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Community links: Open source motivations edition

What’s more fun to do over the weekend then catch up on WordPress community links? Set up the Christmas tree? Clean out the gutters? Shovel the driveway?

Alright, if you have to. Chores are chores. But when you’re done, reward yourself with a hot coffee and a good dose of WordPress reading. We have a truckload of links for you, so settle in.

The full list of links is after the jump.

In blog posts this week:

• Alex King, a well known WordPress plugin developer and entrepreneur, posted his thoughts on what motivations exist for WordPress plugin developers today. Chris Olbekson followed up with his own thoughts, as did Joost de Valk. Jeff Chandler started up a commentary at WBTC as well.
• WooThemes posted a preview of the upcoming launch of WPBundle. They also shared a few thoughts on the increase in support time that’s required of them with so many themes released.
• Dev4Press redesigned their site.
• James Dalman at WP Design Coach is now accepting themes for review on his new blog.
• Jeff Chandler wrote up how anyone can contribute to the WordPress.org theme review process. He also started a discussion around the legacy that plugins leave behind when they are deactivated.
• ThemesForge has decided to post 24 theme tips throughout December. I love the attitude and initiative behind the posts so far.
• WP Plugins has an interview with plugin developer Jonathan O’Shea.
• Matt Mullenweg was on The Big Web Show with Jeffrey Zeldman.
• Dre on the Sucuri blog wrote up yet another WordPress security post. These posts are always good reminders to secure your WordPress site. While we’re on the topic, WPZine has a collection of WordPress security plugins this week too.
• Brandon Cox wrote a really interesting post on how one particular WordPress theme ad depicted developers.
• 9seeds’ plugin WP Event Ticketing seems to have a few issues with the popular WordPress theme Thesis. They’ve posted a fix that should take care of the problem, though.

There were a few WordPress resources posted fresh this week too:

• DBS>Interactive created and released the Template Tag Reference Guide this week.
• Sarah Gooding at WPMU.org listed myself and WPCandy in their list of 50 people to follow for WordPress news on Twitter. Thanks Sarah! They also put up a collection of plugins to use with Foursquare.
• Paul Andrew posted a collection of plugins for integrating Flickr into a WordPress blog.
• Jean-Baptiste Jung posted a solid roundup of WordPress code snippets.
• iThemes has released the video tutorials in their Builder Basics series for free online.

Finally, in WordPress tutorials this week:

• WPEngineer has been laying into the tutorials this week, with a custom login page tutorial and a walkthrough of the upcoming post formats feature.
• WPBeginner has a new tutorial up showing how to add the official LinkedIn share button to your WordPress blog. They also have a nice roundup of plugins for managing images with WordPress.
• Vladimir Prelovac posted about how to disable post revisions and delete them from your database.
• Scribu showed how to insert a banner between posts, without editing the theme files.
• Chris Coyier put together a tutorial showing how to make the WYSIWYG editor really WYSIWYG.
• Sumeet Chawla at Nettuts+ put together a tutorial showing how to create an FAQ page with custom post types.

Wow, that may be a record for number of WordPress related links in a roundup post (for us). Who gets the plaque?

That’s it for links this week. If you run across something link worthy, don’t hesitate to let us know about it. If it’s worth a story we’ll jump on it, and if it’s best suited for a community news post it will show up in this space next week.

PHP: Fast and easy SQL queries using ezSQL

What’s ezSQL, and why it is useful

On big projects, the usual good practice is to use a CMS or a framework such as Symfony or CodeIgniter to build your site on. But on smaller projects, many developers are still using PHP functions such as

to do SQL queries to the database.

While it’s functional, I do not recommend to use all those

functions: Most websites are using MySQL, that’s right, but if one day you have to deal with another DB like PostGres or Oracle… Your code will not work at all, and you’ll have to rewrite it. Scary, isn’t it? This is why is it recommended to use a database abstraction layer, an API which unifies the communication between your application/website and databases such as MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL.

As you can guess, ezSQL allows you to work with various databases very easily. Though, please note that it does not support differences in SQL syntax implementations among different databases.

Also, ezSQL provide a few methods which simplify queries to the database, and help producing a cleaner code.

ezSQL and WordPress

As most of you are familiar with WordPress, you probably know the

class, which allows you to send queries to the database. As wpdb is based on ezSQL, and you’re already familiar with the WordPress class, you won’t have any trouble to learn using ezSQL. And don’t worry if you never heard of WordPress or the wpdb class. ezSQL is extremely easy to learn and to use.

