Archive for October, 2008

14 free ways to understand your site visitors

Excellent guide describing several tools that will help you understand your site usability and how your visitors interact with it.

Economy To Significantly Slow US Online Holiday Sales

US online retail sales this holiday season will reach $44 billion, a 12 percent increase over last year and the slowest growth rate to date, according to Forrester Research. This year’s weakened growth is [...]

MySpace Launches ‘MySpace MyAds’ Platform

MySpace officially announced the beta launch of MySpace MyAds”, a new, do-it-yourself advertising platform that enables anyone to create customized banner ads, target to specific audiences using MySpace’s HyperTargeting technology, and analyze campaign performance tracked throughout the MySpace ecosystem.
“With MySpace MyAds, we’re blowing the lid off display advertising [...]

Facebook Offers Live Search Results

On the one year anniversary of Microsoft’s investment in Facebook the two companies announce a strategic partnership that involves… what else but search. According to the Facebook Blog:

We’re always working on innovative ways to make your experience on Facebook more useful. Toward that goal, today we’ve added Microsoft Live Search to your Facebook search experience [...]

More Than One-Third of U.S. Consumers, to Cut Holiday Spending

U.S. consumers aren’t feeling particularly jolly heading into the holiday shopping season this year with more than one-third (35 percent) of U.S. consumers across all income levels expecting to spend less, according to new [...]