
Internet Presence :: Words that mean much more then 'web site'. A presence on line is about being found. It's about being noticed, and it is about interactivity with your client.
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- Purdue University officials say that lower-than-expected demand among its students stems in part from all the frustrating restrictions that accompany legal downloading. Students at the West Lafayette, Ind., school can play songs free on their laptops but have to pay to burn songs onto CDs or load them onto a digital music device.
- "People still want to have a music collection. Music listeners like owning their music, not renting," says Bill Goodwin, 21, who graduated in May from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. USC decided last year that it was finished with Napster after fewer than 500 students signed up...
There’s also a telling quotation from the director of the Campus Computing Project, who says, “The RIAA’s push to buy into these services strikes me as protection money. Buy in and we’ll protect you from our lawsuits,” which is one of the kinder descriptions of the unfriendliness of the industry that I’ve read lately. I’m still waiting for someone in the industry to wake up and understand that their path to profitability lies in supporting good music and making their rich back catalogs available, not in fighting the fans of music tooth and nail. Today, three years after the birth of the iTunes Music Store, there are still many albums and tracks that can’t be found anywhere online—some by major artists (just try tracking down any non-album Sting tracks from before the late 90s), some by minor artists on major labels (Annabouboula, anyone?), and some by great cultural figures (I’d gladly pay through the nose for access to e.e. cummings’s Six Nonlectures as digital files, or even on CD). Instead we get American Idol and Rock Star. What, no one ever told these guys that a steady diet of candy can kill you? BTW, for a good counterexample, check out Verve’s deep catalog—including a bunch of rare Impulse! recordings—though they don’t quite get it right; they support both iTunes and Windows Media, but no DRM-free offerings. But at least they’re opening up their catalog. read more: New Releases for March 8thThere's a new Tiny Showcase up today. If I hadn't been spending all of my free time on the new site, I would have told you about these new releases: 50 Cent's Massacre, 50 Ft. Wave's Golden Ocean, Ash's Meltdown, Boom Bip's Blue Eyed In The Room, Decibully's Sing Out America,Kasabian's debut (read Leslie's review), The Kills No Wow, Paint It Black's Paradise and Sam Prekop Who's Your New Professor. The last one was my personal pick of the week - Paul's got a review on 75 or Less. I forgot to me mention it last week, but The Rutles 2 came out on DVD. We're about to wrap up the contest - get yourself signed up. Here's a true store about Ash's old record label, Kinetic. They once begged me for months on end to run a contest. I'm serious - they sent me a weekly email like "We love your site and we would do anything to set up a promo with you." They eventually came up with a contest that was really cool. The prize was great - limited edition, signed - everything that makes a nice prize. They told me they would send me the prize after the contest was over. They, of course, never did. Wouldn't respond to my emails, wouldn't acknowlege that I was alive. Very classy move. So I became bitter and vowed never to trust anyone in the music industry (well, except for the good guys - you know who you are) ever again and started an art website. The end. read more: iTunesEarly this week, in an email to a coworker, I mentioned that I made music and pointed her to my site. On Thursday she wrote back and said “cool, you’re even on iTunes!” This surprised me; my two albums were submitted about 3 and 8 weeks ago and hadn’t shown up on iTunes as of Monday or so. But I looked, and indeed, there they both are on iTunes. For those of you who’ve heard the music, I’d appreciate a customer review. For those of you who haven’t, what are you waiting for? :-) Of course there are also old-fashioned shiny discs in plastic cases. Thanks! Last modified: 24 June 2006, 19:18 read more: Flight To The Kremlin I have learned a lot during the last two weeks while visiting six countries. One of the most interesting days began with a flight from Pulkovo Airport in St. Petersburg to Sheremetyevo Airport in Moscow. The Russian airports could use some upgrading of services, shopping facilities, and direction signs in English, but they are said to be quite safe. Boarding the Ilyushin-86 aircraft was an experience. Like many European airports, the first step is to ride on a bus across the tarmac to the plane. What was different was the entry -- it started by going up steps