Archive for the ‘services’ Category
- eBay Live Auctions is dead - 3 January 2009
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We start the new year with an obituary for eBay Live Auctions, not to be confused with eBay Live!, the eBay convention for buyers and sellers held regularly in cities around the country. As of the first of the year, the website ebayliveauctions.com now redirects to www.ebay.com.
eBay Live Auctions was the division of [...] - Vote for the Crunchies - 30 December 2008
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No, we’re not talking about breakfast cereal. The Crunchies 2008 is a set of awards given to the top technology companies, products and ideas in a given year. The awards are sponsored by GigaOm, VentureBeat, Silicon Alley Insider, and TechCrunch. Last years winners included Facebook, Digg, Tesla Motors, Hulu and the [...]
- BOINC lets your idle computer help science - 26 December 2008
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In this time of giving and over the course of the next few weeks that begins the new year, many of us may be looking for was to give to good causes. As many of us may have difficulties giving financially during these times, we look to alternative ways to help others. If [...]
- Video marketing must account for playback quality - 16 December 2008
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Video can be a fantastic marketing tool. The same video can convey a sense of incompetence if not distributed correctly. Ignoring the difference between an expensively-produced video and simple footage captured with a camcorder, both of which can be effective and important as components of marketing campaigns, the way a video is delivered [...]
- Mahalo introduces human-generated answers to questions - 15 December 2008
Mahalo is an interesting search engine. Relying more on people than algorithms, Mahalo has a staff that builds pages for common search results. When auser submits a query that doesn’t match one of the prepared pages, Mahalo returns search results from many popular search engines - including Google, Yahoo and MSN - allowing the user [...]
- Use Google Docs for simple web forms - 26 November 2008
Lunarpages is a company that offers very robust and generous website hosting plans. Their control panel is easy to use and automates the installation of many popular scripts such as Wordpress, Drupal, etc.
One of their value-added services is a monthly newsletter that they send out to their customers. The most recent issue discusses using Google [...] - Example RFP for new or redesigned website - 24 November 2008
I’ve spoken with many auctioneers recently who are at the beginning stages of a new technology project, usually a website redesign or new build of some kind. The questions everyone asks mostly revolve around the expectations they should have of the person or company being hired to build the website.
I’ve put together some content that [...] - Auction Podcast Episode 12 - If you ship, you fail - 17 November 2008
Hello and welcome to the twelfth episode of the AuctioneerTech Auction Podcast for the week of 17 November 2008. My name is Aaron Traffas, and now that I’ve baited you with the catchy and possibly controversial title, lets examine the importance of local marketing as it relates to Internet bidding as well as a couple [...]
- Auction Podcast Episode 11 - Open source auctioneer - 15 November 2008
One of the reasons AuctioneerTech exists is to make life easier for everyone, including auctioneers. One of the ways this goal is accomplished is by reviewing software that performs a novel or important function. Most of the software covered is open source, and in this episode, we’re going to discuss open source software, explain why [...]
- Hosted Exchange allows users to share Outlook without headache - 5 November 2008
Microsoft Outlook is the best corporate email and scheduling tool. That’s a tough statement to make as an open source advocate, but until the open source equivalent called Evolution matures, Outlook will remain the corporate standard for email, calendar and scheduling.
For personal and small-business email, Outlook sucks. It’s bloated, expensive and has a problem with [...] - ShowMyPC provides free and easy remote support and collaboration - 30 October 2008
As a provider of tech support to users who are many miles away, one of the most valuable tools in the box is remote access. The ability to control the computer of a remote user to walk him through software installation or troubleshooting has greatly increased the accuracy and speed of support.
On the other side [...] - Ustream provides easy, free live video streaming on any website - 23 October 2008
Imagine being able to easily stream live video of your events. Imagine being able to embed that video on your website along with an optional chat window. What would such a system be worth to you? Ustream does all these things for free.
After creating a free account on ustream.tv, you can click the broadcast now [...] - Google AdWords provides targeted audience exposure - 19 October 2008
Google is a mammoth company, slowly weaving its way into every corner of the Internet by offering free services that are better than the competing for-pay services. The development of these free services is not cheap, especially when Google allegedly requires only 80% of their employees’ attention through their Innovation time off program which encourages [...]
- New resources list aggregates auction products and services - 16 October 2008
It’s time for a little housekeeping. In case you didn’t notice, the new resources page was published a few days ago. Its goal is to list various offerings from various companies and vendors serving the auction industry. If you don’t see a product listed, it’s due to an oversight and not an agenda. If you [...]
- OpenDNS makes Internet faster, safer and cleaner - 14 October 2008
Over the last several months, there have been many security bulletins about the vulnerabilities found in one of the fundamental technologies that makes the web work called DNS. DNS stands for domain name system. It’s a fairly complex system, but abstractly it’s fairly simple.
Every device on the Internet is accessed by Internet protocol (IP) address, [...] - eBay eliminates checks and money orders, promotes PayPal - 28 September 2008
eBay recently announced that in late October it will be eliminating checks and money orders as valid payment options for eBay sales. Remaining valid payment methods are as follows.
PayPal, owned by eBay
ProPay, partnered with eBay
Credit or debit card payments direct to seller
Payment upon pickupThere are several categories that are exempt from the payment restrictions, including [...]
- Adobe alternatives make PDF easier, cheaper - 22 September 2008
I admitted on Saturday that there were indeed some good uses for the PDF. If, after analyzing the situation, PDF seems like the right tool for the job, here are some ways to make its use less painless and less expensive.
Adobe has two products related to PDF use and creation. Adobe Acrobat Reader is the [...] - phpList provides free and easy bulk email list management - 18 September 2008
One of the best marketing techniques for auctioneers and everyone else who is running a business is proper management of an email list. Keeping a list of emails in Excel and copying that list into the BCC field of Outlook does NOT count.
There are rules put in place due to the proliferation of spam. The [...] - Proxibid on Chrome - 11 September 2008
My friend and fellow auctioneer Don Hamit pointed out to me at the KAA auctioneer contest yesterday that the recently-released Chrome doesn’t work with the recently-funded real-time Internet bidding platform Proxibid. I was able to get the Proxibid Bidder App to run in Chrome on XP and Vista. Here’s how to get it, and other [...]
- Twitter keeps friends and followers up to date - 11 September 2008
Twitter is a popular social network that can be called ‘micro-blogging’.
Think of it as a way to post updates about what you’re doing. These updates can be sent by text message to update your status on twitter.com. Through the use of various plugins, you can incorporate these status updates into Facebook, MySpace, Wordpress, Friendfeed and [...] - Secunia checks your PC for vulnerabilities - 9 September 2008
The tubes are full of baddies. It’s not enough anyomore to simply install an antivirus package and pay your yearly virus tax. Antivirus is becoming outdated. Granted, it’s still a requirement for all but the most elite computer users, but in the time of the always-on Internet connection we need to protect ourselves against all [...]
