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Moontoast's SocialStore got an upgrade

The Moontoast SocialStore has been defining the social commerce space for nearly two years. This is the product that is proving Facebook commerce delivers real results, and it¹s leading the charge in an industry that is in its infancy. This most commonly used Moontoast product reaches audiences where they spend their time online: social networks, blogs, and brand websites.

It¹s fitting, then, that Moontoast did some work under the hood to make it even better. Moontoast's SocialStore is now mobile friendly. When a consumer is browsing Facebook or Twitter from their mobile device and interacts with the SocialStore, they now experience a mobile-friendly cart and checkout flow that is HTML-based, displaying exactly the products which were in the native store.

Products are laid out in a grid, and simple taps navigate through product descriptions, additional images, and checkout. If a brand is offering checkout via PayPal or Checkout by Amazon, those payment methods work as well.

This upgrade is live, instant, and best of all, there¹s nothing consumers need to do to make it active. When Moontoast detects a mobile device viewing an offer, the app simply delivers the mobile version of the SocialStore.

Let me know if we can set up a demo, or if you would like to speak with Blair Heavy, Moontoast's CEO.

Stay tuned‹ this is just the beginning of the Moontoast Mobile experience.

For more information about Moontoast, go to http://www.moontoast.com/products/distributed-store

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Just launched: a new Viki.com!

We’ve been talking about it for weeks and working on it for many months; the new, improved viki.com is finally here! The redesigned site has an updated look and feel, improved navigation, long-awaited community features and much more. Check out Nadine’s blog post, which goes into more detail.

A great big “thank you” goes out to all the community members who helped us with beta testing and detailed feedback along the way. And of course all the Viki engineers and everyone else on the Viki team who worked tirelessly to make this launch happen. But the work isn’t done yet — we’ll have more improvements for you in the coming weeks and months. Please continue to send us any thoughts and feedback in the meantime!

Source: Viki Blog | Disclosure: I am working at Viki.com

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BaliSpirit Festival 2012

The BaliSpirit Festival is a vibrant and energetic celebration and the most popular event of its kind in South East Asia. The Festival combines live music, yoga, dance/energy movements, meditation and healing, and offers an array of day workshops and nightly live music concerts and entertainment. One of its principal aims is to awaken positive change within individuals and communities.

Approaching its fifth year, the Festival is reputed as "one of the world's leading lifestyle festivals," by Sky TV Europe's Ciaran Caulfield and one of Asia's top 5 "Events with Edge," by MICENET Magazine. Every year, it attracts top masters and musicians and several thousand guests over 5 days and 4 nights.

The event is set in two venues in Ubud, Bali's arts capital. The quality and wide variety of daytime workshops, night concerts, alternative medicine and marketplace vendors featured at the Festival are unmatched. Join us for an unforgettable 2012 celebration that will inspire, nourish your highest potential, create vibrant connections, and empower your communities-- all brought to life in the naturally beautiful and magical backdrop of Bali.

The Festival is sponsored by BaliSpirit, Teh Kotak, ByronYogaCentre, The Yoga Barn, Desa Seni, Fiesta, Big Tree Farms, Bridges, Alchemy, AMO, Heineken, Ryoshi, Taksu, Hatten Wines, WEARe, Garuda Indonesia, The Private Spa, OmPure, Five Elements Spa, and Jazz Cafe.

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Ruby on Rails Helps Company Redefine the College Recruiting and Scholarship Process

The nation's leading provider of college recruiting and scholarship technology takes another step to simplify and streamline a life changing process. NCSA Athletic Recruiting, the most trusted source of online recruiting information for more than 42,000 college coaches and 800,000 prospects since 2000, recently launched version 3.0 of its "Recruit Match System" which is widely considered the premier tool for athletes and coaches. Through a high tech and high touch approach, NCSA has helped more than 50,000 athletes commit to college who have saved more than $2 billion in financial assistance. Version 3.0 should only help more athletes with its newest improvements.

The updated Recruit Match System (RMS) is responsive for mobile platforms including iPhone, Android, and iPad, meaning student-athletes can update and check their profiles in real time.

“The new Recruit Match System has been rebuilt from the ground up using the latest technologies and techniques that are being used by companies like Groupon, Twitter, and Google," said Chris Hein, Director of Software Development at NCSA. "The site has been constructed with reliability, elegance, and simplicity at the forefront to make the recruiting process easier than ever."

Ruby on Rails, HTML 5, CSS3 and Backbone.js were used through the new RMS and the application has more than 90% code coverage with automated tests.

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Introducing Clibe, a cloud library

Visere, a design firm that develops digital products for big brands like Nike, Microsoft, Motorola and Jawbone has developed their first solo product - a social journaling app for the iPad called Clibe. The founder, Roberto Tagliabue, has been Nike¹s Director of Digital Innovation since 2005.

Clibe is a collaborative space where people can share their creative talent or next big idea. Clibe combines note taking, writing, sketching, and photography, with drawing and painting tools, making it possible for anyone to create a beautiful book in minutes. The platform is cloud-based‹users can choose to make their journals public, share them with their friends, or keep them private.

Clibe has been in beta for about a year and is launching next week‹ the latest version is optimized for the New iPad HD (downloading is free at the App Store).

To date, there are about 70K people who have downloaded the app. Visere began the Clibe project as exploration on the future of computing and collaboration.

Consumers are creating journals as travel diaries, legacy writing, books to their children, letters to their lovers, etc.

Business teams are finding that Clibe is a great way to collaborate, share ideas, and boost productivity as more and more companies are loading up their people with iPads.

Clibe has a fresh, uncluttered design and an easy-to-use interface that make people feel like creative geniuses!

Clibe site: http://myclibe.com/

Popular Journalers

- Max Kalifornia has about 600 followers/here is a link to his Clibe page http://myclibe.com/marketplace/authors/22743

- Pigtail Goddess/My Life with Benito: http://myclibe.com/marketplace/journals/40182#8

[Thanks Amy!]

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