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Archive for the ‘News’ Category

Crowdsource like Calacanis

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Jason Calacanis has migrated from blogging to newsletter writing, where he gets to share his views and not deal with hecklers. Nice for him; not as good for me because I don't get to read the opposing viewpoint to whatever he's arguing. Nevertheless, he's not giving up ...

More bad news for eBay sellers

Monday, July 14th, 2008

Shopping cart vendors, are you targeting eBay exiles?  Mom and pop shops are no longer eBay's target market.

Will eBay kill the goose that laid the golden egg?

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Business Week (06/30/08) reports that a number of vendors are upset about eBay's recent fee increase. I wonder if this will lead to the migration of larger merchants away from eBay and onto their own shopping cart sites (hosted or not). We'll see.

Who took the trash out?

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

I was delighted to see that Best Buy has initiated a free electronics recycling pilot program. Hopefully it will catch on. I am even willing to pay Staples for a recycling service just to reduce my environmental footprint, but lots of people  need the threshold to be zero ...

Hawking talks at TED

Saturday, April 5th, 2008

Here's the video.  He thinks we're probably alone in the Milky Way, either because  we haven't heard any radio waves from another planet - unless (yikes!) "civilizations don't last that long because they destroy themselves." This statement was made in response to a question following the talk.  Only one question was ...

Digg Style Site for e-Commerce News

Saturday, March 8th, 2008

I came across an interesting site yesterday called ECommerce Solution News.  They use Digg style voting on stories about the e-commerce space - press releases, reviews and so forth.

What’s Hot, according to Amazon

Saturday, December 8th, 2007

Most wished for, most gifted, etc. from the web sales king.

Cyber Monday 2007 sets record

Monday, December 3rd, 2007

The Center for Media Research gives the stats.  Hope your store got some!

NRF posts Favorite 50 e-Tailers

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Amazon.com tops the list.  To no one’s surprise, Amazon – the world’s largest pure-play e-tailer – is in the top spot. During the course of its metamorphosis from discount online bookstore to a diverse Internet selling environment (and incubator not only for a startling number of micro-suppliers but of online marketing for ...