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Three Highly Effective Home Pages: What We Can Learn
The website home page has gone through many transitions. We've seen the brochure-style page, the links-galore page and the Flash-frenzied page, to name a few. And, while many visitors come to sites through specific channels and hit specific landing pages, the home page is still a place to make your brand stand out. Let's have a look at...

Ask.com Comes Full Circle
Ask.com is going back to its roots. The site is once again positioned to be a question-and-answer portal rather than a search engine, exactly the way they started in the Ask Jeeves days.
Is Twitter a Branding Wasteland?
According to an analysis* by digital agency 360i, Twitter users have little interest in your brand. Examining tweets, 360i found that of 90 percent of messages sent by "real people" (non-businesses) just 12 percent even mention a brand and most of those are about Twitter itself.
Ratings and Reviews a Big Hit for ShopNBC
Yesterday we learned that PowerReviews had joined Google’s Product Reviews Program to provide user-generated ratings and reviews for e-commerce merchants. Today we hear from Google’s other partner in the program, Bazaarvoice, announcing that its ratings and reviews social commerce platform has been a huge success for ShopNBC across...

Openbravo Establishes Place in Open-source ERP Market
A 320-percent increase in downloads during the first half of 2010 has made Openbravo the leading Web-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) provider for small and medium-sized businesses. The open-source ERP solution has now been downloaded more than 1.7 million times in more than 50 countries worldwide.
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