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The designation of the Goose Pond and Beehunter Marsh Fish and Wildlife Areaa as federal and state supported wetlands will drive new tourism traffic to the region, adding to the already strong attractions of equine sports and hunting-related activities, she said.

To help spur and sustain strategic growth, the economic development corporation retained The MEK Group in Indianapolis to develop a multi-use brand to help site selectors and visitors quickly grasp the opportunities inherent in the county.

“Given the fact that the Goose Pond is expected to become an international migration point and bird-watching has grown into a $2 billion industry, we wanted a distinctive mark and brand to define the superb attributes of the county to a large potential market,” Bethell said.

Funding social infrastructure and workforce development represents a critical component for sustained economic growth, so the Greene County Foundation joined with GCEDC in creating a new open presence both online and in the region to create higher awareness of the county’s new forward-looking vision.

Community direction and feedback largely governed the development of an all-new Web site for the Greene County Economic Development Corporation, now live at www.gcedc.us.

The Web site, which includes a section specially developed to attract site selectors, features the new mark and positioning for Greene County.

“This distinctive look is quite different from our neighbors in the region and highlights the attributes of the county in a strategic way,” said Bethell.

The logo can be easily adapted for use by other county entities.

The Greene County economic development site, designed and built by The MEK Group, includes a visitor’s section with an interactive map that easily and quickly illustrates major points of interest for visitors.

The tourism map is sponsored by the Greene County Foundation. The site will include an updated online calendar of events which is funded collaboratively between the Foundation and the GCEDC. The map and tourism calendar is under development and will be released shortly.

“Soon after coming to Greene County, I found that there was no central point of contact or reference for many positive aspects of

Greene County,” said Bethell. “The economic development site and the new foundation Web site will help correct this.”

Both Web sites feature a comprehensive editing tool that will enable staff to quickly make changes and update information. The county statistics site is fully automated with a direct link to STATS Indiana, run by Indiana University. “The automation of that section ensures that it will never be out-of-date, and will also not require extensive and expensive time to track and make changes,” Bethell said.

A final step in the GCEDC site development process was a review by nationally-recognized former site selector, Robert Ady. Indiana Municipal Power Association sponsored the professional site review by contracting with consultants, Ady International. The outcome was an eighteen page report on recommendations. They indicated that the site was well-designed and most of the recommendations are minor and simply smooth the research process for a site selector using the site to research for potential business relocations.

The Foundation, which has grown to more than $4 million in assets, has aggressively leveraged community foundation funds and support to create new leadership and workforce training opportunities, as well as help create economic development-related grassroots operations for county residents and businesses.

Bethell, who served in a senior economic development role in Arizona before coming to Indiana in 2006, assembled a development group from Greene County leadership to set in motion community outreach.

Direction and suggestions from the group was augmented by broad

community feedback across a wide spectrum, particularly regarding the construction and deployment of an all new economic development Web site for the county.

The Greene County Foundation retained Hirons in Bloomington to design a new Web presence for the foundation, which now features an expanded capacity for donors to make planned giving decisions.

In addition, the Web site features a searchable database that has a complete listing of donations made in memory and recognition of others.

“One of the best ways to introduce the foundation is to encourage small gifts in recognition of others. The foundation provides a service for donors of all capabilities those who can make small gifts as well as those who can make large gifts,” said Kerry Conway, executive director of the Greene County Foundation.

Both sites are considered to be works in progress.

“While we’re initially pleased and satisfied with the new online presence that both sites present for Greene County, we will always be considering and implementing new functionality and features to help better promote the county,” Conway said.

Google has been courting software developers to entice them into a money-making relationship built on turning its array of online widgets into a global infrastructure.

At a conference in San Francisco, said to be the biggest yet for net developers, the search giant made clear that the Web is the future for application development.

It wants its own bit of web infrastructure the Google Cloud to be more accessible to developers and spent two days wooing them to build and run applications on it.

