You’ve decided that an eCommerce shopping cart fits your business model and you want to give selling online a shot. But there are more than 300 carts out there – how do you choose?
Just ask yourself about the following seven subjects, and you’ll know what to look for and what to avoid on your cart hunt.
If you run a small business and use a website to attract and inform customers, you might consider adding an online shopping cart to your sales campaign. Let’s find out if an eCommerce cart fits your business model, and what a shopping cart can do for your business!
The results are in: the 2008 Crunchies recognized Google Reader, Windows Live Mesh, Cooliris and others as the most compelling startups, Internet and technology innovations of the year. This was the Crunchies’ second annual competition, co-hosted this year by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider and TechCrunch.
Online voting for the Crunchies ran Dec. 15 through Jan. 7, with the awards ceremony held last Friday in San Francisco. Here, in the order they were presented, are the winners and runners-up:
Best Application Or Service
Google Reader (winner)
MySpace Music (runner-up)
Best Technology Innovation/Achievement
Windows Live Mesh (winner)
Facebook Connect (runner-up)
Best Design
Cooliris (winner)
Animoto (runner-up) (more…)
The 2009 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES®), the world’s largest tradeshow for consumer technology, wrapped up over the weekend in Las Vegas. Anything and everything new for the Web was there. Gadgets for the geeks in all of us. True, attendance was a smaller this year – but the event still attracted 2,700 exhibitors, including 300 new technology companies.
So, as your Uncle Fred always liked to say, what’s the one big thing that happened there? What themes and trends and might-be-someday-soon’s really got everyone’s attention? Hard to say. There was a lot of buzz and PR-speak about “personalization meets content” technology and the “automobile’s convergence with consumer electronics” (don’t yawn just yet).
But it livened up a bit with product debuts early in the show that included a wireless wristwatch phone from LG with video chat and text messaging capabilities and from NETGEAR, which introduced an Internet TV player and a 3G Mobile Broadband router. Web TV, a product not quite ready for primetime only a few years ago, was again in the spotlight this year according to The Rebirth of “Web TV” from Sarah Perez in ReadWriteWeb. And blogger Tech-Evangelist was especially interested in the 3D Home Theater Technology at 2009 Consumer Electronics Show.
We all have one or two tough cookies on our holiday shopping list. What to get the person who seems to already have all the latest and greatest tech toys on the market? (more…)