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Last weekend I attended the 7th annual european conference for the independent software vendors. The conference was held in Köln (Cologne) Germany, in the Marriot Hotel. Each year there is another city where the conference takes place, like Strasbourg (France), Brussels (Belgium) and Cambridge (UK). Next year (2008) it will be done in Berlin for [...]

Last weekend I’ve been to Moscow for the Autumn session of Isdef conference. It was my 4th time in Moscow for ISDEF, representing Avangate. We have sponsored this event, as we did it for the last two years. A three-day event with meetings, parties and networking. The organizers continued to setup the conference outside Moscow, [...]

I have received yesterday an email from yahoo with the message that yahoo photos will no longer be available starting September 20. They give me the chance to move my pictures to Flickr (or even Shutterfly, Snapfish, or Photobucket) at a click of a button. I have a few albums on yahoo, so the moving [...]

So I have decided to uninstall Ubuntu. I had it on a big partition of 50GB and another one with 2 GB for swap. I had only a few problems with this system, but the main reason to get rid of it was because switching between two systems was quite annoying. I mean you either [...]

When using the Avangate AfterSale Message feature for the order finished page, you can add any type of tracking code. Including Google adwords for conversion tracking. Since we have received a few question on how to get this code, here are the required steps: 1. Access your Adwords account 2. On “Conversion tracking” section click [...]

“eCommerce times” writes an article about Google’s entry into the online payment market, while making a comparison with Paypal and adding some facts about Google Checkout. The interesting thing is that our romanian branch is quoted in this article: E-payment services are not new. ePayment Solutions, GECAD ePayment, Intellipay and Neteller carved out viable e-payment [...]

This year conference is not only one day as the ones last years. It’s for almost three days, from Friday evening to Sunday noon. It’s the third time we’re sponsoring the conference. Friday was just a networking party, a so called “barbeque party” although there was no barbeque but normal catering, but inside a big [...]

We’ve built a list of 50 download portals where you should have your software listed. The list is still open, changes can be applied at any time if a page with a higher rank appears. Even if the listed websites are sorted by Google Page Rank, this does not mean that the first ones are [...]

Just found out that some of our online articles are translated and published in different languages. For instance, the article Optimizing for MSN? Is It Worth the Effort? has a french version: L’Optimisation pour MSN est-elle Nécessaire ? Nice. It even looks good in french. Well done! Just in time to fit my new website [...]

US goes further in e-commerce development by starting interesting projects targeting rural areas. Just found the National E-commerce Extension Initiative, which looks quite impresive beginning from the fact that it exists. I quote from this project background: This initiative, launched in 2003, is addressing various factors that will dictate the adoption and diffusion of e-commerce [...]