According to a recent survey, the average cell-phone user in the USA sent or received 357 text messages per month in the second quarter of this year, up 450 percent from just two years ago.
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I’ve touched on this a few times over the years, but with the (ugh) holiday season looming I thought it worth another mention. Consumers don’t just want the best prices, they want to make informed choices - and that’s where product descriptions are so important.
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In the genre of “do not place your pet in this microwave” disclaimers and instructions comes this little ripper from Yahoo!
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eBay is cutting checks… out - on the US eBay anyway. They are removing support for money orders as well, plus making various other changes to payment options.
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Never before has technology made us so inefficient in some ways, such as the case of the phone.
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Here’s a new and very easy to implement tool you can add to your site if you’d like your pages to be available in different languages.
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How do scam someone who’s already been the victim of a 419, advanced fee fraud, Nigerian, shipping clerk or whatever-the-scam-of-the-day is? Offer to compensate them!
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Whew, what a week on the financial markets. I’m not a stock market “playa”, I despise it, but I spent a lot of time during the last 7 days trying to understand what caused such turmoil and what it means for the months ahead; particularly in relation to ecommerce.
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I’ve been feeling inadequate. I watch my family listening to their ipods while watching TV or studying and talking to their friends online and chatting to each other too - simultaneously. I just can’t do that. It’s just too darned confusing.
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Short answer: Yes. Long answer: Hell yeah. Regardless of what you read on forums and blogs about popups being evil - they still get results.
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