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Internet users expect websites to load twice as fast now as in 2006

Sep 17, 2009 royal.pingdom.com
People are getting used to broadband connections, more powerful web browsers, and a speedier web experience in general. A new study shows how the expectations of Internet users have changed significantly over the last couple of years. We expect websites to be a lot faster. The survey was commissiPeople are getting used to broadband connections, more powerful web browsers, and a speedier web experience More»

DevHub Mashes 40 APIs in New Site Building Platform

Jun 05, 2009 blog.programmableweb.com
Although you may not realize it on the surface, DevHub, the free site builder and hosting platform, is effectively a very sophisticated mashup using over 40 different external APIs. The Seattle-based startup, More»

62 percent of airline websites not as reliable as they should be

Apr 27, 2009 royal.pingdom.com
Last week we published a report about website uptime for airlines. We had monitored the uptime of 42 international airline websites during a period of four months. The results were quite surprising so More»

eBay Launces Selling Manager Applications Beta

Apr 01, 2009 blog.programmableweb.com
Today eBay is officially launching the beta of their new eBay Selling Manager Applications. This will let third party developers directly embed their applications at My eBay where 270,000 professional More»

ECommerce Search Marketing Tactics

Mar 02, 2009 www.marketingpilgrim.com
The session on search marketing tactics served up a strong panel of speakers. As a result a range of interesting ideas were addressed from common sense optimization tips, to leveraging shopping feeds . More»

Are there 219,000 websites with expired SSL certificates?

Feb 05, 2009 royal.pingdom.com
This week Netcraft reported that there are now 1 million websites with valid SSL certificates on the Web. Only certificates issued by trusted third parties were included in this number. In a study by Venafi More»

Top UK online bookstore offline for 7 hours

Dec 12, 2008 royal.pingdom.com
The website of the UK bookstore Blackwell was unavailable for more than 7 hours this Wednesday, December 10. Blackwell is the largest academic bookseller in the UK, and one of the first to start selling More»

Online Holiday Sales Grow

Dec 27, 2007 www.webguild.org
Online Holiday Sales Grow

E-tailers came out ahead of traditional offline retailers this holiday season. The rumblings about a possible recession, high gas prices, housing market crisis, and high credit card debts have negatively More»

eBay Versus Tiffany

Nov 28, 2007 www.tiffany.com
eBay Versus Tiffany

eBay, the online marketplace bringing circa 248M buyers and sellers together, is embroiled in a legal battle with Tiffany & Co. which is claiming that eBay is a distribution network for the trading More»

10 Successful Email Campaigns Tips

Nov 26, 2007 www.bizreport.com
10 Successful Email Campaigns Tips

There’s much that marketers can be doing right now to ensure a smooth and successful holiday marketing campaign, and email is an easy channel to plan ahead for.
Top tips for polishing your holiday email More»

Cyber Monday Shuts Down Yahoo

Nov 26, 2007 www.webguild.org
Cyber Monday Shuts Down Yahoo

Yahoo! Small Business the service for powering shopping carts for small businesses is down and closed for business. The services is suffering from intermittent outages today as shoppers flock to e-commerce More»

Black Friday Sees $531 Million in Spending

Nov 26, 2007 www.comscore.com
Black Friday Sees $531 Million in Spending

Online retail spending was up on Thanksgiving Day 29 percent to $272 million and Black Friday 22 percent to $531 million. Per comScore Chairman Gian Fulgoni “the Friday after Thanksgiving is known More»

Cyber Monday Showdown

Nov 24, 2007 www.webguild.org
Cyber Monday Showdown

Online retail sales for Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving and the online version of the traditional in-store Black Friday, is being watched with anticipation. Cyber Monday sales in 2005 were More»






 

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