VendAsta - invited to the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O

Here's our description on their site at Developer Sandbox @ Google I/O

VendAsta is sowing trust by making social context portable. With our applications StepRep (for small businesses) and MashedIn (for bloggers and website owners), the networks you've built up on Facebook, Twitter, etc. can extend to you and your social connections all over the web.

We use App Engine to host our core products. We leverage Open Social, Maps, and Social Graph API in our products. In addition, VendAsta uses Google Apps and Analytics extensively for running its core business. VendAsta is the developer of the open source library asynctools, which allows developers to perform App Engine API calls in parallel, most notably datastore queries.

MashedIn and mobile UX

The MashedIn team has made UX and visual design for mobile a priority.

from motherfothergill's pixel imperfect design

LinkedIn is now MashedIn

read a little about it over at Jeff Tomlin's blog

Street View of VendAsta's office

Street View of VendAsta on 33rd St.

VendAsta video by Turn Here

TurnHere leverages an 8,000-strong filmmaker network to create videos for small businesses... this is the result of a recent visit:



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StepRep reboots the Yellow Pages. « StepRep Blog – Online Reputation Management

StepRep reboots the Yellow Pages. « StepRep Blog – Online Reputation Management

Compelling Cases for Clouds

from gigaom

Compelling Cases for Clouds

Collaboration, Community, and Commerce: Web-based networks and commerce platforms offer people the chance to share, conduct business and collaborate within a trusted third-party-provided environment. The cloud, therefore, allows communities and social networks to foster ongoing relationships around shared values, goals and interests.

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CapEx and Cash: Cloud services may be more cost-effective because consumers and even large enterprises may not have sufficient economies or statistics of scale compared to large service providers. But even if cloud services aren’t comparatively cheaper, they can help reduce capital expenditures. And while using cash for capital expenditures by itself isn’t bad, it’s a poor choice if the firm then doesn’t have sufficient cash on hand for daily operations, or if purchased assets are either insufficient to handle demand or underutilized — which is often the case.