An Industry First: New Micro Jobs Search Portal
Agriya is delighted to announce the launch of an industry first, something that has never existed before until now – a complete search engine of virtually all the micro jobs available on the Internet.
The global recession has left an undeniable mark on the workforce in every country and people have realized that their ‘secure’ 9-5 job with the large corporation is probably not as secure as they thought with multi-national companies quite happy to shed tens of thousands of jobs without a thought on how it will affect those that have dedicated their life to the company. It’s no surprise then that many hundreds of thousands have turned to the Internet to earn a little extra cash to get by or tuck aside for a rainy day.
Fiverr.com really cornered the market in this respect, it was in the right place at the right time, just as people were searching for easy ways to make extra money up pops a site that lets you earn money by doing simple things like a 10 minute voice over or sending a postcard from a city.
It wasn’t long before webmasters and site owners realized that they could cash in on the ultra cheap services being offered and now there are a plethora of fixed price job sites to choose from. While competition is a great thing and we encourage people to start their own micro jobs platform with our FP Platform script, it can be frustrating for buyers who want to get the best bang for their buck but don’t want to spend time searching through all the different micro job sites seeing who offers what at the best price.
Introducing JobReapr.com
This is a brand new service offered by Agriya and is the first of its kind in the industry. Finally buyers have a central location to come and find all the micro jobs on offer and pick and choose those which offer the best deals.
The Internet's First Micro Job Search Engine
As we know, some sites offer only $20 jobs while others offer only $7 jobs. Service providers are using both sites to provide the same service so it makes sense for them to pay just $7! If service providers want to continue offering $20 jobs then they’ll have to increase the value and benefits they give for a $20 job which will massively benefit all the customers and buyers out there.
JobReapr.com is 100% free to use and has a very simple interface. You can search through jobs of different values, search by keyword or even search by different fixed price job websites.
Agriya is working hard to add additional sites to the search engine and if you are the admin of a fixed price job site please let us know if you’d like to get added to the search engine (it’s totally free!).
So please go ahead, give it a whirl and let us know what you think. We’ve built a basic version at the moment but we’d love to hear what YOU think on how it can better serve YOU.
Do You Want To Run A Micro Jobs Search Engine?
The purpose of JobReapr.com is to test our new software, provide an additional service for our current clients and to see if we can start offering it as a product. In the New Year we would like to invite people to register their interest in purchasing this platform to run their own micro jobs search engine so please watch this space!
Agriya is the number 1 solution provider to the fixed price job industry
When it comes to building an online business you can’t take chances and unknown risks. That’s why so many people have used Agriya’s FP Platform solution to build their own fixed price jobs portal. Agriya has over 10 years of web development and industry experience and is instantly recognizable as a brand that is known for stability, reliability and backup support.
Recently a micro jobs industry news site compiled a list of the 15 most popular fixed price job websites. The ranking is based on a large number of variables such as Alexa rank, Delicious bookmarks, woorank and compete rank to give a clear picture of how popular the sites are.
We are absolutely delighted to note that 12 out of the top 15 fixed price job websites on the Internet are powered by Agriya’s software and take it as a sign that Agriya is the number one choice for anyone looking to create such a site. The top 5 sites are all powered by Agriya’s software so it should tell you something about the stability and scalability of our products!
Agriya's FP Platform Powers 12 Of The Top 15 Micro Job Websites
The top 5 fixed price job sites according to FiverrWay.com are as follows:
- Zeerk.com
- GigBucks.com
- TenBucks.com
- UpHype.com
- JustAFive.com
If you want to setup your own turnkey Micro Jobs website that works exactly like Fiverr (but with a few additional exclusive features) then visit our micro jobs script page which will give you more details about our software. You can also use the Live Chat button at the top of this page to speak to a customer rep, you can call us on +1 773 358 2979 (US) or +44 20 3287 5567 (UK) or you can shoot us an email by filling out the form on our contact page.
Agriya Launches MarkIt 3
Two years ago Agriya launched MarkIt, a brand new social bookmarking script which enabled anyone to run their own Digg or Delicious type website. The response to the first script was encouraging but we soon realized that we were missing many of the features demanded by people serious about making money from their social bookmarking site. We soon followed up with MarkIt version 2 which brought in many features that everyone had requested – infact it was so stable that we haven’t even updated the script since we launched it last year.
