Site Design: Video Sales Presentations
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Forcing visitors to view video clips using Macromedia Flash technology can be annoying and cause them to leave. But video sales presentations can be quite effective in boosting your conversion rate. Recommends A/B split-testing to find the best uses for video. Date: Oct 27, 2004, 13:37 PST"

Ads and Affiliates: Affiliate Program Recommendations
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Current affiliate program recommendations include Commission Junction, My Affiliate Program, Ultimate Affiliate Software, and integrated shopping cart affiliate programs. Date: Oct 27, 2004, 12:49 PST"

Ads and Affiliates: Rushing Blindly into E-Business Failure
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Rushing into any business is a recipe for diaster. This article discusses the problems with expecting to earn money from an extremely competitive affiliate-based product. Date: Oct 20, 2004, 08:49 PST"

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 13, 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"


Microsoft Chief Steve Ballmer Fights Back Against Linux - Read Full Text of the Ballmer Email
From: www.webpronews.com

"Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer sent an email to its IT executive e-mail list of customers around the world yesterday fighting back against Linux."

New .post and .travel Domains Getting Closer
From: www.webpronews.com

"As the process for selecting new sponsored top-level domain (sTLDs) from a pool of ten applications moves forward, ICANN has entered into commercial and technical negotiations with two registries, .post and .travel."

Personal Internet Communicator Device Introduced by AMD
From: www.webpronews.com

"AMD and VSNL launched the Personal Internet Communicator (PIC), a high-quality, affordable, and easy-to-use, consumer device that will help provide managed Internet access to first time technology users."

Google AdWords To Provide Local Ads For BellSouth
From: www.webpronews.com

"RealPages.com from BellSouth the Southeast's leading online yellow pages and Google Inc., developer of the award-winning Google search engine, today announced an agreement whereby RealPages.com will become the first yellow pages publisher authorized to sell advertising through Google AdWords to small and medium-sized local businesses."

Ziggs.com Launches Online Search for Professionals
From: www.webpronews.com

"Ziggs announces the introduction of a new search platform for finding people in business online at http://www.ziggs.com. Providing the fastest-growing index of current professional profiles on the Web, Ziggs' innovative website enables users to search from a single source for people in business across more than 1 million professional profiles from nearly 16,000 companies."


Web Help for the Voting Disabled
From: www.wired.com

"A website goes the extra mile to make sure voters aren & rsquo;t confused this Tuesday. Also: West Virginia organizes the first public supercomputer & hellip;. FDA keeps its eye on a new pain relief drug & hellip;. and more."

I Can See My House From Here
From: www.wired.com

"Google buys a mapping service of its own. Also: Sharp takes us to the future of television in 3-D.... PayPal finds a way to make amends for past problems.... and more."

Fewer Pledge to Swap Votes
From: www.wired.com

"Thousands plan to take part this year in an online effort that lets backers of third-party candidates in swing states trade votes with people in less critical locations. But overall participation is lower than in 2000. By Joanna Glasner."

Lexmark Loss Good for Consumers
From: www.wired.com

"The printer maker's courtroom setback may mean consumer electronics companies won't try to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act as an all-purpose competition shield anymore. By Katie Dean."

Sex Is Out, Consuming Is In
From: www.wired.com

"Net surfers have turned their attention from sex and porn to online shopping, researchers say. According to their studies, the thrill of the internet is gone. One thing hasn't changed, however: Users still want instant gratification."


Latest thinking in Usability & IA
From: webword.com

" "This half-day seminar will expose you to some of the latest ideas and approaches being explored in the fields of usability and information architecture. The current thinking in the industry will be summarised, introducing practical ideas to use in the workplace. This seminar is the first of an ongoing series to introduce you to the latest thinking from across the globe, taking academic research, relevant projects and practical implementations and providing ideas on ways to improve the experience of your users."

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Consumers, not technology, biggest cybersecurity problem
From: webword.com

" "70 percent of consumers will share information, such as their name, address, postal code, phone number, account number or give the answer to a security question to an unsolicited call or email."

How can we make security easier for people?

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Introducing the Customer-Centric Worldview
From: webword.com

" Good Experience -- "Mystery solved: it was all a difference in perspective. The clerks were explaining to me how the product return affected them (they would have to call the catalog and manage the return) and not how it affected me (I could only get store credit)."

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Search: The Current and Next Big Thing
From: webword.com

" O'Reilly -- "The key is "understanding the intention of the user and enabling them to complete a task," added Jeff Weiner, a senior vice president at Yahoo. He said that personalization can be thought of as fitting into two boxes. There is the explicit gathering of information, where users provide information about what they do and do not like. The implicit personalization comes from tracking what the user tends to do. Weiner said that a search result must transition from a means to an end to simply being an end in itself."

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The Simple Life
From: webword.com

" "A person working with a computer system has to negotiate with it to get it to do what they want it to do," Lally says. "It's actually about problem-solving and developing a particular set of techniques."

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