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Wednesday, January 4

Improvements with New Year

As posted by Mathias in official blog of Qalixa, here :
"QALIXA: New Year, New opportunities, New Business"

Qalixa has enhanced itself based upon user suggestions a lot of them were related to GUI & ease of posting offers.

We are posting here 2 images for you to compare & tell us, how did you now find the changes ? Well, if you are not on qalixa yet, still we will encourage viewers to share their opinion, simply by comparing 2 images, what you think of it !

This was what Qalixa’s search result page (with some default settings, without you logged in looked like : )

This is what it is now :

What else, do you think a free global e-marketplace should have , in their search functionality ?

What more can you find from the images ?

Any more suggestions / changes to recommend ?

Well, we are all ears !

Wednesday, August 10

Implement Google Instant Page technology to your website or blog

Google announced about Instant Page technology on their webmaster central blog here. The technology behind this technique can be implemented in your website or blog, and can be very effective if you have idea, around where next user is going to navigate. On Chrome, this will make the next page webpage load in no time. So, what change you need to do on your website / blog ?
Here are the details :

1) Websites :
Open your website template and, before the closing </head> tag, include the following code:

<link rel="prerender" href="http://example.com/page2.html">

The URL (example.com) should point to the next “logical” page. For instance, if you have a photo gallery or a long article that spans multiple pages, the URLs could point to different parts of the page. The prerender tag on Page 1 could point to Page 2 while the prerender tag on Page 2 could point to Page 3 and so on.
A small business website may link to their “about” page or the “products” pages from the “home” page using the Instant Pages tag as that’s where potential customers are likely to go once they land on the home page.
2) Wordpress blogs :
Open your header.php file, copy-paste the following code inside the closing <head> tag and you’re done.

<?php if (is_archive()) { ?><!-- Instant Pages for Google Chrome -->

<link rel="prerender" href="<?php echo get_next_posts_page_link(); ?>">

<?php } ?>

3) Blogger blogs :
Still searching for a way to enable it. If any of our reader has the code to change in template or header, please share with us.

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Here is the video describing about Google's Instant Page technology :

This is the chart for this year's browser trend from Stat Counter.
If you compare the graph, you will come to know that chrome is increasing popularity, and we are hoping that after this instant page loading feature, chrome will gain more popularity.

StatCounter-browser-ww-yearly-2011-2011-bar

Note : One of best thing apart from the fact that it is free, Qalixa works with majority of browsers.

Saturday, May 7

Trying out with Free URL Shorteners

There are many free sites that provide the functionality to shorten the URLi. URL shortening is very effective, when you have a complex URL but to easily share, you want to shorten it, thus allowing you to post on tweeter feeds, easy for people to remember, and many sites also provide the feature to record the stats, so that you can keep a eye, how many hits you got.

We feel very tempted specially about the clicks monitoring part, and so, decided to test these features, with the URL shortener sites, available in market, of course, this list contains some of those, who are free, as you all must be knowing, Qalixa strongly believes in “free things” !

There is already a post published in our tech blog, about Qalixa’s link shortened by various URL’s. In this post, we simply review those in a brief manner.

Top 3 services according to us are goo.gl, bit.ly & su.pr in no respective order, su.pr is very famous Stumble Upon community, goo.gl is service by google, and bit.ly is very popular with tweeter.

Our fun ends for now with the URL Shorteners, how did it went for you ?

Qalixa Shortened URL

Qalixa 's shortened URL using different URL shorteners.
You can read about URL Shorteners here & here .

These shortened URL's can be used for publicity / marketing via twitter / facebook / emails.

1) goo.gl link :
http://goo.gl/3UMVv
Statistical information available @ goo.gl Stats for Qalixa

2) bit.ly Link :
http://bit.ly/lrOjhR
Statistical information available @ bit.ly Stats for Qalixa

3) tiny URL Link :
http://tinyurl.com/6jp5az7

4) Stumbled Upon Link :
http://su.pr/17Hk14
Statistical Information available @ SU Stats for Qalixa

5) Ow.Ly Link :
http://ow.ly/4OuwA

6) is.gd Link :
http://is.gd/LEwgOZ

7) cli.gs Link :
http://cli.gs/b0pr0T

8) SnipURL .com Link :
http://snipurl.com/27t3ia

Have you been using any URL Shortener recently ? Are you monitoring the clicks ? How did it go ? Share with us your experiences !!!

Saturday, April 30

QR Codes

QR = Quick Responsive Codes are very popular now a days, and why they shouldnt be ?

They are easy to use for marketing, they are new & they are hot.

Started from Japan, the QR code has now spread across whole world, the significant contributor to this revolution are many great applications on iPhone, android phones, smartphones, or computer, which can extract the information out of simple black & white squares.

Why not you yourself do the fun, trace out the QR Code below, if needed, the links are given below for your reference :

More Resources & useful links :

Wikipedia of QR Code :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_code

How to read QR Code in Ubuntu :

http://www.ubuntubuzz.com/2011/03/how-to-read-qr-code-in-ubuntu.html

How to read QR Code from your PC :

http://techie-buzz.com/softwares/read-qr-codes-on-pc.html

How to read QR Code on your iPhone :

http://code.google.com/p/iphone-qrcode/

QR Code for Nokia Phones :

http://mobilecodes.nokia.com/

How to generate your QR Code :

1) From Kaywa :

http://qrcode.kaywa.com/

2) From neoReader :

http://www.neoreader.com/create-your-own-code

Tuesday, April 12

Webhallen's integration

We feel very proud to announce that Qalixa is now equipped with more then 30K offers for its increasing number of satisfied users.
This makes total of 31469 offers, which are live today.
We are grateful to Webhallen, and also to our technical team, who integrated such a huge number of offers in less then a week.

" This was a easy task, the way we have designed the system, we can integrate offers very fast, however it was the Quality Checking that took the most of time. ", quoted one of our developer.

We invite our swedish & global users to go shopping @ qalixa.com

For other retailers / stores, we are simply thinking, how long will it take for you to take such a simple decision?
Join us, and be a part of global revolution.
Register yourself @ qalixa.com and add the offers for free !

Tuesday, March 22

Use facebook to register your profile

We are promoting direct login & registration in qalixa, as well as registration through facebook to ease up the registration process.
Thus, you may not need to fill up the complete registration form or you may not need to add one more login credentials to your memory.
“This feature is targetted for personal profiles, but firm registration is also possible, if a firm has facebook account “ chuckles one of the developer.
We hope, this minor change will be very beneficial for the personal profiles.

-- Technical team, Qalixa