Downloading and installing ezSQL

Right, I have talked too much. How about some coding now? Let start by grabbing your copy of ezSQL. Once you have it, unzip on your server (or hard drive).

In order to be able to use ezSQL in your projects, you have to include two files: The first is

, which is ezSQL core file. The second depends on the database you’re going to use. In order to use ezSQL with a MySQL database, you have to include

.

Once done, you have to create a ezSQL object. This is done easily using your database username, password, name and host. The following example demonstrates the inclusion of the required files and the creation of a ezSQL object:

include_once "../shared/ez_sql_core.php";
include_once "ez_sql_mysql.php";
$db = new ezSQL_mysql('db_user','db_password','db_name','db_host');

Now, you have an object called

. We’ll use it run any types of queries to our database.

Queries examples

ezSQL has a few methods to make SQL queries extremely simple. Let’s see what you can do with it:

Execute any query

In order to insert, delete or most generally, run any kind of query to the database, we have to use the

method. In case of a data insertion, the method will return the insert id.

$db->query("INSERT INTO users (id, name, email) VALUES (NULL,'The Cat','cat@google.com')");

Example of an update query:

$db->query("UPDATE users SET name = 'Patrick' WHERE id = 4");

Select a row

The

method is great if you just need to select a row from your database. The example below executes a simple select query and displays the results.

$user = $db->get_row("SELECT name, email FROM users WHERE id = 4");

echo $user->name;
echo $user->email;

Select a single variable

If you only need a variable, the

method is here to help. Using it is extremely simple as shown below.

$var = $db->get_var("SELECT count(*) FROM users");

echo $var;

Select multiple results

Although the methods documented above are quite useful, most of the time you’ll need to get various rows of data from your database. The method called

will get various data from your database. To output the data, a simple

loop is all you need.

$results = $db->get_results("SELECT name, email FROM users");

foreach ( $results as $user ) {
    echo $user->name;
    echo $user->email;
}

Select a column

If you need to get a column, you can use the get_col method. The second parameter is the column offset.

foreach ( $db->get_col("SELECT name,email FROM users",0) as $name ) {
            echo $name;
}

Debug

When something doesn’t work as expected, ezSQL has a great method to perform some debugging. Not surprising, the method is called

. When called, the method will display the last query performed and its associated results.

$db->debug();

I hope you enjoyed this article and that you’ll use ezSQL in your future projects. It’s a great tool which was very helpful for me many times!

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PHP: Fast and easy SQL queries using ezSQL

10 useful new WordPress hacks

Remove comments autolinks

If someone leaves a comment containing a url, the url will be automatically transformed to a link by WordPress. This can be useful, but personally I don’t like to see many links in comments, especially when they’re a bit spammy.
This is why I decided, on the latest CWC theme, to remove comments autolink. Doing so is pretty easy, just paste the following into your functions.php file. Once you saved the file, you’ll notice that autolinks have disappeared.

remove_filter('comment_text', 'make_clickable', 9);

» Source: http://www.wprecipes.com/wordpress-hack-remove-autolinks-in-comments

Automatically notify your users of new posts

If you run a private site using WordPress, then it could be useful to notify your users when a new post is published. The following snippet will get all user emails from your database and will send an email to them automatically when a post is published.
Of course, you shouldn’t use that code on your blog as it does not currently have any unsubscribe option.

function email_members($post_ID)  {
    global $wpdb;
    $usersarray = $wpdb->get_results("SELECT user_email FROM $wpdb->users;");
    $users = implode(",", $usersarray);
    mail($users, "New WordPress recipe online!", 'A new recipe have been published on http://www.catswhocode.com');
    return $post_ID;
}

add_action('publish_post', 'email_members');

Twitter style “time ago” dates

Displaying dates using the “5 days ago” format is becoming very popular on blogs, thanks to Twitter popularity.
I have seen lots of complicated tutorials to use this format on your WordPress blog, however many people don’t know that WordPress has a built-in function to do the same thing:

.

Paste the snippet below anywhere within the loop, and it will display your dates using the “time ago” format.

Posted <?php echo human_time_diff(get_the_time('U'), current_time('timestamp')) . ' ago'; ?>

» Source: http://www.phpsnippets.info/display-dates-as-time-ago

Display post thumbnail in your RSS feed

Introduced in WordPress 2.9, the

function is very useful to easily add and display a thumbnail attached to a post. Unfortunately, there’s no built-in way to display this thumbnail on your RSS feed.

