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China to Sanction US Companies That Sell Arms to Taiwan – Voice of America

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Cloudy with light snow later in the day and evening – Times Herald-Record

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Obama’s Home State Holds First Primary Election of 2010 – ABC News

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Obama’s 2011 Budget Kills Any Hopes of NASA Returning to the Moon by 2020 – DailyTech

DailyTech

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China attacks US ‘Cold War’ mentality over Taiwan arms sales – Telegraph.co.uk

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Report: Apple seeks books pricing plan for tablet – CNET

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Hillary Clinton will be in London for State of the Union – Washington Post

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Shutterstock is a microstock company, which means that photographers upload their photos to the site, which in turns sells them to graphic designers, news agencies, marketers, pretty much anyone who needs stock imagery. The photographers receive a commission every time one of their images is sold. Basically it’s crowdsourcing, as Shutterstock outsources the task of taking stock photos to the general public.

There are several of these microstock companies aside from Shutterstock; other ones include iStockphoto, Dreamstime, Fotolia, Big Stock Xchang, etc. When Twitter started blowing up, around six months ago, all these companies tried to stake a presence on this glitzy new social media platform. So far, Shutterstock appears to have been the most successful. Why?

1. Right from the start, Shutterstock identified their audience and offered them exactly what they wanted: free, useful stuff. In this case, Shutterstock’s audience was comprised mainly of graphic designers and photographers, so Shutterstock began to post free vectors and images every week on its Twitter account, as well as links to Shutterstock generated articles containing photography tips, Photoshop and Illustrator tutorials, etc.

2. Shutterstock began to actively engage people who mentioned their service in their Tweets; every week Shutterstock responded to @shutterstock comments, to either offer technical advice, voice appreciation or ameliorate concerns. Doing this, and doing this in a specific, casual tone, made Shutterstock’s followers feel like they had a direct pipeline into the company.

3. Many bloggers use Shutterstock as an image source for their blogs, so Shutterstock began to Tweet each blog post by an influential blogger that featured a Shutterstock image. Since bloggers are really the rockstars of Twitter, with a devoted readership base, this helped channel new people to Shutterstock, and also demonstrated that respectable bloggers used the service. Basically, Shutterstock used Twitter to network with popular bloggers.

4. This one’s important! Shutterstock went back through its site and embedded link buttons to Twitter and Facebook throughout all of the site’s pages. This way, whenever anyone new signed up to the site, or uploaded an image or collected a payment, their was a little button that they could click on that automatically made them a Facebook fan/Twitter follower of Shutterstock.

5. On top of all this, Shutterstock designed a simple and imaginative application for their photo submitters could called Shuttertweet. This application sends out a Tweet from a Shutterstock photographer’s Twitter account once a day announcing their sales and accepted images. Since many Shutterstock photographers are looking to promote their portfolios, this was an attractive service that many photographers signed up for. Now, with @shutterstock appearing in so many people’s news feeds, Shutterstock is channeling more interest than ever.

At this stage of the Twitter craze, the number of followers of each of the major stock image services seem to tell the tale:

Shutterstock:11,194
Istock:2,198
Getty Images: 1,218
Dreamstime:754
Fotolia: 223
Big Stock Photo: 168
stockxchng: 137

Shutterstock has created a vibrant Twitter community that continues to experience an accelerated rate of growth. The only question now is to see how this will translate for the company’s bottom line which will no doubt benefit from the added traffic, exposure, and social media success they are experiencing!

For more free marketing advice, visit the marketing experts at http://www.MarketingScoop.com.

Source: http://marketing-expert.blogspot.com/2009/09/shutterstock-case-study-of-how-one.html

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As a software solution provider, our clients need us to stay competitive and cost effective. This meant constantly reviewing the set of tools we use to provide our service. Because we specialize in Accounting, flexible and comprehensive reporting were of primary concern.

For many years our primary tools have been Crystal Reports (reporting), Dotnetnuke (website), Visual Basic (Windows Mobile Solutions) and our customers use QuickBooks Pro/Enterprise, Mas90, Navision, Macola, Exact and many other accounting packages.

In the Fall of 2007 a client asked us to build a completely web-based solution that included complex reporting. We needed to find a new software development tool – one that would let us develop the application in a single environment and do it faster than we knew our current tools would let us.

About Alpha Five

I found Alpha Five and read reviews on it from sites like Techrepublic.com, cnet.com, Infoworld.com, and PCworld.com. The reviews looked “too good to be true”, especially regarding ultra-quick development times and other RAD features. Alpha Five has a strong developer community so we read through comments by the developers on the Alpha Software message board about the pros and cons of the product.

Our findings:

· Developers really tried to help one another – good, we would need that if we adopted Alpha Five.

· It seemed that Alpha Software personnel responded to bug reports/issues quickly.

· It appeared that the President & CEO of the Alpha Software played an active role.

We downloaded Alpha Five version 9 and started to play with it. Being fluent with Crystal Reports and Excel, I very much liked what I saw. I asked questions on the message board and found a good consultant to work with for this specific project. In short order, I knew using Alpha Five would be a very positive step for our company.

Our decision to use Alpha Five was based on our 25 years of Accounting Software development experiences. We know what we need!

Many Accounting and Development Software Packages utilize Crystal as the report writer portion of their software. Microsoft uses it in Visual Basic and or .Net Studio software – they embed it as their reporting tool. Many Accounting Software packages provide the same e.g. Exact Software ES product allows you to update reports using Crystal as many others.

Crystal Reports is an industry standard! There are others like Swift reporting, Jet reports and Finer Edge. But they did not offer us the advantages of Alpha Five!
Alpha Five included more than just reporting:

· Web Development

· Intranet Database Applications

· Internet Database Applications

· Desktop ApplicationsAnd Reporting too!

About our Web Development skills:

We have an intimate knowledge of Webmatrix from initial attempts to build our website. We certainly know of and understand Visual Basic because of our Mobile Order Entry Solutions. Our own website uses Dotnet (dukedotnet) as the foundation for its deployment and we will soon be converted to Dukedotnet 5.1 alongside Alpha Five.

Yes, you can do anything with .ASP and other tools. In fact there are 1000’s of components to chose from (see http://www.componentsource.com/). But Alpha Five has everything built in, right at your finger tips.

Here is a Real Life Situation.

June 1st 2008 we receive a call from a MAS90 dealer whom we have been trying to Sell our Windows Mobile Solutions since 2005. The Dealer – Says “can you design a Database AND a Work Flow AND Program FINISHED BY July 15th (start of customer’s busy season). The program had to be accessed by an office in another part of the state, a Web application was the perfect solution!
Prior to this we had built two software applications using Alpha Five:

· (Mfg – Available to Promise) from two separate SQL databases

· 10 different PSQL databases to report via one for Collections (for a Publishing Company).

Now we had to provide a turnkey, database, Intranet Solution that covers a Manufacturer Process. And we had a project that needed to be complete FAST!

If we had used an .ASP tool like Webmatrix, Visual Basic and or Visual Studio and SQL this project would have the following problems:

· Cost would have been prohibitive.

· Our deadline would have been missed

· Would have required more hardware e.g. SQL Server.

· Would not have been an option that would allow us to deliver on time.

The ONLY way this project could be installed was using ALPHA FIVE to create an Intranet application. BY JULY 18th we had installed this application, had it running in one of the largest Food Processing plants in Maine.

In Conclusion:

Our decision to get on onboard and use Alpha Five was an outstanding one and changed how our company approaches software development for the positive. Any other decision and we would not have be able to deliver in 30 days the functionality needed by a major Food Processing Facility. Our .Net skills would not be able to deliver this

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