Date Archive: October 2007

CoComment is a browser add-in that tracks responses to comments you leave on other people’s blogs.

Interesting free and/or open source alternatives for handling online meetings, videos, screenshots, and files.

Linking over to a Catalog Success article on PPC audits.

Seth Godin points to research by Steven Johnson comparing book sales success to book language complexity.

Back from TED in March: Blaise Aguera y Arcas’ PhotoSynth demo. Stunning technology from Microsoft Live Labs for building 3D models of the world from collections of regular snapshots.

Spam is so gosh darn obtuse these days.

Great talk from Jim Lecinski, Managing Director, Central Region, Google, on best practices for online marketing.

People are the intelligent, irrational, distracted and determined folks your site needs to serve for your business to succeed. Web Analytics 2.0 is all about people.

MarketMotive just came out of beta, and they’ve provided me some guest passes for a free month, each a $299 value. Drop a note if you’d like one.

Linking over to SEL post on Quality Score.

Online marketing is evolving so quickly, there typically isn’t time to engineer the “perfect process” out of the gate.

DMA Chicago, a dynamic mix of the old and the new.

Off topic: the light tunnel at the Detroit airport just makes me grin.

It was great to share ideas with the smart interesting folks on the OMW online merchandising panel in San Francisco last week. I’ve jotted down a few highlights from the session.

Yesterday I wrote about the relationship between PPC program performance and business models. Today we’ll take a look at how product categories seem to impact the numbers.

MarketMotive is an educational site focusing on web marketing. I’m looking forward to participating as their pay-per-click expert.

As retailers, we always wanted to know: how are we doing relative to our competitors? We thought it might be useful to throw out some benchmarks of what we see across our client-base.

Links to some recent articles I wrote for Catalog Success magazine.

When was the last time you backed up the computer(s) on which you depend?

Paid search market share held relatively stable in September, with Yahoo picking up one point of share from Google.

Larry Becker and I are speaking “at” EcomExpo next week.

Ken Leonard of Hacker Safe shares his thoughts on web security, vulnerability scanning, and security seals.

The “I Am Hungry” Facebook app sold on eBay for $20,100.

I’ll be speaking at the DMA 2007 Annual Show in October 13 – 18 at McCormick in Chicago. Use offer code AN302 to save $150 on registration.

Incredible paper folding video from MIT.