into the belly of the plane where luggage is stored. From the storage area a stairway led to the main cabin where there were approximately 350 seats arranged in three sets of three per row. The Il-86 development was announced at the 1971 Paris Airshow and the wide-body entered service in late 1980. This particular IL-86 was showing it's age and may easily have been twenty-five years old. The interior of the plane and the uniforms of the flight attendants were outdated but the service was efficient and friendly. The four Kuznetsov NK86 turbofan jet engines lifted the plane to cruising altitude very quickly for the one hour trip. The flight to Moscow and the return to St. Petersburg both left on time and arrived at the destination on time. The afternoon at the Kremlin far exceeded my expectations. Kremlin means "fortress" in Russian and generally refers to any major fortified central complex in Russian cities. The one we visited is the best known one, the Moscow Kremlin, where the Russian government is based and where the President of Russia lives. Standing in the center of Red Square was a real treat with spectacular sights in every direction. Saint Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin towers are majestic and incredibly colorful. The Red square separates the Kremlin from an historic merchant quarter and the major streets of Moscow radiate from the square in all directions. The square is steeped in centuries of history. I don't recall the famous events that took place there in 1941 and 1945 nor the establishment of Lenin's Mausoleum, but I do remember when a German pilot named Mathias Rust landed a rented Cessna 172 on Vasilevski Spusk next to the Red Square in 1987. On the eastern side of the square is the spectacular GUM department store which in addition to shops offering all the top retailing brands of the world had dedicated the first floor of huge open ceiling building to the inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci. It would have been easy to spend a whole day there. Following a one-hour tour of the Kremlin art galleries -- which rival the Vatican Library in Rome -- we had a traditional Russian dinner, complete with vodka, and then a return flight to St. Petersburg. We got back to the ship after midnight. It was a day I will never forget.More on the rest of the trip to follow. read more: Business Leadership Forum - Day 2 (part 2) Following Nakamura-san at the Business Leadership Forum would not be easy but Sunil Bharti Mittal, CEO of Bharti TeleVentures Limited had quite an amazing story to tell. Bharti is India's leading mobile operator and one of the top five companies in India. Revenue per month per person has shrunk from $30 to $8 and he believes it will go to $3-$4. The good news is that the number of users has gone from 2 million to 90 million. India is a huge consumption economy because there are so many young people -- 50% are under 25. He expects mobile phone users to grow from 90 million to 300+ million by 2009-2010 and his strategy to address the market has been to give away everything except the customer ; i.e. outsource everything except the customer relationship. IT was outsourced to IBM -- a $1 billion contract. Networking was outsourced to Nokia & Ericsson. Call centers were outsourced to an IBM joint venture in India. Mr. Mittal said their growth (1 million new customers per month) could not be achieved without having outsourced to top partners. Complete alignment is achieved and the business model becomes predictable. Innovation in many areas including "Lifetime Validity" where incoming calls are free to customers for life. The theory is simple, if people receive a lot of free inbound calls, they will eventually *make* calls, which are not free. His goal is for his many partners to be happy -- not to laugh but to smile. He hopes to grow from 7 billion minutes per month to 20 billion. Mr. Yang Mingsheng, President and CEO of the Agricultural Bank of China, was the only speaker who did use English but the simultaneous translation to Japanese, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, German, and English allowed all of us to hear what he had to say -- which was a lot. The bank has 500,000 employees and 28,000 branch offices. Although I could not understand a word of what he was saying without the headphones, I could tell that the speaker was very articulate, enthusiastic, and confident. 