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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
To sell something /accept credit card payments on a website, there are 4 typical options:
Simplest and least technical: use a hosted online shop solution like Yahoo! Store or Shopify
Also a fairly simple method: if you already have a website, add a Buy Now button and "re-direct" the user to a ...
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Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Google Sites just came out. It's quite well put-together, and much nicer than other Wiki's. However, I don't think it will get main-stream adoption yet. (Btw: it's the re-worked JotSpot Wiki engine after they bought it at the end of 2006.)
See it in action at http://sites.google.com/ ...
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
(Credit: Amazon)
Amazon's Kindle ebook reader sold out in 5.5 hours, yet it has received absolutely abysmal product reviews from the blogosphere. What do you think: Should Amazon continue to praise its design anyways?
This is a tough management issue to deal with. To be exceptional, Amazon needs to ...
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Thursday, November 22nd, 2007
Bet you weren't expecting that! The ladies are consistently the large majorities of users in every country.
Here are some totals and percentages:
World total: 43 million users (63% women)
US total: 18 million users (60% women)
Canada total: 6.6 million users (67% women)
The TechCrunch post sourced it from Paul Francis' post.
This is ...
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Tuesday, November 20th, 2007
This blog entry in Venture Beat outlines the 20 worse VC investments of all time in an article from Insider CRM.
A glimpse of the top 2:
Amp’d Mobile: $360 million raised, ended in bankruptcy.
Procket: $272 million, sold for $89 million.
That's a lot of money to lose...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Just in case the buzz was drowned-out in other headlines, the little green laptop is for sale for a limited time. From the OLPC site:
Give One Get One
Between November 12 and November 26, OLPC is offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada. ...
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