Wanova Mirage software provides ‘hybrid desktop virtualization,’ which basically means that physical PCs are managed regardless of their location and simultaneously backed up through the enterprise infrastructure. Since the solution runs on top of standard enterprise Windows servers and environments and is more than just basic virtualization, Wanova is looking for partners that are enterprise-focused and have a good knowledge of storage, networking and servers. The company believes that a reseller who is well-qualified can leverage Mirage into a turnkey solution for customers. The program breaks down into the traditional Distributor, Reseller and MSP levels, with Distributor-level partners reselling Mirage to customers in their own territory and providing Tier 1 support. Those at the reseller level will sell the solution directly with Wanova providing the support. MSP-level partners will sell, host and manage the services from Wanova. Of course, the program is replete with marketing tools, partner portals and all the training information needed. Michele Borovac, VP of marketing at Wanova, described the advantage she believes Wanova Mirage can provide: “Unlike traditional VDI technology, we distribute execution to the endpoint. It allows [IT] guys to manage centrally or [allows MSPs] to expand services and charge for them.” She noted that this is the official rollout of an unofficial program Wanova has had with a few select partners. “The launch is now actively recruiting new partners. We’ve put together an aggressive package of both margins and the ability to wrap additional services around deployment,” she said. Howard Greenfield, VP of sales, said the Mirage solution addresses a sweet spot where virtualization, mobility and backup have inevitably needed to converge. “WAN is the complete greenfield opportunity [and] the market has proliferated,” he said.
We took a look at Wanova in August 2010 when the company announced it was giving away free trials of its Mirage Desktop Virtualization. (That’s still happening.) Now, Wanova has gone and created a full partner program for resellers, distributors and MSPs. Here are some details.
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Wanova Launches Partner Program for Desktop Virtualization
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Will Court Ruling Protect E-Mail Providers and MSPs?
It seems the entire world is focused on WikiLeaks, privacy and data protection rights. Amid that backdrop, here’s some potentially good news handed down for messaging service providers — constitutionally speaking, that is. A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that the government needs a warrant before it can ask e-mail providers to give up customer data, potentially clarifying an important legal question for MSPs and their clients, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Here’s the update.
Long story short, the court ruled that e-mail users have the same expectation of privacy as someone speaking on the phone or sending a letter through the U.S. Postal Service under the U.S Constitution’s Fourth Amendment. The sticking point, according to the EFF, is that the law as currently written doesn’t agree, and enables the government to secretly ask for data.
This is especially important because it potentially answers the question posed by Parallels’ Joshua Beil around the Wikileaks/Amazon Web Services incident of early December 2010: “How should you respond when the Feds come knocking, on any grounds?”
It’s looking like the answer should be: “Come back with a warrant.” But it’s still early days, with many questions left unanswered. For instance, what if it’s not e-mail the Feds are looking for, but rather a database, or a website, or any number of other things? And when the court says “e-mail provider,” are managed hosting providers really covered?
We’ll keep looking for clarification.
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Ahead Of Chrome OS Launch, Google Cloud Print Appears Ready To Roll In Beta
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Sunday, November 28, 2010
5 Small Biz Web Design Trends to Watch
This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.
The importance of having an attractive website that converts visitors into buyers and helps cleverly promote your small business is essential in these fiercely competitive times.
Your website has to capture a visitor’s attention, entice him or her to stay and browse around, create an interest in your product or service, and result in sales. For small businesses with limited time and budgets, design is an essential factor in both attracting and converting potential customers.
With this in mind, here are five current design trends that most small businesses can utilize to great effect.
Let us know in the comments below about any additional design trends that you have spotted in the small business world.
1. Minimalism
While this web design style has been popular for some time, it’s worth revisiting as no small business owner wants to turn visitors away with a cluttered, overbearing and hard to navigate website.