95% of all bank services are available online. The bank has 400 million depositors, 12.4 million outstanding loans, and 220 million credit cards issued. They have introduced many e-banking and mobile products to their customers. This is being done by centralizing IT infrastructure. Mr. Mingsheng is both a ceo and a member of government. For hobbies he writes poetry and plays the violin. His speech covered every aspect of consumer and business banking services. I don't think a similar presentation by Citigroup or JP Morgan Chase would much if anything that ABC isn't also doing. Pierluigi Bernasconi, CEO of an Italian electronics retailer called MediaMarket. The company is the No. 1 consumer electronics retailer in Europe with 66 stores in Italy, more than 500 stores in more than a dozen European countries, and a new web-based business in Germany. One of their stores is the largest in the world -- it has six floors of consumer electronics products. Steady growth over the past decade has taken them from $4 to $16 billion. They have taken an innovative business model approach whereby they have two different store brands (MediaMarket and Saturn) that compete with each other. They believe that "self competition" results in better service and price to the consumer. Fifty million people per month spend time in one of their stores. Mr. Bernasconi described an intensely competitive environment in Italy from 4,000 photography shops, 6,000 telephone stores, e-retail sites, hyperStores, and in the future new channels such as Digital Terrestrial TV. In spite of this the company continuously outperforms the competition and gains market share. They have been using the web for sales and communications since 1995. Utilizing advanced IT the company has integrated all their distribution channels. They believe that communication is key and will result in customers thinking of MediaMarket or Saturn as the first choice as a place to get information and subsequently purchase. Their strategy is to exploit multi-channel strategies -- tying together so a person can call from land line or mobile, surf via the web connect via digital terrestrial set top box, or visit in person and all the experiences are recognized and tracked.  Intro to Roman Rendezvous Stories Index to Roman Rendezvous stories read more: Interoperability and DRM Are Mutually ExclusiveInteroperability and DRM Are Mutually Exclusive: The music industry’s insistence upon DRM iswhat put the ITMS in the position that Apple now enjoys; the recordindustry is decrying a lock-in advantage that they themselves handedto Apple. (Via Daring Fireball.) This article is a good start, but it gives too much credit to the music industry. They are not just misguided about the impossibility of interoperable DRM. Anyone with a clue has understood this since the original interoperable DRM efforts collapsed circa 2000. Some music industry executives may still lack a clue, but they do not have much incentive to learn because the central issue for them is not interoperability, but control. Attacking Apple here (like the publishers attacking Google, or the telecoms attacking net neutrality) is misdirection covering up that issue. The major labels don't really care that one DRM system dominates the market, they only care that the system is not theirs to do as they please, for example in introducing variable per-track pricing (shades of the telecoms and net neutrality). I rarely buy from iTMS because I dislike its tying down to particular machines and lower quality than what I get by buying CDs and ripping them at a custom AAC rate. Not to mention the pleasure of walking down to my locally-owned record store and browsing their well-chosen new arrivals (last month's purchases): - Trio Beyond (Jack de Johnette, Larry Goldings, John Scofield): Saudades
- John Coltrane: Soultrane
- Marc Johnson: Shades of Jade
- Louis Mhlanga: World Traveler
- Boards of Canada: Trans Canada Highway
- Thelonious Monk: The Classic Quartet
- Vijay Iyer and Rudesh Mahanthappa: Raw Materials
- Andrey Dergatchev: The Return (soundtrack of the intense, beautiful movie by Andrey Zvyagintsev)
- Christian McBride: Live at Tonic
read more: Solving big business problems in our little toolbox application. A use case for Project Distributor.Project Distributor: Introduction to our distributed web service model So Darren and I have put in about a month now on the Project Distributor website. We are starting to reach that critical point where the site is pretty cool, we have plenty of users, we are thinking about running out of the allowable bandwidth for the demo site, and all sorts of other things that tend to happen all at once. Now, there are some problems you can design yourself out of, and others that you really have to throw some money at. Our latest enhancements can be summed up in a short list. - Buy a domain name and start hosting in two places. Project Distributor.com should be up fairly soon to accompany MarkItUp.ASPXConnection.com
- Have people host their own versions of the application. And that means a big source release is in the future. At this juncture risk fragmentation.
- Design away fragmentation with a series of ingenious features that will make everyone want to use the application at hand.
