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ZDNet report: What works with E-commerce

"E-commerce is on every company's agenda, but implementing a successful, secure system is far from straightforward. Read this indispensible guide to find out how to do it properly"

Basically:

• allow people to "see the product" by zooming in/ 360 degree views via Flash
• Optimise the ordering process (eg, Amazon "One-click" or eBay "Buy It Now")
• Let customers know the progress of the order (eg, FedEX order tracking)
• Make your website geographically aware

(found by Bruce)

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Best ever use of Amazon.com web services

The rudest, most cynical rock-critic of all-time asks for the name of your favourite artist/ band, interrogates Amazon.com and then delivers a blistering (and very very vulgar) attack on that artist using song titles from the database. (Via metafilter)

Now that's what Web Services are really for.

(WARNING: extremely offensive language inevitable)

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PHP 5.0.0 Beta 1 is released

The PHP development community has announce the release of PHP 5 Beta 1. It is available for download in the Downloads Section. A list of changes can be found in the ChangeLog file.

 

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Human beings 1, Spammers 0

"On July 3 2003, cyberangels.nl was re-registered by Spamvrij.nl, a Dutch foundation fighting spam. Previously, the domain was owned by the company Cyberangels, who have been majorly involved in spamming. They felt forced to drop it when the ground under their feet got too hot.

Since MX-records for cyberangels.nl now point to spamvrij.nl too, we get all their mail: bounces, spam complaints and what have you. Have a peek: what kind of mail does a major spammer receive in the course of three days? By now, we have a very precise answer: 6305 mails. Here is the breakdown of those mails."

bruce

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Dreamweaver Serial Numbers

We get lots of mails asking us for Dreamweaver serial numbers. We ask that instead you fill in this form or call USA 800-343-3325, which is free - as we guess that people asking us for serial  numbers prefer not to spend any money at all... Read More

Safari 1.0 released for Mac

Maybe I'll write to the lead developer, Dave Hyatt http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/hyatt/ and ask him when Safrai for Windows will be ready for download..

http://www.apple.com/safari/

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Interview with Eric Meyer - you ask the questions!

In a couple of weeks, we’re interviewing Eric Meyer who is a CSS guru and Standards evangelist at Netscape. Do you have a question you would like to put to him? Mail us by clicking here.

Visit Eric's site for more info about him>>

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Free Sample PDFs of Premium Content

We've received a lot of feedback saying that you want 'try before you buy' Premium Content.

Rather than supply a sample article, which might not be representative of the subject matter or author style of the article you're considering, we're offering the first page of each and every article so you can judge whether it's worth forfeiting the price of a beer to learn about the subject.

So, as from today, the first page of each and every article is available for sample download. Just click on the article you're interested in, and there's a large PDF logo in the properties box. Click the 'sample pdf' logo and check out the first page of the article!

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Official: IE for the Mac terminated by Microsoft

Roz Ho, general manager of Microsoft's Macintosh Business Unit, has confirmed that no future versions of Internet Explorer will be released for the Mac, reports MacUser UK
One of the development team, Jimmy Grewal, says goodbye: "Time for a change. With the end of development of Mac Internet Explorer, I will be leaving Microsoft and moving on to pursue other interests".
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