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"

Marketing Tools: New Search Marketing Tools and Services
From: www.wilsonweb.com

"In a trip to Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose, August 10, 2005, I saw a number of promising tools and services for: content generation, news feeds, PPC management, CPA search networks, ad revenue for publishers, A/B split testing, SEO certification, keyword research, keyword campaign tracking, Pay Per Call, and a periodical BtoB. Date: Aug 12, 2005, 08:55 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"


Fighting The System: Mom VS. RIAA
From: www.webpronews.com

"The RIAA and its affiliates have accused more than 13,000 people, through lawsuits, of illegally swapping copyrighted music. With about a quarter of these suits settled at close to $5000 a pop, the record companies have a sweet deal going on. But one woman is standing up to these companies and choosing to fight: Mom."

Fraud Blogs (Fraugs) Giving Me An Aneurism
From: www.webpronews.com

"Recently it was reported that the blogosphere was out pacing the famed Moore's Law, doubling in size every 5.5 months at the rate of 80,000 new blogs set up every day. We've also learned since that nearly half of the blogosphere is dead-that is, inactive. And now we find that an unknown number of them are fake to begin with, labeled "Splogs" (spam blogs) by IceRocket's Mark Cuban, and the trend may yet get worse, reducing the total blogosphere to maybe 35 real blogs (okay, Feedster says at least 500)."

Amazon Applies Shortening To Renowned Authors
From: www.webpronews.com

"Amazon, the largest retailer on the Internet, launched a new service today in hopes of reviving short-form literature. Enlisting the aide of dozens of established authors, Amazon will offer their customers a brand new service and perhaps even find some new ones. For just 49 cents, one can download and enjoy essays and short stories by their favorite writers or find someone new."

Amazon's New Shorts
From: www.webpronews.com

"Amazon.com is now offering a new service called "Amazon Shorts" from which customers can sample the work of new authors for 49 cents each."

Net-News Ad Dollars On The Rise
From: www.webpronews.com

"As we build our hyper-fast, digitized world, advertisers are beginning to take notice. In 2004, the online newspaper sector reached a milestone by collecting $1 billion in revenues, mostly from advertising. The news comes our way this morning from eMarketer, who says from the look of the first half, 2005 will exceed it's predecessor."


Reality TV Gets Virtual
From: www.wired.com

"A new 3-D TV is in the works to literally put you in the game. Also: Intel plans to cover the world in WiMax.... Vioxx jury deliberates, Merck holds breath.... and more."

Startup Sees Promise in Virus
From: www.wired.com

"Viruses infect bacteria that create proteins used in nano-scale manufacturing -- it sounds like the plot for the latest Michael Crichton novel. But it's just the business plan for a biotech-electronics manufacturing startup. By Joanna Glasner."

Hey, Kid, Stop Your Downloadin'
From: www.wired.com

"The RIA of Singapore tip off police to arrest young file sharers. Also: A new wave of Samsung MP3 players challenge the iPod.... USA Today expands technology coverage.... and more."

Illegal Animal Trade Goes Online
From: www.wired.com

"Exotic pets and products made from endangered species go to the highest bidder on the internet. Thanks to e-commerce, illegal animal trading is global and growing. By Rachel Metz."

E-Mail Thief Pays the Price
From: www.wired.com

"A former AOL engineer who admitted stealing 92 million screen names and e-mail addresses and selling them to spammers is sentenced to 15 months in prison."


Persona Non Grata
From: www.webword.com

" Adaptive Path (Dan Saffer) — “The main cause of this mess is that half of the personas out there are entirely made up, with no user research to back them. In most cases, no one on the design team has talked directly to users to find out who they are, so designers come up with [...]"

Cell Phone Design Given a Failing Grade for Usability
From: www.webword.com

" Ergoweb — “Reviewers say tiny screens mar experiences like viewing pictures, browsing the Internet and emailing. Many regard the profusion of features as clutter, and want just the basics. Slow Web surfing, confusing icons and graphics and impenetrable instructions round out the picture of discontent.” I’m waiting for a phone that projects a screen and projects [...]"

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 [...]"


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..."