I'm here to talk about the last two, since Darren already bought some additional hosting for us. The concept will be to release a fairly stable version of the application so that groups can host tools, code snippets and other source/binary releases for their teams to share. The application is very lightweight and easy to set-up, so it won't require a bunch of hand holding and configuration to get up and running initially. From our standpoint we solve a number of issues at this juncture. The most obvious problem is what we classify the Lutz Roeder use case. .NET Reflector is the key type of application we'd love to get hosted because it makes it a bit easier to find, not that Google does a bad job, we'd just like to get a bunch of tools in one place, with some features for feedback, new releases, and some cool client tools for publishing. Now, Lutz would put his application up and he'd whack our bandwidth. He is the prime example of someone that should be hosting their own tools, but possibly using our interface. He doesn't have to, we haven't even asked him yet in fact, but if he decides to do so, then all the better for the web application moving forward. Users such as Lutz probably want a certain level of control over their own sites as well in terms of branding and controlling access. This will only come from hosting the application yourself (and maybe some other features we'll see later). From a security standpoint many teams will also want to host their own servers. In this manner they get control over the hardware their sources and binaries are stored on. They can accept tools up to any maximum (instead of our imposed limits) and provide unlimited download bandwidth if they choose. Or they can take advantage of our gating mechanisms to make sure their server doesn't get overloaded with downloads and open their tools up to the public. The only major problem from this source release is that the initial problem we were trying to solve, promoting the visibility of tools, starts to erode. You see, the more sites that host their own tools the harder it is to find the right site with the right tools. We are trying to solve this in a number of ways. The first is allowing users of a site to store bookmarks to other projects and external resources. This is only a temporary fix, because it still doesn't allow a mass search and categorization infrastructure required to truly promote the visibility of the tools being hosted. We have to come up with a solution that brings all of the sites, but we don't want to create just another portal or gateway site. That is boring. Now you have the background, so how will we solve the fragmentation issue? Designing away Fragmentation I won't lie to you, I've implemented this model several times, but have never had a project that was capable of really showing off the feature set we are about to talk about. The concept is to unify all of the sites, by allowing them to easily manage views of data from all of the sites combined. Each site owns their own content, maintains their own users, but in turn peers with other sites to obtain additional content. Web services provide a dual feature set in this model. At the current level they allow us to generate really great client-side tools for managing, well, your tools! We have a drop-client target right now so you can drag and drop new releases to existing projects in just a few seconds. Some new tools for working with build systems to promote the source code up to the server are in the works. We natively integrate with your RSS reader and will have our own alert services in the drop client just in case you don't have one. There aren't any search or local caching features, but those are also planned for the drop client so you can background download new releases, just like Windows Update. That doesn't solve fragmentation though, that just makes me realize how much work I have left to do. The second feature of web services lies in the ability for each site to aggregate data from the many other sites that are out there hosting the application. Remember, everything we make available at the service layer can also now be remoted. The more caching we put into the data layer, the more performant the entire process will be, and we can even tune the caching depending on whether the data layer is merging off-site contents or database contents. Peer Sites I'm sure there is another name out there somewhere, but for the past 2 years I've called these peer sites. Each instance of the project distributor will have a number of options allowing for adding peers that will be aggregated and added to the local collection while users traverse the site. The first step is to get the peer sites running in a read-only mode. And set up some really great options so the entire process can be controlled. This solves a number of use case scenarios for us including the following. - Fragmentation can be mitigated through proper configuration. If everyone aggregates 5 or 6 sites into their peers, then we have a huge network now of interconnected peers and users can pick and choose which one they use for purposes of searching the tool network.
- Peer connections are unidirectional or bidirectional. Access is configurable. Teams can include tools from external sites while keeping their own tools completely private. They can exist behind a DMZ or a private network.
- Users can host their own personal tool sites in the same manner as the team sites. They can configure statically which projects to make available even. In this way you can build a collection of personal tools that you love, and have the latest information automatically update on your machine for your perusal.
