Google Blog Search - incredibly fast indexing
Saturday, October 6th, 2007I had heard people talk about how fast Google's blog spider was, but I didn't take it that seriously ... until I saw my own post in a search result within an hour of posting.
Archive for October 6th, 2007
I had heard people talk about how fast Google's blog spider was, but I didn't take it that seriously ... until I saw my own post in a search result within an hour of posting.
Powerset and other search mechanisms
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Well, I was hoping to be able to say The nice guys over at powerset.com have let me sneak a peek at their new search engine. ... but I'm waiting :( like everyone else. For now, you have to be satisfied with their remarks from TechCrunch. In the meantime, Entrepreneur.com has ...
Conference call dull? Why not do some shopping!
Saturday, October 6th, 2007In a recent Ipsos survey, 12 million Americans fessed up to shopping online while listening to coworkers and clients drone away on a conference call. Lifehacker has posted a list of techniques to help people avoid zoning out during a call - but I'm more interested in encouraging and exploiting ...
Cart-less selling, monetization and Lemonade
Saturday, October 6th, 2007As I said in my last post, I am a huge fan of utilities that let non-software-developers (i.e. "the ungeeked") create a revenue stream from their website or blog. I like the idea of WidgetBucks, and I like the idea of Lemonade (they're a bit different - WidgetBucks ...
Interesting widgets for your blog or site
Saturday, October 6th, 2007I really like the idea of easy to use and install widgets that can be dropped on to a website. Widgizit has created an excellent one for Amazon. Others are available at WidgetBox.com. I'll be interested to see if smaller carts will start creating things like this for ...
Payment Gateway Overview
Saturday, October 6th, 2007The paper Online Payment Gateways Used to Facilitate E-Commerce Transactions and Improve Risk Management provides an good introduction to payment processing.
PayPal Documentation
Saturday, October 6th, 2007Grumble grumble ... for some reason, the links to documentation on the PayPal site are broken. Here is the correct link to the PayPal API Documentation. Thanks to Tad at PayPal for providing the new URI. Aside: It's a big aggravating that legitimate email from PayPal's Merchant Technical ...
