E-Commerce: Franchises on the Web
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Franchising is a local brick-and-mortar business model that doesn't work well on the web. More franchisees just create more and more head-to-head competition. Date: Sep 22, 2004, 17:59 PST"

Ads and Affiliates: The Death of Affiliate Marketing?
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Is affiliate marketing dead? Selling marketing info products is very difficult because of intense compeititon, though affiliate marketing is a growing industry. Recommends using several advertising channels including search engine optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC) ads, and trading ads with other e-mail list owners. Date: Sep 15, 2004, 13:00 PST"

Site Design: Determining Which Company Physically Hosts a Website
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Most hosting companies allow resellers to resell their services. But how good is a reseller's customer support when there's a problem? This article shows you how to find which is the company physically hosting a website. It involves a 2-step process: (1) determine the domain's IP address and (2) determine which company has been assigned blocks of IP addresses containing that IP address. Date: Sep 8, 2004, 15:00 PST"

E-Commerce: PayPal Buyers Survey (July 2004): What Merchants Gain from PayPal as a Payment Option
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Link Description: How important is it for merchants to include PayPal as a payment option? Does it make any difference to sales revenue? In July 2004 Web Marketing Today conducted a survey to examine how buyers feel about PayPal and what motivates them to use PayPal when they have a choice. This 53-page report provides Editor Ralph Wilson's analysis of the data and his conclusions about the effect of offering PayPal as a payment option. In addition to analysis and graphs of the quantified portions of the survey, the report offers hundreds of brief comments from respondents that reveal their motivations in using PayPal, their thoughts about PayPal as an e-commerce platform, dislikes and problems with PayPal, and reasons some people have no PayPal account or have allowed theirs to lapse. In all, the report provides important insights into a buyer's mindset towards PayPal and offers guidance for merchants considering offering PayPal as a payment method. Date: Sep 3, 2004, 15:18 PST"

E-Commerce: PayPal Buyers Survey (July 2004): What Merchants Gain from PayPal as a Payment Option
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Link Description: How important is it for merchants to include PayPal as a payment option? Does it make any difference to sales revenue? In July 2004 Web Marketing Today conducted a survey to examine how buyers feel about PayPal and what motivates them to use PayPal when they have a choice. This 53-page report provides Editor Ralph Wilson's analysis of the data and his conclusions about the effect of offering PayPal as a payment option. In addition to analysis and graphs of the quantified portions of the survey, the report offers hundreds of brief comments from respondents that reveal their motivations in using PayPal, their thoughts about PayPal as an e-commerce platform, dislikes and problems with PayPal, and reasons some people have no PayPal account or have allowed theirs to lapse. In all, the report provides important insights into a buyer's mindset towards PayPal and offers guidance for merchants considering offering PayPal as a payment method. Date: Sep 3, 2004, 15:18 PST"


New Executive Team Member for MSN
From: www.webpronews.com

"Former Kimberly-Clark Executive Brings 17 Years of Award-Winning Consumer Marketing Experience to New Role as Microsoft Corporate Vice President of Global Marketing."

Search Engine Chart Depicts Back End Relationships of Search advertising
From: www.webpronews.com

"According to Kevin Lee, Did-it's CEO, "The paid search matrix search engine relationship chart is as popular as our free best practices white papers.""

Yahoo en Espanol and Others Present HispanicAd.com Forum
From: www.webpronews.com

"The Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies (AHAA), Fox Sports en Espanol, HispanicAd.com, PR Newswire and Yahoo en Espanol have teamed up to present the 4th HispanicAd.com Forum on September 29th, 2004 at 9 a.m. PDT, 12 p.m. EDT."

Sun Application Server Achieves Top Results
From: www.webpronews.com

"Top Price/Performance Honors Achieved Running BEA WebLogic Server with MySQL Open Source Database on Solaris-Based Systems With Opteron Processors."

SearchGuy.com Toolbar Features Spyware Detector
From: www.webpronews.com

"SearchGuy.com has launched its Toolbar Version 2.0 which includes many updates and free features."


Commerce One Sinking Fast
From: www.wired.com

"The dot-bomb survivor is down to its last $700,000. Also: Viacom partners with a second Chinese media company & hellip;. Boeing downplays the speed of the airplane market's recovery & hellip;. and more."

Computer Associates Will Account
From: www.wired.com

"The IT vendor agrees to pay more than $200 million to avoid criminal prosecution in an accounting scandal. Also: PeopleSoft strengthens ties with IBM & hellip;. eMusic gets a facelift & hellip;. and more."

Uncle Sam Wants Your Airwaves
From: www.wired.com

"Lawmakers believe the analog TV spectrum can be put to much better use and can generate billions in auctions to telecom companies. So Congress is considering paying Americans to ditch over-the-air analog TV and switch to digital. Michael Grebb reports from Washington."

Internet Ads Sell
From: www.wired.com

"Online advertising revenues jump 40 percent in the first half of this year, but e-mail marketing revenue falls off. Also: Beyond passwords: AOL offers an optional second layer of security & hellip;. Ask Jeeves adds features & hellip;. and more."

Free Content Still Sells
From: www.wired.com

"Books containing material available online for free, like the 9/11 Commission Report, are still managing to rack up good, and in some cases very impressive, sales. By Joanna Glasner."


Learn how Tablet PC differs from XP Home and Pro
From: webword.com

" "Most of the literature I see about the Tablet PC focuses on the hardware convertible vs. slate, digitizer technology, battery life, and ergonomics. This article will focus on the software and its "extra" features, especially those that are critical to the enterprise user."

Not a perfect article, but it does answer many questions I have. Tablets are cool but are they useful? If yes, how?

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PhD programs in Human Compuer Interaction
From: webword.com

" Google Answers -- "Basically, I need to decide to which programs to apply to, and this decision is based on the ranking of the school, as well as the specific areas of research. Most schools require that I declare an affiliation with a particular lab early on, so I need to know what the labs are working on and who to contact at the lab."

Read more..."

Guidelines for Linking
From: webword.com

" "It s somewhat related to the last point, and I don t see this quite as much, but there are times when a Web page will have a call to action, or a non-underlined link in a strange spot that just doesn t look like a link, either because of it s appearance or it s location on the page."

Read more...

p.s. When to Link Out of Your Site

p.p.s. In the article above I wrote about the Site Domination Law ("Basically, no matter what page you develop, there will always be an entire site dedicated to the topic you cover in that single page.") Am I right or wrong? The idea is that no single page on a topic is more powerful than an entire web site dedicated to that topic. (What does "powerful" mean?)"

Gbrowser, gBrowser, or just gbrowser?
From: webword.com

" Earlier this year I predicted that Google was going to launch an instant messenger client. It might not happen in 2004, but I still think it will happen. Furthermore, more than 3 years ago, I explained why Google should develop a web browser or internet client. Good prediction? Was I ahead of my time? Am I nutty?

To figure some of this out, I did some investigation. Who owns gbrowser.com? That's right, Google. (Speculators: As of 21-Sept-2004, no one owns ginstant.com, if you care.)

In any event, to fuel speculation and rumors, I'm going to say that we will see the gbrowser some time soon. Actually, my best guess is that we will see something in the second half of 2005."

Web designers no longer blind to needs of visually impaired
From: webword.com

" IBM News -- "IBM technology is helping to make the Internet more accessible to people with vision impairments. One program, Home Page Reader, converts web site text and links into speech. Another program, aDesigner, lets web designer see how well their sites will work for visually impaired users."

Read the news"