RSS eBay feedback monitoring
September 25, 2011
TameBay readers are always resourceful and one pointed me to a neat feedback tool this week. It’s basically a feedback tool to enable you to be notified by an RSS feed whenever someone leaves feedback for you.”One tool I have been using for the past… Read more
Google launches prizes.org
July 4, 2011
Google have just launched Prizes.org, a place where you can create contests and let people compete for a prize of your choosing. The best submission wins the prize. Essentially it’s a site offering cash payments for solutions, creative work,… Read more
Google services to be reviewed by FTC
June 24, 2011
The Official Google Blog has announced that that Google are being investigated by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. Google say they received notification of the formal review of their business yesterday and will be working with the FTC to answer… Read more
Top level domain “.eBay” to be available in 2012
June 24, 2011
This week a decision was made which will change the Internet as we know it. Up until now there have only been 22 of what are called Top Level Domains, but in the future there will be unlimited choice only restricted by affordability. A Top Level… Read more
Economic impact of Internet discussed at e-G8 Forum
May 26, 2011
John Donahoe participated in a high-profile panel discussion at the e-G8 Forum in Paris, along with other major Internet leaders such as Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, Eric Schmidt of Google, and Jeffrey Bezos of Amazon. The first-of-its-kind event… Read more
The future of mobile shopping
May 19, 2011
At the ChannelAdvisor EU Catalyst conference one of the best sessions was the last, where Google spent half an hour demonstrating their latest technology innovations. If you haven’t installed the Google Goggles app on your mobile then you… Read more
More views on the proposed EU Consumer Rights Directive
April 21, 2011
Following the news at the beginning of the month that the EU is considering new distance selling regulations harmonised across the whole of Europe many organisations are starting to voice concern at two of the proposals. The clauses causing… Read more
Doug McCallum eBay EU VP joins Ocado board
April 14, 2011
Doug McCallum, eBay’s European Senior Vice-President has just become an online grocer. He has been appointed a new non-executive director by Ocado with effect from 3 October 2011. Ocado, established in 2000, now deliver over 21,000 product lines… Read more
EU Consumer Rights Directive threatens your business
April 6, 2011
Thousands of eBay and Amazon sellers could be forced out of business if the proposed amendments to the Consumer Rights Directive are ratified by the European Union. The Directive which is currently being considered by the EU Parliament Internal… Read more
Amazon & Google sued over search result auto-complete
March 14, 2011
MasterObjects, a company that offers solutions to provide immediate search results and suggestions to web users based on the search strings they type, has sued Google and Amazon for infringing their auto-complete search patent. Very simply when you… Read more
eBay own almost half of Magento
February 12, 2011
eBay revealed at their latest analyst day that they own 49% of Magento. Magento announced back in March 2010 that they had received a sizeable investment, but at the time the investor was a not very well kept secret. The revelation by eBay on… Read more
Google Shopping comes to Spain, Italy, Netherlands
February 10, 2011
Google Shopping is the one Comparison Shopping Engine (CSE) that all retailers should be listing their products on. Not only is it free, but by virtue of the “Shopping” tab in Google search results it’s currently one of the highest profile CSEs on… Read more
Is this the end of Comparison Shopping sites?
February 9, 2011
Over on the ChannelAdvisor blog, their CEO Scot Wingo, has just published Same Store Sales for the month of January. Same Store Sales compare how all of ChannelAdvisor’s customers are performing relative to the same period in the previous… Read more
Microsoft Bing “learns” from Google’s search results
February 8, 2011
There’s been an interesting spat recently between Google and Microsoft regarding their search engines. Google noticed that in many cases Microsoft’s Bing search engine was returning the same results as Google themselves would return, even for very… Read more
World IPv6 Day – 8th June, 2011
January 15, 2011
You probably give very little thought to how the Internet works, what technology is used to connect your computer to eBay, PayPal, Amazon, your website, email and the myriad of other sites that you visit every day. There’s a problem though, when… Read more
Google to build catalogue data for products
January 10, 2011
Google are to follow in the footsteps of Amazon and eBay and start to build catalogue data for Google shopping product pages. Google’s product pages consolidate all the information and images that they have about a particular product and what… Read more
FireFox now more popular than IE in the EU
January 5, 2011
FireFox is now the most popular Internet browser in Europe according to StatCounter. In December Firefox took 38.11% of European market share, compared to IE’s 37.52%. This is the first time Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been knocked off the top… Read more
Firefox 4 to add Bing as search option
October 7, 2010
Microsoft have achieved a boost for the Bing search engine, as it’ll be included as a option in the next release of Mozilla’s Firefox browser. Google will retain the number 1 slot as the default search engine on installation of Firefox 4, Bing… Read more
Bing overtakes Yahoo! as No.2 US search engine
September 15, 2010
Bing has over taken Yahoo! as the second most used search engine in the US, although trailing behind Google. According to Neilsen, in August Google’s US search share was 65.1% with Microsoft MSN/Live/Bing at 13.9% edging just in front of Yahoo! at… Read more
5 things to think about before you buy a domain name
August 31, 2010
Previously on 24 TameBay: How not to pick a domain name How to pick a domain name .com or .co.uk? People will argue about this, but here are my thoughts: .co.uk is fine if all your customers are UK based, and always will be…. Read more
How to pick a domain name
August 30, 2010
Yesterday we looked at how not to pick a domain name; today, I’d like to be a bit more positive. Before we start, let me say that this post will have some examples of things that I consider to be bad ideas. Some of them will resemble the branding of… Read more
How not to choose a domain name
August 29, 2010
If you were anywhere near the internet last week, you probably saw the admirable Messrs. Ferreth and Jobs, and their website… ferrethandjobs.com. Ahem. They join a venerable tradition on the net: who can forget whorepresents.com, penisland.net… Read more
EU may allow manufacturers to insist on B&M
February 4, 2010
Amazon Europe VP Greg Greeley has spoken out against European Union proposals which could allow manufacturers to insist they’ll only supply retailers with a “bricks and mortar” physical outlet. The EU is consulting with member states on the proposed… Read more
PayPal reserves, holds : policy changes explained
December 21, 2009
We’ve heard from a number of sellers recently that PayPal seem to be stepping up the number of rolling reserves and 21 day holds they’re putting on accounts at the moment. There’s been some conflicting information going about – not least from PayPal… Read more
Who needs bubble wrap…
May 23, 2009
It’s a tempation familiar to many eBay sellers: your buyer just doesn’t want to pay postage and packing, and for a fleeting moment, you want to slap a stamp on the item itself, and stick it in the post box. Now one Swedish artist (who, as far as I… Read more
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