How’s your inbox? It appears that spam volume continues to rapidly increase, with 91% of all emails now being classified as “unwanted”.
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Read tech industry news on any day and you’re liable to run across a story about one company sueing another for patent infringement.

Often it’s a little guy or relatively unknown company taking on an industry giant and wanting a stack of cash, but it’s not unusual for the big boys of the online world to take cracks at each other over what seems to be silly patents for obvious things.
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In years gone by, a gift card, coupon, voucher or certificate was generally viewed as a thoughtless gift. Perceptions are increasingly changing and many people would be happy to receive a gift certificate this year.
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With Cyber Monday just around the corner; how’s the online holiday shopping season shaping up? A survey of just over 9000 USA adults taken very recently shows that holiday related ecommerce is looking to get quite busy indeed.
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You may have picked up through my posts that while I’m heavily involved in marketing and have a passion for the web and ecommerce, I’m not such a fan of rampant consumerism, environmental destruction and the seedier side of online business.

So, it’s time for me to come out of the closet :).
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What is Black Friday in the online world - is it bad? And what’s Cyber Monday? This post is mainly for my non-USA readers who might be relatively new to online business.
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What’s Google’s view on paid links and paid blog posts (aka flogging)? I just finished watching an interesting video interview with Matt Cutts - a software engineer with Google’s quality group, that *may* have some answers for you.
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I’ve been picking up on snippets of disturbing news over the last couple of days regarding the recent launch of the Sony Playstation 3. I’m certainly not much of a gamer; but I was one of the fools that lined up for the original Xbox a few years ago.. never again. Moooo! Baaa! Like livestock heading to slaughter.
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Ah, the ingenuity of spammers never ceases to simultaneously amaze and frustrate me. As more companies begin to offer anti-spam software and services with OCR (Optical Character Recognition) features, spammers are now employing anti-OCR filtering tactics.
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When I started out on the web, buying stock photos and images was horribly expensive; sometimes up to a couple of hundred dollars for a single pic. Photo CD’s commonly sold for $500. Times have certainly changed and you can now pick up quality stock photos for as little as a couple of bucks.
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