Agriya » Software Updates http://blogs.agriya.com Something's Cooking At Agriya... Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:12:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Facebook offers Vanity URL for all http://blogs.agriya.com/facebook-offers-vanity-url-for-all http://blogs.agriya.com/facebook-offers-vanity-url-for-all#comments Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:23:32 +0000 Kabila http://blogs.agriya.com/?p=478 Facebook is ready to offer Vanity URL to all its users as per their desire on first-come, first–serve basis. So don’t miss this opportunity to get a Facebook profile page in your name.

Facebook has stated this clearly in its blog:

Starting at 12:01 a.m. EDT on Saturday, June 13, you’ll be able to choose a username on a first-come, first-serve basis for your profile and the Facebook Pages that you administer by visiting www.facebook.com/username/. You’ll also see a notice on your home page with instructions for obtaining your username at that time.

According to your user name, the choices will appear in the vanity URL setting page. You will be allowed to choose only one from the list. Apart from this, it also offers an option to enter a name of your choice but it must be at least five characters and only include alphanumeric characters.

fb-vanity-urlOrganizations, celebrities and politicians are advised to claim their URL early to avoid cyber-squatting.

Susan Jacobson, of Temple University’s journalism department, says “Waiting for a service to catch on or to become newsworthy is waiting too long. Cyber-squatters will start registering names as soon as they become aware of a new service. While it is possible to get your name back, it will take some time and could be costly.”

Getting a vanity URL will help you get huge traffic via natural search. Don’t forget to grab yours now.

]]> http://blogs.agriya.com/facebook-offers-vanity-url-for-all/feed 0 Six Apart offers plug-ins for its rival WordPress http://blogs.agriya.com/six-apart-offers-plug-ins-for-its-rival-wordpress http://blogs.agriya.com/six-apart-offers-plug-ins-for-its-rival-wordpress#comments Sun, 31 May 2009 05:35:47 +0000 Kabila http://blogs.agriya.com/?p=334 At WordCamp Mid Atlantic 2009, Anil Dash, CEO of Six Apart announced that they offer plug-ins for their bitter rival WordPress. ReadWriteWeb has stated that this action is like “Apple releasing software that runs on Windows”. This attempt is a strategic move to monetize through the popularity of WordPress.

Six Apart has clearly stated that their effort is to help bloggers irrespective of blogger tools used by them, to make the most of their blog using powerful services.

1. TypePad Connect
TypePad Connect is a free and easy to integrate service that brings a whole new level of community to your site. People who wish to leave a comment on your blog, can create profiles using their Google, Facebook, Yahoo or OpenID accounts. They can also follow each other’s activity across the web. It also enables users link to their rich profile that contains their comment history, and links to their own blogs and their accounts on Twitter, Flickr and other services.

2. TypePad AntiSpam
TypePad AntiSpam engine is a free plugin for bloggers, to protect your wordpress from invasive comments. It adapts to every changing spam technique and gets smarter every time you report spam.

3. Six Apart Media
Six Apart Media offers advertising solutions to allow WordPress bloggers to monetize their blog. Bloggers will have total control over the display of ads on their site.

4. Blogs.com
Blogs.com is Six Apart’s blog directory where a team of passionate editors chose featured blogs based on their quality, popularity and relevance. Now, Wordpress users can submit their sites as well and get the latest buzz via editorial round-ups and top ten lists.

Anil Dash Announces Six Apart plugins for Word Press at Word Camp Mid-Atlantic

]]> http://blogs.agriya.com/six-apart-offers-plug-ins-for-its-rival-wordpress/feed 0 If you have a revolutionary idea, we’re ready to support it! http://blogs.agriya.com/if-you-have-a-revolutionary-idea-were-ready-to-support-it http://blogs.agriya.com/if-you-have-a-revolutionary-idea-were-ready-to-support-it#comments Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:40:54 +0000 isaivani http://blogs.agriya.com/?p=78 We give you all those products you’ve always been looking for, we’re always working hard at giving you the best services and the most affordable prices, and now, we want to help nurture your ideas, we want to help you grow, we want to support you and your genius.

We know there are many of you out there whose minds come up with the most brilliant of ideas, but a lot of you aren’t able to make it happen, maybe because you don’t have the technical support, or the resources, or perhaps, the time. We’re happy to support your idea, if it is something that is sure to make an impact out there.

So if you think you have something, an idea, a plan, a product, anything new that you know is bound to click, we’ll give you all the support you require (for a nominal share in the profits, of course), and you can focus on making your money and growing as an entrepreneur. We may not approve of every idea you come up with, but we assure you we will thoroughly analyse all of them, and support the ones we feel we can. Here’s what we can do for you

If you have an idea, a product you want to launch, we can give you our technical support. Our skilled programmers and dedicated customer support team will help you in all ways they can, to launch yourself. Quite naturally, profits will be split between you and us, and we decide the percentage, based on your idea and the risk involved.

You have a fantastic plan for a new website, but you don’t have the cash. Come to us! Provided we feel your idea is truly unique and something out of the ordinary, we could be your investors and your business advisor. In return, all we’ll take is a part of the company; once again, based on our interpretation of how well the idea is going to work and how much risk we’re willing to take.

What’s more, if you have an idea, but don’t have the time, or maybe even the need or will to develop it, and still want to make money out of it, Agriya just might buy it off of you. Show us that your proposal is unique, and if we feel that it is original enough for us to buy and make it part of our vast offers, we’ll make you a deal.

We respect that you might not want to share your ideas with everyone out there. So if you’ve trusted Agriya with it, it’s not going anywhere else. Get in touch with us asap if you think you have something for us!!