Happily, the function below will solve this problem. Simply paste it in your

, save it, and the post thumbnail will be automatically displayed on your RSS feed.

function diw_post_thumbnail_feeds($content) {
	global $post;
	if(has_post_thumbnail($post->ID)) {
		$content = '<div>' . get_the_post_thumbnail($post->ID) . '</div>' . $content;
	}
	return $content;
}
add_filter('the_excerpt_rss', 'diw_post_thumbnail_feeds');
add_filter('the_content_feed', 'diw_post_thumbnail_feeds');

» Source: http://digwp.com/2010/06/show-post-thumbnails-in-feeds/

Block external requests

By default, WordPress does some external requests in order to get the available updates and the WordPress news shown in your dashboard. Personally, I don’t mind them, but I’ve recently had clients who didn’t wanted any external requests. So, I’ve blocked them using this interesting hack.
Simply add the following line to your

file:

define('WP_HTTP_BLOCK_EXTERNAL', true);

If you need to allow some external requests, it it easy to create a whitelist, as shown below:

define('WP_ACCESSIBLE_HOSTS', 'rpc.pingomatic.com');

This line of code have to be pasted in

as well.
» Source: http://digwp.com/2010/08/pimp-your-wp-config-php/

Easy debug mode

When things go wrong, you can always use the super useful WordPress debug tool,

. By default, you have to paste a line of code in your

to make the debug mode available.
By if you need to easily access the debug mode even when your site is live, you should edit your

file and replace

define('WP_DEBUG', true);

by:

if ( isset($_GET['debug']) && $_GET['debug'] == 'debug')
  define('WP_DEBUG', true);

Once done, simply add a GET parameter to the url of the page you’d like to debug, as shown below:

http://www.catswhocode.com/blog/about?debug=debug

Of course, for obvious security reasons you should replace the name debug by a random word of your choice so no one will ever see your site in debug mode.
» Source: http://yoast.com/wordpress-debug/

Use WordPress shortcode in theme files

WordPress shortcodes are a super easy way to add content such as rss feeds, google maps, galleries and more into your posts or pages. But what about being able to output shortcodes in your theme files?
A built-in function exists, but most people never heard of it. The function is called

. It takes one parameter, the shortcode you’d like to display. I’ve heard you can ad more than one shortcode as a parameter, but I haven’t tried it yet.

do_shortcode('[gallery]
');

» Source: http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode

Allow upload of more file types

If you ever tried to upload some not so common filetypes, such as Textmate’s

to your WordPress blog, you may have experienced an error, because WordPress simply doesn’t want you to upload some other file type.
Fortunately, you can add new file types to WordPress whitelist. Doing so is quite easy, just paste the following piece of code in your

, and you’re done.
Note that file types have to be separated by a pipe.

function addUploadMimes($mimes) {
    $mimes = array_merge($mimes, array(
        'tmbundle|tmCommand|tmDragCommand|tmSnippet|tmLanguage|tmPreferences' => 'application/octet-stream'
    ));

    return $mimes;
}

add_filter('upload_mimes', 'addUploadMimes');

» Source: http://www.wprecipes.com/wordpress-tip-allow-upload-of-more-file-types

Google Docs PDF viewer shortcode

Google Docs is definitely the easiest way to read documents in .pdf, .doc or .xls online. So, if you want to share a PDF file with your readers, what about creating a shortcode that will open the PDF in Google Docs instead of forcing download?

Simply paste the code in your

.

function pdflink($attr, $content) {
	return '<a class="pdf" href="http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=' . $attr['href'] . '">'.$content.'</a>';
}
add_shortcode('pdf', 'pdflink');

Once you saved the file, you’ll be able to use the shortcode on your posts and page. Here is the syntax:

[pdf href="http://yoursite.com/linktoyour/file.pdf"]View PDF[/pdf]

» Source: http://www.wprecipes.com/wordpress-tip-create-a-pdf-viewer-shortcode

Detect the visitor browser within WordPress

Well, this hack is not so new, but it still remains one of my favorites. What this code does is pretty simple, it detects the name of the visitor browser and adds it to the

function.
That way, you can correct browser-specific problems extremely easily. The function has to be pasted in your

file.

