And the winner is...
I wanted to introduce the winner of the Mimo Touch Screen Monitor we gave away at HostingCon 2009. Some of you may have heard about our unfortunate incident on Twitter but I will not recount it here.
Roland Osborne a co-founder of Olark is the lucky winner. He attended HostingCon for the first time this year to meet with providers in the Web Hosting community that might be interested in Olark as a solution for their end customers.
Congratulations from theWHIR team!
More about Olark:
Olark is a sales-focused chat widget that can be installed on any website in just a few clicks. With Olark, operators simply use their favorite Instant Messenger or mobile device to close sales by chatting with website visitors. Our widget is the EASIEST way to add live chat to the online sales process, and the ONLY solution that can be integrated without editing a single webpage.
Businesses spend billions on AdWords each month just to drive visitors to their websites. Olark provides value by helping these businesses convert this high-value traffic into sales.
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October 2009 - Web Hosting's All Star Team
This has been, for us, one of the most interesting, exciting and challenging build-ups to an issue of the magazine yet, Web Hosting's All Star Team. The balloting process was our first experiment with a kind of user participation we're planning to do a lot more with in the months to come. We had thousands of ballots submitted, with hundreds of write-in suggestions and a demonstration of user engagement that has us feeling super positive about the project.
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July 2009 - What am I Worth?
One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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