Video from Mix08. Looks really impressive.
May 16, 2008
May 15, 2008
Tucows forever
Just received a message from Tucows, a formerly popular software archive. The message says they're accepting our RSS Editor software. Which I've submitted... about two years (!) ago.
Wow. Now I know how a woman feels when her drunk ex-boyfriend calls at 3:00am saying he misses her... While she's trying to figure out who's calling.
PS. It's hard to find the time for full blog posts these days, so follow us on Twitter if you want.
May 14, 2008
Piracy Concerns
Piracy is what every software company worries about. We all do our best to protect our software from cracking, patching and other kinds or reverse engineering. But should we really try to build an invincible protection? With all these hardware-lockers, network activations and stuff?
No way. That's what we think here at Jitbit Software. And here is why:
There are three kinds of users:
- Ones that will buy your software and never use a pirated version.
- Ones that will never buy your software and search for a crack till death. If there's no crack, they turn to your competitor or even buy it with a stolen credit card, which is even worse, because you will have to deal with chargebacks and bank penalties.
- Ones that will try to hack (or search for a pirated version), and if it cannot be done easily, they buy (bingo).
But this is not the whole story.
We all know, that you can buy a fake Rolex for 40 dollars, or a D&G shirt for 20... That's something we should learn from non-software (tangible) companies: D&G does not fight piracy! Actually D&G even encourages piracy as it promotes the original. That's why when you release the first version of the software, you should use an intentionally weak protection system.
When we released the first versions of our Network Settings Switcher and Macro Recorder back in 2004 (and Network Sniffer later), our serial number system was so lame, that a keygen was out two days after the release. We had gigabytes of traffic and thousands of visitors coming from piracy websites, but we've gained publicity, backlinks, downloads and Google-PR.
May 12, 2008
Apr 18, 2008
AI-powered podcast
If you have a website with an RSS-feed on it, you're just 2 clicks away from converting your feed into a podcast. Odiogo is a cool service that "reads your feed aloud", making a podcast from it. The quality is surprisingly good (check out the demo).
Why would you need it? Cause it's another way of promoting your blog/website: create a podcast, submit it to podcast-directories and get traffic and a backlink.
Some podcast directories:
Podcast.com
Podcast.net
Podcastalley
PodcastPickle
PodcastDirectory
Odeo
P.S. Don't have an RSS-feed yet? Try our RSS Feed Creator software.
Apr 17, 2008
New versions
We've recently released updates for some of our products, here are the details:
Jitbit ASP.NET Forum 4.7.0. - this version has finally fixed the Security Exception, which was thrown when the forum was run in a partially trusted environment AND SEO-friendly URLs module is enabled. This has been fixed. Also, the 4.7 allows reordering forums in the list (we've added a custom "OrderByNumber" column to the database, which can be edited in the admin panel).
Network Switcher 5.42 improves the IE proxy switcher and overall performance.
RSS Feed Creator 3.46 also features improved performance and usability (processing keyboard shortcuts), and generates cleaner XML code.
Apr 16, 2008
Google-bot submits forms
Google-bot already knows how to parse Flash and Javascript on our websites, extracting URLs to index. And now it's been oficially announced, that Google starts submitting forms, filling the fields with keywords, playing with options, and indexing the results.
Google submits only GET forms, that have no login/password fields. So if you don't want the robot to fill your database with junk, rewrite your forms to POST.
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