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LowerMyBid.com using real time push technology

2009-12-19T17:10:00Z

We successfully implemented a revolutionary real time push technology for the auction site LowerMyBid.com.

The site now is an ensemble of four servers working together: - Web server (dynamic page server, database server.... classic) - Specialized email batch server - Push server to update directly the browser - Stream server to manage updates in real time.

The site is actually in intensive testing in real time with the beta testers. We expect the site to be released live to the public by year end with the Beta RC version.

Check LowerMyBid.com web site, preregister, complete your profile and be the first to know when LowerMyBid.com will go live.

LowerMyBid.com live auctions opening soon

2009-11-15T16:58:00Z

LowerMyBid.com will soon open the live bidding.

Beta testing is going very smoothly, and we expect to deliver the beta 2 version in early December.

LowerMyBid.com is a new kind of bargain shopping with fun. The goal of the auctions is to be alone on the lower price. In this auction the price can go up od down following the interaction of the bidders.

Strategy is key, and a non winning bid can become the winner at anytime...... But more on this when the live auction will start.

LowerMyBid.com pre-registration Open

2009-10-29T20:26:00Z

LowerMyBid.com is now open to the public for pre-registration.

LowerMyBid.com is a new kind of auction where the lowest unique bid is the winner. Strategy is the rule for those cheap auctions. No dumb button to push and push and push...
The rules are available on the site.

With starategic bids, brand new sealed products can be obtained for pennies on the dollar.

LowerMyBid is equiped with our referral engine, and our points system.
What is this? LowerMyBid.com is using points for bidding. For the preregistration period, each person registering on the site can get up to 200 points to bid for free.
If that person refer friends, they both will receive free points to bid.

The points are given on certain actions, like registering, completing the profile, first order. All of this is set from the back office.
To avoid spams, the number of referrals is limited, but users can get new referral allocation then are not limited in the number of free points they can earn.

LowerMyBid.com pre-registration

2009-10-21T02:44:00Z

The pre-registration of LowerMyBid.com was anticipated for 10/11/09, we were ready, but some legal reviews were not completed and the pre-opening was delayed for 10/23/09.

To reward you for your patience, the LowerMyBid's team will giveaway (wow!) 100 more free points to bid for free to the first 500 person who preregister.

The pre-registration opening will be announced on LowerMyBid's facebook page facebook.com/lowermybid and will be twitt on twitter.com/lowermybid

LowerMyBid.com is a place where you can buy hight tech products for very cheap: the lowest single bid is the winner, and this could be just a few bucks or even few cents.
This is a new kind of funny auctions, a bit like an upside down auction.

LowerMyBid.com pre-opening

2009-10-09T22:27:00Z

Hey,

Long time I have not posted here, we at AWDB have been working hard on a secret project and then cannot blog for some times now.

This project is not anymore secret. We are now in final beta on LowerMyBid.com new web site.

The site will be open for pre-registration this coming weekend on Sunday October 11, 2009. During the pre-registration you will get free points to bid for free at the grand opening.

Once pre-register you will also be able to sponsor your friends and get some more free points.

LowerMyBid.com is new kind of auctions where the lowest single bid win the auction. This will let the auction winner buy brand new products for pennies on the dollar. But shh, go, pre-register and you will have all the info.

FeeZeek.com on AWDb e-commerce suite

2009-06-30T21:25:00Z

FeeZeeK.com e-commerce web site is now online, fully functional.

FeeZeeK.com is part of a growing number of customers using our e-Commerce engine.
The site has a few thousands of product references and growing. All products can be searched on their title, comments and descriptions with the full text search engine running on the site.

The site has all a full fledged e-commerce site need. From referrals to daily deals, from rss feed to automatic submission to search engines, all is there for its success.

Encoding code & Open source

2009-04-15T22:11:00Z

Is encoding your code opposed to open source spirit?

