Holiday Shoppers Look To Online Reviews

Holiday shoppers are increasingly looking to online ratings and reviews to make decisions about their offline purchases according to Bazaarvoice Bazaarvoice data revealed an increase in ratings and review activity for the week of November 19-26,2007, with a peak on Thanksgiving evening as shoppers prepared for Black Friday. Bazaarvoice said it served 1,400 ratings and reviews per second at the peak, which took place at…

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eBay Working to Solve Identity System Problem

Last night I met Dan Pritchett, technical fellow at eBay. He told me that eBay alone has 21 identity systems. So, if you wanted to use every part of eBay’s empire, like Skype, PayPal, StumbleUpon, etc, you’d need to sign in 21 different times. Needless to say he, and others at eBay, are working on solving that problem. Why did I meet up with Dan…

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(Yawn) Blogger’s Choice Awards Announced

The results of the inaugural Blogger's Choice Awards are in, and they're kind of stupid, if I may say so from my high horse, as though the same people picked them that are dumbing down our news, entertainment programming, and well, everything else.

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Google Maps For Mobile Gains My Location Feature

This announcement was determined to find people wherever they were; in different forms, it popped up on the Official Google Blog, the Google LatLong Blog, the Google Mobile Blog, and in a formal press release.  And interestingly enough, the announcement was about Google gaining a sort of location-seeking ability.

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