Blizzard Reservation Engine Expands Reach With NEW Escapia API

Glenwood Springs, Colorado (PRWEB) February 07, 2012

The Colorado based SEO and website design firm, partnered with Escapia to allow vacation rental property data stored at Escapia to be integrated and displayed on the Vacation Company website. This development gives the website guest a seamless visit to search for a property, discover information, and view photos; all the way through the booking process.

The website was designed using WordPress, a popular content management platform that is naturally search engine friendly and easy to update.

January 2012 has been the best revenue month ever, by far! I attribute this success to the marketing work Blizzard has done over time including the BRE integration, recently commented by Bob Hawkins, owner of the Vacation Company. Its really easy to make changes and updates in the BRE said Carmen DeCecco, Vacation Companys Marketing Specialist.

Other core features of the Blizzard Reservation Engine include:

Blizzard Reservation Engine Expands Reach With NEW Escapia API

Thomson Reuters Debuts Calais Tagaroo : Easy-to-Use PlugIn Empowers WordPress Bloggers to Reach More Readers

SAN JOSE, Calif. (PRWEB) May 19, 2008

Found at http://tagaroo.opencalais.com, the Calais Tagaroo plugin makes it easy for WordPress bloggers to tag the people, places, facts and events in their blog posts and add relevant photos from Flickr to increase their visual appeal and search accessibility on the Web.

The Calais Tagaroo plug in works in the background while bloggers write to automatically generate tags and find related photos for selection, sizing and insertion via an easy-to-use interface. Bloggers are in control, and can add their own metatags along the way. They can also easily prioritize Tagaroo’s image search on Flickr to find the pictures that best illustrate their story.

“Calais Tagaroo brings automated metatagging and real-time photo search to the Web’s most popular blogging platform,” said Thomas Tague, Calais evangelist and project lead, Thomson Reuters. “We are extremely pleased to provide this free utility to WordPress bloggers, enabling them to increase their blogs’ search relevance and to benefit from new and emerging semantic services.”

The Calais Tagaroo plugin is easy to use. Here’s how it works:

1. Bloggers on WordPress 2.3 or above go to Tagaroo.OpenCalais.com (http://Tagaroo.OpenCalais.com) to download the plugin and get simple instructions.

2. They then go to OpenCalais.com (http://www.OpenCalais.com) to register for the Calais community and to get a Calais API key.

3. Finally, they use the WordPress settings page to paste a copy into their key space, and start drafting their next blog post.

Calais Tagaroo will start working immediately, suggesting tags for more than 100 types of things (people, companies, geographies, and organizations) and events (natural disasters, management changes, stock offerings, etc.). This vocabulary of facts and events will continue to grow every month to cover additional knowledge domains, such as sports and entertainment.

Calais Tagaroo is another component in the growing Calais toolkit. Calais delivers the power of the world’s leading semantic metadata generation service as a free and open Web service with a growing portfolio of plugins, modules and applications. To learn more about Calais Tagaroo, go to Tagaroo.OpenCalais.com (http://Tagaroo.OpenCalais.com).

About Calais

The Calais initiative supports the interoperability of content and advances Thomson Reuters’ mission to deliver pervasive intelligent information. It leverages the company’s substantial investment in semantic technologies and Natural Language Processing to offer free metadata generation services, developer tools and an open standard for the generation of semantic content. For more information or to get started with the Calais API, go to OpenCalais.com (http://www.OpenCalais.com).

About Thomson Reuters

Thomson Reuters is the world’s leading source of intelligent information for businesses and professionals.

Thomson Reuters Debuts Calais Tagaroo : Easy-to-Use PlugIn Empowers WordPress Bloggers to Reach More Readers

Mobile Landing Page Introduces an Affordable, New Way to Reach Mobile Audiences

(PRWEB) October 31, 2012

To fulfill the demand for cost-effective, mobile-optimized websites, Spark Logix Studios launched their new service, Mobile Landing Page. Unlike their other services, which are tailored towards business owners who want a highly customized site, Mobile Landing Page keeps prices low by offering some basic design elements customers can mix and match.

