Posts Tagged ‘Gossamer Host’

Custom Video Sharing: Gossamer Links & Venetubo

Gossamer Links and Venetubo

Venetubo is a video sharing site dedicated to Venezuelan news and content. The site has been developed using the Gossamer suite of products (Gossamer Community, Gossamer Forum and Gossamer Links), and is a great example of how extensively and productively these programs, especially GLinks, can be modified to develop nearly any kind of site!

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The Tyee: Bricolage-Powered News

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The Tyee is a politics and culture magazine dedicated to covering events here in British Columbia, Canada. In the fast-paced world of news coverage, being able to deliver your content to your readers as quickly and clearly as possible is key. That’s why The Tyee uses Bricolage to manage their workflow.

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Home Services Engine: Local Listings, Global Power

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Home Services Engine manages a massive, Gossamer Links-powered database of over 800,000 home service listings which allows its users to find the type of business they’re looking for in their neighborhood.

Delivering search results relevant to a user’s location quickly when you’re dealing with 7 gigabytes worth of listings from across the United States is no easy task, but Home Services Engine manages to return local businesses quickly and efficiently every time. Here’s how they do it, and how Gossamer Threads helped.

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GT and LoHud.com: WordPress Optimization

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LoHud.com is a news and culture Web site serving the Hudson Valley in New York that hosts more than 50 blogs, including the LoHud Yankees Blog, which has been highlighted on ESPN and in Sports Illustrated. The site was experiencing a problem plenty of other sites would love to have: it was getting too much traffic, and was experiencing slow load times as a result.

Gossamer Threads’ experience in developing and troubleshooting high-traffic CMS installations proved to be the perfect solution to LoHud.com’s problem.

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PCI/DSS – The Future of Online Payment Security

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It’s no secret that people are concerned about information security while doing business online. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is list of protective, preemptive measures enforced within organisations which process credit card payments.

So, what does PCI/DSS have to do with you?

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