add_filter('body_class','browser_body_class');
function browser_body_class($classes) {
	global $is_lynx, $is_gecko, $is_IE, $is_opera, $is_NS4, $is_safari, $is_chrome, $is_iphone;

	if($is_lynx) $classes[] = 'lynx';
	elseif($is_gecko) $classes[] = 'gecko';
	elseif($is_opera) $classes[] = 'opera';
	elseif($is_NS4) $classes[] = 'ns4';
	elseif($is_safari) $classes[] = 'safari';
	elseif($is_chrome) $classes[] = 'chrome';
	elseif($is_IE) $classes[] = 'ie';
	else $classes[] = 'unknown';

	if($is_iphone) $classes[] = 'iphone';
	return $classes;
}

The function output will look like:

<body class="home blog logged-in safari">

» Source: http://www.nathanrice.net/blog/browser-detection-and-the-body_class-function/

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10 useful new WordPress hacks

StumbleUpon Wants to Be the Pandora of Web Video

StumbleUpon is trying hard to become the best way for users to find relevant and interesting videos online. With the addition of more full-length video content available through its StumbleUpon Video site, it could do just that, by becoming a recommendation engine for online video.

“I’ve never had a very good experience watching TV. It never learned what I like,” StumbleUpon founder and CEO Garrett Camp said in a phone interview. The problem is that TV and most video sites on the web today are more or less a one-way experience: you go to a site, you find what you want to watch, and you leave. Once you’ve found something that interests you, you spend time with it. If you don’t have something of interest to replace it with, you click away.

StumbleUpon hopes to remedy that situation with a recommendation engine that offers up a steady stream of videos that users find interesting. Using an algorithm that takes into account your past interactions, community feedback and input from users that you like and follow, StumbleUpon is betting that it can provide a more compelling video experience online than one could find by turning on the TV or just going to one of the network video sites like ABC.com or CBS.com.

The idea that StumbleUpon is going to be a landing page for online videos might be a turn-off for some publishers; after all, most hope to keep users engaged and keep them on-site as long as possible, thereby increasing the number of in-stream and display ads they can serve. StumbleUpon’s pitch is that it doesn’t change anything in the embedded video stream, so partners can serve up whatever ads they want. Besides, viewers may come across a video recommended by their friends — or by the community — they might not have seen otherwise.

It’s not just short-form and user-generated video snacking that StumbleUpon hopes to enable; in addition to sites like YouTube, Vimeo and Metacafe, StumbleUpon has added videos from Hulu and TED to its database. As a result, users will now have more long-form videos recommended to them. That’s good news for users, but really good news for StumbleUpon, since the biggest thing missing today as a really killer video recommendation engine for all the web content out there.

Related content on GigaOM Pro:

• As Always, Mobile Music Faces Uncertain Future
• Is Amazon The New Self-Publish Kingpin?
• Can Online Video Show Us the Future of Newspapers?

Digitizing Audio, Scores, and Iconographic Materials

——————————————————– Digitizing of Audio, Scores, and Iconographic Materials ——————————————————– The LIM has worked with major music archives and institutions in order to preserve cultural heritage and music-related materials. The LIM can provide comprehensive support and experience for treating magnetic tape, vinyl records, and other audio storage media, either analog or digital. For images and iconographic materials, such as scores, photos, stage maps, and so on, the LIM can provide quality scans and image post-processing. Digitized materials can be organized and classified into multimedia databases. Finally, the LIM can also design and implement the hardware and software solutions for multimedia archives. Among others, the Archivio Storico Ricordi, the Bolshoj Theater, the Discoteca di Stato, broadcasters including Italy’s RAI and Switzerland’s RSI, and the Teatro alla Scala have all relied on the cooperation of the LIM for digitization needs.

Author: LimUnimi
Duration: 138
Published: 2010-09-15 13:10:27
Digitizing Audio, Scores, and Iconographic Materials

Mobile ad firm Ringleader targeted in privacy lawsuit

Mobile advertising solutions provider Ringleader Digital is the target of a new lawsuit alleging the firm violated consumer privacy with its RLD Media Stamp targeting technology, which the Ringleader website describes as “the mobile equivalent of an online ‘cookie.’” The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in the United States District Court, Central District of California, claims Ringleader and partners including CNN, Travel Channel and AccuWeather intentionally exploited mobile software capabilities “for the purpose of tracking plaintiffs’ Internet activities.” According to the suit, Ringleader “unknowingly accessed and created databases on plaintiffs’ mobile devices as well as placed information on plaintiffs’ mobile devices without [their] knowledge or consent,” “assigned plaintiffs’ mobile devices unique identification numbers for the purpose of tracking these devices” and “stored information they acquired about plaintiffs’ phone and mobile browsing activities on Ringleader Digital’s databases.”

