Google has launched its own browsers (after rumors for so so long…) - codename “Google Chrome” to party in the crowd of IE, Firefox, Opera & Safari.
So does it mean web designers need to cater for (yet) another browser compatibility when it comes to CSS, Javascript etc? We shall see!
It better be good. Let’s see what’s the genius of Google have to offer in a browsers this time soon. The google browser download should be available anytime from now.
Some Chrome’s Highlights
Includes a brand-new JavaScript virtual based Javascript compiler from a Danish group called V8.
Tabs wil go above the window, not below the address bar
Location bar will support auto-complete functions and suggests web pages you’ve previously visited (or those you haven’t)
There will be a privacy mode (geek terms - “Incognito” Window) that allows you to surf without saving any personal history. (interesting, wonder how google suppose to deliver us more relevant ad?)
Chrome will constantly download updated information about web sites with malicious codes
E-commerce would not be complete without FULFILLMENT - The most important process which get the merchandise Picked, Packed, and Shipped to the hands of your customers. If your customers is getting their orders shipped to them both “in time and in good condition” (manage expectation!), voila! You probably have just sealed a lifetime customer.
Mom, i got shipped to you (in 1 piece) !!!
He/She will be a happy client that will buy repeatedly (and more!) from you. He/She will even help spread the word (WOM is powerful) around on how superb your service is, and leave a testimonial on your stores or a 5-star rating (we now have customer rating feature on webShaper!) on your products that will help you earn the trust for new visitors coming to your online store so that they will buy without hesitate. All these will have a positive impact that will ignite the money loop that will grow your business further and beat the competition!
5-star-rating from your clients - worth dying for
Now you understand how important fulfillment is. No online merchants can afford to screw up, or letting your shipping company screw up. and that’s why it’s important to pick your shipping partner right from the start. When it comes to the world of shipping, there’s also the very famous Big 3, namely UPS, Fedex and DHL. Among them, UPS is the indisputable big brother (more than 100 years old) among them all. UPS is so big that, if today UPS decide to quit delivery services and join the airlines business competing with AirAsia in the “business of shipping people”, they will be the 3rd largest airline in the world.
Just imagine all these planes turned into passengers plane…
An UPS truck delivery driver makes sure the packages in his truck are organized (we wonder, do they check on parcel bomb too?)
Sleeping with the enemy, You gotta be kidding me!
Study the competition, let the figure blows you away!
UPS is best known for its superb IT infrastructure and value-added services delivered via software tools. And we are proud to annouce that - webShaper e-commerce now supports UPS Tracking, UPS Rates & Services, UPS Address Verification (US Address only) as well as Shipping Label (Airway Bills) Printing directly from orders management in webShaper e-commerce! We are the first company in Malaysia (very likely in ASEAN) that does this, for more details, take a look at UPS-Ready Shopping Cart.
Don’t miss out the nice cartoon clips by UPS below >
Hold on a second… before you leaving this post, another reason for you to sign up UPS service? Mamamiya… i’m sure they can easily double their account if every delivery employee look and dress like this!
But reality is always cruel
well… don’t lose the focus! Most important is your package get delivered in time and in good condition!
Happy selling online!
Satisfy your curiosity, learn more about UPS here!
If you run a small business and operate an online store, sometimes don’t you just wish you could just engage with the prospects who dropped by at your website which would like to have an instant chat with you so you can give them the help they desire and close their sales right away?
For most of the small online store, you probably don’t have additional budget for a professional chat tool like this. But I guessed most of you do use MSN web Messenger or Yahoo Messenger (MSN now supports Yahoo ID too, vice versa).
So do you know that you can actually setup a MSN Chat on your Online Store Page? Just follow the simple steps below. All you need is a MSN ID and also basic knowledge of putting up HTML code on your existing web page.
Setup MSN web Chat on your Online Store Page
1) Logon to the URL below, sign in using your existing MSN messanger ID & Password.
2) Choose how you want to be seen on the web. You can allow anyone to see your status and send you messages. Or, you can limit access to certain websites.
3) Click on “Create HTML” on the left menu. You will reach a page where you can configure the Display Type (Either IM Window, Button or Icon), Size & Theme Color.
4) Once configure, just copy the HTML code generated for you at bottom page and paste it to your web page. As simple as that!
5) Sign-in to your MSN and see how it works! Start engaging your online visitors today (see below screen shots). If you concern about privacy issue, you can always register a new msn live ID just for the business use!
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Notice the name card i’m holding, it got super huge fonts that you can see from 2 miles away.
Guy kawasaki (famous apple evangelist and silicon valley VC) and also Vinton Cerf (father of TCP-IP) were here - Thanks to Malaysia for being the host of WCIT 2008, we have a chance to meet some of the very top brass of Silicon Valley.