To encourage them aboard, Google invited the 3,000 developers to mash-up Google’s online services, like Gmail, Docs, Maps and Search, with their own applications.

To show client-cloud connectivity, it showed off Google Gears, a browser add-on in the Adobe Flash mould that allows for richer browser experiences, to improve search in MySpace email.

It then showcased the new Google Web Toolkit, so rich net applications can be Java-built, and the hosting of new Ajax libraries, which enhances applications via JavaScript tagging.

Top of its agenda, Google wants the web browser the enabler of its cloud to have more functionality, interaction and to evolve so it becomes as powerful as its desktop counterpart.

“These diverse tools and technologies might seem loosely unintegrated and targeted at different areas,” said Ovum analyst Madan Sheina.

“In fact they’re all cogs and wheels of a more meaningfully connected web that hosts Google web services powered by the Google App Engine. Importantly some of these web services and applications aren’t written just by Google, but by an entire market of independent developers.”

The analyst believes most of these third-party developers no longer build ‘cool’ web applications just for the sake of it; rather they want a slice of Google as a lucrative advertising business.

“Google likes to separate its web development technologies from its advertising. But the two are inextricably linked,” Ms Sheina said.

“Google’s monetisation strategy is simple. Invest in advancement of the web by allowing users to do more on the internet. That makes the Web a much bigger market for Google to monetise services like search.”

Website Pros has released NetObjects Fusion 11, an enhanced version of the Web site design application .

In addition to an intuitive drag-&-drop functionality that the company says makes NetObjects Fusion 11 a fast, easy way to plan, build and manage Web sites, along with its standard e-Commerce capabilities, NetObjects Fusion 11 includes more advanced functionality for those looking for more technical development options.

The code generation engine of NetObjects Fusion 11 has been completely re-engineered to support the generation of Semantic XHTML code, allowing a tighter utilisation of CSS that Webiste Pros says produces leaner code, making it more accessible and search engine friendly.

Users can integrate data into Web pages from any local or remote XML data source, such as an RSS feed. NetObjects Fusion 11 automatically identifies the XML structure allowing drag & drop insertion of data fields directly into the page design.

Featuring a collection of AJAX Widgets, NetObjects Fusion 11 eliminates the complexity of designing Web 2.0 pages with dynamic user interactions by making it easy to quickly add customisable page elements, such as accordions, tabbed panels and toggle panes to make dynamic web pages that provide a richer, more interactive experience for Web site visitors.

Sophisticated animation of any Web site content, such as video, text, images and graphics, can now be easily created from within the drag-&-drop editing environment of NetObjects Fusion without coding or the purchase of additional software.

The database functionality implemented in NetObjects Fusion 11 fully supports the creation of data-driven, highly interactive Web sites turning NetObjects Fusion 11 into a Web Application Development System with broad appeal to enterprise Web developers. NetObjects Fusion 11 now supports all commercially relevant databases, Web servers and server-and-client side technologies and ships with support for PHP.

NetObjects Fusion 11 provides a suite of components that add advanced functionality to any Web site design. Flash Photo Galleries, Flash Calendars, Flash Web Charts, Password Protection, Guestbook, Google Analytics, SiteMaps and many other components are pre-built and easily integrated into any website.

Hosted by Informative Research, the Garden Grove, Calif.-based credit reporting agency responsible for engineering and supporting OriginatorDirect, the demonstration will give attendees an opportunity to “test-drive” the technology and experience its functionality from both administrative and customer perspectives. Donovan Williams, a board member of the National Credit Reporting Association, will lead a question and answer session following the demo.

Launched in early 2008, the OriginatorDirect platform enables mid-sized, credit reporting agencies (CRAs) to access and share advanced credit reporting technology through their own private-label Web portal, without paying licensing fees or altering their workflow.

It also provides CRAs with a direct credit connection to Fannie Mae(R), and lets them give their broker customers instant, direct access to tradeline verifications, flood determinations, mortgage fraud insurance, automated property valuation and other mortgage-related services, while virtually eliminating associated development costs.

