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We have launched a new community forum at http://community.appliedi.net/ specifically for the WebMatrix Beta.  Whether you have a question or learned a tip or trick that may be helpful to others the forum is a great place to turn to for help and share.  While our staff may pop in from time to time to [...]

We think WebMatrix is a pretty amazing tool and apparently we’re not alone as there’s about 700,000 mentions of it throughout the web today. We wanted to put together a list of great tutorials, tips and tricks that have been posted on the web and here’s our favorite 7 sites. 7 favorite WebMatrix Tricks & [...]

Last month we announced the AppliedI Labs environment along with a partnership we’re running with Microsoft to provide free hosting for the WebMatrix Beta tool.  When signing up for an account you’d have to work with a URL like: http://mydomain.web##.appliedi-labs.net and although this allowed you to experience WebMatrix, ASP.NET Web Pages (Razor) and a slew [...]

As  a company that has focused exclusively on Windows hosting since 1999, we’re quick to support the Windows Hosting ecosystem.  I’m pleased to announce that Applied Innovations is powering the official demo portal for the open-source control panel project WebsitePanel on our Windows Cloud Servers platform. You can experience WebsitePanel first hand before downloading and [...]

One of the great features of AppliedI-Labs is that we’re able to load new technology onto servers extremely early.  I’m pleased to announce that just a couple days ago the Microsoft Drivers for PHP for SQL Server 2.0 were released and are already available on our AppliedI-Labs environment and will soon be made available across [...]

AppliedI Labs  is a unique hosting environment allowing users to gain advanced access to beta test programs and new technologies prior to their formal release. AppliedI Labs launched in conjunction with the Microsoft WebMatrix Beta program, but will be rolling out several other initiatives this summer.  AppliedI Labs extends an open invitation — to both [...]

When Applied Innovations offered Lane Vance the position of Customer Support Manager, he jumped at the chance. He had already decided it was the job he wanted. Originally from Arvada, CO, located just outside of Denver, Lane came to South Florida in 1996 to take a job as a studio engineer in radio. He met [...]

I’m pleased to announce support for IIS Media Services 4.0 including: Smooth Streaming Presentations, Web Playlists and Bit Rate Throttling has been enabled in the AppliedI Labs environment.  At the core of the AppliedI Labs mission is to provide you with early access to the latest beta technologies and innovations so you can begin experimenting [...]

  A couple weeks ago we ‘launched’ the AppliedI Labs as the infrastructure supporting a new beta web development tool from Microsoft, WebMatrix. We decided we’d launch the AppliedI Labs and the WebMatrix Hosting Beta side-by-side because this would give our customers an opportunity to fully understand the AppliedI Labs environment and see firsthand just [...]

Today Microsoft is announcing a new beta product that’s geared towards developers looking for an easy way to build, test and deploy web applications. The new product is called WebMatrix and is only a 15MB download! Applied Innovations, a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, has been working closely with Microsoft on supporting this new application and [...]