Garrick’s Note: A couple months back, Tom Laughlin (President, Caravela, Inc) mentioned he was experimenting with Google, LinkedIn, and Facebook ads in driving traffic to his business website. I asked him if he would write up what he learned and share it with us. Here’s Tom… I established a leadership consulting firm in 2002 to [...]
I’m hoping to stir up some interest in organizing a WordCamp here in the Twin Cities. I’ll “run point” but could use some other enthusiasts to assist. We have a thriving interactive community that presumably should be interested in things WordPress. Any takers? Email jmyers at visi dot com or @jaymyers
There seems to be a number of open-source ecommerce packages gaining in popularity this past year, upgrading and coming out of beta. Just as Drupal and Joomla are dominating the open-source CMS market (along with one of my faves, CMS Made Simple), the ecommerce arena may soon have a few dominant players. (Or maybe not.) [...]
As I spellcheck a project proposal this morning, I’m struck by the number of hyphens in our web words that need to go away. Most of us have gone along with “email” and “online” now, instead of “e-mail” and (the worst) “on-line.” But some others exist, and I think it’s time for a revolution. Ok, [...]
A question to the community at large. I’ve been asked to give an opinion on the PNG file format. More specifically, if it would be worth it to include a PNG version of products in the process of creating web photo assets. Note that I’m referring to a large number of product images (in the [...]
“‘People who like cheddar cheese are inherently better than people who like gouda.’ Now that’s obviously silly.” – Dave Winer The only thing I take issue with is the word “users”.
I found this to be a very interesting read: http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/31/switched-on-apples-brash-flash-clash-rehash/ I find my mac loyalty waning as they become a bigger player in the world of consumer electronics. Has anyone noticed that Best Buy is now an Apple Authorized Reseller? I’m sure that has something to do with CompUSA closing half it’s stores, but I [...]
“…on the phone that we were told that the website is the work of ‘a subcontractor’ and ‘we get this all the time’”. – Doc Searls Unfortunately, Doc’s experience is far too common and it’s far too rare when a web development team has a migration strategy that doesn’t break URLs. Customer bookmarks or the [...]
Got word today that two new organizations are launching Digg-like services, where members contribute then rank each other’s contributions. I’m excited for more of these services because the real value to these recommendations services is with very small communities. Where everyone could conceivably know everyone else. With too many members and too many contributions, another [...]
“If your web advertising strategy is built around page views, you’re going to have to find another way to sell.” – Terry Heaton There’s lots of goofy web design artifacts that exist because ads are sold by page views: article pagination, skinny skinny column widths, partial text feeds, MySpace. Hopefully, all a remedy for this [...]