The lawsuit goes on to state “If plaintiffs cleaned their cookies folder and deleted their browser history, this would have no effect on defendants’ ability to continue to track plaintiffs because the information necessary to track plaintiffs, the unique ID, is stored in the HTML5 databases… Even if plaintiffs were to take the traditional step to block advertisers and websites from tracking their movements, Ringleader Digital’s Media Stamp, as licensed and used by the other defendants, thwarted those efforts.” In an interview with Wired.com, Majed Nachawati–Dallas attorney behind the Ringleader lawsuit–said “You can’t get rid of that database. You’re left with this database tracking you and your phone and your viewing habits on the net, which is a violation of federal privacy laws.”

Ringleader Digital’s Media Stamp privacy policy reads “As part of our commitment to privacy, we give you the choice to opt out of Media Stamp,” offering users a web link to its opt-out utility. “Once implemented, the opt-out will be effective for the life of the device unless you install a new browser, or update your existing browser, in which case you will need to re-implement the opt out utility in order to maintain your opt out status. If you have opted out, we will not use Media Stamp to apply targeting that relies on the unique identification of your device or otherwise use data concerning your mobile device other than to implement your opt out decision.”

Ringleader maintains it committed no wrongdoing. “To the extent that the plaintiffs are alleging that Ringleader violated any laws relating to consumers’ privacy, Ringleader intends to defend its practices vigorously,” Ringleader Digital CEO Bob Walczak wrote in an e-mail to Wired.com.

For more on the Ringleader Digital suit:
- read this Wired.com article

Related articles:
Ringleader partners with AccuWeather for mobile ads
Forecast: Demand for apps will trump resistance to mobile ads

Get Started

Getting started with a multimedia and video package from BoonJack Media is simple and easy, hey it’s not just a slogan that’s how we do it. The real magic happens on our Partner Portal, the first screen shot below is the homepage listing all of the areas in the portal. We’ll start by clicking on the “Place An Order” icon.

This is step 1 on the ordering screen, you’ll want to select a product or service category first. The default category is our Multimedia packages, we’re going to select the “Marketing Expert” package, hey it says best value… sweet!

Moving on to step 2, we’re going to select a Domain for our multimedia package. There are three choices, 1) purchase a domain directly from us 2) Transfer a domain you already own to use with your multimedia package 3) Use a domain you own and change the domain nameservers to point to your multimedia account. We going to register a new domain cause that’s how we roll, and hey look – mysupercoolhdvideowebsite.com is available… awesome!

On Step 3 you can configure any options or domain addons for your multimedia package  and the payment terms, then click on “Update Your Cart” to continue.

Here’s step 3 (continued), we bought extras for our supercoolhdvideowebsite.com domain. Hey we know it could be considered excessive, but we just can’t help splurging!

On step 4 you can configure your domain extras and set your Nameservers (optional) for your domain. We are going to use the default anonymous Nameservers provided for free, because we dig our privacy. Confirm the order looks OK, then click “Checkout” or you can continue shopping and stuff your cart full of goodies.

On Step 5 fill in your account details and information. We recommend choosing a strong password and using a security question, better to safe as Mom always says.

Step 5 (continued), use your account details for your domain contact or enter a any new details here. Select your payment service either Authorize.Net or PayPal, both are excellent and accept all major credit and bank debit cards. Add any notes or other information to send to us, most people just type something in here like, “You All Are Awesome!” or similar. Read through our legal stuff, click agree to our terms and conditions, then activate your account!

That’s it you’re ready to deliver HD multimedia and video at unheard of speeds! Go ahead and access your client area dashboard now.

Your complete package details and instructions for your new multimedia website package will be emailed to you. We highly recommend saving this welcome email, but if you don’t it’s no problem. In your client area Dashboard, every email we send to you is saved and archived appropriately under “My Emails”.

Here’s some more screen shots below of the client area called “Your Dashboard” which is the one stop, one access point where you can completely manage every service under your multimedia account. Put quite simply, it rocks!

Client area  “Your Dashboard” continued… you’ve complete control with easy one-click logins to access all of your server account administration services.

Want more? No problem, just create your free account here and fill in your information, then browse around the Partner Portal with full access! BTW we provide that cool “Your Dashboard” page for free accounts too.