Highlights of the June 18th demonstration will include a complete tour of Originator Direct’s back office processing system, and a “customer’s-eye view” of the CRA’s ordering interface. The session will conclude with a breakout during which attendees can analyze potential cost savings of the new technology.

Kronik media, the award winning web Design Company in London are now offering Joomla development and Joomla web design service for businesses small or large in UK. Joomla is a powerful content management system that can be used to design simple websites to large websites with complex functionality.

Kronik Media are offering services in all areas of Joomla development including Joomla template design, Joomla component and module development and also end to end website solutions powered by Joomla content management system.

Their new range of Joomla development service is designed to appeal to a diverse clientele form start up ventures and small businesses to established businesses with more complex requirements.

The spokesperson for Kronik Media added “We are already k known for our excellence in Web design, eCommerce and search engine optimisation. The past year has witnessed an exponential increase in demand for quality affordable website design. Our Joomla based websites offer powerful functionality that traditional websites cannot deliver.

Our Joomla website development service can meet the needs of businesses small or large whether the requirement is for a simple website design or design of a complex website. We also offer Joomla outsourcing services for other website design and software development businesses that may not have specialist Joomla development experience in-house. ”

The Mozilla Foundation has opened Mozilla Messaging, a new subsidiary focused on developing its free, open-source Thunderbird e-mail software.This new company will take up the development of Thunderbird 3.0 to coincide with the release of Firefox 3.0. Being a separate entity, according to the Mozilla Messaging team, will allow them to better focus their efforts in creating a terrific email client to compete with Microsoft’s Outlook client, and IBM’s Lotus Notes, another popular business email client. The new version of Thunderbird will feature integrated calendars with greatly expanded functionality, improved searches, and many other user interface and performance improvements. Mozilla Messaging has staffed a small product development team who will work as part of a community of contributors from around the world. David Ascher, CEO, Mozilla Messaging explained on his blog the new goals of Mozilla Messaging, which has big ambitions for Thunderbird. 揟hunderbird 3 will build on the great base that is Thunderbird 2 (and the work already performed in trunk by the current and past contributors), and add some key features, such as: integrated calendaring (building on the great work done by the Mozilla Calendar team and their Lightning add-on to Thunderbird), better search facilities, easier configuration, and a set of other user interface improvements, Ascher wrote. David Ascher is the CEO of Mozilla Messaging and sits on its board of directors, which also includes Christopher Beard, vice president and general manager of Mozilla Labs, and Marten Mickos, CEO of open source database vendor MySQL AB.

The Mozilla Foundation has opened Mozilla Messaging, a new subsidiary focused on developing its free, open-source Thunderbird e-mail software.This new company will take up the development of Thunderbird 3.0 to coincide with the release of Firefox 3.0. Being a separate entity, according to the Mozilla Messaging team, will allow them to better focus their efforts in creating a terrific email client to compete with Microsoft’s Outlook client, and IBM’s Lotus Notes, another popular business email client. The new version of Thunderbird will feature integrated calendars with greatly expanded functionality, improved searches, and many other user interface and performance improvements. Mozilla Messaging has staffed a small product development team who will work as part of a community of contributors from around the world. David Ascher, CEO, Mozilla Messaging explained on his blog the new goals of Mozilla Messaging, which has big ambitions for Thunderbird. Thunderbird 3 will build on the great base that is Thunderbird 2 (and the work already performed in trunk by the current and past contributors), and add some key features, such as: integrated calendaring (building on the great work done by the Mozilla Calendar team and their Lightning add-on to Thunderbird), better search facilities, easier configuration, and a set of other user interface improvements, Ascher wrote. David Ascher is the CEO of Mozilla Messaging and sits on its board of directors, which also includes Christopher Beard, vice president and general manager of Mozilla Labs, and Marten Mickos, CEO of open source database vendor MySQL AB.

