Web Services & Application Store Blog

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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 

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.