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According to Google, 9 of the top 20 requests from Google Apps customers are for their accounts to work with more services from Google, not just for the core suite of messaging and collaboration applications. Later this year Google will dramatically accelerate customer access to innovation, and give users the convenience of using any Google [...]

Now, you can visit google.com/accounts and click the link next to "Multiple sign-in." After you sign into your first account, you can sign in with up to two additional accounts from the new accounts menu in the upper right hand corner of Gmail, then easily toggle back and forth between them. You can even open [...]

Our monthly ecommerce merchants meetup that we do here in Atlanta (eBizATL.com) got some really great coverage from Benin Brown who attended our meetup for the very first time on Tuesday night. Benin is a well respected ecommerce professional in the Atlanta area and his take on the event was FANTASTIC! To anyone who considered [...]

An increasing number of users are turning to Facebook to watch their favorite films and online videos rising up to 47 million people this last July. According to recent statistics by comScore, Facebook has reached the third spot among the most popular websites when it comes to broadcasting online videos. Google Sites keeps the number [...]

UPDATED June 15, I now consider my major issues with the Inkfrog changes RESOLVED.  Greg from Inkfrog chimed in below that they were working on a fix to the problems with user friendliness that I detail throughout the second half of the post and sure enough, within hours, a fix was implemented. The listing screen [...]

What is it? LastPass is a free, feature-rich password manager and Web form filler. It has almost every software feature found in any competitor, plus some unique features of its own. Numerous mobility options mean you can use it wherever you are. How does it work? LastPass puts all of your individual passwords behind one [...]

Some ecommerce sites claim to have lost significant amounts of traffic suddenly. This sudden website traffic drop happened at the end of April, 2010. Reportedly Google made between 350 and 550 changes in its organic search algorithms in 2009. This is one of the reasons it is recommended that site owners not get too fixated [...]

14 Cool Google Labs Projects You Should Know – newstimeline.googlelabs.com Google News Timeline is a powerful tool that organizes information from Google News and other sources in a chronological manner. Navigation through time periods, specific dates and time scales (such as days, weeks, months, years or decades) is possible just by specifying what the user [...]

To call Jason Calacanis a “Diva of Technology” I think that would be a fair description in my personal opinion. He has called Steve Jobs of Apple “the oppressive man on the jumbotron” from the 1984 commercial, he had a conniption fit when an employee resigned from his company, and now he is all over [...]

The first beta version of ScribeFire for Chrome is now available for testing. If you are running Google Chrome, you can install it by clicking on the scribefire-0.1.2.0.crx link here. I am working on it right now to post this blog entry as a test of the new plugin in Chrome and it seems to [...]

Here are a few of the payment systems out there on the web maybe you know some of them, doubt if you know them all. Plus there are a few others that did not make the list. But find the one that is right for you and then find one, two or more to back [...]

I am so all over the recent push of new tools from Facebook. The boy faced billionaire CEO of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg outlined a series of simplified and more seamless experiences for users with the Facebook Open Graph platform during Facebook’s F8 developers conference in San Francisco. These social plug-ins, which are dropped into sites [...]

?I’m writing this immediately after spending about 2 hours playing around with wibiya, so please excuse my excitement—but greatest thing since sliced bread definitely comes to mind! I’d seen the bar around on other websites (including this one, look down) but wasn’t sold on it because I was convinced it’d slow down my site.  Well, [...]

Some times it is the little things that count to increase conversions. Aesthetics and look-and-feel are some of the MOST important components of a successful ecommerce shopping platform. And one the the best ways to brand your experience for the buyers is to have a professional look. Using a boring template, or the default buttons [...]

The Mobile Media Converter is a free video and audio converter for converting between popular desktop media formats like MP3, Windows Media Audio (wma), Ogg Vorbis Audio (ogg), Wave Audio (wav), MPEG video, AVI, Windows Media Video (wmv), Flash Video (flv), QuickTime Video (mov) and commonly used mobile devices/phones formats like AMR audio (amr) and [...]

Today eBay takes a serious step towards domination of local classifieds by calling that thing that walked like a duck, quacked like a duck, and had a bill like a duck, A DUCK. Yep, eBay dropped the Kijiji name and replaced it with the oh so clever eBay Classifieds. Wow, now that has a good [...]

