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After a friend of mine recently shared an interesting web site with me that used tag-cloud concepts for navigation, it gave me a good opportunity to write my next post. The site I am reviewing is the School of Informatics and Computing: Indiana University Bloomington

If you are viewing the site (hopefully, in a new browser window) you will notice on the left panel labeled ‘Navigate’ and the right panel labeled ‘Discover’ there appear to be a random arrangement of words or topics in varying font sizes. These link arrangements are commonly called tag clouds. Generally, users can associate larger items with higher import, and smaller items with less.

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There are all kinds of services out there for integrating your content/services with the cloud. If you have a need for managing data, communicating with your customers, and gaining new leads - consider moving into the cloud.  One way to define cloud computing is simply the use of existing public systems to manage the data you need to manage. “Cloud computing users avoid capital expenditure (CapEx) [in exchange for operating expenditure] on hardware, software, and services when they pay a provider only for what they use.” (wikipedia).  The flexibility and pay-for-play style of intgration services can really get your campaign or IT solution off the ground quickly with very little risk.

Fusion Developers can help you build a custom solution and allow you to leverage free and SLC (super low-cost) cloud services that may be just what your strategy requires.  As part of our service, we can pull together all of the most innovative technologies and help you to navigate all of the technical jargon to get you the right solution at the right price!  Below is a quick list of some of the integration tools available:

Email Newsletter Integration

• Constant Contact
• Exact Target
• Mail Chimp
• Vertical Response

Shopping / Product sales integration

• Shopping.com
• Google Base / Froogle
• Amazon 
• Ebay/Ebay Stores 
• Yahoo Stores / Yahoo shopping 

Cloud Storage Solutions

• Amazon A3
• Google
• Yahoo YQL

Mapping & GIS

• FusionMaps API
• Google Maps (v2, v3)
• Bing Maps API
• SimpleGEO

Electronic Commerce

• PayFlow / PayPal
• Authorize.Net
• Paymentech 
• FirstData Gateway

Social

• Twitter
• Facebook
• Tumblr
• LinkedIn
• Plaxo

To learn more or to get some help click over to our integration page