Off topic:- If you wondered where i got the CNET t-shirt, i enrolled in Cnet Malaysia back in 2002 as an intern before it was dissolved - i swear the closure got nothing to do with me. Now CNET is happily acquired by CBS for a whopping USD 1.8 Billion and damn! i don’t get a single cents out of it!
So i’m not going to delve in details here. I will just touch on some of the highlights that manage to leave an impact (very likely less than 72 hours) to my tiny little brain.
First on Guy Kawasaki.
One most inspiring thing mentioned is D.I.C.E.E. - the way of creating a truly world class products that sells like nobody business (think ipod & iphone), else risk being listed here. Btw,
If you miss the event, you can still grab some of the crucial point of the presentation by Guy here at:
Vinton Cerf gave another inspiring speech in a special appearance arranged by MDEC 2 days after guy kawasaki. He touches on the very future of the Internet, IPV6, Silicon Valley Wannabe, Mobility etc.
One interesting he brought up is how many “silicon wannabe” that fails. reasons is you cannot just simply copy silicon valley without realizing the substances that make it successful. He describe Silicon Valley as an “fine-tuned turbo engine” where all the components fits into each other perfectly to keep pumping out great and optimum horse power.
So What does it take to be Silicon Valley?
Venture Capitalist (VC)
Unlike the traditional banks, VC dare to risk in new venture without holding on any collateral, it’s like they are banking on the idea, the business model and the team behind it. Out of every 10 investments, VC expects 6 to fail, 3 to do so-so and 1 hitting the jackpot.
Don’t shoot capitalism, embrace them.
Matured Capital Market
US got Nasdaq. Singapore got Sesdaq and we follow with Mesdaq. IPO is an important route for high growth technology company to gather capital and expand their business, it’s also the most crucial channel for VC to cash out on their startup investment (apart from being bought out by the industry stalwarts).
NASDAQ - Where you find Micro$oft, Intuit, Intel, Cisco and lot more!
Supply of Trained Employees In technology business, it’s all about the People. Silicon Valley doesn’t accidentally “grow” around top university like Stanford. It’s the continuous brain capital supplied by the Top Universities around the area that made Silicon Valley. Likewise, we have our Multimedia University (MMU) too, the only different i can see is that MMU is planted there as part of the MSC Grand Plan. Isn’t it ironic this ERP company claiming they will lose half their staff strength moving to MSC Cyberjaya?
Do we have enough supply of geeks?
Steve, where are you?
Access to Experienced Manager
Very simple fact, young and bright engineers starting up companies need experienced leaders that can guide them and lead the company forward. Just like why Sergey Brin and Larry Page hired Eric Schmidt and even made him a billionaire.
3 makes a company
Tolerate Failure
Vinton mentioned Steve Jobs highlight this point to ex-UK prime minister, Tony Blair when he asked the Top CEOs of Silicon Valley on what makes Silicon Valley a success. Steve Job said:”I dunno what makes us successful, but i think every CEOs here in the room have fail at least once before.” Seems like in Silicon Valley, Failure is the rule rather than the exception, remember, what doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger. See how apple co-founder steve wozniak learned from failure.
This is very interesting, who would have thought this is one of the “substance” of success? And can failure be bought with $? (even if you can, nobody sane would buy failure) If not, how do you replicate it?
I would say it’s part of the cultural trait that’s hard to mimic. In US generally, failing is not seen as a bad mark of incompetency, people are willing to give you the 2nd chance (or more). In Malaysia and many parts of the world, Failure is being seen as a bad mark of incompetence. If you fail once, not just VC will ditch you, probably your girlfriend will dump you and you stand a risk of your parents disowning you too.
Market Size
Is the domestic market big enough? If not, then think Global, how an you reach and serve the market outside of the country? You gonna THINK BIG! ACT Locally by moving forward one step at a time.
Notice one point missing ? Yes, he did not mention anything about HARDWARE aka building or so called “infrastructure”. Silicon Valley is what it is today all because of the “software”, it has got little to do with hardware.
The blind spot in our MSC Grand Plan (and alot other silicon valley wannabe) has been the sole focus on hardware instead of software. Why? it’s because you can buy your way through hardware and you get instant gratification! Hooray! As long as you got the cold hard cash, hey, u can even hire alien to build highest building in the world to fill your ego. Make no mistake that there’s no shortcut for software (ppl development), it takes a long long time to develop people and talent. Money just cannot buy you this shortcut no matter how deep your pocket is.
As an entrepreneur myself, can you tell me why Malaysia need Yet another MSC Cyber city? In what way does it really benefit the technopreneur? Does a nice office transform a mediocre programmer into a super hacker that can cramp up codes like nobody business? Does paying higher rent psf that enrich the property owner instead of yourself make your product more likely to succeed in the market? It just doesn’t make sense to me. All i see is that it only benefits the contractors.
Instead, why don’t the government just focusing on bringing up the level of the skilled knowledge workers and give the country a cheap, reliable and abundant broadband and let the entrepreneurs take care of themselves.?
