Miscellaneous: Take the Business Ethics Pledge
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Dr. Wilson encourages Internet businesspeople to take the Business Ethics Pledge developed by Shel Horowitz, author of Principled Profit. It begins, "I pledge allegiance, in my heart and soul, to the concepts of honesty, integrity, and quality in business." Date: Oct 20, 2004, 14:42 PST"

Site Promotion: Automated Reciprocal Linking Management Programs
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Explores link management systems that help automate reciprocal linking, link swapping and exchanges. Favors those which allow you to host the link pages on your own website. Examines LinksManager.com and Links4Trade.com. Date: Oct 6, 2004, 15:12 PST"

E-Commerce: Marketing Your Products via Drop-Shipping
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Explains some keys to becoming a drop-shipper to market your products. Discusses automating reseller account set-up, communication, product photos, info, and inventory, and setting realistic expectations. Gives an example of information contained in the Drop Ship Source Directory. Date: Sep 29, 2004, 16:43 PST"

Conversion: Conversion Rate Optimization using Offermatica (Case Study)
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Link Description: This article describes various tests -- A/B split-testing and Taguchi Method experiments designed to optimize the conversion (subscription) rate on forms to subscribe to a free Internet marketing newsletter. As a result of testing, the subscription rate in one form was increased 37%, another 25%. Offermatica.com was the testing system used. Date: Sep 29, 2004, 09:56 PST"

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"


Government Search Solution
From: www.webpronews.com

"Government agencies have a new solution for searching their archives and internal networks."

MSN Takes on Audiobooks
From: www.webpronews.com

"MSN and MediaBay are working together to offer a wide range of audiobook titles via download to the millions of MSN users in the United States."

Web Services Management from Microsoft, Dell, Intel...
From: www.webpronews.com

"AMD, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, and Sun Microsystems publish Web Services Management (WS-Management), a Web services specification that addresses the cost and complexity of IT management by providing a common way for systems to access and exchange management information across their entire IT systems."

Yahoo Stores Get New Shipping Options
From: www.webpronews.com

"Interapptive's ShipWorks software is now compatible with Yahoo Stores, providing merchants an efficient system for shipping and managing orders."

Search Engine to Take the Place of Phone Books
From: www.webpronews.com

"A few years ago if you needed to locate a hair salon, restaurant, doctor, or even a landscaper, you would look in the phone book or dial 411 for local information."


Dell Adapters a Flaming Hit
From: www.wired.com

"The computer company recalls nearly a million power adapters that could start fires. Also: Microsoft continues pursuit toward the computer television.... Nextel & rsquo;s phone is a mapquest in your hand.... and more."

Do You Take Cash, Credit or Chip?
From: www.wired.com

"A Japanese company creates a memory card that could change the method of spending money. Also: Eurpoean music industry threatens a lawsuit & hellip;. Nintendo equips handheld console & hellip;. and more."

AT & #038;T Joins the Music Frenzy
From: www.wired.com

"Customers are able to download full songs with their phone and put them on a computer. Also: Hewlett-Packard has major malfunctions with its software & hellip;. Microsoft and PalmOne, together at last & hellip;. and more."

Pirating Just Got Easier
From: www.wired.com

"Sony discontinues CDs that limit copying. Also: SBC unveils plan for three-in-one machine & hellip;. Entertainment companies invest in DVD formats & hellip;. and more."


Isolating Google's Printed Material in a Google Search Form
From: webword.com

" "Google has digitized a certain amount of printed material and made it available via regular Web search. Magazine articles have articleid in the URL. Book excerpts have ISBN in the URL. This quick search makes it possible to narrow your search to exclusively book excerpts, magazine articles, or both in the Google search engine. Give it a whirl. This form doesn't require an API key."

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MyGoogle Search
From: webword.com

" "My Google Search provides an answer to that question as more of a Proof of Concept than an overly useful application. My Google Search refines your search query by example, looking through the results you considered relevant to determine what the best way would be to improve the results of your queries. It selects query terms based on their Signal-to-Noise Ratio between what you chose to be relevant and what you chose to be irrelevant."

Visit the site..."

Users Create Their Own Reality: Tweaking GMail
From: webword.com

" Users never just use stuff. They always bend and tweak and mold. Here's something I heard about. Check it out.

"GMail Drive is a Shell Namespace Extension that creates a virtual filesystem around your Google GMail account, allowing you to use GMail as a storage medium. GMail Drive creates a virtual filesystem on top of your Google GMail account and enables you to save and retrieve files stored on your GMail account directly from inside Windows Explorer. GMail Drive literally adds a new drive to your computer under the My Computer folder, where you can create new folders, copy and drag'n'drop files to."

Cool stuff.

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p.s. While you are at it, why not skin GMail too?"

Google Wrestles With Its Own Simplicity
From: webword.com

" Outsell Now -- "The downside is that at some point, the simplicity of the Google idea is lost. A Google search result is becoming a Frankenstein monster of a Web page, with books here, ads over there, and news up there, with scientific journal abstracts, and licensed magazine article collections tossed in for good measure."

Maybe true, but the search interface itself is still quite clean. So far, so good on the results page too. Does anyone disagree with me?

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London Bus Ticket Machine = Poor Usability
From: webword.com

" "So basically these machines are completely borked. They have UI that I'd be embarrassed about if it fell out of my ass. More details in the notes..."

Interesting use of Flickr.

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(Via BlackBeltJones)"