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[2005-05-30] Oh Cecilia: You’re Breakin’ Yahoo’s Heart
One Ms. Cecilia Barnes, 48, levied a lawsuit against Internet giant Yahoo. She charges they let nude photos of her taken by an ex boyfriend linger too long in their files. The gentlemen in question perpetrated fraud by creating a false account using her information and posting photos of her in the buff that he took when they were together.
[2005-05-27] Be Realistic When Selling on eBay....
As some of you know, I spent many years buying and selling both on and offline and several of my products are based upon my own experience in this area.
[2005-05-21] Should New Blogs Have Ads?
Jacob asks Should New Blogs Have Ads? He has decided not to put ads on his new blogs for two main reasons...
[2005-05-20] Maximize Your Online Survey Profits
One of the most common questions I get on my website is "Peter, how do I make the most money with these online survey opportunities?" There are a couple of extremely easy ways to add to your bottom line in the survey-taking world.
[2005-05-18] E-commerce Shopping Carts: Stop Abandonment
Internet retailers work hard to get prospective buyers to visit their e-commerce website.
[2005-05-17] FeedDemon Acquisition Gives NewsGator a Complete RSS Offering
The news today from Nick Bradbury, the developer of the FeedDemon desktop RSS aggregator for Windows ...
[2005-05-17] New York Times VP Defends Decision To Charge For Content
Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president of digital operations at The New York Times Company just was on stage and explained ...
[2005-05-16] Amazon, Wine.com Partnership Get Court Boost
The Supreme Court ruled that states may not pass laws making it a crime for wineries to ship directly to consumers.
[2005-05-16] Blo.gs Sold
Blo.gs has been sold to an unnamed individual and will transfer ownership, including account information and user data, sometime on or around June 13.
[2005-05-16] Are You in for a Safe Landing? - PPC Landing Pages
You've paid for your ticket and your ads are up on Google AdWords and Yahoo's Overture, but have you set up a safe landing for your clients?
[2005-05-13] What Great Online Advertising Really Is!
Many business people have a distorted view about the distinction between sales & marketing. The common view looks something like this. "Market by advertising to get your name out there, so that people will be familiar with you. When they need what we're selling, they'll know who to call".
[2005-05-13] Microsoft Shuts Windows XP on Homes With Older PCs.
Microsoft announced a new slimmed down version of Windows XP. They call it Eiger. Its shrunken version of XP will be usable on older PCS, at least some of them.
[2005-05-13] Competing With The Retail Giants
The past decade has brought dramatic changes to the world's retail community! This is the toughest climate most retailers have ever faced!
[2005-05-12] Oil Futures Tank Amid Rising Inventories and Lower Demand
Light sweet crude plummets this morning after reports from the IEA yesterday that demand worldwide was down substantially from last year. The price of light sweet crude in New York went down as low as $49.10, over a dollar less from the close yesterday.
[2005-05-12] Travelocity Parent Company To Purchase Lastminute.com
Travelocity's parent company, Sabre Holdings Corp. is purchasing British rival company Lastminute.com for about 577 million pounds ($1.1 billion).
[2005-05-12] The Holes Are Going To Go! Go Go Mozilla
Mozilla put out the updated version of Firefox version 1.0.4 and with it corrected two recently found flaws. Mozilla worked quickly to fix the problems and released the new version this week.
[2005-05-11] yTunes Launched!
Okay, it's actually called Yahoo! Music Engine (or YME for short), but a lot of us at the office prefer to call it yTunes.
[2005-05-11] Wildcat Icahn Latches Onto Blockbuster Board
Corporate raider Carl Icahn and his two associates won seats on the Blockbuster board today after a heated battle with CEO John Antioco. The battle had been raging for weeks after Icahn bought up significant share in the video rental company to make him the lead stockholder.
[2005-05-11] OASIS Works on Reliable Messaging Specs
OASIS continues its work in developing universal standards with another breakthrough announcement. The massive consortium that is OASIS said their member groups have agreed to work toward a web services reliable messaging (WS-RM).
[2005-05-11] Web Advertsing: Its All About the Click Thrus!
Working in research and development for a large infomercial company, I had many opportunities to do large advertising campaigns with lots of different online advertising agencies and Internet marketing companies. I would literally go online for days researching companies and the types of advertising they offered to find just the right ones to meet the needs of our company.
[2005-05-10] Answers.com Partners with Shopping.com
GuruNet Corporation, creators of the Answers.com reference-based search engine, and Shopping.com, a leading online comparison shopping site, are pleased to announce an agreement to offer Answers.com users access to the world's most detailed product catalog online.
