Cyber Monday Spending Hit $733 Million
Merchants affected by Yahoo’s system outage on Monday have more reasons to be upset, as US consumers parted with $733 million online for the day.Unhappy Yahoo merchants may be a little more bitter than they were earlier this week. ComScore reported a 21 percent increase in spending on the Monday after Thanksgiving, compared to the [...]
Yahoo Apologizes For Merchant Outage
The Monday after Thanksgiving contained a hellish several hours for Yahoo and merchants on its order fulfillment platform.Cyber Monday may as well have been a day where Freddy Kruger, Michael Myers, and Jason Voorhees all stopped by Yahoo’s small business operations and killed various merchants in graphic and creative ways. We will give Yahoo’s Rich [...]
Black Friday Shoppers Spend $531 Million Online
A 22 percent increase in sales from last year’s day after Thanksgiving put more money in the pockets of online retailers this year.Online research firm comScore saw a whole lot of money flowing to non-travel retailers from US customers on the traditional kickoff to holiday shopping season. Shoppers opted for the world of dot-coms to [...]
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On the Road Again
My Thanksgiving excursion to Alabama has finally come to an end. I’ll be traveling again tomorrow, so I probably won’t get a chance to announce winners for the SEOlogs community building contest again.Not to worry though. It’s sort of more fun to give out multiple prizes in one day anyway. I have [...] More: continued [...]
MySpace’s Cranky Error Message
MySpace might or might not be able to hold onto its lead in the social networking world. But one thing’s for sure: it really needs to find someone other than Tom to write its error messages. “The function that you are currently trying to use is disabled and will be back shortly,” states one message, [...]
“One Laptop Per Child” A Trendy Search Term
Due to its charitable goals, the One Laptop per Child (OLPC) project deserves a thumbs up. But due to higher-than-planned prices and mixed reactions from would-be recipients, I wasn’t sure that it would get – issues of “deserve” aside – much money. Turns out it is, at least, receiving a lot of traffic. Hitwise authority [...]
Black Friday Website Visitors Mostly Women
The droves of Black Friday shoppers are just warming up. Last week, traffic to websites specifically dedicated to America’s Other Holiday was up 145 percent, dominated by new visitors and young women. Hitwise reports that for the week ending November 17, 2007, visitors to Black Friday websites like bfads.net and BlackFridayAds.com were mostly (61%) women [...]
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