Google teams up with site builder Wix to let its 33 million members use Google Apps for Businesses
Popular site building service Wix has struck a deal with Google which allows Wix users to purchase Google Apps for Businesses.
Wix tells us its users will now be able to buy Google Apps for Businesses for $4.08 to $4.95 per month “directly from their Wix dashboard.” That includes access to branded Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Drive.
For Wix users, it’s certainly not a life-changing deal. For Wix itself, however, integrating with Google will help it expand its brag-worthy feature set while forwarding new customers on to Google.
While Google certainly rules the Web in terms of its overall reach, Wix claims to have over 33 million members, and is adding more than 1.3 million new users monthly. If you compare those figures to Google Apps for Businesses, which currently has just 5 million businesses signed up, you’ll see why this deal could help Google in the long run.
For Google, this deal will ultimately boost its ability to connect with small businesses — ones that can’t afford to hire Web designers or developers but don’t mind dropping around $5 per month on Google apps.
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YouEye Raises $3M For Its Webcam-Based Usability Testing Service With Emotion Recognition
YouEye, a usability testing service that uses a pool of screened candidates to help designers and developer get feedback for their sites, today announced that it has raised a $3 million funding round led by investors Bobby Yazdani, the founder and CEO of Saba Software and an investor in Dropbox, Google, Qwiki, Brian McClendon, the co-founder of Keyhole, Inc (which later became Google Earth) and Beth McClendon. A number of additional investors also participated in this round, which also includes a $400.000 raise from early 2011 led by Bobby Yazdani.
The company, which describes itself as a “UX lab in the cloud,” takes a different approach from other online usability test service. The focus for YouEye goes beyond asking users questions about a site and tracking their cursors. Instead, the service records the participants interactions with a site and tries to capture their emotions. The service is also currently alpha testing eye-tracking as another data point for its studies.
YouEye’s face recognition algorithms, the company says, can recognize over 50,000 micro-expressions and “can accurately show when a user’s facial expression aligns with several feelings, including happy, surprised, puzzled, disgusted, afraid and sad.” Companies that want to use the service can pick the exact demographics of the testers (age, gender, education level, income, etc.). Users can also annotate their videos. YouEye says some of its customers include Airbnb, Microsoft and Eventbrite. Here is a sample of what those final videos look like.
Typically, these kind of studies are pretty expensive and can take a long time to complete, but YouEye’s prices start at $39 per participant (including webcam and audio recording, as well as emotion recognition data and written answers to post-study survey questions) and most results should be available within 48 hours.
YouEye is also using today’s funding announcement to officially launch a new product: Insite. This service allows you to ask any visitor to your site to opt-in to participate in a usability study. Companies can then capture the full webcam video and audio from those visitors that opt in to these studies. For developers, adding this feature to an existing site is as easy as adding a single line of code. Users then see a little widget on the site that asks them to participate (and sites can sweeten the deal with a discount or other incentives, too.). The service is based on a freemium model.
Insite is currently only available as a limited beta, but you can get on the waitlist here.
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ZenPayroll Launches Simple, Cloud-Based Payroll Service For Accountants And Bookkeepers
YC-backed ZenPayroll, the startup that offers an easy to use, cloud-based payroll application, is debuting a new product today—ZenPayroll for Accountants.
ZenPayroll, which has a list of all-star investors, is disrupting a space that incumbents like ADP and Paychex have dominated for some time. The startup offers a much simpler, cloud-based way to automate all payroll tax calculations and payments, as well as provide direct deposit to employees. And the application allows for filing of all payroll-related government documents paperlessly.
With the initial product, ZenPayroll was aiming at small businesses and companies who use ADP. With the launch of ZenPayroll for Accountants, the startup is hoping to attract independent accountants, bookkeepers and CPAs who manage a number of small businesses.
The new dashboard allows accountants and bookkeepers to manage the payroll needs of multiple companies from a single screen. The product is free, and setup takes less than one minute, says founder Josh Reeves. Accountant can view pending tasks for each company and take action such as running payroll for their client, adding new employees, reviewing tax payments and filings, etc. Payroll reports take minutes, and accountants can collaborate with their client company by adding additional admin and employee accounts.
Since launching in December 2012, ZenPayroll is now processing several million dollars in payroll monthly.
As Box CEO and founder, and ZenPayroll investor Aaron Levie said last year at the time of the startup’s launch “ZenPayroll is positioned to do for payroll what Salesforce did for CRM and Workday did for HCM.”
Reeves explains that the opportunity with ZenPayroll for Accountants is huge as there are millions of small businesses in the U.S. who manage payroll through local bookkeepers or accountants. He adds that hundreds of accountants have contacted the company with requests for this product.
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WordPress Tutorial – How to Add Posts and Pages in WordPress
www.newtlabs.co.uk – Welcome to my WordPress tutorial. This video is a WordPress tutorial on how you can make the most of your WordPress website and WordPress theme by adding new WordPress posts and WordPress pages. The best thing about WordPress is that you once the initial theme is in place, you can modify it as much as you like! So this is a WordPress Posts tutorial and a WordPress pages tutorial for beginners ideally or anyone that is interested in getting to know WordPress. Includes adding text, images, internal and external hyperlinks, mentions categories and tags and touches on the media library. Check out my other WordPress videos (coming soon) and if theres a specific video you would like me to do please request in the comments. If you’re interested in getting your very own, unique WordPress theme designed at a surprisingly low price, please visit www.designsteez.com or contact me at steven@newtlabs.co.uk
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