Like blogging services before them, new social networking services are being launched left, right and center; covering all sorts of niches. Some say only the biggest will survive, but I really think it will be like forums - there’s room for many.

I feel that eBay’s definitely on the right track with their new social networking type service, MyWorld.

If you’re an eBay member, whether a buyer or seller, your MyWorld profile is already waiting for you. Simply go to:
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I can’t really imagine life without email, but it certainly doesn’t have all the advantages of face to face communications. In fact there’s no face at all.

Here’s a simple tip which may help improve your conversions and retention..
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The results of a survey of over 4,500 families from 16 countries during July and August by Yahoo and OMD regarding technology and its impact on the family unit have been released.

So what was discovered about “Family 2.0″ in relation to their Internet consumption?
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It’s been a while since I checked on screen resolution statistics in relation to our site visitors, so here’s how the various resolutions stack up based on around 40,000 visits over the last 4-5 days

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Online shopping is certainly no longer the bastion of middle to high income earners. According to a recent survey, non-business purchase online shopping in the lower income bracket was the only slice of the market to grow between April and August this year.
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There’s no doubt that popup ads are still a very effective marketing tool for many site owners, but the proliferation of popup blocker use in recent years has meant that other strategies needed to be found in order to get these ads viewable by site visitors.
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Take a run out to your site and enter yoursite.com/images/ - just the name of your images folder, nothing else afterwards except for the trailing /.

If you see a “forbidden” or 403 error message, that’s normal, but if you see a list of files, it means that your server is configured to allow for directory browsing. You’ll notice that any folder that doesn’t have a default document in place will also behave in the same way.

It’s easy to fix; here’s two methods:
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Torpark, from Hactivismo, is a new portable browser claimed to keep a surfer’s identity private. Based on Mozilla Firefox, it comes as a pre-configured application and requires no installation. It’s small enough (around 28 megabytes) to fit and run on a USB stick.
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We’ve just updated both versions of our popular Taming the Beast Tell-A-Friend scripts to v1.3 and v2.1; so if you’re using a copy of either from prior to today, I suggest updating. Upgrading is pretty simple - and of course, both scripts are still free :).
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Strategies are always changing in the world of marketing; like an old t-shirt, some methods become more transparent as time goes on and can become repugnant to some consumers. I use the clothing analogy as I’m well known for hanging onto t-shirts for a decade - they do literally become quite transparent and yes, my family does find them rather repugnant :)
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