All Entries in the "Ecommerce" Category
The un-usability of online video
Just about every news website and blog uses online video as a means of communicating with their audience. Online video started gaining popularity several years ago with the creation of youtube and other video sharing services. Youtube gained immediate and nearly unprecedented popularity. Media companies looked at this inspiring boost in traffic and had to [...]
The importance of hardware consistency
If you look at any of the posts I’ve done regarding server or computer setups, you’ll find some similarities in the way I set things up. After enough testing myself and reviewing other people’s experience I like to stick with certain brands and specific models of hardware when setting things up. For example, I almost [...]
Call your congress-person, oppose the American Firewall
In case you haven’t been paying attention to the US political landscape, there is currently a bill in progress dubbed the great American firewall. It is a thoughtless overreaching nightmare’ish bill that claims to be for preventing copyright infringement. Please read up and understand the implications of what this bill will do. There has never [...]
Who are you sharing your customer data with?
I see new products and services from large retailers and large online companies all the time. Sometimes these services can be extremely helpful to the ecommerce website owners. Services such as product reviews, facebook or social media widgets, customer feedback, additional payment methods, etc., can help small websites look more authoritative and help build visitor [...]
B-Reel to Change Ecommerce
B-Reel, a Swedish cell phone company, is working to change the current methods of ecommerce and bring it into the future. With 3LiveShop, consumers are engulfed in a live online store that works as a service for customers of telecom operator 3. The company has collaborated efforts with Teenage Engineering, a Los Angeles-based studio, to [...]
Google, give me back my “backspace”
Google’s newest instant search ajax madness has completely broken the back button. If I am on a google search result page, and I hit backspace, it instantly focuses into the search box, and deletes the last character. Even if I click on an empty area on the page, and hit back, it again focuses on [...]
Treat your customers well, your repeat customers better
An example of really bad customer service… I had to purchase some hard drives for a server few months ago. Due to the nature of the setup, I needed to get the exact same drive models that were currently being used in the server. I went to one of the companies that I routinely purchase [...]
Open Source Firewall Appliance Round 2
A few years ago I blogged about using the Untangle firewall to replace a Sonicwall or similar firewall appliance. Since then, Untangle has come a long way. I would like to revisit the untangle appliance as it has undergone numerous improvements, and in my opinion is now a fully capable replacement for an off-the-shelf firewall [...]
