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November 2007 Archives

Sunday, 25th November 2007

Online Holiday Shopping Season Charges Out of the Gate

So-called "Black Friday," the day after the Thanksgiving holiday in the US, is the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season, and this year online retailers saw traffic surge with shoppers spending over 4/5ths of a billion dollars on Thursday and Friday alone. According to comScore, shoppers plunked down $272 million online on Thursday…

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Web Word Processing Goes Offline With Zoho on Gears

When it's time to do some document creation, there are many reasons to look beyond Microsoft Office. Most of the software available outside of what Microsoft offers, though, can fall short of expectations. One service worth looking into is Zoho. Today, this increasingly popular online office suite implemented full offline functionality for…

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The Economic Idiocy of Blocking Social Media Traffic

This is a guest post by Muhammad Saleem, a social media consultant and a top-ranked community member on multiple social news sites. By now most of you have probably seen the site 'Why Digg is Blocked'. For those that haven't come across it, the site is on a mission to convince webmasters and content producers to reject social media traffic. Here's…

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Poll: Are You Using the Mobile Web?

The NY Times has another of those 'Mobile Web isn't living up to the hype' articles that have become so familiar since, oh, the late 90's when WAP came onto the scene. The NYT quotes statistics from Rethink Research, stating that data will make up only 12 percent of average mobile phone revenue per user in 2007. Further, surveys by Yankee Group…

Richard MacManus comments

Saturday, 24th November 2007

Weekly Wrap-ups

Weekly Wrapup, 19-23 November 2007

Here is a summary of the week's Web Tech action on Read/WriteWeb. For those of you reading this via our website, note that you can subscribe to the Weekly Wrapups, either via the special RSS feed or by email. Note: This is a shortened version of the Wrapup, due to Thanksgiving in the US. Here is a sample of our best posts this week: Amazon Sets…

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