Amazon web service s3, may now have a mysql interface! Check out the details here.
Note: Web services, mashups are mentioned (in an introductory general manner) in the Ecommerce Well book.
Business week talked about amazon.com’s web services here.
Squidoo is a company associated with well known internet marketer Seth Godin. (Idea Virus, Purple Cow, etc.). Websites may take some time to build, blogs may be quicker to set up. Squidoo (lenses) are even easier to set up than blogger blogs. You do not have to be technical to set one up.
Check out these squidoo lenses:
start business online
webmaster tools
publish a book
web site design
Or set up your own squidoo lens. Just click here to immediately start your own squidoo lens. Tip: If you want to do a great job on squidoo, check out Tiffany’s ebook here. (Tiffany knows a lot about squidoo!)
What is Social Bookmarking? Social networking? Viral Marketing? Linkware? RSS? Follow up autoresponders? Clicks compared to impressions and affiliates? The Internet and business is changing rapidly and dramatically. Sighting trends helps avoid pitfalls and seize opportunities. Check out the first part of the paperback book “Ecommerce Well” (for FREE) to help get up to speed quickly and easily..
Don’t Become a “dinosaur business”!
Go here for the Business and Internet Primer, Part One, ecommerce terms, ideas and trends.
youtube is one of the main video sites on the internet. It has a number of viral videos. Youtube video awards 2006 winners are here.
Adobe is launching creative suite 3. One can catch the live event (March 27, 2007 3:30 EST) and on demand videos here.
http://ecomxpo.com (free) is a online virtual tradeshow for ecommerce marketers. It is in progress now. Check it to see what a virtual tradeshow is, catch some presentations and/or to get discount coupons, etc. The last post mentioned adwords pay per action beta launching. If you go to ecomxpo.com today you may also be able to get a $25 adwords discount “coupon” (actually processed as a signup, it seems, not as a coupon code though)!
Google is launching pay per action advertising. Adwords, google’s ad program has traditionally been pay per click. Advertisers that are concerned that people may click without following a particular action (such as purchasing) may be particularly tempted. This way, specified actions should follow clicks before the advertiser pays out.
http://services.google.com/payperaction/
FAQ: http://services.google.com/payperaction/faq.html
Amazon’s has apparently featured third party ads on its store product pages before. It has also been rolling out its own new system.
“Clickriver Ads is an advertising program — currently in beta — that allows businesses to place sponsored links on Amazon.com, next to search results and on product detail pages.”
- clickriver.com
Looks like this is also different from from Amazon’s Omakase contextual ads which show up on content websites. These show up on amazon.
Further information on clickriver.
Microsoft Office 2007 is one of the big new software products of 2007.
This link: Microsoft Office Standard 2007 top 10 benefits mentions things like increased spam protection, more protection against “phishing” and new support for pdf. I noticed it is available for preorder at amazon.com.
Someone mentioned this offer, where one may get a MS Office Professional 2007 and Microsoft Office Groove 2007 free for attending a live launch event. For details, click here
I had recently seen an interview with Joseph Stiglitz, author of “Making Globalization Work.” It was a interesting interview for a number of reasons. Joseph Stiglitz is a nobel prize winner. Although globalization is becoming increasingly important, it is not always well understood. Whatever one’s preferences, it always helps to understand both the benefits and problems of this important issue. Joseph Stiglitz presented a number of interesting, creative and analytical angles to an important problem.
Update: Here is a video of him at Google
If you want to get his book click on the book cover below:
In this earlier post, I mentioned a $200 microsoft adcenter coupon .
Subsequently I came across this, which claims to also show coupon discounts at google ($50),looksmart ($300) & ask ($50). Have not had a chance to look into it. Here is the link, (Source: Paul Allen,Problogger) if anyone is interested in investigating it further on their own…
P.S. I also have a google discount coupon through my hosting company, so one can also check with one’s web hosting company.
Came across the following post that claims to offer an estimate of clickfraud rates at google. (According to the post less than 2 percent.)
Source: http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2006/12/google-click-fraud-rate-two-percent.html
Saw this link for a save up to $200 off coupon for Microsoft Ad center. For US sites. Must do before 1/15/07. Adcenter is
not yet as polished as google and yahoo, but who knows it might work for you…
P.S. I first saw the coupon link in Aaron Wall’s blog on seo (Search Engine Optimization) which has a lot of information. Aaron also offers a well known seo ebook (for $79 last time I checked) which has just been updated. In addition to his