Peer sites solve plenty of visibility issues, but that is pretty much all they solve for now. We still want to enable all of the features available to the client tools. After all, the web service methods and proxy infrastructure is in place to do so much more. Master Sites Well, we want to solve another problem. That is where you edit your data. A master site is where the users, groups, projects, etc... are all hosted, but thankfully, you'll be able to log in through any site (assuming it is peered with your master site) and then edit your own projects and such. This is a remote principal context and is actually one of the cooler features associated with the peering functionality of project distributor. We'll be fully secure in our login and credentials region, but unfortunately we'll still be transferring data in open text in the short term. Maybe we'll fix that with enough push back. Clone Sites A clone site is where we empower a site to act on behalf of a master site. For me, my local project distributor is currently cloned to the main project distributor site. What does this mean? Right now it means I get all of the data from PD, and that users who trust my site can log-in to their project distributor accounts and cross edit data. Pretty nice if you ask me. It basically means you can fully host a project distributor installation and never, ever have to install a database server. Users can just act on behalf of a remote server. Configuration This isn't a super reusable model like some of those you read about in the popular software architecture books, and it probably accounts for why master/peer/clone sites don't exist very often. The considerations for every option are heavily customized to the problem being solved, and I'm sure we'll be making modifications or updating the configuration context for a while. Right now you can independently configure your primary server type, whether master or clone, whether or not users can use you for a pass-through authentication and edit server, whether or not web services are enabled so peers can enable unidirectional only communications, setting up asymmetric security credentials. Man, you name it and it is in there For the peer section we have full and selective modes. A full peer pulls all of the data on the remote peer locally for display (in a delay caching manner, just like you'd expect, unless you set up a scheduled pull which is also possible). I expect most people to configure full peers because they really are really easy to set up and maintain. A selective peer is where you specify the groups/projects that you want to display. This is best for a user setting up their own personal toolbox who wants to select a couple of items from many different peers. We have an extensively exhaustive configuration module already and we'll be continuously adding more to it. The concept is to easily modify your toolbox to your own designs without having to touch the code. If we haven't given you enough options to satisfy your need then we'll have to make something up, because I'm just about running out ;-) These are the basics of the model ideas I have for project distributor. That doesn't mean Darren doesn't have other great ideas happening as well. He has some pretty extensive UI enhancements, but I'll let him talk about those. We even have another product idea that is kind of a bolt-on for project distributor, but that is probably a couple of months out putting it into next year. Unfortunately we have too many ideas for our own good right now. Better than not having any ideas I guess. I'll try to drop some code with some of the ideas above, that way you can get a look at how the entire system is implemented. I have some diagrams as well, but I'm far too tired right now to add the img tags to the HTML view. UsabilityFive new links: "Graphics on Link-Rich Home Pages", "Label Placement in Forms", "SAP Design Guild Articles", "Simplicity Demands Difficult Choices", and "Personable 'About Us' Page Lifts Ecommerce Conversions 30 Percent". read more: A few details about the FeedBurner.com redesign
Late, late, late on a Tuesday night almost two weeks ago, we re-launched FeedBurner.com with much-needed updates to the design, content and overall direction. Traci already commented on the strategic importance of the new site, while Rachelle provided a more personal account. But as the designer and half-developer (Rachelle did the other half — actually, probably more than half — with great skill and speed), I’m going to share a couple of “behind the scenes” details that I find super neat. Hopefully you’ll feel the same way. Powered By FeedBurnerGoing in to this project, two requirements became clear: Traci (our marketing director) needed the ability to make content updates without routing all changes through the design team. Many types of content needed to be reused in slightly different settings and formats around the site.
