Your Own Code of Conduct
“When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the…
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“When Anu the Sublime, King of the Anunaki, and Bel, the lord of Heaven and earth, who decreed the fate of the…
If you’re a long time reader of Marketing Pilgrim, you’ll know my unease with anyone trying to define blogging; who should and shouldn’t blog; and, especially, talk of a “bloggers code of conduct.” So, you can imagine that my Monday morning is not off to a good start, when sipping my coffee I see Tim O’Reilly’s attempt to draft a code of conduct for bloggers.
On average, online retailers still only convert two to three percent of visitors into buyers. Though people are buying more online than ever before, that number has remained consistent over the last three years. The three percent conversion average is also consistent across studies by different organizations, according to e-Marketer. That means that 97 percent of shoppers still prefer to buy offline.
It didn't look good - Google released a new tool in China last week, and the thing bore an uncanny resemblance to a competitor's product. Now it's definitely bad - Google has admitted that, because it used "some non-Google database resources," some of Sohu's technology may have been recycled.
Baidu is China’s top search engine - the king, or, because or its relative youth, the prince. But the search engine company is experiencing some difficulties in Japan, where another corporation has laid claim to the domain baidu.co.jp. This pauper calls itself the “CBC Company.”
Google has added a new feature to Google Maps called MyMaps, which makes it possible, with no programming experience, to create a map with detail. You can place pushpins by just right-clicking on the map, write descriptions on them, even add HTML to include pictures, and save the whole thing to send to a friend. It even had drawing tools for drawing lines or complex…