Minimalist design effectively strips away the excess and helps the user concentrate squarely on the content. If a page has too many elements, the user will easily become confused about where to focus on, with many elements vying for attention.
With page weight now affecting your Google search engine position, it’s the perfect time to reassess how streamlined your design is.
There are several principles and steps you can follow to create a more minimalist design:
Go through your site and prune any unnecessary widgets or elements which aren’t serving a real purpose. Make good use of whitespace, which is the space between different elements of a design. Used well, it will allow for easier scanning of your site and help frame the elements on each page. With fewer elements, choosing the right color palette or accent color is critical. As color has great significance and meaning, it’s best to test how certain colors interact with each other. Browse your site through the eyes of your visitors, evaluating if there is too much information, confusing or off-putting elements, or sufficient calls to action. Answering these types of questions truthfully will help you prioritize the essential elements.
A minimalist design doesn’t have to be bland and boring; it can easily be modern, fresh, sophisticated, elegant or refined, based solely on the details within the design.
2. Unique Photography
Two men shaking hands, a group of people in suits sharing a joke, the call center girl: these are all tired,clichéd images that litter thousands of business websites. These types of images fail to convey either information on the company or a sense of the site’s character, and are essentially meaningless.
Using custom photography or artwork whenever possible is recommended, though for small business owners, both time and budget are limited and stock photos are a relatively cheap and accessible resource.
So when choosing stock imagery, it’s best to keep in mind these four tips:
Research your competitors and industry and take note of the images used. You can then find a unique way to represent your product or service. Avoid being too literal in your choice of imagery as abstract compositions often give a more dramatic and memorable effect. Don’t always opt for the cheaper low-res image, as pixelated imagery devalues your overall design and looks unprofessional. Veer away from the bland and predictable and let the images ‘break out of the box’.
Imaginative imagery will reinforce your brand message and add greater character to your website. So, when you must use stock imagery, do so with great care and take the time to find the right piece that will convey the true personality of your service or product.
3. Bold Typography
Web design at its core is about communication, and typography is a vital component of that. Great web typography helps bring order to information and creates a coherent, visually satisfying experience that engages the reader without their knowing.
A recent trend is the use of big, bold typography which helps to create contrast between other text while grabbing a user’s attention. Oversized text can help create hierarchy and ensure users understand your message loud and clear.
In order to utilize typography to create a bold statement, keep in mind the following tips:
- Determine the single most important message you want to emphasize, as too many messages can lead to choice paralysis. Understand the qualities of the message you are trying to convey, and then look for typefaces that embody those qualities.
- Choose a typeface that will match the character of your work. For instance, if your company embodies the feel of an Old Style font, you should consider Bembo, Garamond and Sabon. It will also greatly depend on what you want to convey with the type, because legibility is as important as the character of the type.
- Give the typography the prominent position it deserves by surrounding it with a generous amount of whitespace. This will add emphasis and create even more focus on the typography.
- Test out some of the various font replacement options such as Typekit or Typotheque. These allow you to license fonts to embed within your site, and help you to experiment with beautiful typography.
Typography is an art and the decisions you make are subjective; however, carefully selecting a typeface can make a huge difference to the quality of your design.
4. Clear Calls to Action
As a small business owner you want your visitors to complete a certain task when they land on your page. It could be to download, sign up or checkout, but these calls to action are one of the most important (and overlooked) elements in a small business website.
You want to grab your visitor’s attention and move him or her to take action. Crafting a clear, concise call to action is essential.
Here are four tips to keep in mind when designing a call-to-action button or advertisement:
- Language: Keep the wording short and snappy (always start with a verb), but also explain the value behind the action the user is taking. In some instances it also helps to create a sense of urgency using words such as ‘now’, ‘hurry’ and ‘offer ends,’ with ‘free’ being the number one incentive.
- Positioning: Ideally, calls to action should be above the fold, and be placed on every page of the site in a consistent position. For instance, Squarespace (shown above), not only has a large call-to-action button at the top of the page, but also has a slightly smaller button in the footer of every page.