To address these requirements, we came up with the idea of modular content — basically, little nuggets of content that can be randomized, subscribed, inserted and updated anywhere. For a couple of content types — blog posts, publisher buzz, press releases — we used feeds and our very own BuzzBoost service to repurpose content wherever we needed it on the site (mmm, dog food). For others, we generated custom blocks of static HTML or Javascript and included those in the JSPs that contain forms, session information (“You are signed in as…”) and other application components. Of course, we had to generate all of this content somewhere… Powered By MovableType
We’re using MovableType to store and publish the press releases, in the news, events, corporate backgrounder, stats, Publisher Buzz, and of course our blog, Burning Questions. Our MovableType installation is rigged up with a variety of templates that publish static files in HTML, Javascript and Atom formats — all of which are then pulled into the pages like I mentioned above. One of the complaints people have about MovableType — that it creates static files by default — is actually a huge advantage here. We’re able to publish flat, lightweight static files to a single server, then pull in these files in a variety of ways across our distributed server environment. Elegant, dual-float layout
When I was first learning CSS, doing multi-column layouts was always the hardest part. Even two-column layouts seemed tricky, weighing the pros and cons of various approaches and never being totally satisfied with the end result. Then I got floats. Like, really got them. It was Doug Bowman’s slides from this presentation that secured my understanding and I haven’t fretted about CSS layouts since. On the new FeedBurner.com, everything but the home page uses a classic dual-float, two-column layout. I set a width on both columns in the CSS, then assigned float:left on the left column and float:right on the right. Finished with a clear:both footer, it’s a solid layout that works regardless of which column is longest. A new approach to navigationWhile many sites feature massive navigation (practically a site map), we took a page from Flickr’s design books this time around and divided our navigation into two sections. A high-priority “primary” navigation and a lower-priority “secondary” navigation are based on prominence, not hierarchy, which helps focus the page and not overwhelm people with choices. We also made heavy use of in-text hyperlinking across sections, to encourage exploration without forcing folks to grok and traverse our site architecture via the navigation. Coming soonPerhaps the best things to come out of this redesign process haven’t arrived yet. As a result of our extensive brainstorming and planning, we have tons of ideas and a general roadmap for web site improvements over the coming months. And now, with the addition of Rachelle Bowden to our team, we have the manpower womanpower to get it done. Questions? Comments?Use the comment form. As always, I love to hear from you! read more: H.P. to Unveil Radio Chips to Store DataNew York Times Jul 17 2006 4:54AM GMT read more: Runner's Web Online StoreThe store has been updated with new products (CW-X tights, Garmin, Oakley RAZWIRE, Polar S625x Speed and Distance , Timex Bodylink Trail Runner and more). read more: Design.Retailers shift to edgier and hip displays and architecture to get shoppers' attention The loud music and dark nightclub-like lighting at teen clothing store Hollister is enough to drive Patricia Rock insane, but it's what makes the store one of her daughter's favorites. read more: Action Line: Store balks at honoring lowest advertised priceSan Jose Mercury News Jul 16 2006 10:27AM GMT read more: 495-2: Turns of Phrase: Passive survivabilityThis term has come to the fore in the USA and elsewhere in recent months largely as a result of hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans and the Gulf coast last August. The concept is that buildings should be designed so that they can survive the loss of essential services—electricity, piped water, sewerage—in the event of a natural disaster. It grew out of a post-hurricane reconstruction conference held in Atlanta in November 2005. This led to a set of proposals with the title The New Orleans Principles. One of these states, “Provide for passive survivability: Homes, schools, public buildings, and neighborhoods should be designed and built or rebuilt to serve as livable refuges in the event of crisis or breakdown of energy, water, and sewer systems”. Techniques include many that are also advocated by green campaigners: use natural ventilation, heavily insulate buildings against heat loss, use natural daylight, collect and store rainwater, install solar electricity generation, and so on. Advocates point to the risk of terrorism that might lead to similar losses of public services. They also argue that possible shortages of fuel in decades to come will require buildings to use much less energy than they do now. * Guardian, 20 Jun. 2006: There is now talk among