The web’s newest trends illustrated at a TED conference.
If you can’t see this video click here.
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 has launched its very own toolbar. I won’t bore you with too much details, just a small list of features :
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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A 75 year old woman from Karlstad in central Sweden has been thrust into the IT history books - with the world’s fastest internet connection.
Sigbritt Löthberg’s home has been supplied with a blistering 40 Gigabits per second connection (that is correct 40 Gb / sec), many thousands of times faster than the average residential link and the first time ever that a home user has experienced such a high speed.
But Sigbritt, who had never had a computer until now, is no ordinary 75 year old. She is the mother of Swedish internet legend Peter Löthberg who, along with Karlstad Stadsnät, the local council’s network arm, has arranged the connection.
“This is more than just a demonstration,” said network boss Hafsteinn Jonsson.
“As a network owner we’re trying to persuade internet operators to invest in faster connections. And Peter Löthberg wanted to show how you can build a low price, high capacity line over long distances,” he told The Local.
Sigbritt will now be able to enjoy 1,500 high definition HDTV channels simultaneously. Or, if there is nothing worth watching there, she will be able to download a full high definition DVD in just two seconds.
The secret behind Sigbritt’s ultra-fast connection is a new modulation technique which allows data to be transferred directly between two routers up to 2,000 kilometres apart, with no intermediary transponders.
According to Karlstad Stadsnät the distance is, in theory, unlimited - there is no data loss as long as the fiber is in place.
“I want to show that there are other methods than the old fashioned ways such as copper wires and radio, which lack the possibilities that fiber has,” said Peter Löthberg, who now works at Cisco.
Cisco contributed to the project but the point, said Hafsteinn Jonsson, is that fibre technology makes such high speed connections technically and commercially viable.
“The most difficult part of the whole project was installing Windows on Sigbritt’s PC,” said Jonsson.
Article via thelocal.se.
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