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- Best practice tips for mobile websites
As Patrick talked about on Monday, 2009 may turn out to be the year for mobile internet, and companies need to be thinking about their mobile strategies.
Some websites have already adapted well to the use of mobile internet, but others seemingly have a long way to go. A new ebook (pdf) from dotMobi takes a look at the best and worst on the mobile web.
Here are a few best practice tips for mobile websites...
- Mobile app review: eBay for iPhone
Updated a few months ago, the eBay on iPhone app lets you keep up with your buying and selling activity, as well as looking for new items, while on the move.
I've been testing out the app to see how effectively it works for mobile..
- Retailers invest in comparison engines but opportunities missed
Our Comparison Shopping Engines Survey Report published this week found that there has been an overall increase in the level of online retail sales that can be attributed to this channel.
- Pop-ups spoiling user experience on eBay
I spend a fair amount of time on eBay, but using Internet Explorer 7 to shop on the auction site has become a bit of a nghtmare recently.
This is because I keep getting pop-ups whenever I click to view an item on the site, with a security warning related to internet telephony service Skype, which eBay acquired in 2006.
- MoneyAisle - eBay for your cash
Have some extra cash lying around? MoneyAisle, an online service currently available in the United States, wants to help you find a home for it.
- The Web Week in Review - Special Economic Crisis Edition
Since it was pretty difficult to ignore the chaos in the financial markets this week, I decided to devote this installment of The Web Week in Review to the impact of the chaos on the technology sector.
- Joost proves serial success is hard to achieve
By almost any measure, internet entrepreneurs Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström achieved more business success by the age of 40 than most entrepreneurs could hope to achieve in a lifetime.
- PayPal's disappointing shopping search engine
It was announced recently that US shopping search engine TheFind.com will provide its search technology to PayPal Offers, which returns results exclusively from merchants that accept payments through the eBay-owned system.
The US version is a useful (and fairly popular) service, so I've been trying out the UK site to see how it shapes up...
- Review: My eBay beta
Having already made some changes to its feedback policy and search, the online auction site has recently introduced a new 'My eBay' summary page for users in beta.
I've been selling a few items on eBay lately, so I decided to check out the new format to see how it works...
- Google turns 10
This weekend, Google celebrated its 10th birthday. In September 1998, armed with $100,000 in seed money, Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page began a journey that a decade later has seen the development of a $150bn company that employs more than 20,000 people.
- Using PayPal's IPN system
One of the benefits of having your own merchant account is the level of integration that it provides.
A payment gateway enables your customers to pay without leaving your website, and there is almost no limit to the ways that you can build specific functionality related to payments that makes business easier for customers and your business.
- eBay targets multinational brands, still stingy with data
I had a pleasant but brief chat yesterday with Christian Kunz, the man heading up eBay’s newly-announced international ad business .
The division, which will be headquartered in Bern, will oversee the management of advertisers' display and text ad campaigns across 25 international sites.
It will aim to further increase eBay’s already-rapidly-growing ad revenues; a small part of its business, but one that is successful enough already to have caused concern to some in its seller community.
- Irish tech etailer targets US
The last few months have seen a number of excess inventory retailers announcing plans to expand from the US into Europe, as they search for new clients and buyers.
However, Luzern Solutions, a Dublin-based firm that sells such goods via eBay, Amazon and ther online marketplaces, is looking to take them on on their own turf by heading over to the US.
The company's head of marketing Jackie Brannigan tells us how the web is shaping up as an overstock sales channel, and one that many manufacturers and retailers are still to exploit fully.
- More Hollywood than haute couture
eBay has posted a letter to its 14m UK users detailing its fight against counterfeits and claiming it is a defender of e-commerce against the threat of uncompetitive commercial practices.
The letter, signed by 'Doug' (European SVP Doug McCallum), follows a ruling last week against eBay in the Paris commercial court.
- New search tools for eBay
Online auction giant eBay is introducing some much needed changes to its search functions, making it easier for users to find what they want and filter out what they don't.
The changes will go live on the UK site in the next month but are already available to try out on eBay Playground.
- The New Media stock exchange
I have issue with the process of online media buying. Agreeing a spend budget for the month, researching a handful of websites, a few phone calls to negotiate the rate, booking a volume of impressions, signing an insertion order before sending over the ad-serving tags.
It feels too rigid, too simplistic, but most of all too much like offline media buying! But is that all about to change?
- Q&A: Dabs.com’s Jonathan Wall on e-commerce
Jonathan Wall is the marketing director at Dabs.com, the online tech