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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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»

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, 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»

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»

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»

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»

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»