The Mozilla Foundation has opened Mozilla Messaging, a new subsidiary focused on developing its free, open-source Thunderbird e-mail software.This new company will take up the development of Thunderbird 3.0 to coincide with the release of Firefox 3.0. Being a separate entity, according to the Mozilla Messaging team, will allow them to better focus their efforts in creating a terrific email client to compete with Microsoft’s Outlook client, and IBM’s Lotus Notes, another popular business email client. The new version of Thunderbird will feature integrated calendars with greatly expanded functionality, improved searches, and many other user interface and performance improvements. Mozilla Messaging has staffed a small product development team who will work as part of a community of contributors from around the world. David Ascher, CEO, Mozilla Messaging explained on his blog the new goals of Mozilla Messaging, which has big ambitions for Thunderbird. 揟hunderbird 3 will build on the great base that is Thunderbird 2 (and the work already performed in trunk by the current and past contributors), and add some key features, such as: integrated calendaring (building on the great work done by the Mozilla Calendar team and their Lightning add-on to Thunderbird), better search facilities, easier configuration, and a set of other user interface improvements, Ascher wrote. David Ascher is the CEO of Mozilla Messaging and sits on its board of directors, which also includes Christopher Beard, vice president and general manager of Mozilla Labs, and Marten Mickos, CEO of open source database vendor MySQL AB.

The Mozilla Foundation has opened Mozilla Messaging, a new subsidiary focused on developing its free, open-source Thunderbird e-mail software.This new company will take up the development of Thunderbird 3.0 to coincide with the release of Firefox 3.0. Being a separate entity, according to the Mozilla Messaging team, will allow them to better focus their efforts in creating a terrific email client to compete with Microsoft’s Outlook client, and IBM’s Lotus Notes, another popular business email client. The new version of Thunderbird will feature integrated calendars with greatly expanded functionality, improved searches, and many other user interface and performance improvements. Mozilla Messaging has staffed a small product development team who will work as part of a community of contributors from around the world. David Ascher, CEO, Mozilla Messaging explained on his blog the new goals of Mozilla Messaging, which has big ambitions for Thunderbird. 揟hunderbird 3 will build on the great base that is Thunderbird 2 (and the work already performed in trunk by the current and past contributors), and add some key features, such as: integrated calendaring (building on the great work done by the Mozilla Calendar team and their Lightning add-on to Thunderbird), better search facilities, easier configuration, and a set of other user interface improvements, Ascher wrote. David Ascher is the CEO of Mozilla Messaging and sits on its board of directors, which also includes Christopher Beard, vice president and general manager of Mozilla Labs, and Marten Mickos, CEO of open source database vendor MySQL AB.

InfoWorld has awarded CodeGear JBuilder 2007 as the best Java Integrated Development Environment (IDE) in its 2007 Technology of the Year awards.The InfoWorld awards recognize significant technologies of the past year that assured to make the greatest impact on enterprise IT strategies.JBuilder 2007 is an IDE built on the open source Eclipse framework, which makes development of Java and Web-based collaborative applications faster and more reliable. JBuilder 2007 combines the advantages of the Eclipse framework with Builder innovative rapid application development (RAD) functionality. t a great honor to receive this award and thrilled by the success of the product in just one year. JBuilder 2007 offers unique graphical tools, performance tuning capabilities, and collaborative development features on top of Eclipse which are translating into real productivity and costs benefits for developers and development teams, said CodeGear CEO Jim Douglas.CodeGear from Borland Software Corporation delivers development tools for a wide spectrum of software developers ranging from individuals to enterprise teams. CodeGear products enable developers to freely develop on their platform of choice while focusing on simplifying complex technologies and tasks so they can concentrate on application design, not infrastructure, to enable on-time project delivery.According to Andrew Binstock, senior contributing editor at InfoWorld 揓Builder 2007 is very smooth, robust IDE with many innovative features. It safe to say that CodeGear decided to throw everything it had at this release and succeeded brilliantly.