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There has been a lot of speculation about Google’s upcoming mobile phone, last night it was officially presented: the Google phone is real and can be ordered directly from their website. As interesting as I find this new gadget and would like to play with it once it comes
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A while ago, Packt Publishing asked me to write a review of their Magento Beginner’s Guide written by William Rice, and finally I’ve found the time to have a go at it and write a couple of lines about the 300 page eBook version (there’s also a
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Over at Searchengineland I came across a longer article that is well worth a read. It is talking about what to concentrate on when trying to optimise a webstore for search engines. The author identifies the product detail page as the pivot of each optimisation strategy and also talks about
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Over at Techcrunch there’s an interesting post by Steve Poland proposing that Twitter And Facebook Turn Everyone Into An Affiliate Marketer. Since Amazon has recently offered its associates to be able to share product links via Twitter, the author raises the question whether users of platforms such as Facebook
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In the past few days, Google has made some interesting announcements, the most interesting of which in my opinion are real-time search and the personalised search results. I was wondering whether these changes have any implications on eCommerce and would like to share these thoughts here. Let’s recapitulate: at
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There seems to be a new secret capital of everything Magento-related in Germany, and that – lo and behold – is Hannover. So, when I got to know about an event called Conventioncamp and heard that it took place in Hannover, I knew I had to be there. Which, in hindsight, was
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A couple of days ago I’ve produced my first screencast on Magento widgets and uploaded it to Youtube. Being relatively new to this platform – from the upload perspective that is – I’ve played around with all the bits and pieces and found very interesting statistical data. According to Insight,
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As can be read on the Magento blog today, Varien has started accepting code contributions by the community. As Koby Oz points out in Tomorrow Today, all that is necessary to contribute something is a signed Magento Contributor Agreement. Discussions and code submissions will take place mainly via the Magento
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Dies ist ein kurzer Beitrag zu der Frage, wie man schreiben kann, man sei reif für die Insel, ohne gleich einen Urlaub zu implizieren? Die Antwort heißt: dConstruct in Brighton, England! Am Freitag findet die eintägige Konferenz rund um die Themen Design und GUI-Entwicklung statt, morgen sitze ich mit dem
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Obwohl der Gewinn im ersten Quartal 2009 im Vergleich zum Vorjahr um 22% gefallen ist, von 460 auf 357 Millionen US-Dollar, waren die Ergebnisse des Online-Auktionshauses besser als von den Analysten erwartet. Grund dafür seien nach Angaben des Konzerns das Wachstum der Töchter Skype (+ 21%) und Paypal (+11%). Ersterer Dienst
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eBay plant, dass Verkäufer, die Ihre Produkte in bestimmten Kategorien anbieten, ab dem 15. Juni diese Produkte versandkostenfrei anbieten müssen. Die neue Regelung gilt für Produkte wie beispielsweise Kleidung, Computer und sonstige Elektronikartikel (hier findet sich eine genaue Auflistung der betroffenen Kategorien). Das Auktionshaus begründet seinen Schritt damit, dass in
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Wenn man wollte, konnte man den gestrigen Tag komplett damit verbringen, die digitalen Zeitungsenten zu erforschen und sich an den gut gemachten zu erfreuen. Aus dem Bereich eCommerce und SEO sind einige Dinge bei mir angekommen: der Ex-Porno-Star Gina Wild macht Werbung für das Shopping-Portal Gimahhot, bei Shopanbieter präsentiert man