Note: This case study was completed for assessment item 3, INB347 Semester 1, 2011. WordPress.com is a hosted blogging platform based on the open source WordPress system. It is designed to allow users to sign up and create their own blog. Users can choose from a completely free version, or pay for upgrades to add [...]
Overview WordPress.com is a hosted blogging platform based on the open source WordPress platform. It is designed to allow users to sign up and create their own blog. Users can choose from free or paid versions, with added functionality available on the paid platform, including the ability to use custom designs and to register and [...]
Overview Shoeboxed is a service and application that leverages the long tail to target a niche section of a broad market. Shoeboxed targets personal and business customers that are looking for a tool to simplify their expense data entry without the need for a dedicated data entry person and at a cheaper cost than paying [...]
Overview Founded in 1999 (n.d.) SourceForge was one of the first hosted solutions providing a collaborative software development management system that incorporates version control through a web based interface. It is a fantastic example of a web application that makes use of the perpetual beta concept because of the irony behind it. SourceForge is a [...]
Overview Saasu is an Australian online accounting software company who’s name stands for “Software as a Service Utility”. Saasu is also the name of their online accounting software for managing business finances. Saasu is capable of handling sales, payroll, purchasing, e-commerce, inventory, point of sale, document and workflow management that can be and is extended [...]
Overview Adobe Photoshop Express Editor is a free online photo editor based on Adobe’s Photoshop range of desktop image editors that offers a rich user experience through a simple yet powerful Flash based interface. While it is derived from what is often regarded the industry standard in image editing, Photoshop Express offers a very different [...]
Overview Yahoo! Pipes is a composition tool that was released in February 2007 (n.d.) designed to aggregate, manipulate and mashup data from around the internet (n.d). In short, you can pull in all sorts of data using all sorts of inputs, both user input or from a web source. It then uses a patching style [...]
Guvera takes a different approach to providing music to consumers for free whilst also being legal. This is done by allowing advertisers to pay for the music instead of consumers. Overview Guvera matches brands to consumers and provides a brand oriented channel for the consumer to download or stream music through. The company behind the [...]
Stack Exchange is a network of question and answer websites on a range of topics. Currently there are 46 websites in the network ranging from programming to mechanical to gaming to cooking. Overview The concept behind Stack Exchange is that each website in the network is a combination or synthesis of a blog, a wiki, [...]