News stories from December 2008
57 News Stories
Stories 1 - 10
- Facebook accounts for 1 in 22 Xmas web visits
- 30 December 2008
- Popular social network Facebook drew one in every 22 website visits among UK consumers over Christmas, new research has found.Hitwise said that Facebook saw its traffic rise by 69 per cent year-on-yea...
- Category: Web 2.0,
- Optimisation 'key reason for e-commerce website redesigns'
- 30 December 2008
- Better optimisation is the most important reason for redesigning e-commerce offerings among the majority of retailers.This is one of the findings of a new study by Internet Retailer, which found that ...
- Category: Web Design,
- Successful e-retailers 'will focus on multi-channel'
- 29 December 2008
- E-commerce organisations likely to see success in 2009 will be those that focus on multi-channel shopping and marketing, according to eMarketer senior analyst Karin von Abrams.The expert predicted tha...
- Category: E-commerce,
- New ad unit offers 'improved' video internet marketing
- 29 December 2008
- A new video ad unit has been launched with the aim of offering greater levels of engagement than more traditional formats.The Un-Roll unit from video search engine blinkx is claimed to be more effecti...
- Category: Rich Media,
- 'Enhance internet marketing with Twitter'
- 24 December 2008
- Microblogging service Twitter should be a serious consideration for businesses when it comes to internet marketing, an expert has suggested.According to E-consultancy's Aliya Zaidi, it is important to...
- Category: Internet Marketing,
- Hitwise: E-commerce traffic surges before Xmas
- 24 December 2008
- UK traffic to online retail websites saw a spike over the weekend before Christmas, Hitwise has revealed.Compared with last year, visits to e-commerce sites rose by 2.6 per cent on December 19th befor...
- Category: E-commerce,
- Mozilla's mobile browser gets second alpha release
- 24 December 2008
- Web design professionals may like to note that the second alpha of Mozilla's Fennec mobile browser has been released.The browser, which is widely seen to essentially be a version of Firefox for mobile...
- Category: Web Design,
- Social internet marketing 'can boost SEO'
- 23 December 2008
- Small businesses could see significant search engine optimisation (SEO) benefits by deploying social media internet marketing campaigns, it has been suggested.Jason Billingsley of Elastic Path Softwar...
- Category: Internet Marketing,
- Web browsers 'set for big changes'
- 23 December 2008
- Today's most popular web browsers are set to undergo significant changes in the next few years, according to comments made by one expert that may interest web design professionals.Speaking to BetaNews...
- Category: Web Design,
- Customer satisfaction high at Amazon, Play.com
- 23 December 2008
- A new study ranking customer satisfaction levels at the top 30 UK e-commerce sites has placed Amazon.co.uk and Play.com in joint first position.The two websites scored 78 out of a total of 100, with t...
- Category: E-commerce,
