iDev is a California based company and has contractors and developers in Washington and Carolina and they engineered and developed the concept of an affiliate tracking software. This was a long and strenuous process where they had to hand code the software and finally reached high levels where they provided an efficient software and impeccable customer support.

An affiliate tracker is a software that enables affiliates track their business and look for zones of improvement and increasing their sales. For an affiliate to function efficiently it is imperative that it should be able to track its business and this is best done using a tracker. Also an affiliate needs to know where all the internet traffic is headed and to be able to market and advertise accordingly in those sites. Using a tracker will enable an affiliate to get more sales because a majority of internet users work on search engines and ensuring that the affiliate has high rankings as a result of which will appear as the top few links is essential. Thereby using a tracker will show the companies their status and how they can increase sales.

Each company has several options on what kind of software to use and so finding the right software is essential. iDev makes these decisions a lot simpler and ensures that all affiliates have their processes simplified and have regular technical and customer support.

There are hosted solutions out there that will handle your affiliate programs on their website. They work fine if you are looking for a simple affiliate management system. When you want to have complete control over the affiliate program, however, using iDevAffiliate software that you can host on your own server is the best choice.

Also, the basic edition costs $99, and it gets the job done. If you need advanced features like Language Packs or Quickbooks integration, you will need the Platinum edition which costs $299.Professional installation is a step wise process and is a onetime requirement done for $45.

Most customers have agreed to the software being very useful and effective and is has definitely brought about an increase in sales. One of the customers Daniel Socco posted an article on the blog and stated “I have been using the software for a couple of weeks, and I am pretty happy with it so far. Truth be told you will need to spend some time learning how to navigate the Admin control panel and how to configure all the different options and settings, but that is normal when you have a software with so many features.” The only hitch is the details regarding payment but all in all it is worth using.

It comes with usual features: favorite lists, logos and banners, download vCard, website thumbnails, add to favorites, statistics, IP/URL/Website banning/filter, SEO friendly URLs, listing approval, payment gateway management and the like. It has a built-in banner rotation system with which advertisement management is made easy. Webmaster can make money through paid subscriptions as well. The processing speed of the site seems to be good even after loading a lot of products.

Unlike most scripts, PhpMyDirectory comes with three different templates, including a Yellow Pages template. You can edit templates to reflect the mood of your site.

Due to a failure of the application to properly sanitize user-supplied URL input, phpMyDirectory was reported vulnerable to cross-site scripting (XSS).  But it seems that the later versions of the application were fine tuned to offer secured site for their clients.

The installation of the script is very simple, even beginners can do it with the assistance of their installation guide. The free lifetime customer support and active developer community are convenient for use at any time, but the live support is not available 24 hours.

However it is a little expensive but at $ 99.95, customers find it is well worth the money. The special offers like 50% off on after purchasing one license at normal price and 10% off the license price on purchase of 3 or more licenses at one time are really useful offer to save your money.

On the whole, it is a good script suitable for starting a business directory.

One such software that has grown popular is Interspire which is a software that develops online marketing thereby enabling efficient and systematic follow up procedures for any organization. This software performs a bunch of functions. It enables you to follow up with prospects automatically using auto-responders and helps you optimize your e mail click thru rates with split testing. Not only that, it also keeps your lists clean and up to date with automated bounce processing but helps you see the complete activity of a lead with event login. This software ultimately guarantees to make your processing much simpler and efficient thereby converting all your leads into prospective buyers.

A lot of the facilities available today make a lot of processing and customizing easier but the trouble is with the lack of promotion and awareness regarding their availability. Conventional systems are always a more popular and safer tool to work with. This makes users a little apprehensive when it comes to the applications of different forms of software which ultimately replace manual labour. The software interspire also has been found to contain a few flaws which are being corrected in the new version.

Meta descriptions currently default to the main sites description. While the user can override them for individual pages it will be better to automatically default meta descriptions on product pages to be the first 250 characters of the product description. Most users won’t bother to set the meta descriptions so using automated processing is more convenient.

The second problem observed is that changing the name of products causes the URL to change. At present the software doesn’t redirect the old URL to the new one . Moreover search engines don’t get sent to the new product page. Once these two problems are fixed in Interspire it will become a very efficient tool to make use of. Also the price is a little higher than most PHP software but lesser than a lot of .NET systems.

With an increased need for a revolutionised form of marketing this is possibly the best tool one can use to enable growth and an increase in the number of buyers a company possesses, but the companies need to ensure they promote their products to a niche target audience while meeting all the customers’ expectations.

The largest tool we can use now is the concept of social networking and a specific idea being social bookmarking. One of them, available in the market, is a product called ‘Markit’. This software enables you to build any social bookmarking site in any niche or broad market and helps you even create communities which you can share with anyone.

