September 2005

Web 2.0

Sep
23

HousingMaps

What information can you take from two great new services and combine to produce truly useful information? Here is one incredibly useful example. Of course recognize that this Craigslist information is useful by itself. But combine Amazon books with cruising maps or tourism information... what about boats for sale with maps? Where does your passion and information needs lead you?

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The Secret to Great Marketing Research: Ask the Right Questions | MarketingProfs.com

Sep
23

The Secret to Great Marketing Research: Ask the Right Questions | MarketingProfs.com: "

Simple questions to put your research on the right track...

1. If you had the answer to one question that would grow your business in the next six months, what would that be?

2. What are the potential answers that you might get from research into question 1.

3. Write down three actions that you could afford to take for each answer you listed in question 2.

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Navigation - our visitors' travel guide | evolt.org

Sep
22

Navigation - our visitors' travel guide | evolt.org

I agree. The best navigation on a site is the one we don't notice but that gets us where we want to be when we want to be there. Content is king. Navigation should not be so sexy that it detracts from where we want to go. Yet when we do want to go there - it should be there to point the way.

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Eight Tips for Enhancing Email Opt-In

Sep
22

Eight Tips for Enhancing Email Opt-In

This is a good summary of tips. All things that everybody should implement on their sites esp. when subscription is the goal.

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Taking His Humor Career Seriously

Sep
20

Taking His Humor Career Seriously

So many of you are writers that I couldn't help but blog this. Not only is the article great for identifying key items for writers to think about - but the links to example sites are absolutely priceless.

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Here's where it is happening

Sep
18

50 Coolest Websites 2005 - TIME.com

Not sure I have really seen any of these which makes it a real challenge to understand what they used as criteria. Lots to learn though. There are really some neat tricks here.

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Makeover or Building for the first time -

Sep
14

Backbone Magazine business technology news consumer technologies e-marketing news online.

Five simple points to keep in mind as you build or rebuild your ecommerce website.

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Louisiana's Wetlands @ National Geographic Magazine

Sep
06

Louisiana's Wetlands @ National Geographic Magazine

A friend sent me this headline with the subject line -Eerie. It wasn't. It was vindication of something that had been tickling at the edge of the news stories for the last several days. Laid out 3 years ago in destructive detail - with a damming indictment of the Administration and of Congress.

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Katrina Information Map

Sep
03

Katrina Information Map

An incredible use of technology for disaster communication cobbled together overnight by a couple of kids in Austin Texas. The use of the Google map API combined with some simple database technology MySQL I imagine since PHP is being used to drive the thing.

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Current TV // Blog // Citizen Rescue

Sep
02

Current TV // Blog // Citizen Rescue

Amazing use of the Internet to get out a story that isn't much for major networks but for those of us in a practical want to help... wow!

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