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Tucows redesigned to offer solutions as well as software

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A while back, Tucows was known as one of the internet's top sources for downloadable freeware and shareware. But if you kind of forgot about Tucows, what with Download.com, FileHippo, and hundreds of other download sites out there, you're probably not alone.

Well, this week Tucows launched a major new site design that highlight's a new focus: solutions. You can still find and download boatloads of great software from Tucows. But the web page now prominently features a solutions center with advice for everything from what software to use when setting up a blog or website to instructions on how to use BitTorrent.

There's also a social aspect to the new design. Registered users can vote articles up or down and popular articles are featured on the front page.

Tucows has been publishing these articles for a while now. In fact, many of them are written by Download Squad alum Jordan Running who left our humble blog earlier this year to become a resident expert over at Tucows. It's nice to see the site give these excellent tutorials and explanations a more prominent place on the home page.

Filed under: Business, Office, Web services

Who bought Kiko? Tucows!

KikoOver the past two week there's been an enormous amount of buzz about Kiko, a Web 2.0 calendar whose high-profile sale on eBay for $258,100 sparked speculation about the possible burst of the second dot-com "bubble." What we didn't know until now is who bought Kiko: It's Tucows. Yes, it was the venerable shareware-archive-cum-domain-name-tycoon that bought the start-up's Ajax software, and in a post on the official Tucows blogs, Tucows President and CEO Elliot Noss explains the reasoning behind the purchase. "While there are a lot of little reasons, I'll cover a few of them in a moment, there is really one big reason why we bought Kiko," writes Noss, "We needed the functionality, quite desperately, inside of our email platform and it was going to take us a long time to get it. Especially at the level of sophistication Kiko has." He also cites Kiko's global user-base, mobile integration, and nice Ajax implementation as adding value to the purchase, and concludes, "we look forward to giving the existing customers an ever-improving user experience and look forward to bringing a great shared calendar to the millions of end-users and thousands of partners who use Tucows services today."

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