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50% of site bugs reported by users

Posted by Michael Bloch in ecommerce (Saturday February 4, 2006 )

Coradiant, Inc. has reported that around 50% of of mission-critical Web site problems including general navigation errors, application glitches and poor response times are reported by users, rather than by employees that manage the Web site.
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Viral marketing via email

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Friday February 3, 2006 )

According to a recent viral marketing survey of over 1,000 adults by Sharpe Partners, an overwhelming number of adult American Internet users forward on content via email - 89%.

Among the key findings:

- 63 percent forward on content on a weekly basis
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Launching popups - the easy way

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Thursday February 2, 2006 )

Sick of messing about with lines and lines of code and seperate coding to launch a simple popup window?

Try this simple snippet out, it’s basically just an extension of normal linking code:
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Google’s #$#ing shareholders

Posted by Michael Bloch in ecommerce (Thursday February 2, 2006 )

Even though Google’s revenues in the last quarter of 2005 were $1.9 billion, which was 86 percent higher than the previous year final quarter and 22 percent more than the third quarter in 05, shareholders spat the dummy and the stock wound up being devalued by 12% in after hours trading.
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Browser stats, IE 7 Beta 2 preview

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Wednesday February 1, 2006 )

According to the latest browser usage statistics released by OneStat, Firefox uptake slowed during January, in fact, IE had somewhat of a rebound on November, but I don’t think it’s anywhere near enough for Billy and his team to crack open a bottle of bubbly or for Steve to perform his victory dance :).
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