Web Services & Application Store Blog

We are pleased to announce that Humangrid just launched the first HUMAN as a Service application of the new zanox Application Store. Humangrid SEO Text creation allows you to use clickworkers worldwide to create for you unique text and let you specify the recurrent words you might need.

Here it is the full description of the service:

Your content – created competently and economically. Our service to you Our clickworkers create exclusive reports, descriptions, articles and reviews for you. Per your instructions, our authors will write exactly the texts you need for your website, catalogue or brochures: quickly, competently and economically. From a single text to a large-scale order, humangrid arranges the creation of text according to your wishes. Your benefit A lot of Internet companies need many short texts for their websites, such as product descriptions, glossaries, etc. These texts must be quickly and affordably created, or existing text should be optimized for search engines, rephrased for a particular target group or restructured for different purposes. For such large and very large numbers internal staff resources tend to be quickly exhausted, and the necessary outsourcing could present problems. We offer you a three-tiered process: Creation – Evaluation – Approval What do we need from you? All we need from you is information about the topic, the length and the language of the text – we will handle the rest. We will also be happy to pay attention to the use of specific keywords. Optionally, each text can be checked and corrected by a qualified proof reader, before it is presented to you for your approval.

Start use the clickworkers.

Moodmixer just launched a new widget to let publishers select programs and show in a “sliding” way zanox products.

They will also soon allow advertisers build their customised widget and promote it via zanox indipendently.

The interactive Product slider can be configured to produce a nonstop running product presentation derived from a predefined or customer  search.The widget will make sure that always new products will be shown.The last search query will be remembered.
Please view a demo at http://www.dynamic-slider.com

Please click here to get the application.

Be a Recommander and and share promoted Products, Vouchers & Shopping News with your friends on Facebook.  Recommander is a facebook application you can use to recomend products to your friends. It provides you with pre-selected product comparison lists. In addition it retrieve the rss program news from zanox and populate it with your tracking links.

This application is offered as a software as a service meaning you dont have to configure the application manually but just install it and connect with zanox from the setting tab.

Please note that a Facebook account is required in order to become a Recommander and that the current Version of this Application is focused on Sales Region Germany.

My List is a facebook application that let you use your zanox account to monetize your facebook profile. The application includes the following features:

1. Friends generated traffic: If your friends create their own list using the link in your profile, then your friend’s list will contain your connectid, therefore, you will receive more traffic.

2. News feeds and updates: Everytime that you update your list, a link with the product will be displayed in your profile’s updates list.

3. Invite friends: You can invite friends to use the application directly from facebook, plus these invitations already include your connectid code, giving you more opportunity to receive more traffic.

Check this application here  and join us wishing good luck for the zanox Application Store 2 Mio $ contest.

Increase your page impressions and session lengths sustainably, by offering free, user-individual content recommendations to your visitors.

plista is an application for publishers and also advertiser to monitor the user behaviour on some specific pages of their site and in parallel recomend users to reach in one click its most interesting sections/pages. It increase the time user spends spend in your site and potentially also your conversion rate. Check how the application works here

And have a insight looking at the presentation 

 

 

 

 

Shopotainment is a service enabling communication and interaction with and about products through social networks, widgets, RSS-feeds, or the shopotainment portal.

The systems suggests interesting products for recommendation to friends by learning the users preferences. The emerging product world (I have, I want, I bye) can be provided as feed to friends to inspire them.

If the product inspiration fits the liking of the friend, he can buy the product via a direct link (price comparison inclusive) and add the product to his own product world.

Shopotainment provides a Widget via tha zanox Application Store that enriches the product information with links to its users and fans. Website users can use the interaction buttons to express themselves to show whether they have the product already or they want it, and if they like it or not.

A month after the launch of the zanox Application Store dealunited is launching the first service fully implemented on zanox Connect for our advertisers.

The service is targeted to advertisers to let them properly convert traffic and earn money and reach in new ways.

This is their promise:

“Convert your lost traffic! Increase your revenue instantly! – The pan-European monetization tool for Zanox advertisers and publishers Problem: On average, only two percent of the visitors of an online shop end up buying. Therefore, a huge revenue potential gets lost. deal united helps you to rescue this lost revenue by showing unique offers to your non-buying users. Not even a loaded shopping cart is a guarantee for a successful purchase: around 70% of shoppers that load a shopping cart drop out or leave the process before buying. Typical deal united Merchants are e-commerce sites, software manufacturers, online-gaming sites, communities and many more. All of them use deal united to convert lost traffic. This results in low conversion rates and potential customers lost forever.

