Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008
CatalogSuccess.com talks about the judicious use of AJAX. He makes the critical point that you need to be sure to degrade gracefully (i.e. don't fall off the cliff if the user has JavaScript disabled).
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Business Week revisits the topic. They repeat the theme that non-hierarchical connectedness and dialog - promoted by Web 2.0 style tools - is the next big thing. Interesting article ... but is it just me, or does Zuck look a bit too much like a Greek ...
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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Seth Godin speaks to Google - a wonderful talk that's well worth an hour of your time. Most interesting story: creation of Hallmark collectible ornaments (about halfway through), with followup marketing by email. Takeaway: the most effective email campaigns are
Anticipated
Personal
Relevant
The "email blast" approach has never worked, will never ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
At the request of a user on the Zen Cart forum, I beefed up this tip page to describe how to add boilerplate to the new products, all products, featured products and product listing pages.
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Dr. Greg Mankiw calls it "The Pigou Club" (after economist Arthur Pigou, who advocated using taxes as a way to correct for negative externalities).
That Software Guy calls it the "fund the war and the follow up costs, including veterans benefits, instead of screwing our warriors and giving our kids the ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
J.R. Simplot passed away today. A real Horatio Alger story - started in business at 14.
In 1923, he left home with four $20 gold coins and paid $1 a day for room and board at Declo's only hotel. As a shrewd young businessman, Simplot bought interest-bearing scrip paid to teachers ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
Thank a veteran that you can still rock in America!
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Probably not what you're used to.
Boiler Room
Glengarry Glen Ross
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Saturday, May 24th, 2008
New life goal: to attend MashBash in Israel. Have fun, guys! I look foward to reading about it this year.
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Friday, May 23rd, 2008
Last month's Inc. Magazine had a story on Evan Williams, the creator of Twitter. The story was interesting on its own, but one of the things I enjoyed the most was the reference to an early blog post by Williams called "Ten Rules for Web Startups."
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