As the title sponsor for the eCommerce Aftermath Event in Atlanta, I was fortunate enough to get an interview with the leadership at ProStores.com. ProStores is an eBay Company, they enable small- and medium-sized businesses to sell products and services online. Prostores provides merchants everything they need to set up, design, and manage a customizable [...]

A great friend to me recommended that I meet some guy named Akin. He said to me, "John you have got to get Akin on your show, the man is a genius when it comes to analytics. So he did the introduction and I set up the phone call. I went to Akin’s site at [...]

Hey guys, in 2010 the efforts of ColderICE.com really is shifting and expanding. The ability to grasp some of the best minds and education is a constant obsession for me. Over the last year of doing this blog I have had the opportunity to come in contact with some AMAZING people. True thought leaders in [...]

Guest post by JB (Jeffery Alexander Brathwaite) of 2 The Next Level Day 2 of WordCamp Atlanta was filled with highly educational sessions as well as long awaited and exciting announcements.  The first of these announcements came from the morning keynote Jane Wells. Jane is the User Experience Lead for Automatic the company that created [...]

Stone Mountain, Georgia was the scene for the new eCommerce Merchants – Atlanta Chapter Meetup (eCommerceMeetup.com). The nation organization of ecommerce merchants and vendors have started to sponsor local chapters in cities like Dallas, Chicago, San Francisco and Atlanta. I was tapped to organize the Atlanta chapter which gave me an opportunity to get plan [...]

Guest post by JB (Jeffery Alexander Brathwaite) of 2 The Next Level Happy New Year Everyone, I started out 2010 with something I have been wanting to do for some years now. I attended my first WordCamp. What made this WordCamp so much better is that it was in my own town of Atlanta, GA. [...]

New York (PRESS RELEASE – December 22, 2009) –American Express OPEN, the small business division of American Express, today launched AcceptPay (www.acceptpay.com), an online invoicing and payment solution that can help business owners improve cash flow at a time when customers are taking a longer time to pay. “AcceptPay further demonstrates our commitment to offering [...]

It is with great excitement that we announce our plans to take eCommerce Merchants local to a neighborhood near you in 2010 with the launch of eCommerce Merchants Local Chapters. With over 5 years of successfully developing the most vibrant community of online merchants sharing best practices and educating "By sellers for sellers" we believe [...]

Check out some of the recent improvements made to Google Product Search in the last week or so. Google Product Search is now in beta, but it is far and away the best in search right now of all the platforms! Before I delve into the video which will detail these advancement I want to [...]

I do not actually know how I ended up on this page. I was tooling around with my eBay stuff and put a search term into Google. Out popped a URL that I had never seen before at http://www.AuctionCloud.com so I was like what the hell is that?!? So I clicked on the link out [...]

According to WOOT! This morning I got the following notification for the launch of the new WOOT deal sight. Deals.Woot is completely community driven and has a "Digg like voting system" to promote the hottest deals on the net, just in time for Christmas. If you’re familiar with the submission and voting system of social [...]

After much talk and speculation the code launch for developers is here. Now watch the fun as the development begins! Chromium OS is an open-source project that aims to build an operating system that provides a fast, simple, and more secure computing experience for people who spend most of their time on the web. Here [...]

I just downloaded and am playing with this new Windows native Twitter app. It is no secret but I kind of despise the Adobe Air platform. It sucks up memory like a vacuum and has to be rebooted just to release it back. So Seesmic announced the Preview version Partnered with Microsoft, engineered for Windows [...]

Now submitting your marketplace items to Google Product Search is easier than ever List your products with Google Marketplace Partners and drive sales with Google Product Search – free Google Product Search has teamed with leading marketplaces to ensure regular submission of complete product feeds from their sellers. If you sell items through one of [...]

Today while going through my email and account I noticed a nice little credit added to our Amazon account. We looky loo, we got FREE MONEY, LMAO…Seem that Amazon is give sellers that use the Fulfillment By Amazon services some holiday cheer. What is Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA)? With this innovative service, you send inventory [...]