Home owners will soon be connecting all sorts of household objects to the Internet thanks to a decision by regulators. The decision means that manufacturers will be able to add wireless connectivity to without needing any special license. Licensing adds to the cost of manufacture, so the lack of this
Online shoppers should be writing much of your web site. That’s a clear conclusion from a new study of Internet retailers by the Internet marketing consultancy, e-consultancy. Their study, done in conjunction with the social commerce organisation Bazaar Voice, shows that the presence of customer reviews of your products and
Let’s not beat about the bush here – the House of Lords report on Internet crime includes a lot of nonsense. Once again, parliament has shown it largely fails to understand what the Internet is, how it works and what we do with it. Here are some gems from the
Researchers in Amsterdam have discovered something interesting about teenagers online, which almost certainly applies to grown ups as well. The study shows that unlike media speculation that children are busy online contacting strangers, most of them actually only use the Internet to keep in touch with people they already know.
People searching for anything via Google have had the wool pulled over their eyes. What Google does is also misleading to Internet marketers and anyone trying to promote their business online. It’s all explained and demonstrated in the video below or at YouTube. Every time you search, Google tells you
Should I start a blog? What should I blog about? How often should I blog? These are all questions people ask about blogging. But they are the wrong questions. These kind of questions focus the individual’s mind on process, rather than outcome. Better questions are: What do people want to
Shoppers online usually spend money in one of two ways – credit cards or PayPal. True there are other systems, but they are comparatively insignificant. For businesses, the two payment options present few problems – other than technical issues. For customers, though, it’s a different picture. In spite of the
Lawyers are going to have a field day. But researchers in Chicago are working together on a project to create a virtual copy of individuals that could live on after their death. In other words there could be a copy of you alive on the Internet, doing business and earning
Shoppers are increasingly deciding to buy things online. If you think we have a large amount of Internet shopping at the moment, you ain’t seen nothing yet. According to a new report from eMarketer, online shopping in Europe will triple over the next four years. This study suggests that there
People who use social networking sites, or who go to networking events may wish to read some research from two American professors. Their study published in the Academy of Management Review suggests that you should work on the people who dislike you. The study shows that within one social networking
You are already thinking about money. No I’m not a mind reader, but I’m a thought implanter. I’ve deliberately started you thinking that this article is about money. Two things have achieved that – the word cash in the headline and the picture of dollar bills. Psychologically, this is called
Airline passengers are having a tough time. But not for long. Today saw the news that British Airways faced record fines for price fixing. Meanwhile BAA, the owners of London Heathrow are seeking an injunction to ban people from the airport who want to protest about environmental issues. The ban
The world has just celebrated ten years of blogging. That’s right, blogging started back in 1997 and since that time over 70 million blogs have been produced with 120,000 starting each day. Yet, the vast majority of web site owners and online businesses have yet to start a blog. What’s
Sit down and take a deep breath; this may come as a shock. But one part of the UK Government is better at online business than Tesco. I’ll say that again…Tesco is worse online than one arm of the UK Government. I know, sounds mad doesn’t it? When you consider
Small business owners are failing to do enough online in order to make their firms succeed. According to a new study by BT just over half of Britain’s small business use the Internet However, four out of ten companies do not have a dedicated web site and one in five
Children know much more about things than we give them credit for. You will find plenty of books advising parents on how to protect their children when they are using the Internet. But few of these books, or the articles you read on online protection of children, tell you it
Shoppers are in different states of mind depending upon which activity they are engaged in. Imagine, for instance, that you are in a store browsing for something; you are not looking for anything in particular, but you might buy if you see something interesting. Would you respond to an in-store
Social networkers who read my article on the future of social networking may have thought my suggestion for a single “uber-network” that connected all the social networking sites together might have been a bit far fetched. Indeed, I received a couple of emails telling me I was talking out of
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