Social Ecommerce with Moontoast

social ecommerce

With more people depending on social networks and blogs for news and updates, the focus is on engaging customers and potential customers through social media. However, for companies, such engagement or brand building initiatives remain an exercise in futility if they do not ultimately translate to added revenues. Enter Moontoast, the first socially distributable commerce platform, allowing companies to engage with people through social media, distributed affiliate sites and ad networks, and monetize such engagement at the same time. Moontoast has 3 Product Offerings (Descriptions are from their site): Distributed … Continue reading

Update a Google Map with Brightkite

I’ve been a Geographic Information Systems nut for a while… I’ve had the bug ever since working with ESRI on an online mapping application during the dot bomb. I love it so much I actually built the Wild Birds Unlimited mapping application (and administrative interface) from scratch using the Google Maps API. It’s why I’ve been checking out online mapping applications such as Brightkite, Fire Eagle and IRL Connect. Brightkite’s functionality has been a favorite of mine for a while, although I don’t know anyone who updates their location quite … Continue reading

Fix Caching Issues with Flash, JavaScript, XML, KML or Google Maps

This is a short and sweet post on caching issues. Sites and browsers are built to really optimize resources. They do it so well sometimes that the end result actually breaks your dynamic website instead of updating it as often as you’d like. Today I was working with JW Player, a Flash Movie player that pulls in a list of movies via an XML file. The problem is that we’re always updating the file with new webinars and training classes. If our clients continued to come to the page each … Continue reading