Below are all the screen shots you can click to view larger images, use the >> located at the bottom right to cycle through.

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What we provide

BoonJack Media is a full service website hosting provider which specializes in Hi-Def or HD video and multimedia platforms.

There are many companies today which provide website hosting. Most offer some level of video and multimedia support too, however none can or will support HD video or multimedia playback adequately.

What makes BoonJack Media unique is our focus on delivering a fast and satisfactory user experience regardless of the content. HD quality video and multimedia is extremely popular for many practical business uses and we’ve built our servers around this demand. We provide full website services with all of HD video multimedia packages, and at an affordable price to meet any budget.

Most website hosting providers primary focus is marketing their website hosting services, while supporting video and multimedia is merely lip service. Most hosting simply fails to meet the online demands of today’s memory hungry apps, not to mention HD video or multimedia. Basically resulting in lost opportunities with higher bounce rates for their clients.

Why?

The short answer, there is a strong need for a HD video and multimedia system which does not require expensive streaming to deliver a fast viewing experience. We also wanted to provide a complete, easy to use all-in-one website platform, including hosting services under one administration and management GUI (graphical user interface).

Today’s HD video and multimedia service providers has a huge gap in the overall quality, and speed of delivery today among companies offering this type of service. There are a lot of traditional video hosting companies and services out there, but when you take a look at the HD video hosting options, the choices become quite narrowed and display performance is poor.

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Whats under the hood?

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High Speed Delivery: We run wide open and have the pedal to the metal 24/7. We don’t throttle bandwidth or allocate memory per account, all of our servers and accounts serve content on a first come first server basis, and burst unlimited memory on demand.

All Content is served upfront with high RPM solid state hard drives running 1TB per server with dual-raid with daily dual backups on and off site. Our servers are configured per account with 256MB for PHP apps, 1GB file management transfer as standard. Our database architecture is configured for large file handling, MySQL and PostGresSQL are fully supported and we run the latest version of PHPMyAdmin configured with all options.

The result is a very fast content delivery server that can easily handle large HD video and multimedia files without the need for streaming. If video or media streaming is required, we have pre-built PHP scripts available for free which can be easily implemented into the display system.

No Streaming Required: We also wanted to support media streaming, but without using RTMP. We felt PHP 5 was refined and powerful enough to support streaming. It’s more compatible, less restrictive, and is more cost effective compared to RTMP streaming. Hard and Soft costs of HD (or standard) video management on medium to large platforms can be trimmed by 10X and content delivery performance boosts of 15-20% without bandwidth or memory increases.

If video or media streaming is required for playback, we have pre-built PHP scripts available for free which can be easily implemented into the display system.

If RTMP Streaming is something you need or require, no problem. All of our video multimedia website hosting and server packages can easily integrate with any of the major RTMP systems, like: Wowza, Red 5, Flash Streaming Server, Sorenson, Akamai, Mediacore, and many other popular streaming servers.

No CDN Required: Our system doesn’t require or need a CDN for insuring fast content delivery across geography, an added cost savings benefit we pass on to you. Content delivery networks are great if you need it, most HD or standard video systems recommend or include CDN services for free. Which is usually because their service isn’t strong enough alone to delivery a decent across the board geographic viewing experience.

If you would need or require a CDN service, it’s no problem. All of our video multimedia website hosting and server packages can easily integrate with any CDN, like: SimpleCDN, Amazon Cloudfront, Limelight, Sorenson, and many other popular content delivery networks.

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For audio encoding we use FAAC and LAME, and support all major audio codecs including: MP3, WAV, MP4, and many more. MP3 Id3 and exif meta tags are also included and supported for audio and video.

If there’s is a certain rare or exclusive video or audio codec you need no problem, we can provide a player or containers to support it, or simply add the format engines and libraries for you.

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Our multimedia packaging and pricing covers all levels and needs for any business looking to deliver fast, high quality HD video and multimedia, and can be simply integrated into your current website hosting system.

You can use the full website services platform to manage all of your websites or not, the choice is yours. If you can’t find a package you like or want to custom build your own, no problem. We offer a “Custom Package Builder” you can utilize to roll your own multimedia package for as little as $4 a month.

High Performance For All: All of our multimedia packages and any “Custom Package Builds” deliver the same high speed HD video and multimedia content performance, regardless of the package level or price. Most HD or standard video companies limit or restrict the speed or delivery performance based upon the level or price of the package you purchase.

