OpenX, the well known open source ad server software company, is looking to hire experienced open source web developers.They have several projects and wants developers with proven experience extending open source content management systems or analytics tools.
One big appeal: the location of the developers doesn’t matter! The work can be done remotely (I don’t know if you will be paid for this so you have to ask).

If you are interested then email to tellme@openx.org (include a summary of your experience and some details of one project you worked on and think it demonstrate experience in extending a CMS or analytics application).

If you know a friend or someone interested you can forward this offer to him/her. More of their blog.

We, at MyTestBox.com, have reviewed OpenX ad server software here. We found it to be a very good choice if you want to “take control of your advertising”.

OpenX is well-funded (21 million dollars to date) and is set to become one of the leaders in ad serving software field.

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According to Associated Press US Senate just passed, unanimously, the intellectual property bill (today - Friday, September 26).

This would give the Justice Department more resources to combat intellectual property theft, including patent and trademark infringement, counterfeiting and copyright crimes.

This bill also would authorize funding for federal and local law enforcement to fight intellectual property theft and expand the scope of things that could be seized in a criminal case.

The legislation would create a new position in the executive office of the president to coordinate enforcement of intellectual property rights across federal agencies and departments.

“Intellectual property makes up some of the most valuable, and most vulnerable, property we have,” Patrick Leahy (Judiciary Committee Chairman) said in a statement. “We need to do more to protect it from theft and abuse if we hope to continue being a world leader in innovation.”

That sentiment was echoed by the Copyright Alliance, a nonprofit group whose members include the Business Software Alliance, the National Association of Broadcasters, the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry Association of America. Member companies include software, media and communications companies like Microsoft Corp., AT&T Inc., News Corp., Time Warner Inc. and Walt Disney Co.

“We can look forward to U.S. artists and creators maintaining their leading role in the world of producing creative works that enrich our culture and drive our economy,” the Copyright Alliance said in a statement hailing the bill. That applies to software creators as well.

There’s is a concern that this bill will favor more large media companies and the public-interest advocacy group Public Knowledge is worried about that, especially that the bill would allow a court to order the forfeiture of any property used in an infringement.
That could include servers owned by Internet service providers or Internet companies.

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With over 1 Million iPhone application downloads, Pandora’s  mobile ad platform is ready for prime time!

But for now you have to wait in line: Best Buy and Beck’s beer signed the #1 and #2 premiere contracts for Pandora’s iPhone ad platform (the contracts secure their rights to be the exclusive advertisers on the new mobile platform: Best Buy for the first thirty days, Beck’s for the subsequent thirty days).

Today, September 22, when users launch the Pandora application on their iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod touch, the Best Buy campaign will be activated and will be the first beneficiary of Pandora’s hugely successful iPhone application which still hovers around the #3 most popular application in Apple’s App Store (1,1 million downloads so far since July 11, reaching one out every ten iPhone and iPhone 3G).

With their respective campaigns, Best Buy and Beck’s will be the first to tap the highly attractive and affluent demographics of Pandora’s registered iPhone users who are predominantly male and aged 36 on average. Among all iPhone users, they skew somewhat older with a higher than average household income and wield greater purchasing influence among their family members and friends.

Pandora’s iPhone ad platform also has the ability to hyper-target audiences for highly relevant and personalized marketing communications, such as by gender, age, geographic location, music genre and day part listening.

“We’re thrilled that Best Buy and Becks are our first advertisers on our iPhone mobile platform,” said Cheryl Lucanegro, vice president of advertising sales for Pandora.

“Through diligent product development and research, we figured out what works best online to generate a high level of engagement and response for marketers while enhancing the user experience at the same time. Our goal is to translate this knowledge, advertising philosophy and product development schema to the mobile platform.”

“As we see users react and engage with the Pandora iPhone platform, we’ll develop and launch new advertising products consistent with this strategy that increasingly leverage the mobile experience,” added Lucanegro.

According to Nielsen Media’s Q1, 2008 research data on iPhone users, they represent the best of the advertising targets groups:
- 25-34 years old
- 55-64 years old

These two age groups tend to spend more:
- 36% have a monthly phone bill of more than $100
- a full sixteen percentage points higher than the average American mobile user and love their music
- 75% use the iPod function on their iPhone, second only to email at 76%

The Morgan Stanley Rubicon report (March, 2008) also found that 10% of iPhone users buy something from iTunes daily and that their ownership of more than one mobile phone places them at the leading edge of consumers driving the wireless industry.

About Pandora
Pandora (www.pandora.com) is a personalized internet radio and music discovery service available anytime and anywhere on the PC, in the home, and on mobile devices via partnerships with AT&T, Apple and Sprint. Listeners can simply enter a favorite song or artist, and instantly launch a personalized listening experience which includes discovery of new bands, artists and songs.
Today, Pandora has a growing user base of more than sixteen million registered listeners, a database of over 550,000 songs, and national advertisers such as HP, Microsoft, Honda, Procter and Gamble, and Nike.

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The latest release of Magento, Version 1.1.6, was released this week and contained updates to the admin, a new design Skin and more. To coincide with the availability of 1.1.6, the Magento Team at Varien also released a new Blank Theme to assist designers in creating new custom themes for Magento.Version 1.1.6 is now available for download  and includes a few great updates, along with bug fixes which are listed in the release notes. Version 1.1.6 is a continuation of the Version 1.1.5 release.

Version 1.1.6 includes an update to the category management tool which allows store owners to more efficiently manage a large number of categories. This feature can be tested on our demo admin site. The release also comes with a new skin, Blue Skin, which can be seen on the demo frontend site.

As a reminder, they do not recommend upgrading directly on a live environment. For more information on the release please see their blog announcement.

To coincide with the availability of Magento 1.1.6, we have also made a new Blank Theme available via MagentoConnect.

With ‘Blank Theme‘ the Magento team answers the call of numerous community members out there who’s been inquiring about an extra light theme to use as a basis for theme customization. With this theme we’ve removed all the custom CSS formerly used in Default and Modern Theme, and replaced them with minor typography and positioning CSS assignments.

References to the class names were left in the CSS files to provide a solid starting ground for designers/developers. Markups were also revisited and cleaned up in theme-level.

Download, customize, and enjoy the new ultra light Magento theme!

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MacsDesign Studio LLC, the developers the Web Help Desk (the leading cross-platform help desk software solution), announced today the integration with Apple Remote Desktop 3, Apple’s award-winning desktop management system for Mac OS X.

The easy access to ARD information and instant remote control connectivity from within the Web Help Desk promises to boost technician productivity and raise the bar on customer satisfaction.

A scheduled or on-demand import of asset discovery data directly from the ARD database to the Web Help Desk provides support professionals with the critical, up-to-date asset information required to efficiently resolve service requests. This new integration makes Apple Remote Desktop 3 asset data available to any web browser through one centralized web application.

Web Help Desk’s integration with Apple Remote Desktop 3 makes initiating an ARD control session a simple mouse click away. Technicians can instantly access all of ARD’s features and benefits from a Web Help Desk ticket or asset view.

Hopefully, they will add even more features in the future making it better. We, here at MyTestBox, will review this help desk software soon.

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