But the Internet marches on, if you are not cutting edge you are so last year, so our developers have been hard at work recoding the software to bring in the latest functionality and ensure that MarkIt is an up to date and relevant script. The designers have also created a beautiful default design for the script – infact you probably won’t want to customize the design at all!
MarkIt 3 has an all new design and style
If you are familiar with the way a social bookmarking website works then you’ll be at home with Markit. A user comes to your site to enter some interesting links and it gets shared amongst other members of the website. If they find it to be interesting they can vote up the story to control what’s hot and what’s not.
Each story (link) can be tagged with a number of descriptive words to help others find interesting links and it acts like categories – but much more fluid and user generated. Members can comment and discuss the links with each other and follow other members and be alerted when their friends post new and interesting links.
Members can discuss the links being shared
MarkIt comes with an external templating system and language system which means you can easily customize the entire design and layout and make your site multi-lingual by translating the language files.
Pricing and Demo
When we first released MarkIt a few years ago it was priced at $87, today you can buy the latest version of MarkIt with all the new features, better design and better scalability for the same price of just $87. Click here to buy MarkIt 3.
We have a fully functional demo available so you can test drive all the features before making a purchase. You can check out the admin area, the front end and the members area to see if the software meets your requirements, click here for the MarkIt demo.
Agriya Launches New Marketplace
Ever since we launched our first product 4 years ago it has been the dream of Agriya to launch an online marketplace for people to buy and sell templates and modules for our products. We wanted to create a place where designers could benefit from our development expertise by making extra cash designing templates and our customers could have an even greater range of customization options than Agriya could provide by itself.
The dream has finally been realized with the launch of Ocarda, a fully functional digital marketplace for people to come and buy and sell templates and modules for all of Agriya’s products. The site already has over 50 items for you to choose from and we are very interested to hear from designers who are interested in selling their designs on Ocarda.
Ocarda is a new digital marketplace
All the templates are neatly categorized by the product they belong to and you can browse through the list of designs or search for a specific design you are looking for.
If you are an existing Agriya customer then you’ll find that we’ve already imported your customer account details and you can login right now and start buying templates and modules for your products. If you are not ready to buy just yet, just add the designs you like to a collection box and come back later when you are ready to make a purchase.
Designers can sell their templates on Ocarda.com
The software that powers Ocarda has been built to be a marketplace platform and we’re already planning to roll it out on to several other sites. We are also keen to work with other businesses to help develop marketplace websites using our ready made platform.
JP Morgan Says Group Buying Has Just 10% Penetration
When an established analyst company like JP Morgan releases some market analysis you have to sit up and take notice. Recently they suggested that the Groupon and Living Social market has a penetration of just 10% – the vast majority of people buying online have no idea about group buying and saving money.
As a Group Buying site owner (either using Agriya’s GroupDeal or Feedy software) this should have you so excited that you should be doing backflips and cartwheels down the street because your income potential hasn’t even got out the ‘growth’ stage yet.
It is expected that Groupon will make $800m this year – and in a market with an awareness of just 10%, imagine what their future earnings could be like. Groupon have announced that in 2011 they will be gunning for a turnover of $1.5bn, which tells you something about the growth of the group buying industry when the market leader is targeting nearly 100% growth in a year.
According to Mashable, there are many smaller businesses that are getting increasingly frustrated with Groupon because their deals and offers get pushed aside in favour of larger brands like Gap and Nordstrom. While it’s a tribute to Groupon that it has more deals than it can handle it also suggests that there is a significant opportunity in the market for more group deal sites to meet the rising demand from businesses and consumers.
With established Internet brands like Amazon, Google and Ebay looking to move in to the group buying market it’s clear that it’s a concept that is not only here to stay but also has massive scope for more businesses to start their own site.
So far Agriya have developed over 800 group buying websites with our GroupDeal software and over 200 entrepreneurs and individuals have taken advantage of our Feedy application which aggregates group deals from the major sites in the industry. Our software powers some of the biggest names in the industry including Koroupon, Tipping Town and Boosh Boosh. It has been developed and refined over the past 12 months and some top experts from around the world have contributed to help the development and ensure that not only is it the best group buying script on the market but also the most rock solid and scalable solution.