We don’t, in fact the only difference between all of our packages and pricing is the amount of storage and bandwidth needed, they all have and include the same features and options too.

For instance our “Marketing Expert” package priced at $9 per month with 1 GB of storage and bandwidth delivers the same high speed HD video and multimedia performance that our top level package does, known appropriately as “The Bigtime” package.

Flexible Monthly Service: Our packages and pricing are simply month to month, with no contract commitment or requirement. You can cancel at anytime, or upgrade, downgrade at any time easily through your administration GUI, known as the Partner Portal. Automated billing is handled through the portal too, with your choice of PayPal or Authorize.Net which accept all major credit or bank debit cards.

White Labeled: We understand the need for businesses to privately utilize services online, and we’ve went to great lengths to ensure complete anonymity for our clients. Competition is fierce, every little edge matters today, co-branding with a service provider negates any competitive advantage and drastically inhibits growth in

sales of your customer base or offerings.

All of our packages are “completely” white labeled or private, with your branding only.

Which simply means BoonJack Media is not related to your website or multimedia package on any front-end, back-end, or website display, period.

We anonymously support our clients, and provide free anonymous nameservers registered privately offshore, or you can use your own. Your HD video and multimedia is delivered directly from your server account and website as well, unlike most video hosting providers which provide you a link to your video from their server to include on your website.

Open Source: BoonJack Media’s platform was built with and around open source architecture and software. We could have went with licensed, proprietary systems and software, but this would mean much higher costs for our clients, and a restrictive environment for our service offerings which we could not guarantee anonymously or white label.

You have complete control to add any service or software to your account desired, change the code, add any branding, or integrate into any other service or system too.

Support and Knowledge: We offer full support for every account, and provide an easy to use support ticketing system built into your administration GUI’s email system for quick and efficient communication with our team of experts standing by. Our Knowledgebase includes a wide range of tutorials both written and videos, step by step instructions, and help icons are just a click away conveniently provided throughout the entire platform.

I think that about cover’s the overview of our services, and why we’re a great choice for you to deliver HD video and multimedia for your business. If you have any other questions just drop us a line, we’ll be glad to help.

Really Fast HD Video?

Yeah we think so, but see for yourself HD Video Examples.

You can also view more examples of HD video and Hi-Def music on our demo sites, or our portfolio for some live action. The video titles have the types of video format parameters listed, check it out here.

If you have existing content on other video websites like; Youtube, Google, Dailymotion, Yahoo, Vimeo, Revver, Vzaar, BitsOnTheRun, Facebook, or any others you need transferred, no problem. Our platform supports easy integration, and video embeds for your website. If you are interested in moving or archiving all of your video content, we can help there too.

Where Can I Learn More or Get Started?

You can learn more on our Getting Started page which provides a guide for signing-up, with some cool screen shots too.

What Else Do You People Offer?

We provide full web development solutions for existing or customized platforms and systems, graphic and flash design services, video and audio solutions. We also provide consulting solutions for a wide variety of online services. If you have a project big or small, we can help!

Here’s our portfolio from some of our clients that don’t mind if we show off work we’ve done for them.

We specialize of course in multimedia and video systems, software, and platforms, but we have a lot of experience with the latest online technology in general. It’s a nature of the beast sort of thing, call it a prerequisite from building and developing multimedia website platforms.

Give us a shout, we’d be glad to help in whatever way we can. We’re a hard working team, straight shooters and will provide solid answers with efficient, affordable, high performance technology solutions to get the job done right.

Features

Here’s the list of features included with all of our website hosting packages.

Below is the list of over 200+ supported open source software and systems you can install on Every Multimedia Video Website Hosting Package we offer for Free, Enjoy!

HD Video and Multimedia Website #1

Upload a HD video test the speed!

Get your HD video on with this Free top-shelf HD video / Social Media website. It’s loaded with features, completely customizable, excellent for online video seo and marketing, integrates into any existing website platform, easy to use administration and management tools, great search engine rankings, and ready for your branding design. Plus you can easily install this video website yourself for FREE on any Multimedia video Website hosting package we offer with Fast HD Video Delivery – No streaming media server needed!

