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- eBay Acquires Nonprofit Fundraising Tool MissionFisheBay has been acquiring companies left and right recently and today is announcing the acquisition of yet another startup (this time a nonprofit)—MissionFish. MissionFish has actually been powering eBay’s Giving Works program, which allows sellers to donate items and proceeds from sales to charitable causes and enables buyers to donate to these causes. MissionFish, which is an independent nonprofit organization, screens nonprofits that want to become members, and processes the millions of do...
- Fake Bin Laden photo picked up by U.K. pressAt least five British newspapers and one broadcaster used a fake photo of a dead Bin Laden in their coverage. Tabloid Watch has a gallery showing each paper, and here’s the example from the Mirror: The offending papers include the Sun, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Times of London. The broadcaster was Sky News. Here’s a blog post from a Telegraph editor that explains why the photo is fake. Here’s the Los Angeles Times saying that no photos of a dead Bin Laden have been released: Accordi...
- AudioMicro Partners With Microsoft: Free Music, Sound Effects For Office 2010 UsersAudioMicro, a site where you can find royalty-free stock music and sound effects backed by DFJ Frontier and Fotolia, has struck a deal with Microsoft to provide music and sound effect files to Microsoft Office 2010 users worldwide. Under the terms of the licensing and distribution deal, Microsoft Office 2010 users are able to select from a hand-picked collection of over 1,500 music tracks and sound effects at Office.com to use with any Microsoft Office project. The partnership is noteworthy bec...
- The Royal WeddingUnder cool, gray skies billions watched from outside Westminster Abbey and on television worldwide as 1900 invited guests inside witnessed as Prince William and his longtime girlfriend Kate Middleton were married in one of the largest events in London in decades. A little over an hour after they arrived at the Abbey to be married, the couple emerged on a red carpet and onto the streets to a peal of bells and into a horse-drawn carriage, heading toward Buckingham Palace. The prince had married...
- Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout DesignHere is the harsh reality of e-commerce websites: according to recent e-commerce studies, at least 59.8% of potential customers abandon their shopping cart (MarketingSherpa puts it at 59.8%, SeeWhy at 83% and MarketLive at 62.14%). The main question is why do customers abandon their shopping cart so often? Is there some fundamental mistake that designers of e-commerce websites do very often? Are there any common guidelines or rules of thumbs that make it more difficult for our users to pur...
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