Saturday, June 30, 2007

JS-Kit: Threaded Comments

Add threaded comments to any site for free with just one line of code with JS-Kit.
js-kit.com

Friday, June 22, 2007

Social Shopping

Find out what other people are recommending or recommend something to others. Get your product listed here so others can learn about it.

NYT article: Like Shopping? Social Networking? Try Social Shopping
ThisNext.com

Thursday, June 21, 2007

Turnkey Social Networking Solutions

Here are some of the players in providing easy solutions for creating your own social network. Hopefully I can develop an e-commerce social network with one of these.
KickApps.com
Pringo.com
SmallWorldLabs.com
Ning.com
CommonGate.com
CrowdVine.com
OneSite.com
Another List

Here is a nicely done comparison between Kickapps and Ning.

Here is TechCrunch's Comparison Chart

Wednesday, June 20, 2007

Monday, June 18, 2007

Ten CSS tricks you may not know

This guy does a good job of discussing a few CSS tricks that can come in handy from time to time.

CSS Tricks

Thursday, June 14, 2007

The Threadless Story

Read Guy Kawasaki's interview of one of its chief officers


Record Your Calls

Here an easy way to record all your calls, just buy the Ipevo Free.2 phone for about $45.

Ipevo.com
NYT article

Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Thursday, June 07, 2007

Product Life Story Labels

If you sell a product, you will want to add labels to it by which a consumer can know the history behind it. One way is to put a code on each label by which the consumer can retrieve the product's history on your site. This is a growing trend which we will see across many more products.

Product Life Stories

Wednesday, June 06, 2007

Guide to CSS Support in Email

Here is a very good writeup on what CSS support is included in various email clients.

CSS Email Guide

Friday, June 01, 2007

eBook Retailers

Sometimes I have a hard time finding an eBook for a book I want to buy. Here is a list of some possible retailers that may carry your eBook.

AcademicMaterials
BooksOnBoard.com
CONNECT
CyberRead
Diesel-ebooks
eBookimpressions
eBookMall
eBooks
eBooks About Everything
eBookwise
eChapterOne
eFollet
eReader
Fictionwise
Franklin
Mobipocket
PaperbackDigital
Powells

The Ten Day MBA

This book claims to teach you in ten days what an MBA learns in college. It may be worth the time. Can MBA programs be compressed, allowing a reader to "get at least $20,000 of MBA education at 99 percent of the list price," as the author promises?

The Ten Day MBA @ Amazon.com
The Ten Day MBA @ eBooks.com

Thursday, May 31, 2007

What is Web 2.0 Marketing?

This article seeks to explain how user-generated content can help you create an online marketing campaign.

Web 2.0 Marketing

What is Social Software?

This article seeks to explain it.

Social Software

Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Add Affiliates Easily

Here are a couple of ways to easily support an affiliate program on your website. Just let the experts handle the affiliate relationship.

ShareASale.com
AffiliateFuture.com

Practice Your Programming Skills 2

Code Kata - Dave Thomas, one of the Pragmatic Programmers, took the idea of coding practice and made
something....well, pragmatic out of it. He created a series of what he
calls Code Kata, which are small, thought-provoking exercises that
programmers can do in the language of their choice. Each kata
emphasizes a specific technique or thought process, providing a concrete
flexing of one's mental muscles.

Practice Your Programming Skills

TopCoder.com is a long-standing programming competition
site. You can register for an account and compete online for
prizes. Even if you're not interested in competing with others, Top-
Coder offers a practice room with a large collection of practice problems
that you can use as excellent fodder for your practice sessions.
Go sign up and give it a try.

Tuesday, May 22, 2007

UShip: Who Wants to Ship This?

Let shipping carriers compete for your business. Just list your shipping need and get bids from interested shippers, then go with the cheapest. Supposedly shippers often have extra room in their trucks which they would like to fill up but their problem is finding stuff to carry there. Now these same shippers can go to this site and try to win your business so they can fill up their trucks.

UShip.com

Friday, May 18, 2007

Fotolia.com

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Adobe Lab's Color Schemes

Check out Adobe Lab's own version of what a color scheme picker should look like:
kuler.adobe.com