The Fubra Blog
Furnish.co.uk – how we take payments for sellers but avoid legal liability
In case you haven’t heard of us, furnish.co.uk is a home interiors personal shopper. We take the hard work out of shopping for your home by pulling together the best and most stylish furnishings from across the web. We work with multiple “sellers” and list a selection of each of their products, every one of which is hand-picked by us. Take a look to find everything from modern furniture through to gifts for the home.
We offer several partnership options to sellers, but the one I’ll talk about here is where we sell their home furnishings directly from furnish.co.uk, just like a marketplace. For example, a customer finds a coffee table on furnish.co.uk from a particular seller, adds it to their basket, checks out and pays, all without visiting the seller’s own website. The seller is notified of this and dispatches the coffee table to the customer. We take a commission on the sale. Read the rest of this entry »
AffJet – Our Newest Addition
AffJet is the latest addition to Fubra’s catalogue of websites, and we wanted to tell everyone all about it!
AffJet = Better Affiliate Analysis
AffJet’s slogan summarises what AffJet is in three short words which is targeted at it’s market, but for those of you who don’t know what affiliate analysis refers to, here’s a quick introduction.
Affiliate marketing is a great way for websites to make money from their content and essentially, the process goes like this:
Site A displays links to Site B within their content, using a tracked or “affiliate link”. Every time a user on Site A clicks that affiliate link and performs a desired action on Site B (buys something, signs up for a service etc…), Site B gives Site A some commission as a little thank you!
Furnish.co.uk – how we automatically categorise content
From the outside, furnish.co.uk looks pretty simple; thousands of fabulous interiors products from multiple different stores, all easily searchable and nicely categorised.
But, in the background, there’s some seriously clever stuff going on. We’re automatically scraping stores’ websites (with their permission of course) or scanning their feeds at regular intervals, and then subjecting this data to heavy processing to determine category, style, colour, materials, etc and also doing some very leading edge stuff to make our custom-developed search engine produce super-accurate results. Read the rest of this entry »
Sitemap Validation
Introduction
Hello, my name is Alex Buell, I am profoundly deaf, and work as a Linux
system administrator within the Fubra infosphere. I usually spend most
of my time working on open source projects, giving back to the
community extra value in tools that allow us to do our job.
What are sitemaps?
They provide a way for webmasters (people who run
websites) to give out information about the content on their websites.
Search engines (i.e. www.google.co.uk) look (‘crawling’) through
websites to build up indexes to allow people to search for things that
they are interested in looking for.
Howto: Setup a Mac Mini as a BGP Router
Thinking Differently… An update on our Mac Mini Routers at LINX
We have been quiet for a while on the subject of the mac minis we installed into LINX at Telehouse several months ago…
You may remember the previous article, basically we are using a pair of Mac Mini computers to connect our hosting platform to the LINX Internet exchange in London.
