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December 2006 - Website Magazine

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More Smartphones, More Mobile Web Visitors

Consumer and market reasearch group NPD Group reports that sales of smartphones (Blackberries, Treos and Motorola's Q, to name a few) jumped 230 percent in October 2006, up from 216,000 units in January to nearly 715,000 units. Faster networks, lower...

Published Sat, Dec 30 2006 8:00 AM by Mike Phillips
Year of the Widget

Newsweek's Brian Braiker recently wrote a piece claiming 2007 as the "Year of the Widget." Riding the coattails of social media sites such as MySpace and personalized home pages popular with Google and Yahoo users, widgets are beginning to change the...

Published Fri, Dec 29 2006 10:31 AM by Mike Phillips
Web 2.0 Sites Entering the Ranking Mix

All of the major ranking sites - including Alexa, comScore and HitWise - hold considerable influence and weight for both website owners and advertisers. However, Web 2.0 sites use certain technologies that can make ranking them difficult, sometimes shortchanging...

Published Wed, Dec 27 2006 4:07 PM by Mike Phillips
Turn Returns into Repeat Customers

Now that the holiday shopping frenzy is over, you may be looking at a host of returns or requests for refunds. While this may be disappointing, it's a good opportunity to show those customers how much you value their business. If they have already purchased...

Published Tue, Dec 26 2006 8:00 AM by Mike Phillips
The Digg Bans Begin

Taking a serious stand with those abusing its system, Digg (digg.com) has permanently banned several URLs - some of which you've probably heard of or visit with some regularity. While URL bans are nothing new, it does signal the seriousness which Digg...

Published Fri, Dec 22 2006 8:48 AM by Peter A. Prestipino
Deal of The Day: i6networks.com

This is not a sponsored post. I repeat - this is not a sponsored post. Stumbling through StumbleUpon today I came across i6networks.com , which according to the home page is offering fully featured hosting with a whopping price tag of $0 (zero). 5000MB...

Published Wed, Dec 20 2006 3:05 PM by Peter A. Prestipino
Google Clarifies Adsense/Image Alignment Rules

You are sure to encounter Adsense during your daily Web travels. And, I'm betting that more than once you've seen images placed suspiciously close to Adsense (it probably caught your attention quicker though, right?). Well, you will not be seeing that...

Published Wed, Dec 20 2006 9:04 AM by Peter A. Prestipino
The Race for Video/Media Syndication

PixsyPower , launched Tuesday by Pixsy Corp. (a company that provides a Web-based visual search services) is a new media search tool and widget suite that allows bloggers, social networking sites, and other Web publishers to capitalize on media searches...

Published Wed, Dec 20 2006 8:35 AM by Peter A. Prestipino
PayPerPost Requires Disclosure

PayPerPost today announced the second phase of its full disclosure model. Participating Consumer Content Creators are required to disclose their sponsored status site wide with a prominent disclosure policy or on a per post basis. PayPerPost expects this...

Published Mon, Dec 18 2006 10:45 AM by Peter A. Prestipino
Big Days For Etail

Online retail sales from Nov. 1 through Friday were up 25% over 2005, says Internet market research firm ComScore Networks. ComScore says last Wednesday was likely the biggest online shopping day of the year and, with nearly $670 million in sales, topped...

Published Mon, Dec 18 2006 9:17 AM by Peter A. Prestipino
Digging Digg's New Features

Digg will release several new features today which for many will signal a departure from their "news-only" focused approach which has seen the WEb phenomenon through its first two years. Users can now Digg their favorite podcasts (feeds and individual...

Published Mon, Dec 18 2006 9:16 AM by Peter A. Prestipino
Do You Have the Ajax Flu?

This week's comScore Media Metrix report stated that estimates of page views for social networking site MySpace at 38.7 million for the month of November topped those for Yahoo by 600,000. What the report didn't mention (or should have mentioned) was...

Published Fri, Dec 15 2006 9:30 AM by Peter A. Prestipino
Photoshop CS3

Photoshop users running Intel-based Macs can receive an early Holiday present today as Adobe is releasing a beta of Photoshop CS3. The free beta can be downloaded at Adobe’s Web site by any user with a valid Creative Suite 2 serial number. Via MacWorld...

Published Fri, Dec 15 2006 9:20 AM by Peter A. Prestipino
G-Domains

Google Inc. on Friday will join the crowded field of services registering Web site addresses in a partnership with GoDaddy.com and eNom. Google's service will charge a $10 annual fee and only handle addresses ending in four suffixes — ".com," ".net,"...

Published Fri, Dec 15 2006 9:07 AM by Peter A. Prestipino
Salvation for Serious Bloggers?

According to an AP article , Gartner says the number of bloggers will level off in the first half of next year at roughly 100 million worldwide. "The reason: Most people who would ever dabble with Web journals already have. Those who love it are committed...

Published Thu, Dec 14 2006 9:52 AM by Peter A. Prestipino

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December 2006 - Website Magazine

More Smartphones, More Mobile Web Visitors

Year of the Widget

Web 2.0 Sites Entering the Ranking Mix

Turn Returns into Repeat Customers

The Digg Bans Begin

Deal of The Day: i6networks.com

Google Clarifies Adsense/Image Alignment Rules

The Race for Video/Media Syndication

PayPerPost Requires Disclosure

Big Days For Etail

Digging Digg's New Features

Do You Have the Ajax Flu?

Photoshop CS3

G-Domains

Salvation for Serious Bloggers?