How Effective Is Your Anti Virus Software?
Two decades ago computer viruses were passed around from disk to disk and rarely had the destructive power that modern day viruses posses. There was little commercial intent behind the viruses being written with most of them being created by bored teenagers or curious computer hackers.
During the 90′s as people started sending more and more emails, virus writers would try and trick people in to downloading and opening email attachments (something which still works quite well today). Even then, the virus would generally mess the computer up and stop it from working, there was still very little commercial intent.
Fast forward to the present day and computer virus writing is very big business for criminal gangs around the world. The monetary reward can be huge by writing viruses that log all the users data such as passwords and credit card numbers which are then sent silently to the gangs around the world. Another way viruses have been commercialized is by creating ‘botnets’ which can serve multiple purposes such as being ordered to send junk data to a specific website (known as a Denial of Service Attack) or even turn them in to email servers and send out tens of thousands of emails per day without the computer owner ever knowing.
By commercializing computer viruses in this manner, the gangs can make, or even extort money – one virus that appeared in Japan scanned the users browsing history to look for adult sites and then sent the owner an email saying they would make the information public unless a ransom was paid. Another example is to hold the computer hostage by encrypting all the files unless a ransom fee is paid to return the computer back to a working state.
Because of the highly targeted nature of these new viruses – the people that viewed various adult sites were targeted because they used a specific P2P client – many of the world’s leading computer anti-virus software makers are struggling to keep up with the vast number of new malware, viruses, ransomware, trojans, worms etc. that pop up each day. Infact, given the amount of GUI tools available some people believe that “script kiddies” are contributing up to 1,000 new viruses each day, although the vast majority are simply variations on existing viruses rather than brand new creations.
The spread of computer viruses is compounded by the fact that data portability is so easy nowadays. There are a multitude of ways to send and receive data, it’s even possible to put a highly destructive virus on a computer network which has no connection to the Internet as the Iranian authorities found out earlier this year.
For every anti-virus software that is available, there are many stories of how they failed to update their database when a new threat was reported, infact months can go by from the time a new threat is identified and the software is updated to automatically remove it – and that’s assuming that the virus is ‘big enough’ for them to warrant spending time and resources creating the removal code. There are stories of extremely specialized viruses that are designed to target high net worth individuals to gain access to their computer and accounts.
You might think that Norton have got their act together to protect you from all known threats? Well, a quick search reveals that this isn’t quite true, there are plenty of computer viruses that Norton doesn’t have protection for. And what about Kaspersky? Often showcased as one of the best pieces of anti-virus software available, but plenty of reports show there are a few gaps in their armour.
Introducing Social AV
Social AV is a new way to fight the ever evolving threat of targeted micro-viruses by pulling together technical experts from all over the world to contribute to a vast database of every known computer virus out there – but even better, specific instructions on how to remove the virus.
Social AV is a global collaborative anti-virus community
Never before have we seen a centralized crowdsourced approach for computer security which brings together IT experts, security analysts and affected users to collaborate and neutralize the computer virus threat.
Social AV is the perfect website for any corporate systems analyst who wants to stay ahead of the game to ensure their network is secure. Since Social AV is a centralized, collaborative environment which is completely independent from any AV software company you will find all the updates and all the removal instructions in one place.
Social AV has a vast list of viruses, updated by the users
Security consultants will also find Social AV an invaluable resource as they are able to find all known viruses with the removal instructions so that they can inform any companies that they consult for. Imagine being hired as a PC security consultant and being able to identify and remove viruses that their AV software missed – a long term contract is almost guaranteed!
Hackers, geeks and nerds, if it wasn’t for these guys a) there would be no computer viruses to speak of and b) there would be no one to come up with the instructions on how to remove it. A hacker can prove their skills by figuring out how to remove viruses and gain prominence within the PC security community.
Virus removal instructions are given by the users
Visit SocialAV.com today and start getting fixes for all the viruses, worms, trojans, spyware and keyloggers way before any of the software AV companies come up with any solutions.
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