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Skype has announced that an Iphone application will be released on Tuesday. This will allow users to make free calls, and will allow them to have several numbers on the same phone. The only limitation is that the application will only operate through WiFi (Wireless) connection.
SIS Survey is a platform that allows users to create free surveys and polls using digital means. Surveys can be posted online or emailed to a mailing list, with an easy-to-use interface, allowing users to collect information on their research group. Studying human behavior and patterns is now vital when analyzing changes in economic, technological or social situations. Next time a paper is assigned, why not add some primary data using this tool.
Other Inbox is a solution catered to solving one problem: email overload. The majority of non-spam emails received are still sent by a machine, rather than a human being. Examples can include social networking sites (Facebook, when someone adds you as a friend), shopping sites (Amazon, special deals that relate to your buying habits) or newsletters (CNN, live news updates). The fact is its relevant information, but you want to be able to bundle the machine-generated emails together, so you can differentiate. The solution has advanced organizational abilities, and can determine and differentiate between emails regarding shipping, billing, news updates or social updates.
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Urfilez, a Middle-East startup, is a platform that allows users to purchase music online. Navigating through the homepage, it looked as though the site was using an open-source (free) platform for its functionalities. After searching “urfilez” on google, Joomla was the number three link.
Lets go through a little introduction. Open-source software is basically free software. Copyrights are owned by the public, so anyone can use open-source software, and at the same time try to make it better for other users by improving functionalities, or even adding your own “add-ons” to the software.
We, at Techabia, are huge supporters of open-source, please keep that in mind.
Joomla is an award winning open-source CMS (Content management system – used for publishing content on the internet). It’s a great success, and pushes developers to work on open-source even more then they already do.
However, a startup that estimates to have 500,000 users by the end of the year in a market that has not yet been penetrated should be providing the best of content solutions, especially for music. Open-source is great, but is that how they want to position themselves?
Upon registration, it was obvious the site was badly designed. Once registration was complete, a nice (and incorrect) quote closed the session: “Thank you again for choosing Urfilez, your one step shop for music, Team UrFilez”. Is it not “your one STOP shop”? That’s not an issue though, that can be edited and fixed in seconds. Design problems are all over the site: categories not fully displayed, up to seven modules on the homepage, bad use of font for titles and menus, the list goes on.
It’s a great idea trying to provide a medium where artists can collaborate and share their work online, but can it please be done correctly?
If you are interested in getting involved with online music startups please fill in a contact form with the subject as “Music Master”.
Skype, which allows users to make telephone calls (with video) over the internet, has become the world’s largest provider of international calls. The ability for a user to purchase local numbers online has given the company a competitive advantage, allowing users to make calls from anywhere (with internet connection), to anywhere, cheaply. Skype’s traffic grew approximately 41% in 2008.
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