have received from this has been nothing short of amazing. Overall, I think it is a double edged sword, not only for the sport, but also for Danica. On one hand, because of the additional media attention focused on Danica, fan awareness of the Nationwide series has increased. On the other hand, the media frenzy over Danica has created a bit of overkill for fans and I am sure to some degree for Danica. While the increased media attention has increased fan awareness of the NASCAR Nationwide brand, other sponsors are feeling a bit left out. At the end of the day, there is only so much time in the broadcast and it is very difficult to get your story line picked up especially with that much focus on one team/driver.”

“We chose specifically to sponsor the New Hampshire race with Morgan Shepherd because that was Danica’s first race back,” said Kevin Strawbridge, President of DealTaker.com. “In that sense it was a bigger bargain. Of course we did get more than we bargained for when our car tangled with Danica in the early laps.”

HostGator.com took advantage of the extra publicity by running a promotion for a year of free shared web hosting, for any GoDaddy.com customer that switched to HostGator.com immediately following Nationwide race at Chicagoland. For fans to claim the free year, Joe Nemechek had to have a better finish than Danica Patrick in that race. Nemechek was 15th and Patrick finished 24th. This was not mentioned once by the television coverage.

Dana Tomes, co-owner of Herd Racing said, “I think her involvement has not changed the sponsorship hunt. But her being in races results in the smaller teams being ignored by the media, which makes it harder to convince sponsors to come on board.”

“For teams without sponsors or only limited sponsorship, consistent mentions of the team during a broadcast certainly helps,” Blanton says. “When a sponsor signs on with a team, they naturally expect to get media attention, TV exposure and mentions during the event. If this does not happen, it becomes difficult to justify the expenditure. It certainly makes it more difficult to keep the sponsor or increase the level of commitment from that sponsor. That’s why we really need the announcers to focus on all teams. Believe me there is a good story behind each one these teams and the companies that are putting out money to support them. These guys are struggling to make it out there each week and for some guys the only time their sponsor may get a chance to be mentioned is in qualifying. So again, it is really important that the announcers focus on this group as well.”

“I think that drivers mid-pack and back have been hurt by the Danica race coverage,” said Steve Burke, CEO of Zimmzang.com. “The TV coverage spends so much time focused on the leaders of the race and on Danica that drivers who would normally get at least a minimal mention by the commentators are being completely left out. More eyeballs on the sport is always a good thing, but the obsessive coverage of only a handful of cars per race leaves every other car, and sponsor, out.”

“We would like to do another sponsorship deal with Kenny Wallace, but the complete lack of coverage of Kenny (along with many other drivers who are 12-25th in points) on ESPN2, makes it impossible for us to get any kind of TV return for our investment.”

“I think it is disappointing that other drivers/teams/sponsors are overlooked just to try and get a reaction from Danica regarding her back of the pack performance,” says Strawbridge in reference to the post race interviews. “But in the end, news is news and Danica’s presence is an influence and perhaps that exposure increases overall exposure over time.”

Source : examiner.com

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Web Host NeoSpire Names Chief Operating Officer

July 12th, 2010 admin

Web hosting provider NeoSpire (www.neospire.com) announced on Friday it has promoted Jim Ciampaglio to the position of chief operating officer.

Ciampaglio previously served as NeoSpire’s vice president of sales, a position he has held since March 2009.

In this new role, he plans to expand marketing and operations activities by broadening NeoSpire’s strategic partnership.

He will also manage the company’s network services, marketing, engineering, facilities teams, and customer advocacy team.

“In a little over a year with NeoSpire, Jim Ciampaglio has demonstrated a broad range of talents,” says Mitch Gervis, CEO of NeoSpire. “His ability to understand the needs of the customer, his grasp of operations, and his vision for the future of hosted services are all valuable skills that will benefit us in the years ahead. I look forward to working closely with Jim in his new role.”

Prior to joining NeoSpire, Ciampaglio worked for Web hosting provider NaviSite, where he was vice president of sales for the shared and dedicated hosting business unit.

His past experience includes senior director of sales at NTT/Verio, where he was responsible for the retail sales team, indirect sales channel, professional services, sales engineering and sales support.

He also has worked at Verizon as a group manager, an account director at Aegis Communications, and a quality assurance manager at MBNA.

Source : thewhir.com

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