HD Video Site #1 Features Include:

• 5 full featured customizable video players to choose from via admin
• 2 design templates to choose from
• Social Media features and design format; messaging, comments, sharing, plus much more
• Full Admin GUI with User / Media Management System
• Similar design as Youtube; Groups, channels, roles, etc.
• Video RSS and mRSS Feed System
• 2 Video and Multimedia Encoding Libraries to choose from – FFMpeg and MP4Box
• Full Video Management and Editing System
• Video File Uploading System: Full Meta-Tagging and Video Embedding
• Full Advertising System for Video Banners and Site Ads: Monetize and Earn!
• Supports all Major Multimedia formats: FLV/MP3/AVI/WMV/3GP/MP4/WAV/F4V
• Plus much more, but we’ve made you yawn enough from reading about it… so go check it out for yourself!

FREE Software And Easy Installs Included With Every Package

[Try the demos below Or click the software links for demos]

Get FREE Software with any Multimedia website hosting package we offer with Easy DIY Full Installations and Admin Account Configuration including the Database with just a few clicks! On every BoonJack Media Package we offer these top-shelf, proven, award winning Open Source Software and Systems which are completely customizable to fit your branding and design located right in your cPanel Server GUI. All software easily integrates into any existing website platform, features an Admin GUI complete documentation, community support, design templates, helpful tutorials, forums, and much more to get you going on developing your website platform.

Don’t Get Bogged Down with Standard Shared Hosting Accounts Using These Power-Packed Software Systems!

All of Our Multimedia Website Hosting Packages come with a Maxed-Out Multimedia Server Configuration to Fully Support all the Software listed below. Achieving the Hi-Performance needed and desired for Your Online Business typically found only with dedicated servers.

An example, our PHP Memory Limit Allocation for every Multimedia Package is 512M per app! While standard shared hosting only offers you 32MB on average per account, and won’t allow modifying this level even if you have an “Unlimited” storage / bandwidth package or are a reseller. You need to upgrade to a dedicated server to get that kind of control.

How can we offer this kind of performance?

Simple, we don’t overload our servers. Typical shared hosting providers which sell “Unlimited” packages and add 400-600 accounts per server, so you’re actually sharing performance with 400 to 600 other websites just like yours. At that level of sharing per server, they have to allocate memory and have to restrict certain performance related features, so every account on the server isn’t overpowered from just one account.

We assign a maximum of 50 accounts per server, which is the primary reason we can provide superior performance, overall speed, and features for power-hungry apps or HD multimedia. If your website, app, or script needs bandwidth from traffic surges then we deliver it now – our network is 10MPBS burstable to 100MBPS.

Apache Linux Servers featuring FastCGI with Dynamic Caching and much more, plus all the latest and greatest goodies…

The bandwidth available on our servers are unlimited with raid and scaled clustering with solid state high-rpm hard drives.

We open up our servers and network full-throttle. Offering unlimited file uploading (1G file max) on every account upto your maximum account storage for large file management, or emailing files. Every account comes pre-configured with the complete range of Multimedia, Video, Structured Framework and Code libraries you’ll need for delivering your own Hi-Def video and multimedia content without the costly need of a streaming server.

BoonJack Media Has You Covered With Our BIG List

Open Source (FOSS) / Proprietary (LICS) Software and System Partners

We have spent numerous hours doing due diligence on our multimedia server platform. Our R&D is rigorous and unforgiving, we try to break the software first then attempt to fix it, this helps us discover the true inner workings and full capabilities of the software systems we’re considering. Out of literally thousands of software systems, we’ve only selected a few overall which we support and adopt for integration into our multimedia server platform. You can be assured the software and systems we approve and recommend are the best available solutions online, plus we’re continuously surfing the bleeding-edge of technology looking for more winners for approval and integration.

Below is “Our Big List” of Software and Systems we recommend – Over 250+ titles. All can be installed for FREE on ANY of our Multimedia Website Hosting Packages we offer.

Most of the software and systems listed are Open Source (FOSS), meaning the software is free to use under certain conditions and is supported by a community of people sharing in the continued development of the software and system together. We also recommend some Proprietary software and systems which require a paid license to own or use, all of which of course are well worth the jack.

Ok enough of the rant, let’s get on to “Our Big List” of stuff…

BoonJack Media is NOC partners with Softaculous and Installatron featuring their awesome automated installer’s.

These are by far the 2 best auto-installers available online we’ve found. Together they support over 250+ free software and scripts you can easily install in just a few clicks.

Softaculous and Installatron are included with every Package we offer.

Here’s a demo for Softaculous to play around with: Softaculous List and Demos

Check out our Softaculous Demo here, or simply admire the pretty image sample of free software that can be automatically installed in every web hosting package we offer!