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If you have an iPhone, this lets you watch live TV from your handset. It's not an app - it's free and there are no downloads. Just point your phone's Safari browser to www.iphone.tvcatchup.com, and lo. It's amazing. Also it means that if you're stuck at a boring dinner-party tonight, you can pretend you have cystitis and keep escaping to the loo for your X Factor fix. The joy! UK only, also works with iPod Touch.
Cynics will roll their eyes, but there are some really interesting stats in this video.
Is Social media in 2009 = Multimedia in 1993? CD-ROM's were big and new then. Siliwood, or multimedia gulch, they called San Francisco. People were going nuts about interactive video. There was real tech behind it. There were cool new user scenarios and experiences unlocked before our eyes. Interact with a movie? Tell stories in a whole new way? It was a veritable boom.
We don't talk about multimedia anymore -- but maybe that's because the boom fulfilled its promise. Here's hoping social media can overcome its hype curve as well. And we're on the front lines. Damn, it's an exciting time to be alive.
We made it really easy to use Feedburner to get analytics about who's reading your feed. Just burn your Posterous RSS feed and add the new Feedburner feed address to your site and you're off.
Grab the address from Feedburner:
This is SOOOO good.
Smashing Magazine
Updated almost every day, this is my favorite destination to stay updated with the latest trends in web design.
Blogs @ CNET Asia
Hillary Chan's short and sweet posts on High On A Hill make for easy ready and creates interesting conversations that I actually take with me to happy hour with friends. Other great bloggers on this site are Geekonomics and The Neon Rush.
Krop Creative Database
I love the quote "You have enough friends". Krop definitely is the place to find the most creative people on the planet. Whether I'm simply viewing to appreciate or making contact, the experience is always fulfilling.
CopyBlogger
If you're planning to tune a crispier message to your audience, then this is the place for copywriting tips. My mind gets a healthy mental workout as I absorb on ponder upon every lesson presented in the latest available article.
NOTCOT
NOTCOT is extremely amusing as their slogan boasts. This site really is like a box of chocolates. From creative advertising to environmentally friendly gadgets, you're pampered for choice on which links to follow. I just love to occasional furnishing treasure.
A flexible store allows you to modify the user experience to accommodate future trends or changes to your business model with little disruption. Whether you are using an out-of-the-box solution or purchasing custom coding services, this guide will help you short-list e-commerce software that surpass the standard benchmark and contribute to higher sales.
Since you’ll be spending most of your time publishing products, it’s important that you can do the following quickly:
Shipping charges often present themselves as the most challenging part of the planning process. Generally, they are determined by these factors:
A good e-commerce tool should allow you to create/upload a rate-table so you can calculate shipping based of combinations of the above factors.
Today, it’s hardly a good excuse to not allow customers to perform the following actions:
Every single visitor to your web site is a valuable viral marketing tool. Using social tools to create fan-base or ‘cult’ following is one of the best forms of free-marketing.
From time to time, you’ll want to give your customers a treat. In order to easily create offers in a variety of permutations, ensure that your e-commerce system allows you to perform the following tasks:
Bringing attention to your promotions, activities and new products is time-critical in today’s competitive economy. Here are some powerful marketing capabilities you should have access to:
Giving your users the power to customize their shopping experience can greatly improve loyalty and willingness to spend. Ensure your customers can perform these standard actions:
Armed with a clearer understanding of how e-commerce software features like the above can positively affect your online business, your expectations should be higher. In my next article, I will discuss my evaluation of several out-of-the-box e-commerce systems. Stay tuned!