]]> http://blogs.agriya.com/if-you-have-a-revolutionary-idea-were-ready-to-support-it/feed 0 You want to earn more money through your video website? Use rayzz! http://blogs.agriya.com/you-want-to-earn-more-money-through-your-video-website-use-rayzz http://blogs.agriya.com/you-want-to-earn-more-money-through-your-video-website-use-rayzz#comments Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:07:14 +0000 isaivani http://blogs.agriya.com/?p=26 Why rayzz video software? It is an attractive video sharing script where you can share videos and photos without any limitations and you can easily upload a photos or videos, and share it to everybody within minutes. You just find your shared videos all over the web literally in seconds, so it makes your sharing process simpler.

The second thing is Rayzz makes getting content from your video source to the web as simple as browse and upload. It is also known as flash encoder software. By using this, you get a powerful tool to convert any video file (mpg, flv etc…) into popular flash video format.

  • It has number of features. Let us see some of its main features.
  • It will display recently added, most viewed and favorite videos for us. It can view total number of friends, number of videos uploaded, new messages etc. in your websites.
  • It is possible to display video details such as tags, runtime, total views, status, number of comments and Video link.
  • Also facilitates you to can remove uploaded videos and edit the current video file details such as video channels, video details, description, enable or disable comments, photos and profiles.
  • It offer simple instruction for uploading videos so user can easily follow this instruction and upload the user favorite videos.
  • By using this rayzz, you can compose new messages just like any ordinary emails and you can able to view inbox/outbox messages too.
  • If you want, it can display most recently uploaded videos, most discussed videos, top favorite videos, random videos etc…
  • It will show all channels and total number of videos and groups in each channel. Each channel will display video listings according to recently added and most watched videos.
  • If you want to search the number of members in your website, you can use the user ID or user name.
  • Mass video upload is available.

Why do people want web video? Most of the online shopping people would like to buy a product from website with video infomercial (a long product /service description and sales information).

Suppose you want to make a clone of some popular websites such as you tube, rayzz can certainly do that easily

Would you like to improve your video websites? Buy rayzz .it will improve your website at the same time it will make a lot of money for you.

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In order to appease our client base, we removed the encryption and licensing, a decision we have now come to regret. Check out the numbers below and see why we have become so disturbed:

Agriya Software Piracy Stats

Number of sites illegally using our software: 379

Number of sites giving our software away for free: 86

Number of people trying to sell our software: 33

Number of DMCA notices served to date: 104

Number of files removed from file sharing sites: 819!

Piracy of Agriya’s software has reached a stage where we must take back control of our software and licensing, and if it means encrypting a few key files, then we are prepared to lose a tiny fraction of business to ensure our software is not pirated any more.

We currently employ two people full time to locate, track and remove people and websites who are sharing our software.

Agriya feels that it has no other decision than to start licensing our software pro-actively in order to combat software piracy. We tried it with open source access, and it was abused.

The first software to be licensed is Rayzz. In total there is one file encrypted that controls the script. The other files that are encrypted are for the licensing purposes. The file that has been encrypted should in no way hinder your prospects of customizing the code, adding new modules or customizing the template – the encryption is completely low impact.

There is also a call home feature built in to the software licensing. This basically calls back to Agriya’s server and finds out if it’s alright to run the script. Again, this is low impact and you won’t even notice the process going on as it’s designed to call home once every 15 days and you are allowed three attempts incase our server is down.

Over the coming weeks the rest of our software will be rolled out with the licensing and low impact encryption.

I sincerly hope you can appreciate why we have had to take these steps, and I’m really sorry if this causes any inconvenience. Of course, on a case by case basis we can review the encryption – for example if you are doing some heavy modification through Agriya.

]]> http://blogs.agriya.com/why-encrypt/feed 2 New Kootali Update http://blogs.agriya.com/new-kootali-update http://blogs.agriya.com/new-kootali-update#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:25:50 +0000 ace http://blogs.agriya.com/new-kootali-update/ I think we might have to rename this week the Week of Updates, as hot on the heels of the latest Rayzz update, we are pleased to announce that Kootali has been updated too!

The update includes numerous bug fixes including:

  1. Fixed the issue of sharing a link in posted Items
  2. Fixed the issues in the process of approving a network through admin
  3. Fixed the issue of redirection to the page accessed by the user before login
  4. Fixed few CSS related issues

This update wasn’t just limited to bug fixes as lots of new features and improvements to existing features were added, including…

  1. Added Pagination in the admin member management
  2. Added the privacy settings for videos
  3. Fine tuned the photo upload process while uploading the profile picture
  4. Added the back to link the wall & Discussion board
  5. Added the confirmation while removing a work
  6. Added the “Suggest a network” under the networks menu

The update is free to all existing customers of Kootali. You will find the updated files and update instructions in your Agriya customers download page.

]]> http://blogs.agriya.com/new-kootali-update/feed 1 Move Over Rayzz 2.0, Hello Rayzz 2.1 http://blogs.agriya.com/move-over-rayzz-20-hello-rayzz-21 http://blogs.agriya.com/move-over-rayzz-20-hello-rayzz-21#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:14:48 +0000 ace http://blogs.agriya.com/move-over-rayzz-20-hello-rayzz-21/ Today we are pleased to announce that our wizards and magicians have worked their magic and brewed up a treat for Rayzz – our flagship product providing video sharing stroke social networking capabilities.

All current customers are eligible for the update which includes…

- Now YouTube videos work again! After YouTube changed their settings, it caused a lot of video sharing sites to lose a lot of content. This issue is now fixed! Yeah, videos for all!

- The content filter for channels should now work correctly. Simply follow the step by step instructions and viola! Your channel filters will now work.

Check your Agriya customers area for links to the latest downloads and bug fixes.

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