Version 1.0 of the External Polling Sidebox is now available in the Zen Cart downloads area. This contribution allows you to easily integrate hosted polling services like SurveyMonkey with your Zen Cart. Surveys can be added, changed or deleted through the cart’s admin panel.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
StoreSuite gets renamed; PrestaShop releases
The Interspire guys decided to rename their shopping cart package Interspire shopping cart. I quite liked the old name, but they didn’t ask me. 
There’s a beta of Interspire shopping cart coming out today. Looking forward to it!
Across the pond, a group of French developers are working on a product called PrestaShop. It’s not yet ready for deployment, but looking promising. It will be interesting to see what the take rate among English speakers is for a product from France; forum activity could be a challenge.
Nice press mention for ProBlogger
This morning’s Wall Street Journal had a nice article about blogging and revenue models, and included a few paragraphs about ProBlogger.
Darren Rowse, the Melbourne, Australia-based writer of ProBlogger.net, a popular blog that teaches other bloggers how to make money, earned roughly $250,000 in 2007 off ads on three blogs he writes. Mr. Rowse says he makes the most off traditional display advertising, where advertisers pay a fee to appear, but he also has used affiliate ads and Google AdSense.
Darren wrote a very nice welcome post for Journal readers who came to his blog for the first time.
Congratulations, Darren!
ABW – Always Be Writing
This is a 4×6 notepad. Available at any stationer, office supply store or general retailer. Buy a pack, and keep a few pages with you at all times, along with your favorite style of ball point pen. Then write. Everything. Obsessively. Universal Capture is what David Allen calls it – “getting things out of your head.” It’s the essence of 43 Folders. Your brain has only so much energy for thinking up new ideas, and any energy it wastes holding old ideas just slows it down … so free yourself from the burden of having to remember everything, and just write it down.
Try it for 30 days. Before long, you’ll feel naked without a pen and paper.
