technology, ecommerce and other ramblings
tom We’ve been moving from externally hosting videos with YouTube to self-hosting them with the killer little video player called “jw player“. I just could figure it out, JW player was not working, it appeared to be slow loading. I was converting one of our landing pages (see it here – it is for our tow … Read more
Everyone likes the word free, especially when it comes to advertising. Driving traffic to a site usually takes considerable time and effort. Finding a way to almost effortlessly, generate additional traffic is an exciting idea. 🙂 One easy way to generate more traffic was right in front of me the entire time. Banners are a … Read more
Over the past year to year-and-a-half I’ve been working with an “old media” company and a new start-up, then back to the same “old media” company. The big buzz is DAM or Digital Asset Management. Everyone is trying to get all their content into a repository. The other thing you have to know to make … Read more
Not that it is a hard find, butwe had a problem crop up yesterday with a wordpress mu installation that was causing a permission error when media was attempting to be uploaded to the blog. Here is a nifty solution which seems to be a common issue (link to thread): This worked for me, using … Read more
The team over at Read-Write-Web posted an article called “The Danger of Free” Everyone loves to get stuff for free. We line up to get a free drink, we sign up for free checking accounts, and we’re happy to get a free gift with the purchase of our next car. We love free stuff, even … Read more
A received a forward from our Online group late last week (thank you Mary W and Sarah F) which was from a post on the Natural Search Blog talking about rolling your own local search engine. …how using Eurekster’s Swickis on their blogs can be a cool feature enhancement, providing custom thematic search engines for … Read more
IPTV (Internet Protocol TeleVision) is starting to creep its way on the web. We’re starting to see more and more TV shows pop-up as their own little mini-stations – plus the whole miro and joost thing. TV Shows via the Internet I was looking at Mashable this morning and saw a banner ad for The … Read more
What do you do when too many students are USING Wikipedia to write their term papers – throw out the term paper and make them write Wikipedia articles! Freaking brilliant. This is exactly the type of thinking we have to promote! If people are cheating on their term papers – take the resource out of … Read more
I’m not sure how much of the jockeying you’ve been following – but there has been an interesting topic I have been following with Republican candidate Ron Paul. If you look at Paul’s number back in July from a USA Today/Gallup poll: Neither former Virginia governor Jim Gilmore nor Rep. Ron Paul registered any support. … Read more
Another great 37signal article talking about innovation which tries to address the idea that sometime you have to move a little outside the box, even if it makes people a bit uncomfortable. “Companies that lead need to be willing to say that occasional growing pains are ok. If a company only listens to what customers … Read more