- Color: The color should make the call stand out from the rest of the design. Brighter, more contrasting colors usually work best for smaller buttons. For larger buttons, you may want to choose a less prominent color (but one that still stands out from your background), so as to balance out its size.
- Size: The call-to-action button should be the largest button on any given page. You want it to be large enough to stand out without overwhelming the rest of the design
.
It’s vital you test different combinations of call-to-action buttons and see how each affects your conversion rates (see A/B Testing below). It’s also best to make sure they fit within your overall design.
5. A/B Testing
With competition growing fiercer online, it’s important for small businesses to have a website that converts visitors to buyers and creates a competitive edge. That’s why it is important to continually measure and improve site performance, usability and conversions.
One of the foremost ways of optimizing your web design is via A/B testing (sometimes referred to as split testing). An A/B test examines the effectiveness of one landing page over another. The two versions are randomly shown to site visitors to see which generates the best results. You then evaluate the performance of each and use the best version.
Various elements can be tested, including, layouts, copy, graphics, fonts, headlines, offers, icons, colors and more. Here are a few tips for A/B testing:
Clearly define your goal before beginning any test. For example, if you wanted to increase sign-ups, you might want to test the following: type of fields in the form, length of the form, and display of privacy policy. Start with elements that will have the biggest impact for minimum effort. For instance, you could tweak the copy on your checkout button to see if conversions can be improved. Don’t use A/B testing in isolation as this alone won’t give you a well-rounded picture of your users. Instead, use other feedback tools, such as Feedback Army or User Testing, in conjunction with A/B testing to get in-depth analysis of user behavior.
A/B testing won’t make a bad design great, but it will prove an effective aid in optimizing your current design’s usability and conversions until you decide to overhaul your website design completely.
These are just five web design trends that small businesses can take part in to enhance their websites. Which web design changes would make the most sense for your small business?
How To: Communicate the Needs & Expectations to Web Designers
Before you even begin talking to a designer about what you want done, it’s important to understand what a designer actually does. Misunderstandings between designers and clients can often be traced back to misconceptions about roles and false expectations. “Designers and clients should both understand the difference between design and production,” says graphic designer BJ Heinley. “Designing a logo and a business card is different than getting them printed. You hire a designer for her opinion and knowledge in a particular area, and you’re asking her to help you navigate waters that you don’t feel confident wading into alone. You hire production and development people to get something done in the best and most efficient way possible.” This can get confusing since sometimes the design and production sides of the process are handled by the same person or company. Still, it is important to know which parts of what you’re asking a designer to do are design, and which parts are something else. Boundaries should be set to isolate one aspect from the other. In order to accurately and clearly convey what you want to a designer, you really need to think about what it is you need and desire out of whatever it is you’re having designed. Think about what sort of functionality you want your users to get out of the design, what information you need to convey, and what sort of feeling you want to evoke. “Examples are the easiest way [for clients] to share what they’re looking for,” says freelance web designer David Ronnie. “That doesn’t, however, mean for them to send over a website from a competitor and say ‘I want this,’” he warns. According to Ronnie, you should think about why you like a particular design and how it relates to what you want. Pay special attention to the functionality of the websites you like and what makes you like them — it might even be helpful to show the sites you admire to friends and colleagues and gauge their reactions. What about those sites do people actually like? “We’re more interested here in why it appeals from a functionality standpoint than [...] about the aesthetic. This will help the designer immensely with understanding what the client is really looking for on their website,” says Ronnie. Heinley likes to employ familiar analogies, like comparing a website to a car, as a way to draw from clients what they’re really looking for. “I’ll often ask questions like: Why are the turn signals where they are? Why is the steering wheel round and not square? Why put the speedometer where it is?” he says. “These real-world examples have parallels on a website: Where is the logo placed on the page and why? Where are a search box and button placed on a page? What