[2005-05-10] GE Taps Into Ecomagination
Global corporate giant General Electric (GE) took the environmental initiative on Monday at George Washington University (GWU). GE president Jeff Immelt announced the ecomagination initiative. GE wants to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges.
[2005-05-10] Yahoo And ISS: Just What Do Those Corporations Do Anyway?
Yahoo comes with even more good information on its personal finance web site. They new offer access to the Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and it should be a boon for small investors.
[2005-05-10] Using Drop Shipping for E-commerce
Thanks to the ubiquity of the internet, online virtual businesses have become very popular business opportunities. Online retail stores are gradually playing a more important role in our lives than the traditional ‘brick-and-mortar' retail shops. Over the last few years, a new concept called ‘Drop Shipping' has emerged with the coming of the internet.
[2005-05-09] PalmOne Lifedrive: Bigger and Badder PDA
PalmOne let information about their new Lifedrive Mobile Manager slip out. This new PDA will have a lot of groovy features although not a huge amount is known about it yet.
[2005-05-09] Mozilla’s FireFox Full of Lead: Secunia Says Holes Exist
Internet security firm Secunia found holes in internet browser Firefox from the Mozilla company. The problems present two of the first big security problems for the browser that continues to grow in popularity.
[2005-05-06] OpenOffice Is Open Season on MSOffice
Sun Microsystems and some volunteer programmers have done something wonderful. They come up with a FREE office suite program. It's got a word processing program called Writer that reads documents from Word and WordPerfect. It's got a spreadsheet program called Calc that will open will open Excel files.
[2005-05-04] Google Slashes Urchin On Demand Price
InfoWorld reports that Google has slashed the price of Urchin On Demand, the website analytics service produced by the company they aquired earlier this year.
[2005-05-04] Is Backpack a Blog, a Wiki or Something Else?
Whatever you want to call it, Backpack is freakin' awesome. Backpack lets you create and share lists, photos, documents ...
[2005-05-03] The Apple Rolls On: IMAC with G5 Power
Apple trucked out the new IMAC G5 and it's loaded with features including G5 processors. This compact little package crams a lot of bang into the buck and does it with style.
[2005-05-02] Blog Networks and Blog Ownership
I've been following on with interest and fascination at John Battelle's emerging FMPublishing project. John is attempting to build a publishing company ...
One Ms. Cecilia Barnes, 48, levied a lawsuit against Internet giant Yahoo. She charges they let nude photos of her taken by an ex boyfriend linger too long in their files. The gentlemen in question perpetrated fraud by creating a false account using her information and posting photos of her in the buff that he took when they were together.
[2005-05-27] Be Realistic When Selling on eBay....
As some of you know, I spent many years buying and selling both on and offline and several of my products are based upon my own experience in this area.
[2005-05-21] Should New Blogs Have Ads?
Jacob asks Should New Blogs Have Ads? He has decided not to put ads on his new blogs for two main reasons...
[2005-05-20] Maximize Your Online Survey Profits
One of the most common questions I get on my website is "Peter, how do I make the most money with these online survey opportunities?" There are a couple of extremely easy ways to add to your bottom line in the survey-taking world.
[2005-05-18] E-commerce Shopping Carts: Stop Abandonment
Internet retailers work hard to get prospective buyers to visit their e-commerce website.
[2005-05-17] FeedDemon Acquisition Gives NewsGator a Complete RSS Offering
The news today from Nick Bradbury, the developer of the FeedDemon desktop RSS aggregator for Windows ...
[2005-05-17] New York Times VP Defends Decision To Charge For Content
Martin Nisenholtz, senior vice president of digital operations at The New York Times Company just was on stage and explained ...
[2005-05-16] Amazon, Wine.com Partnership Get Court Boost
The Supreme Court ruled that states may not pass laws making it a crime for wineries to ship directly to consumers.
[2005-05-16] Blo.gs Sold
Blo.gs has been sold to an unnamed individual and will transfer ownership, including account information and user data, sometime on or around June 13.
[2005-05-16] Are You in for a Safe Landing? - PPC Landing Pages
You've paid for your ticket and your ads are up on Google AdWords and Yahoo's Overture, but have you set up a safe landing for your clients?
[2005-05-13] What Great Online Advertising Really Is!
Many business people have a distorted view about the distinction between sales & marketing. The common view looks something like this. "Market by advertising to get your name out there, so that people will be familiar with you. When they need what we're selling, they'll know who to call".
[2005-05-13] Microsoft Shuts Windows XP on Homes With Older PCs.
Microsoft announced a new slimmed down version of Windows XP. They call it Eiger. Its shrunken version of XP will be usable on older PCS, at least some of them.
