e-commerce

Why do we abandon shopping carts?

This is like a moving target and things are getting better and better every day, but still many websites aren't moving that fast.READ»

Commerce Search: Google Attempts to Boost Online Stores With Boringness

Google's tentacles extend everywhere online, including e-commerce--thanks to Google Checkout, for one. But now it's got a new system, Commerce Search, which companies can use to inject smart search skills into their online stores. ...READ»

Gilt Groupe Without Guilt: Fans Flaunt Their Finds

Passionate fashionistas have made Gilt Groupe the darling of luxury-obsessed bargain hunters.READ»

Web Content Strategy - A Basic Approach

The importance of having a content management system (CMS) integrated within your website has never been more important. The value of an “alive” website with fresh content, SEO value and a scalable platform are just some of the ...READ»

GSI and Innovation

Is it in GSI's clients best interest for them to offer agency services?READ»

Oodle Brings Its "Weirdo-Filter" to Facebook Marketplace

Classifieds site Oodle announced today that it will re-invent the Facebook Marketplace as a “social” market in which users can buy and sell with friends and community members. The new Oodle-powered classifieds are slated to launch ...READ»

Abusing Social Media

How companies abuse tech's latest tools and embarrass themselves.READ»

• 10 Web 2.0 Failures
• 11 of the Worst Facebook Applications

Mobile Web Design, Mobile Marketing & More Mobile For Small Business

Feeling mobile? You need to be. The mobile web is continuing to grow, fueled by iPhones, Treos and Blackberrys in the hands of users that need the Internet in the palm of their hand. I’m sure you need no convincing that with over 3 ...READ»

Taking Back the Internet: Creating a Passive-Aggressive Income Stream

A Kick in the Career: If you're passing on branded messages to your contacts, don't you think you should be compensated? In this week's installment, humorist and career expert Tom Stern uncovers pre-populated signatures in e-mail and smartphone messages as supplemental income.READ»

• The State of Mobile Advertising
• 18 Must-Have iPhone Apps

Internet Video For Your Small Business & The US Open

The power of Internet video. It’s already big and continuing to grow. By luck I have two great Internet video examples today. The first, since it has the mass appeal, is the US Open golf playoff going on right now. Thanks ...READ»

The Wide, Wide World of Heroes

NBC's Heroes racked up the network's top-selling DVD for 2007 by cultivating die-hard fans with extensions of the show's fantasy world across every form of media (while selling plenty of additional advertising against those extensions ...READ»

• Rebel Alliance

Barneys and Friend

Sheldon Gilbert helps the hip department store decode the desires of its online customers.READ»

• First Class Mail
• The State of Mobile Advertising

Three Myths Of Search Engine Optimization For Your Website

In talking with web design prospects, new web clients and even just random people at business events I hear some common myths on search engine optimization. I thought I would give you the top three and also let you know just a bit ...READ»

Business Networking To Grow Your Business

I posted today on the different avenues of busienss networking Five Technology is taking part of both offine and online. From utilizing sites like LinkedIn (and now Fast Company) to BNI meetings, read our full post: ...READ»

Is Facebook Helping or Hurting Your Love Life?

A look at how social networks are transforming social lives.READ»

• The Web Business of Breaking Up

The Footprints Network

  Many of us have travelled widely and philosophically believe we have a moral obligation to give a little back to the communities in which we travel. But the question is: just how do you ‘give back’ in a valuable ...READ»

I want a modular blog!

Perhabs, perhabs it's just a dream but why not use Netvibes functionality to create better blogs? I might want to interact,collaborate, communicate as a company via a blog, why not? If we get rid of the rigid design ...READ»

The Top 10 Websites You Never Heard Of

FastCompany.com has culled the most useful and entertaining sites from the far reaches of the Web so that when these sites go mainstream, you'll be one step ahead of the crowd.READ»

• The Top 10 Websites You Never Heard Of

Order Versus Chaos

Duncan Watts's research tells advertising execs precisely what they don't want to hear: All their clever (and lucrative!) targeted viral campaigning may ultimately be less effective than good old mass marketing.READ»

The Social Networking Guide for Newbies

Don't be left behind. Everybody's doing it: politicians, kids, moms, rock stars, even granny.READ»

Celebrity Blogs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

As if they don't already get enough publicity, celebrities are increasingly joining the ranks of the blogosphere. Here we spotlight some of the best -- and some of the worst.READ»

Marketing Election '08: Q&A With Laura Crawford, The RNC's Loaded Gun

Full-length interview with Laura Crawford, 35, who created the RNC's 11-minute John Kerry "Flip-Flop" video in 2004. Now she's producing all of the RNC's viral and TV campaigns and running campaignads.org.READ»

Marketing Election '08: Q&A With Matt DeBergalis, ActBlue

Full-length interview with Matt DeBaergalis, 29, who created ActBlue to be the "PayPal of political giving."READ»

12 Podcasts for the Creative Class

Here are 12 must-listen-to podcasts for creative knowledge workers--those entrepreneurial spirits who start and staff the most innovative, fast-growing companies.READ»

The Music Man: A Q&A with Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino

Last year's acquisition of Musictoday was part of a larger transformation within Live Nation, the biggest concert promoter in the business. Here, Rapino discusses how the company has been changing its tune -- and the concert experience -- since spinning off from radio giant Clear Channel in late 2005.READ»