Software Channels

We treat all files (almost) equal. That means we present web site templates like photos or eBooks. This is going to change.

In the next few months we will start to modify the listing pages of the categories to reflect the interests of our visitors. Which means that the listing of MP3 files will be different to the listing of photos over time. We will start with a new music world within the next 10 days to have an example online.

The new music section will feature specific artists, karaoke songs, top album charts and vertical interest groups like “Rock” or “R’n'B”.

Stay tuned for updates by the end of February on this topic!

We try to be as open as possible with the status of our servers and potential problems that arise during running the platform. So a short heads up on the instabilities of the last 24 hours:

First: the “instantpaypal.gif” image disappeared because of a rewrite error we implemented from Thursday night to Friday. That is fixed now and the image is back: thanks to the merchants who pointed it out and sent me screen shots.

Then: In the night from Friday to Saturday our proxy system started to act weird and stop delivering pages - but only partly. We have investigated the case and see heavy traffic spikes on some of the boxes that made the system crash.

I have just activated 2 more machines to cope with these sudden spikes.

If you faced problems with the tradebit system in the last 24 hours: I am sorry that this happened. It is one of these weekends where things just go wrong. We hope here that the problems are now gone and will watch the load of the cluster closely until Monday. If you experience any problems: do not hesitate to email me right away with a screenshot or description of the failure: puzzler(at)tradebit.com

Companies creat TV spots especially for the superbowl - and these commercials somtimes get cult status (waaaazzzzup, anyone?).

I am currently in Germany, so I will miss the big event (is there a TiVo sharing-over-IP hack somewhere)! We hope all our American visitors have a good weekend. Take some time off and watch the superbowl!

And for those of you who just watch the game for the commercials, you can skip it all and watch them on Superbowl Commercials (.org).  I will have a peak to find out, if there are some new creative spots out!

I really like it, when people just do nice YouTube videos about tradebit that gives an OUTSIDE view on our platform.

Just searched for us on YouTube and found this nice video - it gives you a nice hint how to place some search keywords into your copy.

Len Foster signed up a few days ago and started publishing AND explaining what he did. Thanks Len!

Just a short heads up from the development team:

Today we added the possibility to save your actual basket. Fill the shopping cart with your favorite products, click on “View Basket” and save the basket you have gathered.

Affiliate marketeers might also add their affiliate ID to the basket and visit single baskets (they saved) with a direct link. The affiliate ID number is saved with a basket, when you are logged in.

That is good, if you want to build a collection of specific products that go together well or products you just like to see together.

Linking to the baskets can be picked from the list of available entries: Take a look at the first listing page.

In the next weeks we want to improve the basket features, so consider this solution version 1.0 - additional features will follow soon!

We are currently preparing a few new features for the buyers on tradebit, including the ability to save baskets and link to the baskets with an affiliate code or for a whishlist. That will take a few days to accomplish, so stay tuned on updates when we roll the changes and updates out.

Additionally we need to clean up some old files again, to make room on the storage cluster. There are a lot of old files in the FTP directories, which we have to remove, if the merchants did not touch them for months.

On the content side we are preparing a few new deals to bring you more quality downloads and a lot of new eBooks and software titles. That will also take a few weeks to finish. Unless there is something significant going on, I will not be blogging too often in the next few days.