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Glass for a new iPhone 3GS = $200

Wow, I learned yesterday that if you sit down in just the right way with your 50 day old iphone 3Gs in your back pocket you can actually crack the glass screen and Apple won’t cover it because they don’t see it as a hard ware defect and should not be covered by their 90 day warranty. Between this and disabling all of my old items from charging my iphone I’m realizing that Apple, as wired magazin already noticed, truly is evil genius. The affront of charging people the price of the phone for just the glass is simply unconscionable. I just had windows installed in my home and they... 

Twitter is down this morning and analytics is confusing

How will people get their information? Well, I guess I will have to resort to long form writing and updates. I recently did a survey with Jennine over at independent fashion bloggers as part of a panel on What companies look for in a blog. Lindsay Kordik and Jennifer Plantz from Parish PR and Echo Design were also surveyed. There was a discussion around analytics metrics which gets very confusing as web traffic analysis is a young industry and many people use a variety of terms to refer to different or the same things. Here is a great listing to demystify some of those terms: http://empoweryou.ca/2007/04/22/google-web-analytics-glossary/ [Read more...]

Amazon buys Zappos

Amazon announced just now that it buying Zappos. This is incredible news!  Zappos is a very dynamic company and had a great presence at the last SMX Advanced.  They have come along way in search in the last 2 years. [Read more...]

New Shopbop site

A new Shopbop.com site is live with lots of new features to enhance the user experience.  Shopbop now makes it easy to see all the Shopbop fashion designers on one page. The new site also allows users to sort by price and quickly find their favorite designers in the best size for the customer. We have also setup a mini boutique to help users to shop a style that fits them. There is also now a dedicated section to breast cancer awareness. [Read more...]

Ray Ban ecommerce site launch

On July 15th Ray ban recently launched their ecommerce site over at www.ray-ban.com. What I fail to understand is why any modern day ecommerce site would launch a new site exclusively in Flash without an html version. That said their brand is making a comeback among fashionistas. In particalar the ray ban wayfarer is taking off among celebrities. There are even coloring kits to customize your own wayfarers. I personally like the ray ban aviator sunglasses better. So back to the ecommerce store, it is a very nice design and colorful to match the wayfarer style. However this site is very challenging...