| Plaza cam is back
The Plaza cam is back. Visitors to www.ArcataPlazaCam.com can now see live video of the northwest corner of the town square via a Web-enabled camera perched on the Plaza View Stay balcony at Ninth and H streets, according to a press release. A separate web camera existed on the south side of the Plaza for several years, operated by a Web site design and hosting company. Alex Stillman, an Arcata City Councilwoman, is sponsoring the new camera. It uses her private DSL for Internet access. "I figure it's for fun," she said. Stillman said she decided to put it up after her daughter in the Bay Area said she was checking on road and slope conditions via Web cams to decide whether to go skiing. That conversation reminded Stillman of the old Plaza cam. The new camera will be great to view festivals and to see how busy the plaza is, Stillman said.
MyWebGrocer.com expands with new appointments in sales and development
MyWebGrocer.com is expanding with the appointment of two new sales representatives to the team. The company, which provides e-commerce and Internet marketing solutions to grocery retailers, has more than 80 retail grocery chain clients for services including web site design and hosting, e-mail, online circulars and other e-commerce operations. Rob Rice, who joins the company in a sales and business development role, will be focusing on the New England and the Tri-State area encompassed by New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. He brings more than 19 years of experience in the grocery field to his new role, including 13 years of experience in retail grocery, customer relationship management, and sales of software, technology, analysis, direct mail and related data processing solutions.
Auction Services and Phil Mortensen Auctions Inc. Introduce Cutting ...
For the first time in the auction industry, Auctionservices.com will use virtual salespeople in designing and hosting a client's website. This new tool has been proven to attract customers, increase sales and retain interest in company services, according to Rick Romanus Sr., President and CEO of Auction Services, Inc. Jacksonville, FL (PRWEB) September 13, 2006 -- For the first time in the auction industry, Auctionservices.com will use virtual salespeople in designing and hosting a client's website. This new tool has been proven to attract customers, increase sales and retain interest in company services, according to Rick Romanus Sr., President and CEO of Auction Services, Inc. "We are delighted to offer this innovative video and audio messaging capability," noted Romanus.
Allton Starts Web Design Firm in Lake Saint Louis, MO
Michael Allton can still remember his first website. "It was 1997, and my mother had just formed a new non-profit organization in Norwalk, Ohio called Project Leadership. It was designed to promote leadership and community values and she wanted a website to help recruit members. I used FrontPage 97 and it was very basic, but it sparked my love for website design." Since then, Michael has come a long way. For several years, he designed websites for businesses and organizations in Ohio while with an IT Firm. Then, last year, after moving to Lake Saint Louis, he started his own design firm, Stadia Studio. "I wanted very much to get back into designing websites for small businesses," said Michael. "I've always enjoyed helping businesses grow, and having a great website is an integral part of that." Stadia Studio specializes in providing small businesses with complete web services including website design, hosting, search engine optimization and consulting.
Web hosting operation is paying off for two Montrealers
Martin Leclair and Eric Chouinard began their careers in the mid-1990s as typical computer geeks. Fascinated by the advent of the Internet, they started helping customers with website design and training. Soon, they were into hosting websites on their own servers, building up a large list of small clients who paid anywhere between a few dollars and $100 a month for the service. .
Sun backs Web 2.0 startups
Sun Microsystems has put its weight behind up and coming web 2.0 companies with the launched this week of a new initiative designed to provide UK startups with discounts on Sun technology and services. The Sun Startup Essentials programme, which was originally launched in the States, will help eligible companies purchase a range of discounted products and services, including Sun Fire x64 servers and Sun Fire servers with CoolThreads technology, according to the firm. Startups under the scheme can also rent discounted web hosting infrastructure from Sun partners Layered Technologies, NaviSite and NTT Europe Online, and gain access to free open source software including Sun's own. "They will also get free technical support – the idea is to help startups make good decisions up front so as their needs go up they can sustain higher traffic," said Sun's Juan Carlos Soto.
Going once, going twice ...
Whether through a foreclosure or a regular sale, more people are turning to auctions to sell their homes, according to a Roanoke County Web design and hosting company specializing in the auction industry. AuctionServices.com was founded in the Roanoke Valley in 1994, and it hosts more than 400 Web sites for auctioneers in the United States and Canada. The company made news this week after its server became flooded with more than 100,000 visitors in a four-hour period on Tuesday, thanks to a high-dollar home listing posted to a blog by celebrity gossip writer Perez Hilton. Hilton linked to a listing for the former mansion of Louis Pearlman, founder and promoter of the Backstreet Boys and other boy bands. In the past year, an increasing number of foreclosed homes and nondistressed properties have been sold through auction sites hosted by AuctionServices.com, said marketing director Tammy Moore.
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