Web Services & Application Store Blog

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 

zanox Connect is the new authentication mechanism that lets your customers cooperate and share their success by exploiting new ways to implement affiliate marketing.

See how it works.

The body mass index (BMI), or Quetelet index, is a statistical measurement which compares a person’s weight and height. The Sweden based DreamBuilders team developed the BMI Calculator Widget and put it to the zanox Application Store. Now everyone can calculate the need of using the stairways instead of the elevator or studies the product recommendations provided by the widget along with the finding. (See my on the screenshot; uh – oh.)

The widget is available in English, Swedish, and German localisation.

We announced on 27 March 2009 the Web Services launch and ZDK end of life and reminded you on 15 April 2009 with the announcement “ZDK shutdown begins“.

The zanox Web Services team concentrated all its resources on further development of our new Web Services and we will have to close down the old ZDK publisher features by the 26 October 2009.

Last week we launched a new version of the Web Services with full coverage of the publisher ZDK use cases. Go get an overview of this web services package.

In addition to help you with migrating to the new zanox Web Services we are pleased to provide you with a migration scheme: http://wiki.zanox.com/en/ZDK_Migration

The time is going by faster you can imagine, so migrate – the earlier the better.

Paul Skorning launched his WordPress Plugin at the zanox Application Store this week. It adds contextual product data links out of the 60 Million zanox product database to each post. The plugin is very easy to install and gives you another opportunity to monetise your contents.

New at the zanox Application Store this week is the zanox WordPress Plugin – an inhouse development of zanox initiated by Denis Maibaum. The plugin enriches the blog search results with hits from the zanox 60 million products database. It has a fine settings dialog for easy feature setup and gives bloggers the opportunity to monetize their blog in a new and innovative manner.

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.