Last but not least, Vincent also highlight that FDI (Foreignt Direct Investment) will create jobs, but not creating wealth. To create wealth, you need to own the company. So if you are reading this, why wait? start your own company today and if you are thinking of e-commerce, Don’t forget to drop us an email to find out how we can help you on that. Nite.
Check out our latest newspaper print ad below appearing on Star Intech. PC Fair is one of the most happening consumer event in Malaysia (only Matta Fair come close…), drawing tens of thousands of crowd and also multi-millions worth of business to the exhibitors in just over a 3 days period.
But heck, what happened after PC Fair? Don’t merchants want more sales and more importantly, repeat purchase? So do you offer them a way to order and buy from you again? After all, PC Fair is held only 3 times a year and each time it lasts for only 3 days. While on the Internet, consumers are hunting for deals (especially for technology products like Mobile Phones, Notebooks, Digital Cameras, PDAs, GPS devices etc ) 24 x 7 x 365 a year. Don’t you want to grab a piece of the market?
Below are just some eg of what our clients did - throwing their own pcfair.
www.orderzones.com
www.renoraine.com.my
www.notebookshop.com.my
www.freshgear.com.my
www.ewarehouse.com.my
Last but not least, our ad! Did i mention we will help you to Get Free Traffic if you are a technology product retailers purchasing our e-commerce solution during this promotion period?
Imagine a tool that can give you some insight (just some, but at least better than nothing) into what people are buying and selling online, this would be killer feature, right?
So Google checkout team has built Google Checkout Trends , which aggregates the sales data of Google Checkout merchants (attention, only google checkout merchants, this doesn’t take merchants who use Paypal, Bill Me Later and other means in account) and charts it in a matter of seconds showing you what’s “hot”, and what’s “not”.
So if you’re curious in how sales of Apple ipod or Microsoft Zune compare, just visit Checkout Trends for a glimpse into online shopping.
Tips - you want a better tool which can give you a better picture on what’s sought-after items? then you should checkout ebay’s seller central on what’s HOT: They have a list of free (Ebay Pulse) and paid (marketplace research) information which will give you a good kickstart
I think that’s why webmastermalaysia.com has throw a gathering on 17th, Nov 2007 @ Starbucks, KL Sentral so all geeks can have a nice real face-to-face chat (please, no more MSN, Yahoo, SKYPE, or GTalk) and get to know who behind all those forum nick names.
How do you convert your document to a PDF file, assuming that you are not using your own PC for your work and you want it fast but the computer you are using it now doesn’t have any word processor nor adobe pdf creator software built-in?
It’s simple, just fire up any web browsers, send a blank email to pdf@koolwire.com with the document you wish to convert and it’s done within minutes. cool?
Indeed, it’s all about web2.0 productivity.
If you still prefer a desktop solution, look no further than the pretty neat Free PDF Plugin called PrimoPDF.
Apple has annouced the avaibility of Safari for Windows. Ok, you might say, it’s just another browsers, why would you bother? But for a lot of web developers, it’s good news. Eg Neowave can now test the application and Ecommerce CSS Template Design using just Windows PC. So if your online store design works well and looks sharp on IE, Firefox, Opera and Safari, then you bet most of the customers will see and experience your storefront the same way you do.
A must read in helping you to understand how Google works and how one its top secret department called “Search Quality” actually determine the fall or rise of your websites. and Yes, they are playing God - Internet God, period.
Do you know that the search-quality team actually makes about a half-dozen major and minor changes a week to the mathematical formulas that power the Google? (This is why nobody.. and we really mean NOBODY except those in the Google Search Quality Insider can guarantee you top ranking in Google organic results via whatever SEO whitehat optimization or blackhat tricks.)
This is the closest you ever got into Google search secrets…
If there’s some search-related problems, any of Google’s 10k plus employees can use its “Buganizer” system to report it to the Search Quality Team.
Google has preferred pages old enough to attract others to link to them. (comment: yes, history and age does matter, just like a business reputation, longer you stay in business, the more it says about you, generally.)
QDF - “Query Deserves Freshness” will actually determine whether a particular search should return “New and Current” content or not. If a topic is “HOT”, for eg a sudden burst of emerging topics carrying out the topic keywords in blogosphere, then most likely the users will want “current information” which Google will choose to return.
Google use over 200 variables (or so called “signals”) to determine the ranking of your web pages. PageRank (PR) is only one of the signal.
Google has a technology called “Classifiers” - it can tell, for example, whether someone is searching for a product to buy, or for information about a place, a company or a person.
No online merchants can afford to screw up, or letting your shipping company screw up. and that’s why it’s important to pick your shipping partner right from the start. When it comes to the world of shipping, there’s also the very famous Big 3, namely UPS, Fedex and DHL. Among them, UPS is the indisputable big brother (more than 
Apple has annouced the avaibility of Safari for Windows. Ok, you might say, it’s just another browsers, 