type of navigation should or shouldn’t be used? After a few minutes of this, the client is usually clearer on some of the design considerations.” Try that exercise on your own before speaking with your designer. You’ll find yourself armed with a better understanding of what you actually want. “Any forethought and planning of content and navigation previous to meeting the designer can help immensely with the company’s job,” counsels Ronnie. Content is an oft-overlooked part of website design, but critical for the majority of sites. The point of a website for most small businesses is to get a message across and facilitate some action: sales, sign ups, attendance, etc. Thought should be paid to what it is you want to sayon your website and what your goal is. That process “is very much about setting priorities and establishing hierarchies,” says Ronnie. “Make priority lists and figure out what’s most important for your visitors to find. The more thought-out the content and structure is before ever contacting the designer, the better it will be for all parties involved.” That doesn’t mean you have to write out all of your content before you hire a designer, or even before the designer starts designing, but knowing what you want to say, what your goal is, how you want to say it, and where different types of content fit in, will help the process go smoothly. Also, remember that content can include more than just written words — if you want to utilize video, podcasts, photo galleries, or any other type of rich media on your page, you should have a good idea of what you need before you talk to a designer. One of the hardest things for a client to do, but one of the most necessary, is to give up control. That doesn’t mean you won’t get what you want or that you can’t offer feedback, but micromanaging the design process is a terrible idea. You’re hiring a designer because you value her expertise and skill, so trust her to take your initial input and create something that works. Designer Jesse Thomas says that clients should hand over control along with the list of things they want. “I like to think about my job like a surgeon,” he says. “You don’t come in to the office of a surgeon and say, ‘I want this kind of cut, and I want you to do this many stitches.’ You come in bleeding, and let the man fix you.” Thomas says part of being a great designer is earning trust and being aggressive with clients about handing over control. Heinley agrees. “It’s often said that you hire a designer to say, ‘No.’” While it’s important for designers to be receptive to feedback and suggestions from their clients, says Heinley, it’s also important for clients to realize that “a designer’s role is to have more experience in the field of design, passionately pursue the best path possible, use informed opinions, and approach the project from a user’s perspective.” In other words: designers know design, so it’s best to get out of the way and give them freedom to create. Of course, working with a designer isn’t all talking about form and function, there’s a healthy component of business, as well. So that there are no surprises, the business end should be clearly defined and gotten out of the way before any actual design production takes place, and before any money changes hands. “There’s nothing worse than getting to the middle or end of a project and finally getting around to discussing payment. Here’s the key: talk about money and deadlines up front. No work should be done until payment prices and terms are agreed upon,” says Heinley, who advises that some sort of contract always be signed, even for small jobs. It’s also important to realize that design is a difficult endeavor to price. “Due to the nature of exploration and innovation in design, projects sometimes will have unforeseen costs and time,” says Heinley, who often provides clients with a range rather than a fixed price. Getting everything down on paper before you start will help you avoid headaches later.Know What a Designer Does
Think About What You Really Want
Consider Content
Trust Your Designer, Give Up Control
Talk Money and Terms Beforehand
Thursday, November 25, 2010
Zediva Streams You Movies From Actual DVD Players, Argues It’s Legal
New startup Zediva attempts to circumvent all the licensing hassles experienced by streaming video services like Netflix, iTunes and Hulu through operating more like a traditional movie rental store, except online.
The catch? “We don’t rent digital copies of a movie,” founder Venky Srinivasan told Rotten Tomatoes, “Our users rent a physical DVD, along with a DVD player from us for a fixed amount of time. They then control that DVD player remotely over the internet — and stream the movie privately to themselves. Think of it as a really long cable and a really long remote control.”
The “really long cable” that is the Internet means not having to negotiate with content companies over streaming rights. This loophole means that Zediva can feature more recent releases at a lower price than companies who stream digital files, charging $1.99 for a movie versus $3.99 on iTunes and Blockbuster. Ten movies on Zediva are $10 versus a $7.99 monthly membership to Netflix. Users can freely re-rent a Zediva movie for up to 14 days.
