http://dailydrive.podbean.com Information to Build Your Business Online in 5 Minutes or Less Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:12:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Have an e-commerce website?  SSL certificates are necessary for online transactions on your website.  You spent the money on the certificate, so why not get the brownie points from your customers for it - make sure your customers see your SSL certificate seal on your website.  After all, sometimes brownie ... http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/11/12/seal-of-approval-for-e-commerce-transactions/ The banner ad, the original online advertising, hits a milestone - 15 years since it first graced our screens.  This is a reflective long back on the banner ad and what it currently means today in the crowded space of online advertising. http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/11/04/banner-ad-birthday/ Move over FriendFeed, here comes Cliqset.  Not familiar with either?  No problem, they are easy to use and worthwhile applications to set up an account with.  For more information on Cliqset, just go to Cliqset.com. http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/10/30/click-on-cliqset-and-join-the-new-clique/ Favicons are an often overlooked in the website development process - a small detail that has a big impact on the professional branding of your website.  Listen to me babble my way through this podcast or check out an excellent blog post by a co-worker of mine on the subject ... http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/10/27/favicon-a-small-detail/ "Help, there's a raccoon in my browser!" - How to pro-actively keep your website free of varmints by checking the things that are behind the scenes that you don't normally see. http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/10/01/raccoons-chicken-coops-websites-and-browsers/ Google Wave will be released today - but only to 100,000 select few (kinda nice when you're a big enough company that 100,000 is a 'select few').  How is Google selecting those 100,000 to send invitations too?  Here is an the basic criteria.  And for a general overview guide on ... http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/09/30/how-to-get-an-invite-to-google-wave/ Google Wave is slated to be released next week - will it live up to the hype or will it just be an over-sized ripple?  Either way, it is an application that has potential to make our online communications easier. http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/09/25/google-waves-hello/ Social bookmarking services such as Delicious.com can be useful for storing and sharing all your bookmarks.  Free from your browser's toolbar, you can access them anywhere and the social networking aspect of it allows you to use crowd-sourcing to find interesting links or to promote your own website or blog. http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/09/24/using-social-bookmarking-websites/ Good content deserves share buttons.  Allow others to easily share your content online by adding share buttons and also get more backlinks to your site. http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/09/23/pushing-peoples-share-buttons/ Cloud computing is a buzz word that has been around for awhile.  Basic cloud computing has been around for many years, but the intend of the buzz word is geared towards a more elaborate use of it than we have now. http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/09/10/overview-of-cloud-computing/ Too many people use simple passwords to protect their valuable online accounts.  If your password is "password" or "123456" or some other obvious or simplistic word, then it is time to change it today! http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/09/09/whats-your-password/ The browser wars are better than ever - with all the competition, there are a number of great browsers to choose from.  If you like Firefox and you use a lot of social networking websites, then you need to try Flock.com. http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/09/03/a-new-browser-to-flock-to/ Online photo sharing is popular, and for good reason.  Keep all your valuable photos online so you can access them anywhere.  Upload business related photos to promote your products or services.  Feed a Twitter or Facebook stream or blog entries.  There are many uses.  Here I side-by-side two of the ... http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/08/20/my-friend-flickr-vs-my-picasa-pal/ If you are using the (excellent) shopping cart (with the boring name of) ProductCart by EarlyImpact, you can now synchronize your online data with your Quickbooks data. http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/08/14/syncing-your-e-commerce-store-to-quickbooks/ Like Facebook, but hate the bloated interface and the applications?  Well, looks like they are planning a Lite version of their system that will have more of a stripped down Twitter-like feel to it.  More of a direct assault on Twitter, or a step towards a FriendFeed integration - the ... http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/08/13/facebook-without-all-the-bloat/ After years of just saying "Google", search engine competition is really heating up.  Facebook shows it's intent to crack the real-time search market by acquiring FriendFeed - a company of ex-Google engineers.  Google counters with a preview of it's new search engine which is code-named Caffeine. http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/08/12/facebook-gives-google-caffeine-jitters/ You have a web form and you are getting a bunch of gibberish being submitted.  What is it and what do you do about it?  Sounds like a spambot, but is the cure worse for your business than the spambot itself? http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/07/02/captchaing-spambots/ Google is testing out a new advertising tool called Product Ads.  If you have your products listed on Google Base, then you are eligible to try out this new offering. http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/06/23/google-pitches-product-ads/ A huge spike in my blog traffic - what gives?  I must be going viral? http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/06/22/going-viral-without-the-cooties/ There is a lot of interesting changes going on in the world of search - it's not just Google-oriented anymore.  While Google still is in the driver's seat, there's a new wave of competition trying to flatten it's tires. http://dailydrive.podbean.com/2009/06/12/the-changing-world-of-search/