Europe’s fastest growing and one of the most successful hosting companies, Rackspace, has named Web Spiders as its “Partner of the Month” for June.

Web Spiders is honoured to receive this recognition from one of the leaders in the industry. Rackspace is famed for its support ideology, known as “Fanatical Support”, and has been hosting and supporting mission critical web sites, email servers, internet applications, security and storage services for over 4,000 customers since 2001. The Fortune Magazine put Rackspace as No. 32 in its list of “Top 100 Best Companies to Work For 2008″.

Web Spiders’ Business Development Manager (UK and Europe) Neil Burton commented, “I am delighted that Rackspace has chosen to recognise our strong partner relationship. Web Spiders, in partnership with Rackspace, provides enterprise grade mission critical applications in a proven stable and well supported environment.”

We believe that as a partner of Rackspace, we are working with a company that is much more than just a leading IT hosting provider. Rackspace is recognised as one of the top customer service organisations in the world, and Web Spiders is proud to be associated with it as a partner.

Internet World is UK’s largest digital business show, and the 17th Internet World event in London, held this time from 29th April to 1st May, was yet again a showstopper. This event features industry leaders like BBC Worldwide and Google amongst its speakers, and it has consistently been able to attract heavyweight keynote speakers like ITV, MySpace and Nokia. Web Spiders was once again a bright star in such a luminous constellation.

In addition to showcasing our expertise in eCommerce, Social Networking, “No Refresh” Technology and Mobile Applications, our primary focus was on customised Web 2.0/ RIA (Rich Internet Applications) development and Snockles (Social Software for Businesses). Our 1-Page Checkout and Desktop Widgets also attracted a lot of interest. Web Spiders CEO Sid (Siddharth Jhunjhunwala) presented on the subject “Enterprise 2.0 – Social is good for Business” in the Web 2.0 theatre.

Internet World, true to tradition, attracted a serious business audience interested in the key issues relating to online strategy. Over the 3 day period, we interacted with thousands of attendees and had the opportunity to educate business decision makers on the latest developments in the market and future trends. 

To know more about our offerings, visit Web Spiders online and learn how we can radically change your business with the help of the latest Web technology.

July 2007: Web Spiders announced today that it has been certified as a Gold Partner by Ektron – the leading Web content management products company,

Web Spiders has been providing solutions across Enterprise content management and Web content management for several years. This partnership with Ektron further consolidates its position as the leading IT Outsourcing Company in the Web content management space.

In addition to deploying Ektron CMS 400.net in large multi-website scenarios, Web Spiders also provides custom control and component development to extend the Ektron CMS framework. Further, Web Spiders’ distributed delivery model ensures fast track implementation by a 24X7 delivery cycle across USA, UK and India.

Ektron CMS 400.net is the CMS behind websites of companies such as Pfizer, Intel, Unilever, Dove, NASA , Kellogg’s , Adidas, ESPN and has more than 18000 customer implementations worldwide.

For more information on Web Spiders’ Web content management services, please email products@webspiders.com or visit http://www.webspiders.com

Here is a great video that comprehensively describes the architecture of Flex and Apollo and provides some very good implementation examples. This was delivered by James Ward (Technical Evangelist at Adobe) at a Google presentation.

In addition to this you could see some examples at Web Spiders site at http://www.webspiders.com/flex and http://www.webspiders.com/flex/shoppingcart

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Here is a view from the exhibition floor.

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