Is Google Losing Money Too Fast?

JP Morgan has published a report on how Google Checkout did in 2006, and their findings show that Checkout reached 6% of the 1,100 consumers they surveyed, compared to 42% for PayPal, what I call a good, but not massive, start.

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Google Dominating the RSS Market?

One of the things that has been interesting to see over the course of the past year is how Google has been quietly dominating the RSS market. While this shouldn't come as too much of a surprise given Google's market clout today it's been interesting to watch it happening.

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Be Careful with Facebook

Facebook is a great service - my 17-year-old daughter and all her friends use it (I have an account too), and so does my cousin who is at McGill University in Montreal, where she engages in the typical sort of debauchery expected of second-year college students, and then posts pictures of said debauchery on her site for all her friends to see.

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Celebrating Website Mistakes

I met a lovely reader today, who responded to seeing my blog post yesterday on accessbility. I wrote about the topic not as expert, but as a student.

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Online Research Influences Offline Sales

Online browsing and research will increase offline retail sales by 12 percent over the next five years according to JupiterResearch. In their new report, "U.S. Online Retail Forecast, 2006-2011" growth of offline sales will reach 40 percent of total U.S. retail sales.

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