*Solution: * If the user cancels the process, a deal united message appears: “Get it for free if you buy at one of our partners”. If the user is interested, he will see offers from several advertising partners: clothing, toys, computer accessories, telecom, flowers, and so on. The advertiser will pay for the free product. Become one of hundreds of deal united partners and test the service with no risk (no setup cost, no fixed cost)! “

The service is provided for free in the zanox Application Store and can be used also by publishers and price comparison sites.

Are you interested? Get the product here

Today, June 3, zanox launches the first Application Store for the affiliate marketing industry. Together with the innovation single sign-on technology zanox Connect it provides the technologic base for the 2 Million US-Dollar zanox Application Store Contest 2009.

The zanox Application Store is a platform that gives publishers and advertisers the opportunity to discover new performance-based marketing tools.

Developers can introduce and distribute their widgets, software and services for the internet and mobile world directly to zanox’s network of more than one million publishers and over 2,000 advertisers worldwide.

Publishers and advertisers will use the zanox Application Store to discover ready-to-use applications, widgets and software services. In order to identify the best-performing and most successful applications, the zanox Application Store will use a quality benchmark system: the zanox AdRank indicates how the applications are performing. In addition, a star-ranking system as well as a comment function shows the level of satisfaction from previous users.

With the zanox Application Store developers can reach out to the entire zanox customer base and earn money in a traffic-sharing model. At a later stage developers will be also able to charge advertisers and publishers directly, using different types of revenue-sharing models.

The new single sign-on solution called zanox Connect ensures an easy, smooth and secure way of integrating applications.

This process is similar to what is being widely used on platforms such as Facebook. Once logged-in, using an application can be done via just one click. Due to the application’s ability to access the publisher’s and advertiser’s data in a controlled way, developers will be able to offer tailored and value-added solutions with a seamless user experience.

With the launch of the zanox Application Store, $2 Million zanox Application Store contestants can now start uploading their applications and take their contributions to the next contest level.

Today at the Web 2.0 Expo our CEO Thomas Hessler officially launched the $2.0 Mio zanox Application Store Contest 2009. The start-up contest, which we hold together with the M&A advisory company Corporate Finance Partners, will award the winning business model(s) an investment of up to two million US-Dollars for the best monetizing application based on zanox Web Services.

As announced during the 1 Mio EUR zanox Web Service Contest 2008 Winner Ceremony at the zanox GAP Campus, hosted by zanox and Corporate Finance Partners, we want to give start-ups a second opportunity to successfully monetize their business models with zanox Web Services in various ways.

• Monetise your existing widgets or application for Facebook, iPhone, iGoogle or any other platform


• Develop new internet or mobile innovations and generate a considerable volume of well-converting traffic into leads or sales


• Earn from innovation via the zanox Application Store


• Convince the contest jury and win up to $2 million venture capital for your business model

Everyone from all over the world is invited to register for the contest. For additional information also check out the zanox Web Services Documentation Wiki.

Good luck and enjoy monetising!

With an overwhelming event the 1 Mio EUR zanox Web Service Contest 2008 came to an end. More than 250 people met under the motto “Internet Republic Germany – entrepreneurs and politicians focus on the internet as a critical success factor” at the zanox GAP Campus. Andreas Thümmler, Corporate Finance Partners, handed over (symbolic) an 1 Mio Euro attaché case to contest winners representative Christian Sauer, Webtrekk.

“We will use the capital to make further improvements to our products, and in particular for the globalisation of our core product, Webtrekk Q3”, Webtrekk founder and Chief Executive Christian Sauer said.

ZANOX CEO Thomas Hessler announced a follower of the successful “1 Mio EUR zanox Web Service Contest 2008”, the “2 Mio $ zanox Application Store Contest”, that will be started at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, March 31 – April 3, 2009.

“After receiving so many impressive entries for our first contest last Autumn, zanox and our partners are keen to give start-ups a second opportunity to successfully monetize their business models with zanox Web Services,” said Thomas Hessler, CEO and founder of zanox. “With the current state of the worldwide economy, it’s become increasingly difficult for many of these companies to secure follow-up financing for their projects – this is where we would like to help.”

The ceremony event was also hosted by the leader of the German liberal Free Democratic Party, Guido Westerwelle, as a guest speaker.

Thanks to all for coming. All the other can get some impression through the huge bloggers echo, the event tweets and the flickr gallery. Stay tuned for more information to come about the new contest in this blog.