Ken Yeung
My Two Cents
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← Back to startUsability for print-friendly pages…
Now mostly everyone knows about how to make your information architecture look good on your website, but an interesting article appeared in the Internet Marketing Report generated by Progressive Business Publications. In this “article”, they offer tips on how to make webpages look better on paper so in the event that someone wants to print […]
Microsoft screwed around with Wikipedia…
In a CNN.com report posted today, it appears that Microsoft, the 800 lb. gorilla, has once again found its hand caught in the cookie jar. The article reads that the software giant paid a blogger, who is a chief technical officer of a computer company in Australia and describes himself as a “technical standards aficionado”, […]
Online Ad Spending to Outpace Overall Ad Market Growth…
As taken from the Travel Industry Assocation of America’s TravelCom Report (Vol.1 Issue 16): ZenithOptimedia forecasts that global Internet advertising spending will grow more than 28 percent in 2007, while ad spending in other media will grow by less than 4 percent. The shift to the Internet among U.S. marketers is even more dramatic, with […]
Pick where you move…and get a lot of visits to your website too…
While riding on the subway to work today, I happened to come across an interesting “side” article in the abbreviated version of the Washington Post (it’s called “express”)… The article headine reads “A Residential Election” and the point of the story is that a Florida couple allowed total strangers, family, and friends, to place their […]
Retailers disappointed, but e-commerce spending is up!
The physical store retailers may be disappointed in their December sales numbers, but for those e-commerce site owners, spending is up! That’s right…according to ClickZ.com, online retail was up 24 percent in 2006. Here’s what the article said: Sales at e-commerce sites in 2006 reached $102.1 billion, a 24 percentincrease over 2005 sales. The previous […]
Advertisers wanted for pay-per-BLOGGING?
What will the next entrepeneur “advertiser” think of next? Well wait no further as this past summer, someone came up with the ingenius idea of creating pay-per-blogging as the new wave of revenue generation. What is pay-per-blogging? According to an article published on Clickz.com, this new form of online advertising focuses more on content specific […]
A sex trial could dictate your privacy on a blog.
According to a fascinating and potentially unprecedented lawsuit published on CNN.com, it turns out that an upcoming sex lawsuit may have the ability to regulate how you are to treat other’s privacy when mentioning them on your blog. In a rather bitter breakup between two senatorial aides in the United States Congress, one aide had […]
YOU are Time’s Person of the Year…
In 2006, we made some considerable headway in connecting the world via the Internet. This year, Time Magazine has saw it fit to name YOU their Persons of the Year. How many ways can you access the Internet now and send a message to a client, co-worker, friends, and/or family members? Well let’s count the […]
Is Microsoft extending its reach TOO far?
I recently came across a post on Molly.com and she had published an interesting “rant” on an old 2005 Business Week article about Microsoft’s interesting (and somewhat naiive) claim to want to rule the web. In light of the massive “escapes” in Microsoft from its associates to other and/or better opportunities, Steve Ballmer, the CEO, […]
By avoiding the crowd, you’re spending more money…
Well technically you’re not spending MORE money per se, but you’re diverting that available disposable income from the gas you use in your car, the time you take waiting in line at the cash register, and the gift wrapping effort…all of this is being taken and placed online. Companies like Amazon.com, Target.com, Toys ‘R’ Us, […]