E-Commerce: Detecting Fraudsters on PayPal
From: www.wilsonweb.com

" Date: Aug 17, 2005, 08:50 PST"

Miscellaneous: How to Determine Traffic at a Competitive Site
From: www.wilsonweb.com

" Date: Aug 17, 2005, 08:25 PST"

Ads and Affiliates: How Merchants Can Recognize and Fight Affiliate Fraud
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Affiliate fraud is getting worse. The author outlines various types of affiliate fraud, explains what to look for when screening affiliate applications, and offers resources for affiliate managers. Date: Aug 10, 2005, 12:53 PST"

Miscellaneous: How Blocking and Deleting Cookies Affects Marketers
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"CEO of ClickTracks explains how cookies are used with web analytics software, especially to track "latent" sales. In light of growing patterns of cookie blocking and cookie deletion, he recommends using analytics software that set first party cookies, rather than third party cookies. Date: Aug 1, 2005, 18:43 PST"

E-Mail Marketing: 99 Questions to Ask a Prospective E-Mail Vendor
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"Link Description: Date: Jul 29, 2005, 09:16 PST"


Dell Missed 2nd Quarter Marks
From: www.webpronews.com

"Round Rock, Texas computer giant Dell missed projections during the 2nd quarter and suggested the 3rd quarter will also fall short. Sales for the Texas Tornado of computer manufacturers appears to have slowed down."

Amazon 8-K Discloses $40M Settlement
From: www.webpronews.com

"A SEC Regulation FD filing by the online retailer discloses its settlement of an e-commerce patent infringement spat."

Blogs and Podcasts Together
From: www.webpronews.com

"A growing number of companies are employing blogs and podcasts as part of their communication mix."

Mars Probe And Blogosphere: Talking To Aliens
From: www.webpronews.com

"NASA launched their Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Friday morning after a few delays earlier in the week. Coinciding with that launch was MindComet's first launch of thousands of SpacePost messages aimed at promoting intergalactic peace and communication."

Samsung Has A Shift In Memory
From: www.webpronews.com

"Samsung Electronics claims that it is "leading the industry shift" from DDR1 (Double Data Rate 1) to DDR2 main memory."


Jerk-O-Meter Rates Phone Chatter
From: www.wired.com

"Novel software scrutinizes speech patterns to keep conversations pleasant and pertinent. It could also help turn the tables on telephone bores."

Yahoo Buys Stake in Alibaba
From: www.wired.com

"The web portal joins the race to dominate China's online auction market. Also: Qualcomm expands its wireless reach.... Looks count in website design.... and more."

Yahoo Eyes Chinese Expansion
From: www.wired.com

"The web portal is close to buying a stake in Alibaba.com. Also: Japanese musicians clamor to join iTunes.... Opera launches a mini browser for low-end cell phones.... and more."

Thar's Uranium in Them Thar Hills
From: www.wired.com

"Surging demand for nuclear fuel leads to a huge jump in uranium mining claims in America's West. Could there be a uranium rush? By Jeff Rice."

Microsoft Settles Spam-King Suit
From: www.wired.com

"'Online marketer' Scott Richter denies charges he sent billions of unsolicited e-mails to consumers touting products and schemes. But he agrees to pay the software company $7 million -- and plans to change his ways."


Usability improvements using the DOM
From: www.webword.com

" Site Point — “How many swear words have you muttered watching Acrobat suddenly spontaneously launch itself moments after clicking on a seemingly innocent-looking link?” Read the article… "

Apple: Multi-button Mouse with No Buttons?
From: www.webword.com

" Ars Technica — “Apple has done what was considered impossible by the HCI world — keeping one-button simplicity (which continually comes back over and over in usability tests as the most suitable mouse solution for the majority of computer users, who are often very, very confused when they are told to “right click”) while finally [...]"

The usability specialist’s favourite: Heuristic evaluation
From: www.webword.com

" Builder.com (UK) — “It’s the process of judging the extent to which various elements of an interface comply with recognised usability principles (or ‘heuristics’). It’s a systematic process of inspection intended to identify specific usability problems which you can then address throughout the iterative design of the product. You can carry out heuristic evaluation on [...]"

Two simple but effective usability inspection techniques
From: www.webword.com

" Builder.com (UK) — “Two of the most popular belong to a set of techniques called Usability Inspection methods, and are known as Thinking Aloud and Cognitive Walkthrough.” Not a bad introduction if you are not familiar with these techniques. Read the article… "

WebWord Recovery
From: www.webword.com

" WebWord is back thanks to some help from Sean Murphy and a lot of help from MadMan. I’ll tell the full story later but it is very much like my stories over the years: technology blows up, WebWord suffers. "


This Is Your Blog
From: www.marketingsecrets.com

"As you can tell, I haven't been posting to this blog very much. I've been too busy running my own Internet businesses, but also, it's hard to just write for the sake of writing. Especially when I really don't know..."

'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..."