A couple of months ago we posted an article showcasing great website navigations. Consider this the sequel.
The navigation of a website is meant to be clicked. It doesn’t need to blend in or be hard to find. It’s important that it stands out from the rest of the elements on the page, but yet still matches the overall style of the design. Here is a showcase of websites that achieve this in a very stylish way. These navs look amazing, have serious click appeal, and are guaranteed to inspire you.
Clicking on the images will take you to each site.
Tags: Application Packaging, Inspiration, Virtualization
Posted by Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal on Feb 4, 2010 in
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QBOS, a developer and provider of innovative web-based management solutions serving large and small businesses, announced that Cbeyond Inc. has successfully launched its TradeSpace Management System to their nationwide Field Service Partner network. The QBOS TradeSpace Management System will extend process automation, document management, workforce management and collaboration capabilities beyond corporate boundaries to Cbeyond’s field service partners who provide VoIP equipment, installation, and other communications services to Cbeyond’s 35,000+ small business customers.
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Posted by Latest News from Cloud Computing Journal on Feb 4, 2010 in
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Layered Technologies, a leading worldwide provider of on-demand and cloud computing IT infrastructure, today announced a $20 million equity infusion from investors led by Accel-KKR, a technology-focused private equity firm. The new investment will help Layered Tech fuel further growth, which includes making strategic acquisitions. Layered Tech’s already strong product offerings in managed services, virtualization and cloud computing business will have an even greater competitive advantage by being well-capitalized and having the long-term commitment of a strong financial partner like Accel-KKR.
With eight top-tier data centers around the world, Layered Tech’s infrastructure powers millions of Web sites and Internet-enabled applications including e-commerce and software as a service (SaaS). Layered Tech has seen rapid growth in recent years, and in 2009 was ranked in the top 15 percent of Deloitte LLP’s Technology Fast 500.
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Posted by Lane LiaBraaten on Feb 4, 2010 in
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Greetings…
As many of you know,
IBM is committed to building and advancing open standards and platforms. Openness fosters an ecosystem of innovation, promotes customer choice, and allows enterprises to build solutions that best meet their needs. We’ve been working with the OpenSocial Foundation to help define and implement the requirements of enterprise customers.
Recently, we put together an
article that can be found on DeveloperWorks that describes how you can use IBM Mashup Center to build complex Web 2.0 applications that use OpenSocial gadgets by simply dragging them from a pallet and dropping them on a page.
However, OpenSocial gadgets are not the only component model available, for example there are OpenAjax widgets as well as one that IBM uses for many of our products called iWidgets. Because of the importance of interoperability with previously deployed products that leverage different component models, this article demonstrates how you can build a mashup using different types of gadgets/widgets and still have them interoperate and communicate with each other. This interoperability is achieved by leveraging the
OpenAjax Hub, a proven technology for inter-gadget communication available from the
OpenAjax Alliance.
The
article on DeveloperWorks represents an initial step. Members of the
OpenSocial Foundation and the OpenAjax Alliance are now working together to support inter-gadget communication into the next version of OpenSocial by integrating the OpenAjax Hub. The designs and work items can be found on the
OpenSocial wiki.
Feel free to jump in and help continue to evolve OpenSocial for use in enterprise environments.
Posted by Mark Weitzel, IBM SWG Strategy & Technology, Emerging Standards Team
Tags: Application Packaging, Open Social, Social API, Virtualization
Posted by David Marshall on Feb 4, 2010 in
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Data Robotics, Inc., the company that delivers the best data storage experience ever, today announced that its DroboElite virtualised data storage...
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Posted by Silverlight Team on Feb 4, 2010 in
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January 2010 saw the launch the new Mass Effect 2 game, and EA Games in the UK wanted to mirror the game innovation with their digital marketing.
Developing the world’s first interactive Silverlight banner to be ad-served on the MSN platform was an ideal way to meet this objective.
Microsoft Advertising and Mediacom, in partnership with digital agency Metia, accepted the challenge and embarked on the quest to find an ad-serving partner. Although all ad serving companies claimed to have the ability to serve Silverlight banners, it quickly became apparent that none could do this with interactive and expandable units. Suddenly the brief got more complicated, which was made easier when Metia found partner Ad: Dynamo and provided them support to enhance their ad-serving capabilities.
So all parties were ready to focus on the solution. EA Games collated as many assets as possible to help drive the creative process as the end result had to be engaging and interactive creating the ultimate experience for a rich-media hungry audience. The key metric was engagement and everyone was keen to steer clear of a direct comparison of Silverlight vs. Flash. Therefore Metia used Silverlight’s key features and benefits to maximum effect and focused on its Deep Zoom and Smooth Streaming capabilities.
The great thing with the gaming industry is that buckets of content are developed by the studios to support the game launch, which is why it was a perfect product to showcase these features. Once traditional scamps and wireframes were created, a non-functioning version of the banner was developed, using Blend 3.
When this was in place, it was time to split the development and interactive design tasks. The project was set up in Visual Studio 2008 and project version control was defined using Team Foundation Server. This allowed the Developers to create a fully functioning version of the user interface, while simultaneously the Interactive Designers could work on the media, design and copy using Blend 3, Deep Zoom Composer and Encoder 3. Adopting this process and software meant that the core development (including ad-serving enhancements) and interactive design was completed in just a few weeks.
When you look at the visually stunning results, it’s hard to imagine the work was done in this timeframe. And the best part is that due to the content being driven by XML and the reusable nature of the UI components in Blend 3, this can easily be re-skinned in a fraction of this time.
With brands now questioning the role of the microsite, perhaps this is a suitable new approach to take?
While the ad is running you can check it out here.
Tags: Application Packaging, Beautiful Examples, Case Study, ria, Silverlight, Virtualization
Posted by David Marshall on Feb 4, 2010 in
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The Green Grid , the IT industry’s leading voice for advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems, today introduced...
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Posted by David Marshall on Feb 4, 2010 in
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Devon IT , Inc., a leading thin client hardware and software provider, today announced it has moved into a new larger European headquarters in...
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Tags: Application Packaging, Desktop Virtualization, Thin Clients, Virtualization
Posted by David Marshall on Feb 4, 2010 in
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RealVNC launches VNC Viewer Plus, enabling users to connect directly to KVM remote control functionality embedded in the all new 2010 Intel ® Core™...
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Posted by W3Avenue Team on Feb 4, 2010 in
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View Original Article Showcase is a simple but highly customizable, image slider plugin powered by jQuery. It allows you to specify image URL, description, and link for each slide in your markup or through JavaScript dynamically. It is a cross browser plugin that has been fully tested with: Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, and Internet Explorer 7 and above.
Showcase jQuery Plugin enables you create simple image slideshows with nice transition effects. It is highly customizable enabling you to control position of the caption, image transitions, placement of navigation controls, etc. You can also customize its look and feel via CSS as markup or through JavaScript dynamically. It also provide additional methods enabling you to pause and start slideshow via external controls/buttons.
Developed by Eros Fratini; Showcase jQuery Plugin is available for download under MIT License. You can find further information, demos & download on Showcase jQuery Plugin Website.
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