E-Commerce: Shipping Calculations with Drop-Shippers
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Figuring shipping charges when your drop-shippers are scattered can be challenging. Charge standard shipping fees by sales total or weight that average out your actual costs. Use fewer shippers and pick products that are hot and not overly competitive. Date: Apr 6, 2005, 13:34 PST"

E-Commerce: Receiving Affiliate Payments in Disallowed Countries
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Countries with high fraud or an unsophisticated bank infrastructure have difficulty receiving affiliate payments from merchants who pay via PayPal only. Article suggests a friend or relative in an allowed country who can send payments to the disallowed country via MoneyBookers or iKobo. Date: Mar 30, 2005, 11:19 PST"

Ads and Affiliates: Google AdSense vs. Other Advertisers
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Google AdSense payouts have decreased, but it still provides the most revenue for many sites, even if it don't disclose its revenue share. Date: Mar 16, 2005, 16:23 PST"

Site Design: What If JavaScript is Turned Off in Visitor's Browsers?
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"About 11% of Internet users seem to have JavaScript disabled in their web browsers. It's wise to have alternatives so that this significant minority can view your website easily. Date: Mar 15, 2005, 17:08 PST"

Conversion: Review: Landing Page Handbook: How to Raise Conversions -- Data and Design Guidelines
From: www.wilsonweb.com

" Date: Mar 9, 2005, 14:30 PST"


Real Organization Transparency
From: www.webpronews.com

"Companies everywhere talk a lot about how important their employees are and the contribution they make to overall success. But most companies don't do this with the public openness and transparency demonstrated by CMS Cameron McKenna, an international law firm headquartered in London."

Over 500,000 Sony PSPs Sold In First Two Days
From: www.webpronews.com

"An announcement from Sony Computer Entertainment America provides impressive details about the Sony PSPs first few days in the North American market. According to their announcement, the portable device sold over half a million in its first two days of being available."

Blogs -N- Forums, What's The Difference?
From: www.webpronews.com

"Tom put up a post about blogs and forums that's quite noteworthy. I tried to comment on it at SVW but TypeKey crapped out on me so I'll post my comments here."

MSN Spaces/Volvo Deal Shows Big Blog Advertisers Crave Safety
From: www.webpronews.com

"Microsoft and Volvo today announced that the car company is now advertising on the MSN Spaces blogging platform. The new campaign includes a micro site that enables consumers to find interesting content within the MSN community."

Napster Steps To The Digital Music Compatibility Plate
From: www.webpronews.com

"A congressional subcommittee hearing, spearheaded by Texas representative Lamar Smith, concerning mandates for digital music interoperability began yesterday, with a noticeable absence: Apple."


Microsoft Hunts Child Pornography
From: www.wired.com

"The software maker, in collaboration with several countries, unleashes a new weapon to track internet child pornographers. Also: Outsourced phone support workers caught in bank scandal…. Study finds games replacing music…. and more."

Putting Flesh on Phones
From: www.wired.com

"Mobile porn promises to be big -- really big. But how does the sleazy porn industry strike deals with squeaky-clean phone companies? That's where firms like Brickhouse Media step in. Brickhouse president Clinton Fayling talks dirty to Daniel Terdiman."

ChoicePoint Top Big Brother Pick
From: www.wired.com

"The nominees for the annual Big Brother Awards are in. Leading the pack is ChoicePoint, which sold private data to identity thieves. But Google, the U.S. government and a small California school are also in the running. By Joanna Glasner."

Microsoft Wants You to Sell It
From: www.wired.com

"MSN messaging gets brand sponsorship in the hopes that customers advertise for them. Also: AOL starts a VOIP service of its own.... More patent cases make Mosaid look litigation-happy.... and more."

The Need for Feed(s)
From: www.wired.com

"For online newspapers, news aggregators like Google News are a mixed blessing: They can generate big traffic, but maybe they're also stealing a bit of thunder. Some newspapers are about to fight back with services of their own. By John Gartner."


Interesting Data Point on the Image Market
From: webword.com

" "Now, don't know about Webshots? I didn't either until recently. But Webshots has 23 million members (Flickr has less than a million). and they get 750,000 uploads a day. More uploads in five days than Flickr has had in all of its existence."

Webshots vs. Flickr? Fair comparison? Apples to apples?

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Stoopid
From: webword.com

" "But I find "it's the user experience, stupid" and its variants particularly irritating. Today Jason invoked "it's the user experience stupid" again. This weekend it was Gerry McGovern with "it's the content, stupid." The other Jason said it a couple of months ago. It's been attributed to a Yahoo! executive."

Read the posting..."

Google Maps and user experience
From: webword.com

" "Ajax is the underlying technology (which isn't new either) for many of the notable Google Maps features, but how Google used it to make a useful user experience is the real story here."

Egggzacktly.

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Designing Interaction Flows
From: webword.com

" GUUUI -- "When forms give users the option to continue in two or more alternative directions, such as registering as a new customer or signing in as a returning one, unfortunate users will take the wrong turn if it isn't unmistakably obvious which way they should go. In this article, we'll take a look at a few intersection flows that have caused users problems."

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Google Search Appliance
From: webword.com

" If you have any experience with the Google Search Appliance send me a note!

john AT webword DOT com"


'Uh Oh' Here It Comes Again!
From: www.marketingsecrets.com

"Another Internet Marketing shockwave will hit in the next few days... ...Are You Ready For It?..."

Thank You, Microsoft
From: www.marketingsecrets.com

"I recently reported that Yahoo was in the process of launching its own AdSense type program (which is great news for web publishers). Well, it appears as if Microsoft won't be far behind... There's no news yet about Microsoft creating..."

More Yahoo 'AdSense Clone' News
From: www.marketingsecrets.com

"News.com recently reported more information about Yahoo entering Google's AdSense territory. Check out the story here. Yahoo is already building an opt-in notification list for publishers that are interested in their "upcoming programs." Get on the list NOW to be..."

Good News For Us!
From: www.marketingsecrets.com

"Well, it appears as if my speculation is finally coming true... Over a year ago, I predicted that Yahoo would follow Google's AdSense lead and release a similar program of their own. They'd have to in order to keep up..."

I Have A Strange Feeling...
From: www.marketingsecrets.com

"I have a strange feeling that long form sales letters on the Web are going to become less and less effective. Call it a hunch. As an avid tester, I am discovering some interesting things about how long visitors stay..."