[2005-05-13] Competing With The Retail Giants
The past decade has brought dramatic changes to the world's retail community! This is the toughest climate most retailers have ever faced!
[2005-05-12] Oil Futures Tank Amid Rising Inventories and Lower Demand
Light sweet crude plummets this morning after reports from the IEA yesterday that demand worldwide was down substantially from last year. The price of light sweet crude in New York went down as low as $49.10, over a dollar less from the close yesterday.
[2005-05-12] Travelocity Parent Company To Purchase Lastminute.com
Travelocity's parent company, Sabre Holdings Corp. is purchasing British rival company Lastminute.com for about 577 million pounds ($1.1 billion).
[2005-05-12] The Holes Are Going To Go! Go Go Mozilla
Mozilla put out the updated version of Firefox version 1.0.4 and with it corrected two recently found flaws. Mozilla worked quickly to fix the problems and released the new version this week.
[2005-05-11] yTunes Launched!
Okay, it's actually called Yahoo! Music Engine (or YME for short), but a lot of us at the office prefer to call it yTunes.
[2005-05-11] Wildcat Icahn Latches Onto Blockbuster Board
Corporate raider Carl Icahn and his two associates won seats on the Blockbuster board today after a heated battle with CEO John Antioco. The battle had been raging for weeks after Icahn bought up significant share in the video rental company to make him the lead stockholder.
[2005-05-11] OASIS Works on Reliable Messaging Specs
OASIS continues its work in developing universal standards with another breakthrough announcement. The massive consortium that is OASIS said their member groups have agreed to work toward a web services reliable messaging (WS-RM).
[2005-05-11] Web Advertsing: Its All About the Click Thrus!
Working in research and development for a large infomercial company, I had many opportunities to do large advertising campaigns with lots of different online advertising agencies and Internet marketing companies. I would literally go online for days researching companies and the types of advertising they offered to find just the right ones to meet the needs of our company.
[2005-05-10] Answers.com Partners with Shopping.com
GuruNet Corporation, creators of the Answers.com reference-based search engine, and Shopping.com, a leading online comparison shopping site, are pleased to announce an agreement to offer Answers.com users access to the world's most detailed product catalog online.
[2005-05-10] GE Taps Into Ecomagination
Global corporate giant General Electric (GE) took the environmental initiative on Monday at George Washington University (GWU). GE president Jeff Immelt announced the ecomagination initiative. GE wants to aggressively bring to market new technologies that will help customers meet pressing environmental challenges.
[2005-05-10] Yahoo And ISS: Just What Do Those Corporations Do Anyway?
Yahoo comes with even more good information on its personal finance web site. They new offer access to the Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) and it should be a boon for small investors.
[2005-05-10] Using Drop Shipping for E-commerce
Thanks to the ubiquity of the internet, online virtual businesses have become very popular business opportunities. Online retail stores are gradually playing a more important role in our lives than the traditional ‘brick-and-mortar' retail shops. Over the last few years, a new concept called ‘Drop Shipping' has emerged with the coming of the internet.
[2005-05-09] PalmOne Lifedrive: Bigger and Badder PDA
PalmOne let information about their new Lifedrive Mobile Manager slip out. This new PDA will have a lot of groovy features although not a huge amount is known about it yet.
[2005-05-09] Mozilla’s FireFox Full of Lead: Secunia Says Holes Exist
Internet security firm Secunia found holes in internet browser Firefox from the Mozilla company. The problems present two of the first big security problems for the browser that continues to grow in popularity.
[2005-05-06] OpenOffice Is Open Season on MSOffice
Sun Microsystems and some volunteer programmers have done something wonderful. They come up with a FREE office suite program. It's got a word processing program called Writer that reads documents from Word and WordPerfect. It's got a spreadsheet program called Calc that will open will open Excel files.
[2005-05-04] Google Slashes Urchin On Demand Price
InfoWorld reports that Google has slashed the price of Urchin On Demand, the website analytics service produced by the company they aquired earlier this year.
[2005-05-04] Is Backpack a Blog, a Wiki or Something Else?
Whatever you want to call it, Backpack is freakin' awesome. Backpack lets you create and share lists, photos, documents ...
[2005-05-03] The Apple Rolls On: IMAC with G5 Power
Apple trucked out the new IMAC G5 and it's loaded with features including G5 processors. This compact little package crams a lot of bang into the buck and does it with style.
[2005-05-02] Blog Networks and Blog Ownership
I've been following on with interest and fascination at John Battelle's emerging FMPublishing project. John is attempting to build a publishing company ...