Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Wednesday, August 25, 2004
Monday, August 23, 2004
Liberty Alliance Project - White Papers
Propagandizing aside (the link between Liberty and Identity is a subject for humanities, not technology), watch this space for developments in Web Services frameworks. The Liberty Alliance is a colloborative working group established for the purpose of creating and marketing an industry standard for identity sharing user identities between disparate systems (in the form of web services). Its members include American Express, France Telecom, Sun, IBM and more. What's more, is that it is an open (more or less) standard that competes with the likes of MS Passport and other such proprietary methods which of course begin to benefit users less as their popularity grows.
Posted by Kelly Abbott
1:42 PM
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Friday, August 20, 2004
CIO Today - Broadband Internet Access Tops Dial-Up
Over half of US households are using broadband to access internet. While the number of internet users has begun to plateau, the percentage of existing users on broadband is growing like gangbusters.
Posted by Kelly Abbott
9:37 AM
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Thursday, August 19, 2004
Monday, August 16, 2004
Wired News: It's Just the 'internet' Now: "Effective with this sentence, Wired News will no longer capitalize the 'I' in internet."
Posted by Kelly Abbott
12:11 PM
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Wednesday, August 11, 2004
Viewing Through vs. Clicking Produced More Conversions
The Q2 Ad Serving Trend Report showed that post-impression activity rates (actions taken after viewing but not clicking on an ad) are typically higher than click-through rates. In Q2, the average click-through rate for ads served by advertisers was 0.43% as compared to an average view-through rate of 0.73%.
According to the subset of ads served by advertisers that tracked response through to online conversion, in Q2 more than six times the number of conversions resulted from view-through rather than click-through activity.
Posted by Julie Rosefsky
10:33 AM
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Tuesday, August 10, 2004
Time of Day Effects Email Delivery
Permission-based marketing emails sent on Mondays have a higher deliverability success rate than any other day, a study has found.
Return Path, an email performance company, the best overall times to send mailings is between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. EST. Deliverability rates for permission-based email campaigns varied by more than 10 percent, depending on when mailings occur.
Posted by Julie Rosefsky
9:29 AM
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Monday, August 09, 2004
Site Design Tips to Improve Your Sales
The better-designed your site, the better your chances of making the sale.
By James Maguire
Posted by Charles
10:59 AM
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How To Optimize Your Images For Image Search
"Do the images on your website appear in Google's image search? If you're selling products they should. If you have pictures of yourself on your site those should appear in Google's (and Yahoo's) image search too."
Posted by Charles
10:34 AM
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Peeking Into Google's Mind
Marissa Mayer, Google's Director of Consumer Web Products, spoke today in the "Inside the Searcher's Mind" session and revealed the exact keyword density that delivers first page results.
Posted by Charles
10:33 AM
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Insights: RSS Can Make Selling Simpler
A revolution has been taking place in online publishing, with Internet users eschewing e-mail and the Web as ways to receive their news and information in favor of a newer technology called RSS.
By Scott Koegler
Posted by Charles
10:26 AM
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Consumers Trust eBay
Already a valuable resource for many small businesses, eBay has also proven to be the most trusted company, according to a study conducted by the Ponemon Institute and TRUSTe.
By Robyn Greenspan
Posted by Charles
9:57 AM
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Thursday, August 05, 2004
For those Mark Cuban fans wishing he was back in the Internet game, your wish has been granted: www.icerocket.com
A new search engine... or is it? Can't say anything is wrong with mirroring success, but some of their features do look a lot like some other engines' features I know...
Posted by Reid
10:23 AM
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Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Doing More by Coding Less
Active repository management and interactive application rendering attack coding bottlenecks.
by Peter Coffee
"If we don't make substantial gains in our practices of preserving, finding, and reusing code, we won't keep pace with the opportunities presented by continuing hardware improvement. More devices to do things, and more kinds of connection to share things, will be unfinished stories of what-might-have-been if they require vast new coding efforts--testing, deploying, and maintaining it as well as writing it--to make them useful.
"That's why I take great interest in the work being done by LogicLibrary Inc., of Pittsburgh--a finalist at this year's presentation of eWEEK's Excellence Awards, now making news with its forthcoming version 3.5 of its flagship product Logidex. More than a metadata repository, version 3.5 makes substantial moves toward actively managing code assets: It offers an enterprise development team a broad set of SOAP-based Web services APIs that let developers both look for what they need, and keep track of how their work is being used. "
Posted by Kelly Abbott
2:03 PM
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Monday, August 02, 2004
SPF: It's Not Just a Good Idea: "Sender Policy Framework is one of several e-mail authentication schemes that have been vying for attention and adoption during the past few months. Others include Yahoo!'s Domain Keys and ePrivacy Group's Trusted Email Open Standard (TEOS)."
Posted by Kelly Abbott
9:36 AM
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