Loomia is an interesting provider of recommendations for your website users based in the preferences captured when your users browse your catalog or the content of your website, in general.
If you are a retailer and you have a store online, this tool can increase your traffic and sales because when a user is browsing in a specific category, the Loomia system show additional recommendations linking to other webpages, by means of some text links and even with images or podcasts (audio & video).
You define the catalog or catalogs that the Loomia system must read and that is achieved by using RSS feeds that you can generate in your database engine or maybe your site have a ready RSS feed if it is a blog.
While you can use the “Loomia Free” system, they have other solutions with a lot of added value:
* Loomia Media (For Content and Media Sites): Loomia Media serves smart suggestions targeted to their interests so users stay on your site longer, interact with more of your content, and return to your site more often.
* Loomia Retail (For Online Retailers): By understanding your customer’s behavior, Loomia provides suggestions precisely tailored to their wants and needs which means higher conversions, greater sales, and increased revenues.
* Loomia Free (perfect for small to medium-sized content and media websites): If your site promotes the newest travel destinations, the coolest clubs, or the hottest restaurants, Loomia Free is the solution for you.
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The commercial Quickbird satellite used by Google to get the Earth’s cartography photographed an image of the new “splendid” acquisition within the China’s military.
Apparently, Google Earth can catch everything (well, not everything). The Quickbird satellite used for the Google’s maps application got the first image of the Chinese submarine called Jin-Class or Type 094.
The United States is very interested in this information because the government is always cautious about China’s military activities. Besides, the Pentagon have known for a while that the Asian country was developing a new submarine which would be able to carry some nuclear missiles but so far they didn’t have any image.
The submarine was registered by the commercial Quickbird satellite in 2006 and you can see that by entering these coordinates in Google Earth: 38 49′4.40″N, 121 29′39.82″E.
For more strange images captured by Google Earth: click Here.
For those people who know the sensation of living an international flight during 10, 12 or 14 boring hours because the battery of our gadget is over (laptop, iPod, etc), we have a solution now: Inflight Power Executive Bundle.
We can plug this small device into the passenger seat audio jack and that provides regulated power by the USB plug & charging cable/connector. In this way, we can recharge the iPod battery and, of course, our iPhone. On the other hand, by using the Mimi B USB cable you could recharge your Blackberry or your Motorola & RAZR cellphones.
With the standard USB cable you can recharge any laptop battery. The price for this device is US $ 49,99.
Boredom on flights is over. Now, we can enjoy our gadgets most of the time while we arrive to our destiny. More info: click here.
Today, Amie Street turns one year old. And this site have a really interesting business model.
Amie Street is a site where you can download songs for free if they are not popular yet, or with a price that is set by the users community. Basically, the artists upload their music so people can download it. The starting price is set at free by the system. When downloads pick up for popular songs, the price starts to rise, all the way up to $0.99. The most popular songs have higher prices. Prices fluctuate over time based on demand for the song. When the revenues of the song reach $5 in sales, the artist keeps 70% of these revenues.
People can search, browse and listen to music for free (via streaming). And they can download the songs (for free or buying popular songs) with no DRM on its MP3’s. So you can put them on your iPod, your PC, burn a CD, etc.
Amie Street is another example where the people have the power in the Internet market. They decide how much is the cost for each song and they decide what artist must be popular. Nice site! (You can open an account for free).
More information: Click here.
