July 1, 2010 is quickly approaching. I know this, because I am currently working on a couple of ecommerce projects. One thing that struck me is the number of custom built shopping cart solutions out there. Personally I like these custom solutions, because they can be tailored to the specific needs of a client’s customers. You can support odd configurations and logic that an off-the-shelf solution may not support. The challenge is making sure the solution is compliant with credit card regulations otherwise known as PCI-DSS.
Yesterday I read in the Wall Street Journal weekend addition that Google may be purchasing Yelp. A web application that contains over 8 million reviews by people like myself. It also contains a community of people who want their voice to be heard and a large volunteer base that has promoted the site. That’s a lot of crowd sourcing to build quite the asset. $500 million’s worth to Google and possibly $750+ million to other potential buyers. Now that others have outbid Google.
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I think the biggest factor will be web browser bundling and name recognition. Yahoo & Google are household names. Bing has a way to go in that area. Although it has the benefit of being bundled with IE8 and Windows 7. Safari, Chrome, and Firefox generally default to using Google as their search engines. Where IE8 defaults to Bing. Yahoo is only gaining marketshare through browser plugins and widgets and is slowly loosing their crowd. Here are some interesting stats from a SearchInsider article forwarded from a colleague and friend.
I presented at the National Association of The Remodeling Industry regional annual meeting on LinkedIn the social networking platform for business professionals. The group is already using the platform and enjoyed learning how they could use it to expand their businesses. Special thanks to my co-presenter, Gary Fedor, of Capstone Training. Below is the slides from the presentation.
Networking With Linked In
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I moderated a discussion forum and gave a brief presentation to my local chapter of NARI, which is a remodeling contractors professional group. It was great hearing the amount of feedback and informative questions the group had on using the web for remodeling businesses.
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Today and tomorrow I’m an attending Wordcamp NOLA. You can follow along at http://tweetchat.com/room/wordcampnola. Sloane the first speaker did a great job on speaking about Audience.
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