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How Retailers Can Benefit From Social Media

Lincoln — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:15:49 +0000

Shopping is an inherently social activity. Why, for instance, do people go to the mall? To buy things, of course. But also to walk around, meet friends, people-watch and socialize. By contrast, shopping on the Internet has been a lonely and solitary experience, which may explain why the average e-commerce site has a paltry 3-percent [...]

Social Media Aggregators: Distraction or Consolidation?

Lincoln — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 23:10:00 +0000

Working with social media poses a considerable problem. In most cases, social networks were not designed specifically with professional applications in mind. Look at MySpace and Facebook, two of the real heavy hitters. Both essentially began as places for friends and family to connect and share. As if it weren’t hard enough to focus on [...]

Ever Wanted To Start Your Own Twitter Clone? Now You Can

Lincoln — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 20:59:36 +0000

Social News / Voting Digg clone websites have been all the rage since late 2007, but what about twitter clones is there any software available that allows you to start your very own Twitter Clone? There are many systems already available to perform the task from open source to commercial, here we have listed them to give you some ideas.

Drupal Wins Two Awards For Best CMS Of 2008

Lincoln — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:40:32 +0000

Drupal the open source CMS system has this year scooped two separate prestigious awards for Best CMS system of 2008, picking up both The Open Source CMS Award for 2008 along with the Packt Publishing Best PHP Open Source CMS for 2008.

The Drupal Theming Handbook is being reorganized!

Lincoln — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:22:33 +0000

While many people say that theming is one of the better organized topics in Drupal’s documentation, many have expressed frustration that relevant pages are located in a variety of different branches, and even separate handbooks. The documentation team has also decided that this has created an unsustainable path for forward maintenance. Therefore, as a first [...]

DotNetNuke CMS Infused With Extra Cash

Lincoln — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 21:09:40 +0000

DotNetNuke Corporation, the commercial entity behind the popular free and open source DotNetNuke CMS, has announced a new infusion of Series A Capital. The amount of funds raised is not being disclosed at this time, but the two organizations behind the new cash infusion are August Capital and Sierra Ventures. yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = "DotNetNuke CMS Infused With [...]

Some Things To Consider Before Launching A Digg Type Social News Site

Lincoln — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 01:17:07 +0000

Social News sites are a popular subject and it seems everybody wants to start a digg clone of some type nowadays for various different reasons, many social news sites launch however very few ever become even relatively successful. So is it worth starting a Digg Clone type website and if you decide it is what system should you use and how can you give it the best chance of success, in this article we hope to provide some information gained from experience to help answer some of these questions.

Using Drupal as a Portfolio Platform Tutorial

Lincoln — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 01:40:13 +0000

This screencast describes how to use Drupal to create a presentation portfolio within a class blogging platform. The portfolio functionality we describe here can be replicated in just about any Drupal site. While this screencast focuses on one user, this structure will work equally well for 10, 100, 1000, or 10,000 users. At the risk of stating the obvious, you will have different design needs at each of these levels, but the core structure will scale upwards as needed.

10 Top Social News Sites Ranked by Design

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 21:36:08 +0000

Digg, Reddit, Mixx, Slashdot, and so on. They are all great social news and media websites, but how do they rank in terms of how easy they are on the eyes? Here I will rank all the top social news and media websites based solely on their layout. I’d like to rank all of these sites on overall usability as well, but I’m not a dedicated member on all of them and feel it wouldn’t be fair for sites I’m less acquainted with. Well lets get this started, sites are ranked from ugliest to sexiest.

Contact Form Is Now Fixed

Lincoln — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 19:53:01 +0000

A few members have kindly pointed out today that our contact form was throwing up error and had failed to work properly, After investigation and testing the contact form is working fine now. Sorry for any inconvenience to those who were trying to contact us over the past few days and feel free to contact us again now.