Open source is a great contribution to humanity in a sense that many products would not be available without the open source community. Many commercial products already over priced would be even more over priced and without alternative. Imagine the world without Linux, Php, Ruby on Rails !

The response depend on what you do with the encoder and if you send back to the open source community.

If you write a commercial application that uses some part of open source, you first have to place in your license agreement that you are using open source and mention their respective licenses.

Then you have to only encode your specific code, written by yourself and/or your staff, letting the open source open.

This way you respect the hard work of the open source teams and you protect your intellectual property. And please give back to the community by providing code, tricks and tips and help.

Deal Of the Day

2009-03-26T14:05:00Z

Our e-commerce suite has a new integrated functionality: the Deal Of the Day. This provide a specific web page for product on sale with a short duration.

The DoD page is conneted with the product and promotion, then a DoD can be set in a breeze: Create a promotion, pick your product (or create a new one), set your price, quantity minimum, maximun, available. Set your start and end date, validate and that’s it!.

The deal will start and stop on the set dates with count down showing the remaining time. You can prepare your deals in advance.

If no deal are set for a period, the page will show the most recent ended deal inviting the visitor to come back check for the next one.

Ruby Encoder

2009-03-09T14:01:00Z

AWDb - Advance Web DataBases is now selling Ruby Encoder and will support the product. A new section dedicated to Ruby Encoder will soon appear on our site. If you need the product now, please jot us an email.

Ruby encoder encode your ruby files allowing you to protect your hard work and avoiding other to reap the profits of your work.

Have you ever put more work in a project than you can invoice? Or build a specific project on top of heavy coding librayries you wrote over the years? Then your customer switch to another developer / development company who just add a few lines and steal your code and invoice your ex customer for work they did not perform? You did ! Or worse, they send your code to India……

Now with Ruby Encoder you can avoid this to happen.

Ruby encoder encode your Ruby files: your controllers, your models and some other ruby files. You can have versions even tied to one IP address, one domain name or a limited period of time (demo / trial versions).

Next article I will talk about what to encode.

BarCamp Miami

2009-02-23T15:44:00Z

Yesterday was a wild day, with more than 700 participants at BarCamp.
I arrived there with @orical on the left and @jewgonewild on the right, all tree of us wearing the new Pikchur.com tshirt. A full travel bag of those tshirts were given away.

There was some very good presentations, (scaling apps, web marketing, advantage of using APIs etc..) and the rooms were crowded. The ruby and rails community was active in presenting .

Tomorrow BarCampMiami

2009-02-21T20:23:00Z

Yes, can't wait, tomorrow it's BarCampMiami the Geek Festival under the sun.
Will go there with my friends Jewgonewild and orical.

Pikchur new gear just arrived

2009-02-20T19:13:00Z

Wow, Pikchur.com new gear just delivered. The new design by Marie (twitter ria093) is wowowowo.
Too bad, can't pikchur it, it's has to stay secret till BarCampMiami.

Pikchur selected for the SXSW awards

2009-02-20T15:03:00Z

We are proud, Pikchur.com is selected for the SXSW award in the category Mobile.
Pikchur let you share your pics on the go, and send them from your mobile (or any web browser), then pikchur connect your pics with your prefered social networks.
Pikchur.comwill be present at BarcampMiami and is also a proud sponsor of BarCamp Miami

Passenger in production: no problem

2009-02-16T01:12:00Z

Well we now have production servers with Phusion Passenger and Ruby Enterprise running smoothly for 1 month and half Servers had 99.999% up time. Adding a new application is a breeze. Respond time is a few seconds for low traffic sites and in a flash for higher traffic sites with regular traffic.

just delivered BossGiveaway.com

2009-02-08T15:23:00Z

BossGiveway.com is a marketing web site, with dynamic presentations and viral marketing via registration and dynamically generated (opt in) email marketing.

BossGiveway.com promote the Exfuze products and business opportunity. From the BossGiveway site, you can get a free sample of the Seven+ multi-super-fruits healthy compound. (you can get it also from here.)