The story of edvella's playground: Testing web services (2004 & Beyond)
As time went on, I ended up being the only one keeping the Pantera Designs wagon running forward. It was not that hard to figure out how it came to this. Everyone had grown up and went to pursue their own personal projects, and Pantera Designs was really just my own childhood project. At that time I decided to try two different business models; model 1 offered free software on this website and was sponsored by advertising. Model 2 was a completely new ecommerce website to sell software that required the user to purchase a key to keep using it.
By the end of 2003, I teamed up with Darksystems founder Bernard Gatt to start a new venture called Syntax Rebels that follows model 2. Most of the software development efforts since then have seen experimental prototypes ending up featured by Pantera Designs, with additional work done for fully featured releases into Syntax Rebels products.
In reaction to the above, Pantera Designs has evolved into a content website that offers information, advantageous deals and discussion places for its visitors. Our experimentation with internet technology at Pantera Labs has allowed us to bring you a better website on your desktop.
Titles:
Pantera Designs World News (2004-2007) - using an experimental data mining software program, the world news service was automatically compiled each day by my trusty computer. All I did was to approve the content that went in the world news service, which has since been discontinued.
Shopping Mall (2004-present) - another site which was initially completely built for testing a datafeed program, but has now become a continuous project.
