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Initiating live chat sessions

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Friday August 31, 2007 )

I’ve been wanting to find a good strategy for initiating live chat sessions with visitors to one of the sites I work with; but not at the expense of annoying those people and sending them screaming for the back button
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Partnership perils

Posted by Michael Bloch in ecommerce (Thursday August 30, 2007 )

Thinking about launching into an online project with a buddy, colleague or family member? It’s not always smooth sailing and often it can turn into a shipwreck.
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Too cool for IE?

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Wednesday August 29, 2007 )

It’s cool to stick it to “da man”. It’s cool to be counter-culture. It’s cool to be different. But sometimes it’s not cool to be this sort of cool on an ecommerce site catering to Joe Surfer - if you want to make the most of your business. Or more accurately, you need to be careful how you display your self assumed coolness.
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Word/Excel HTML code bloat

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Tuesday August 28, 2007 )

Ever copied and pasted a Word or Excel document into a HTML page and then viewed the source code? It gives a whole new meaning to the term code bloat :)
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Quick PDF security tip

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Sunday August 26, 2007 )

A major company found themselves in an embarassing situation recently when information in PDF documents that had sensitive details blacked out became common knowledge.
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Bacn - tastier spam

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Saturday August 25, 2007 )

The online revolution has seen many new terms and words enter into common usage; some even now listed in English dictionaries. For example, the word spam. Spam now has a new companion term - bacn, which means somewhat “tastier” spam.
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Searcher moms

Posted by Michael Bloch in web marketing (Friday August 24, 2007 )

Moms are avid searchers it appears according to a recent according to a DoubleClick Performics’ report entitled “Searcher Moms – A Search Behavior and Usage Study”.
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Easier Google Maps

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Thursday August 23, 2007 )

Always wanted to have Google Maps on your site to show customers your business location or your readers a geographical area in relation to an article - but couldn’t be bothered messing around with the API? Now you can with just a snippet of code!
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Join in on Blog Action Day

Posted by Michael Bloch in online world (Wednesday August 22, 2007 )

A little off topic, but certainly worth a mention. On October 15th, bloggers around the world will band together to further publicize a very important issue - the environment.
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How much is your life worth?

Posted by Michael Bloch in web development (Tuesday August 21, 2007 )

I was talking to a web designer a couple of days ago who was having trouble pricing his services. When starting out, it certainly can be hard to peg an hourly rate or quote on projects.
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