The big brains over at ReadWriteWeb attempt to explain PInterest. We can tell you right now what the point is – free marketing! It’s a site loaded with a 3-to-1 female to male ratio, women put up pictures of products they like and share them with others. It’s like the important parts of Facebook with [...]

Saw this interesting post over at eCommerceTimes about the concept of “social shopping”. It’s about how community feedback and recommendations fit into the scheme of ecommerce, harnessing the power of peer review to encourage sales. It’s a good idea, if you have confidence in your online business, to put in features to allow customers to [...]

Are you a retailer who needs some help with an online strategy? Need an eCommerce website? A recent statement by Retailers Traders’ Association of WA executive director Wayne Spencer says WA retailers must get online or do what he describes as master their defence against online retailers in order to survive. “Shoppers are looking for [...]

Rand Fishkin out a tweet seeking questions from the teeming masses, in the hopes that he might shed his guiding light of wisdom upon the world. And the results are in, and they’re an entertaining and informative read! Among many fascinating points: Amazon would be the best goldmine for analytics data. Up to 10% of [...]

So it turns out that self-confessed Google junkies really don’t give a flip whether Google collects data on them or not. No, in fact, some of them say “yeah, bring it on!” This is the counter-reaction to the reaction to Google’s new privacy policy. Another one is this guy, who points out that Google underestimated [...]

These four symptoms of Delusional Economics just became our new favorite meme, and they should send a shiver of recognition down your spine. When we hear “Basing a business model on revenue from nonexistent advertisers or customers”, all we see is the famous “Dot-Com Bubble”, which burst in the year 2000. Online entrepreneurs were done [...]

We really, really miss technology news. Tutorials on how to do cool new things, demos of awesome gadgets, interesting advice on how to tap the Internet market. Alas, those days are gone – oh bare, ruined choir, where late the sweet birds sang! Now it’s all politics, politics, politics, nor any other story to report. [...]

This article on convincing the average web user to switch to a non-IE browser is interesting, not because we should try to convince everybody what browser to run, but because it illuminates the mind of users. It’s easy for us web design folk to forget that to most users, half of what we say is [...]