It seems like Srinivasan is serious about the physical DVD legal hack. When I visited the site the movie I wanted to rent, Eat Pray Love, was all rented out, just like in a real brick and mortar store. You can even request to have your physical DVD mailed to you Netflix style, even though “additional charges may apply.”
With around 40 movies in the library at the moment, Zediva is starting small and focusing on offering “the top two or three movies of the week.” Srinivasan doesn’t think the startup is breaking digital copyright law, and in fact believes that movie studios will embrace the model. Well, here’s to being hopeful, and disruptive.
Information provided by CrunchBase
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Angry Birds Day, Dec 11 – Something Big Planned For London
By now you will have heard about the first official Angry Birds Day when lovers of that crazy iPhone/Android game come together to celebrate the ongoing war between the birds and the pigs. However, well placed sources told us yesterday that something big was going down on that day, specifically in London’s Trafalgar Square. Now, this is becoming a big venue to launch big games, especialy console games. Here’s the spectacular Halo Reach launch with guys in JetPacks earlier this year.
There is speculation that Angry Birds for Windows Phone 7 will be anounced on the day. There is also speculation that the game’s developer, Rovio Mobile, will launch a games console version or that it will spin out a movie. Actually personally I think that maybe, just maybe, something different is going on. Here’s why.
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Monday, November 22, 2010
Why SMS Marketing Still Makes Sense for Small Business
JoliCloud: Beating Google Chrome OS At Its Own Game?
Jolicloud, the company behind the cloud-based instant-on Jolicloud OS, has already released their Jolicloud branded Jolibook. Is Jolicloud set to succeed while Google Chrome OS drifts into vaporware? Here’s some perspective…
Jolicloud’s pitch is simple:
“We are making your computer fast, fun and beautiful. Install Jolicloud and discover the Web the way it was meant to be.”
Check out Jolicloud’s interface on their site, it’s quite inviting. More so than Chrome OS. But very much like Chrome OS, it’s browser-centric and app-centric. Like Chrome OS, you can download it, and now — beating Google to the punch — buy a branded netbook designed to run Jolicloud optimally. What’s more, Jolicloud is working with different manufactures to build more specific netbooks for specific needs. But don’t call them netbooks, please, Jolicloud calls them ‘purpose-built’ computers.
Okay, so what does this all mean for Google?
Well, Google probably isn’t shaking in their boots, but they might be sore for a swift kick to the butt. Jolicoud’s foray into this arena before Google gets Jolicloud some initial name recognitio. Jolicloud also wins some major kudos from the netbook community. But we’ll be watching to see how the Google Chrome OS strategy also evolves.
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Thursday, November 18, 2010
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Monday, November 15, 2010
30 Premium WordPress Plugins and Themes
The WordPress platform is an integral part of the Envato™ ecosystem. Regardless of whether you need a hand with design or development, the Envato™ marketplaces have you covered! You can purchase premium WordPress plugins and templates to hit the ground running with each new project.
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A WordPress Plugin which enables you to show your registered users locations on a frontend map from Google Maps.
28. WP Geo Tagger (Currently 50% Off)
The WP Geo Tagger plugin can be used to add your current location to posts or to add an event location, so your readers can get directions in a snap. It even integrates Google Maps right on your posts!
29. jGallery
This WordPress Gallery Plugin gives you a simple and extremely customizable way to create a gallery on any post or page. You have the option to use widgets or shortcodes to insert your custom gallery into your web site. As well, the look of your gallery is fully customizable through the WordPress admin interface.
30. AJAX Contact Forms
This is a jQuery based AJAX powered HTML / PHP contact form with Twitter Direct Messaging, easily integrated into WordPress via shortcodes and functions.
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