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Jonathan Harris: The Web’s secret stories
The web’s newest trends illustrated at a TED conference.
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Promote your blog posts on a Digg style website - zaBox News
zaBox News is a place for people to discover and share content from anywhere on the web. zaBox News - Box your news was born out of the need for free advertising of news, blog posts, articles etc.
Th registration is pretty simple (takes about 1 minute). Among the features besides submitting a story we mention :
- upcoming news
- news comments
- vote news
- tag cloud
- live news system
- RSS feeds for every category
- top users
- complete user profile
- “Box news” directly from your web browser.
More information on the zaBox News website.
Internet Retailer Web Design ‘08 Conference
The conference will be held in Miami, Florida from January 30 to February 1, 2008.
Most e-commerce websites focus on increasing their traffic rate, but it’s just as important to convert this traffic into actual customers. After all what is the point oh attracting visitors who make no or very few purchases. We aren’t talking here just about products, we are talking about services too. This is the point of view shared by Jack Love, Publisher of Internet Retailer Magazine. He states that :
If your web site is converting to buyers 3% of shoppers who visit it, congratulations—you’re hitting the average conversion rate for retail web sites. But think how much more money your site would make if you could just double that rate. You’d get twice the online revenue from the same number of visitors, same investment in marketing, and same web staff. The incremental ROI would go off the charts.[…] We think doubling of conversion rates should be an industry goal, and the primary way to achieve it is through more inviting and customer-friendly web site designs.
Although the magazine already produces the annual Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition, they see this new conference as its first single topic conference: Web Design ‘08, which will be held at the beautiful new InterContinental Hotel in Miami on January 30-February 1. The two-day event will feature 37 speakers covering such topics as Creating the customer-centered design; Eye-tracking: The eyes have it; and How to keep a design fresh. Attendees will also be able to take advantage of up to three 30-minute private consultation sessions with web design firms, who will review the attendee’s site and provide tips for increased conversion and usability.
More information on the Internet Retailer Magazine’s website.
CrazyLeaf Design Toolbar
CrazyLeaf Design has launched its very own toolbar. I won’t bore you with too much details, just a small list of features :
- Google powered search box
- Double click search
- Hand-picked links (interesting design links)
- Pop-Up Blocker
- Design, technology and fun feeds
- Built-in communication system (chat)
- Internet Radio
- Weather
- Email Notifier
- Design, Tutorials and useful links
- Support for Gadgets (Internet TV with stations from each country, Games, To-Do Lists, World Clock, Unit Converters, Live Weather and many more)
You may download the toolbar here.
The Next Generation Computers - Microsoft Surface
Forget about the keyboard and mouse. The next generation computers will be hands-on. Microsoft, has presented via popularmechanics.com a top secret project, codenamed Milan. This technology is called “surface computing” and uses multi-touch technology to interact with the user, or users. The beauty of multi-touch technology is that, unlike traditional devices such as the cursor of the mouse, or the touch-screen, it’s capable of processing multi-finger, multi-users screen interactions. The video will explain better. Enjoy !
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