In an effort to expedite checkout and prevent shopping cart abandonment, retailers like Amazon have pushed “One Click” purchasing and recently introduced “Amazon PayPhrase“. That focus is even more important for time-sensitive e-commerce sites like …

A couple weeks ago I wrote about the Mindy Grossman’s great perspective about hiring talent – look for tiggers not eeyores.
The below quote is related and comes from Peter Brooke’s new book, “A Vision …

In what Ad Age is calling “the Season of Scrooge”, households are predictably cutting back on holiday shopping plans. An Accenture study has shown that consumers will be more cost conscious, shop primarily at discount …

My sister Randi Spoon is a very talented fashion designer. She just graduated from Syracuse University and their College of Visual and Performing Arts. Her portfolio is now available on her new website, RandiSpoon.com. Enjoy:

I will be at the Montgomery Technology Conference through Wednesday. If you will be attending or are in the Santa Monica area – please let me know!

Introducing http://news.ryanspoon.com – I encourage you to test it out!
About a year ago, I weened myself off of Digg (at least partially) and moved onto Hacker News. Hacker News is the best mix of technology …

While seeing a movie over Thanksgiving (the new James Bond), I noticed the following signage for the new movie “Confessions of a Shopaholic.” The movie is based on the “Shopaholic” book series – but it …

I wrote about JibJab’s terrific viral marketing alongside High School Musical 3 (which grossed $42m over the weekend) and said that web / social marketers should aspire to create such engaging, cleverly branded campaigns.

Try JibJab …

Techmeme is filled with major tech sources covering Microsoft’s Windows 7 debut (TechCrunch, D6 Highlights, WebWare, Engadget, and many more).
But the action is also being covered actively (perhaps even more actively) on Twitter. In the …

Want celebrity gossip? The online destination of choice is PerezHilton.com – which, according to Perez, boasts larger readership than People Magazine (the perennial #1 print magazine). That success has turned Perez into a star – …

Smaato is a mobile-advertising company that recently took a 3.5mm investment round.
Engadget is one of the biggest tech toys blogs on the web – often focusing on the mobile world.
The similarities extend to their logo… …

Can web traffic and data determine the likely outcome of the 2008 election primaries? I put each of the major candidates through Quantcast and the results are quite revealing. The charts below are estimated ‘unique …