Moreover, a user can utilize the bookmarking service to save, share and categorize all his favorite sites and can also classify his favorites and retrieve them as and when he wants to. Every time you add your favorite, your site will be updated with tagged content and contains several features which helps you tag, mark and unmark the people you network with. It also uses digg and delicious imports which enable faster and efficient importing of material. The only trouble that scripts like these face today is their lack of popularity and advertisement as a result of which not many users would know of the existence of these products not to mention use them. The one aspect that markit has going, is its easy and efficient technology and this is what they should capitalize on.

Equipped with solid marketing strategies and sufficient promotion markit has the potential of becoming a popular script in the market in a few years.

The price is as high as $147 and you can obtain the installation service for $49.95 more. The technical support for your product is free for one year. You buy a license once and you can use it forever. You can find a demonstration to convince you or choose to try the program for 30 days thanks to “30 days Money Back Guarantee”.

Some specialized sites estimate that its installation takes few minutes but a user disapproves this purchase. For him “the support staff is extremely slow”. However the different votes grade it on the middle. We personally think it is a fairly average product.

Multicard seems to be a useful and easy program, even though it is not the greatest.

Socialengine is a social network you can personalize. Its goal is to give 100% control of the social network. The data are totally protected against advertisings. The webmaster can customize the design of the software as he wants it to be, without showing or promoting the Socialengine logo. A lot of features (blog, albums, groups, messages) exist and webmasters can choose to keep them, add or cancel them as they want. But be careful, each module cost at the least 40$. That’s its drawback. The design is similar to the one on Facebook, however all can be changed and that’s a point very appreciated, described as unprecedented. Your network can be really unique. If you want to change the social network, the team quickly gives you the link for that and the upgrade seems to be easy.

The company’s software team, based in Los Angeles, tries constantly to improve Socialengine and proposes regular updates.

There is a free test period for 15 days, but past this delay, the software will cost 250$ and it’s only for the license.

A critic said on a blog: “this is definitely a very solid choice and one of the better options in the market today. It’s also very reasonably priced at about $250 for a license”. But one other webmaster considers the real price is about 580$ to have more modules and not just the basic installation.

Socialengine seems to be a cost-effective investment for the lovers of innovation, and from our testing, we can say that it would be worth it if that’s what you are looking for.

Whether you want to put up a personal website of sorts, or you want one for an organisation, or you dream big and want to beat youtube, there’s loads of scripts, but beating youtube would truly take something else.

Sharemixer is a software made by a company that seems to have been around for a while. It offers all the usual features - commenting and rating videos, fairly easy uploading, member ineraction, multi lingual support and the like. It allows video advertisements, and webmasters can even do a paid subscription. The company claims to help out with hosting, domains and all the technical requirements, but we weren’t quite satisfied with their support. It could do with improvement. Their updates aren’t too frequent either.

The default design is very basic and doesn’t really have anything special to it. It is also not as powerful as some of the other scripts we have seen. Their players most definitely need work. We could say it’s not priced too high at $200, but not too many customers are very happy. Overall, just another youtube clone.

Although the default design is unimpressive, it is easy to obtain the look you want. The staff are fairly helpful with the troubles you will encounter, but they could really do with some better designing and layout.

Users can customise their profile pages, but it could definitely do with more features. We have seen scripts out there that offer many more features. Members can post photos, videos, articles etc, and can even advertise if the admin wishes to permit it.

Webmasters are allowed to keep 100% of the revenue that they make, and the script can hold upto 100,000 users. They have different plans ranging from gold to enterprise for various needs. Prices vary accordingly. Visit the site for more details.

It has been developed by a company called ABK Soft, based in California. They’ve been around for about 7 years and have fairly satisfied customers.

The default layout is impressive and well organised. Profile pages can be edited and personalised and there are enough and more options to choose from. A user friendly software, it offers features like live chat, video chat, 3D chat and even works as a platform to socialise apart from just the dating bit. With forums, blogs, photo galleries, greetings, e cards and a lot more features, the script makes it easy to develop a site that people would be looking for.

There were a few hiccups during installation, but overall it was simple. For those who might have problems with that, the company offers free installation. The problem, if at all lies with the price. From $597 for a single domain license, it goes up to a 1000 dollars for multi domain with a unique design license. If you can afford it, we recommend you look at the demo and go for it if it suits your needs.

MIRO has been built by the Participatory Culture Foundation, an American non profit organisation. This HD Player has been built with the aim of eliminating gatekeepers. It’s a free player, and anyone can download it from their website. The website itself gives a very good first impression, and we can tell you, this is a good choice for all those internet TV videos you want to watch.

It is compatible with almost any kind of file (MPEG, WMI, AVI etc) and downloads them onto your computer, which you can watch anytime, and take anywhere with you. It plays videos in fullscreen high definition and beats all its competitors there. A few hitches along the way, but it’s for no cost, we say it’s definitely worth it.

It’s an extremely friendly player and it’s easy to figure out everything that the player has to offer. Users can watch videos from anywhere including youtube and blip. It’s 100% open source; the default design looks good enough by itself.

The company is a well established stable company, and the website gives all kinds of details, going to support credibility. They bring out regular updates, and the website is up to date, unlike other websites offering similar products. If you haven’t got one already, we recommend you do.