some enlightened architects of incorporating “passive survivability” into their designs—the ability of a building to operate on its own should systems such as water and electricity ever fail by, for example, using better “thermal envelopes”, natural daylighting and rainwater storage. * HPAC Engineering, Jan. 2006: Passive-survivability measures are so important that it may make sense to incorporate them into building codes. Most, but not all, passive-survivability features will add some cost to a building, so the impact on affordability needs to be considered if such measures are to be required by code. read more: TattooFinder.com Announces Free Premiere Accounts for Tattoo Industry ProfessionalsTattooFinder.com announces the release of Premiere Accounts (TFPA) as a free upgrade from a standard TattooFinder.com account. This service is offered exclusively to tattoo industry professionals, providing top level discounts on design purchases to tattooists and their customers. Premiere accounts can increase overall business at a studio by offering numerous competitive advantages, and a TFPA operates under several different business models to best fit a shop’s needs. A TFPA provides the ability for customers to purchase flash for the tattoo studio that the studio can store online and access again for future use at no additional charge. 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Find the answer to these and many other E-Commerce questions in this selection of... read more: The New DeKa Marketing Shopping Mall has Opened; A Dream come True for new Business Owner Del Morales, he was Inspired by the Following Thoughts and FactsMore and more shoppers are deciding to buy online as opposed to going to the store. Many find this more convienent than having to drive to a store. Finding the product you're looking for requires almost no effort. Sometimes the product finds you, through advertisements. [PRWEB Nov 13, 2005] read more: Fine Home and Garden Accessories, Gifts, and Collectibles Now Available Online from PerfectKeepsakes.comPerfect Keepsakes, Inc announces the grand opening of its new online store offering premier home decorating accessories and accents. [PRWEB Nov 11, 2005] read more: Comfortable Slippers Remain Top-Seller as a Holiday GiftBuying online at Shoebuy.com?s new Slipper Store makes it easy to find the perfect slippers that are both in your size and in stock. [PRWEB Nov 9, 2005] read more: New San Francisco Based Maternity Line Challenges Traditional Ideas of Pregnancy and BeautyLittle Pink Line Maternity launches its online store today at http://www.littlepinkline.com. The fashion forward clothing company offers t-shirts and sweatpants geared toward young hip pregnant women that want to celebrate their pregnancy as well as feel like a strong and sexy woman. [PRWEB Nov 8, 2005] read more: Knobs, Hinges and More Announces the Addition of Colombo Hardware, Rohl and Perrin & Rowe to its Online Store www.KnobsHingesandMore.comKnobs, Hinges and More adds to its online store Colombo Hardware who imports door handle collections and bathroom accessories from Italy. We have also added Rohl and Perrin & Rowe with their line of kitchen and bathroom faucets and bathroom accessories. [PRWEB Nov 9, 2005] read more: New, All-Natural Cure for Diarrhea and I.B.S. Launches at CVS and Other Major Drug Store Chains Across the U.S.Esdifan contains mineral that provides safe, effective relief for chronic sufferers. [PRWEB Oct 26, 2005] read more: Vermont Artisans Retool Website to Present Unique Gift Items for 2005 Holiday SeasonPiecesOfVermont.com, an online retailer of made in Vermont products, has redesigned its website top to bottom for the 2005 holiday shopping season. The website was established in 1999 and has evolved into a selective collection of unique products from individual artisans, crafters, maple syrup producers, and small store retailers. [PRWEB Nov 14, 2005] read more: Give the Gift of Family Memories with GiveFun.com Gift CertificatesThe hunt is over! This year?s perfect gift comes wrapped in a memory. This holiday season, shoppers can avoid the much-dreaded department store shopping marathons by giving the gift of a fun family memory now available at GiveFun.com. [PRWEB Nov 14, 2005] read more: Popular African American Shopping Portal Prepares For A Busy Online Holiday Shopping SeasonEric Brown the founder of the ?African American Art On-Line Store? located at, www.brownhorizonsart.com , which is widely considered one of the most popular African American art websites on the internet today recently discussed the preparations being made for this holiday season regarding his recently created African American shopping portal titled ?African American Shopping Today? located at www.brownhorizonsshopping.com . [PRWEB Nov 14, 2005] read more: Translating Brick and Mortar to the InternetCase study of a small brick and mortar retailer and how they are working to translate their unique store onto the Internet. [PRWEB Nov 13, 2005] read more: The Want Some Get Some Store Now Provides Turnkey Dropship Website Solutions to