Amazon gets the Watchdog treatment
Amazon Marketplace was featured on Watchdog last night, with complaints about dodgy sellers and the availability of pepper spray on the site the target of the consumer programme.
Watchdog (on iPlayer) found several instances of customers buying items on the Marketplace, receiving emails purporting to be from Amazon, paying by transfer service Moneygram and not receiving the products.
The Web Week in Review
Few things are certain in today's crazy world but the weekend is one of them. So without further ado, here's this week's The Web Week in Review.
ClickForensics - click fraud rate steady, botnet click fraud up
ClickForensics, a company that sells "traffic quality management" solutions, released data about PPC click fraud rates in the third quarter last month.
The results are generated by the company's Click Fraud Index, which collects data from over 4,500 advertisers and agencies.
Site review: Figleaves redesign
Online lingerie retailer Figleaves.com recently launched a revamped version of its website, aiming for more of a high quality look and feel.
I've taken a look to see how it compares...
Halfords improves e-commerce offering
A few months ago, I looked at Halfords' e-commerce site from a user experience perspective, and found it lacking in some areas.
A bit of tweaking has happened since, so it's only fair to comment on the improvements that have been made...
CAPTCHA tools
If you run a website that lets users submit any information (either to you, to other users or as part of a registration process), you've probably had to deal with spam and related issues.
The Web Week in Review
For some reason, the news that interested me the most dealt primarily with two words: music and Google.
The Web Week in Review
Admittedly it was difficult to pay attention to all of the news in the technology industry his week - the news in the financial markets more than overshadowed it.
This week's Web Week in Review has to touch on the financial crisis but there were other tech-only stories that did manage to make it onto my radar.
Should your business deploy Google Chrome?
With Google's new Chrome browser gaining lots of attention, it's inevitable that some businesses will ask whether Chrome is a suitable replacement for their browsers they currently have deployed.
Google claims that Chrome is faster and more secure than Internet Explorer and Firefox, while E-consultancy's own Graham Charlton gave it a test drive and came away with favorable impressions.
But is Chrome ready for deployment at your business? Let's take a look at the considerations.
Google turns 10
This weekend, Google celebrated its 10th birthday.
In September 1998, armed with $100,000 in seed money, Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page began a journey that a decade later has seen the development of a $150bn company that employs more than 20,000 people.
Social media: the best and worst of 2009
Email marketing: six steps to improving customer engagement in 2010
Web 2.0
Graham Charlton
Strategy & Planning
