Saturday, November 25, 2006

How to design web - Buyers caught in busy Web

Wal-Mart, Amazon get online overload High traffic disrupted Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s Web site for much of yesterday, one of the year's busiest shopping days.
Courtesy photo Joel Sartore of Lincoln photographs one of the animals on exhibit at Riverside Zoo on Nov. 17. Sartore is a contract photographer for National Geographic, and photos he took at the zoo will eventually be displayed on the Nation Geograpic Web site.
NEW YORK - High traffic disrupted Wal-Mart Stores Inc.s Web site for much of Friday, one of the years busiest shopping days. The Walt Disney Co. also had problems handling the rush of online activity Friday, while Amazon.com Inc.s site had brief disruptions a day earlier due to a Thanksgiving Day sale on Microsoft Corp.s Xbox 360 video game machines. For much of Friday morning,
NEW YORK -- It seems like a great idea: making a computer that's somewhere between the size of a cell phone and a laptop, for people to carry around and surf the Web.
One year after being added to the Armys Web-based education system, the Rosetta Stone foreign-language learning program has registered more than 66,000 students.
Businesses are bumping up the amount they spend on web technology to make the workplace more efficient and improve communications, according to a survey by Google and the CBI.
Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Cloaking for Religious Reasons - Is Link-bait Ruining The Web? - Yahoo To Test Image Advertising On Mobile Phones - Shopping Cart Abandonment Rates - The Reality Of SEO, and more.
Wal-Mart, Amazon and Disney all get overwhelmed as cyber-buyers chase bargains.
James Bond actor Daniel Craig is the second most searched for celebrity among UK web users, according to web analysis firm Hitwise.