Consumers and Small Business Owners, Just in Time for the HolidaysThe Want Some Get Some Store (wantsomegetsomestore.com) is now offering Turnkey Dropship websites pre-stocked with over 10,000 products. Stores will be stock with some of the most popular brand name products on the market today. Products will be provide at wholesale prices that will allow website owners to enjoy high profit margins. [PRWEB Nov 11, 2005] read more: Wireless Security SystemHow to install a wireless security system: Go to a second-hand store, buy a pair of men's used work boots ... a really big pair. Put them outside your front door on top of a copy of Guns and Ammo magazine. Put a dog dish beside it ... a really big dish. Leave a note on your front door that says something like this:
"Bubba, Big Mike and I have gone to get more ammunition - back in 30 minutes. Don't disturb the pit bulls, they've just been wormed." read more: Time for thinkingGillian Carson talks about vacation time on the Amigo blog: 'A holiday is a time for thinking, for relaxing your mind, for drinking beer and laughing and... for having ideas. The last time we went on holiday we came up with the idea for Carson Workshops, so I have great faith in letting your brain run free.' I agree. Late last night I was working on a problem, something I had been struggling with in my spare time for a couple of weeks. I went back and forth between staring at an empty text editor and reading NetNewsWire. In other words, wasting time. I went out after midnight to get some milk and food for breakfast, and on the drive to the store I let my mind wander until my brain randomly struck upon an elegant solution to my coding problem. Back at my desk I implemented it in 10 lines of code and went to bed. Have a happy July 4th everyone. read more: New BizTalk Server 2006 Code SamplesWe have posted 5 new samples to the Developer Center: http://msdn.microsoft.com/biztalk/downloads/samples/default.aspx SSO as Configuration Store This sample provides an implementation of a sample class and a walkthrough that demonstrates how to use the SSO administrative utility and the SSOApplicationConfig command-line tool. Atomic Transactions with COM+ Serviced Components in Orchestrations This sample demonstrates how atomic transactions work in orchestrations. Exception Handling in Orchestrations This sample demonstrates how to handle exceptions in an orchestration. Implementing Scatter and Gather Pattern This sample demonstrates how to implement the Scatter and Gather pattern using BizTalk Orchestration Designer. Using the SQL Adapter with Atomic Transactions in Orchestrations This sample shows how to use the SQL adapter with atomic transactions to keep databases consistent.
read more: Amy and her LegosSite NewsI've decided to move the hosting for this site over to aspnix soon. Maybe when CS 2.1 comes out I'll make the move. Just looking to save some cash at the moment. I'm got a new skin I've been working on and you might see it before that but I doubt it. With the exception of what I do for a living I haven't touched a computer for about a week (unless you count my 360 I suppose). Just haven't been motivated. I'm on vacation next week, so I might work on the site a day or so, but I know we are taking the girls to the zoo and maybe, just maybe I'll get to visit an Apple Store and maybe (if my wife lets me of course) come home with one of these. read more: Feb 11, Web Design und Marketing - Die Grundlagen des InternetWas bedeutet Web Design und Marketing wirklich? Was ist ein Web Site Hosting Provider? Was bedeuet ecommerce web design? Hier finden Sie Information... read more: Feb 6, Individuelle Ecommerce Shop Systeme: Schlicht bis High-end...Wir bieten Ihnen maßgeschneiderte Ecommerce Shop Systeme, die genau auf Ihre Bedürfnisse ausgerichtet sind und deshalb immer das optimale Preis/Leistungs-Verhältnis haben. read more: Feb 6, Die besten Ecommerce Ressourcen für Ihren Erfolg!Wir habe hier für Sie die weltweit eindeutig besten Ecommerce Ressourcen zusammengestellt, mit denen wir selbst höchst erfolgreich arbeiten. read more: Feb 6, Fordern Sie unsere kostenlose Ecommerce Beratung an!Profitieren Sie von unserer langjährigen Erfahrung als Web Design und Marketing Experten und nutzen Sie unsere kostenlose Ecommerce Beratung... read more: Video: Anaheim's residents give a hesitant thumbs-up to city-wide Wi-Fi subscriptions <a href="http://news.com.com/1606-2-6091467.html?part=rss&tag=6091467&subj=news"><img src="http://i.i.com.com/cnwk.1d/i/ne/pg/fd_2006/070606anaheim_customer_88x66.jpg" width="97" height="72" border="0" alt="Video: Anaheim's residents give a hesitant thumbs-up to city-wide Wi-Fi subscriptions" style="margin:0 10px 0 0;float:left;" /></a> Video: Anaheim's residents give a hesitant thumbs-up to city-wide Wi-Fi subscriptions. CNET News.com's Amanda Termen spoke with some potential customers of the new city-wide Wi-Fi service made official in Anaheim, Calif., on June 29. Are they willing to completely trade in their old cable service? <br clear="all" />
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