To deliver websites that are both a static and mobile site in one, the company uses an innovative approach to website creation known as responsive design. Responsive web design uses fluid code, which makes it possible for a website to adjust to the size and resolution of the viewing device. So, whether accessed on a PC, laptop, tablet, or smartphone, the site will adjust to provide the best user-experience for the environment. Responsive design is becoming more and more popular in the web design world as it eliminates the need to maintain two separate sites (a mobile and a static site).

Owner Rob Benson said, “We love responsive web design. There’s simply nothing out there that offers the same level of flexibility and positive user-experience. For those reasons, we feel it should be accessible to every business, despite their budget, which is why we created Mobile Landing Page.”

Mobile Landing Page advertises several pricing packages, so clients only pay for the elements they need or want. All sites come with five configured pages, server setup, and the choice to add pre-existing content and images. Prices increase if customers opt for professionally written content, stock images, extra pages, or search engine optimization. All sites are WordPress based, so businesses can manage their own pages from the content management system’s renowned admin dashboard.

When asked what makes their services different, Manager Ben Heath responded, “Mobile Landing Page is one of the first web design companies to wholly embrace responsive design. But, in addition to that, we stand out from others by offering the best in affordability and versatility. We’re here to meet the needs of those who don’t require an extremely specialized website, but simply want something that works on all devices, is cost-effective, and has some basic design options.”

Like most in the web design and online marketing industry, Mobile Web Design believes staying connected to mobile consumers is a major key to success.

“Desktops are increasingly taking a backseat to other internet-ready gadgets,” Benson said. “People are using things like tablets and smartphones to get online because they are convenient and fun, and businesses that don’t have a mobile presence are getting left behind. What’s great about responsive design is it meets the needs of both static and mobile users.”

Those who are interested in learning more can visit the Mobile Landing Page website. The site lists all pricing options, build elements, and serves as an example of how a responsive site functions.

Mobile Landing Page Introduces an Affordable, New Way to Reach Mobile Audiences

PeoplePond Extends Reach of Users" Online Profiles With Three New Blogging Platform Plugins

Ferndale, WA (PRWEB) May 21, 2009

PeoplePond, a unique Internet service providing search engine optimized (SEO) profiles and online identity verification for individuals, announced today that the PeoplePond Blogger plugin, PeoplePond MovableType plugin, and PeoplePond TypePad plugin are now available.

These new plugins deliver the full ‘About Me’ biography, image and links to the individual’s blog sites from their PeoplePond account and uses this information to provide an always up-to-date ‘About Me’ profile page on the blog. Once installed, the plugins will automatically reflect the latest information in the assigned PeoplePond profiles.

The PeoplePond Blogger, MovableType and TypePad plugins can be used for free. The launch of these plugins follows the release of the PeoplePond WordPress plugin and PeoplePond Drupal module for users of these popular blogging platforms.

“Our users realize extra personal brand exposure with every new distribution channel for their PeoplePond profiles,” said PeoplePond president, Theron McCollough. “These plugins represent our continued emphasis on making PeoplePond profiles globally accessible.”

PeoplePond’s ‘About Me’ biographies are also accessible through third party social media and content platforms through the open ADAM API. ADAM-enabled Web sites enjoy greater user acquisition rates by eliminating tedious account setup and management chores for their users. The ADAM API is currently open and free for anyone to use.

Besides providing SEO boosts, increased visibility and identity verification, PeoplePond combines the portable address book functionality of WeaveMet.com with the social media content tracking of DandyID.org, creating the first online service to harmonize these distinct capabilities within a single platform.

PeoplePond was launched to the general public earlier this year during the annual South by Southwest conference and festival in Austin, Texas.

About PeoplePond:

PeoplePond is part of the Cranberry network of Web sites developed by Cranberry, LLC. Cranberry is home to an unmatched team of innovative developers led by Internet visionary David McInnis. McInnis is best known for founding the first direct-to-consumer news service, PRWeb, which changed the way the world uses press releases. WeaveMet and DandyID are also part of the Cranberry network of Web sites. For more information about Cranberry, LLC and the Cranberry network of Web sites visit http://www.cranberry.com.

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PeoplePond Extends Reach of Users" Online Profiles With Three New Blogging Platform Plugins