Hey folks,I'm starting to think about expanding my e-commerce site to Canada, and eventually Europe.I know zilch about what's involved in taking a site to Canada. Can I get away with only supporting US currency? What kinds of legal issues are there?Any tips/resources from those who have been here before are greatly appreciated.Thanks!Andrew
Hello friends,JoeMaps is a new site by me and my cofounder, Joe Harrow. Here's the "elevator pitch": JoeMaps makes it easy to get a map that gives you directions between two places. Unlike traditional maps, where it's often hard to figure out where you are and where you are headed, JoeMaps are customized for your specific route. Just enter your origin or destination, and we'll send you a...
Anyone have any data on the clickthrough rates of share (e.g. Digg, Mixx, Delicious) badges placed in the footers of blogs or news sites, e.g. the Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-112308-allergens-whole-foods-nov23,0,241722.story) or CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/22/obama.vetting/index.html)?
If there's one thing I believe in, it's not waiting for other people to help you or cut you a break -- just learn what you need to learn to make it happen.
Finding good developers is hard... but finding business people to help drive growth is, in my opinion, harder. Especially people who get the Web.Who's had luck? What were you looking for, and where did you look? Where did you ultimately find them?
Also, I heard that you can now embed gTalk widgets in webpages, allowing gTalk to be used for that purpose. I don't know the details or if that's true at all.
It took us months to think of a domain name we really liked. We thought we'd have to settle for something we hated. But we didn't -- we thought of something, and we love it.
Luckily, once we thought of thepoint, not only did it become our favorite, the guy that owned it was cool and reasonable and not in the business of making a buck off of domains.
Hey guys,I'm the founder of The Point (www.thepoint.com), a startup that launched a few months ago for organizing collective action and helping people make things happen.We've got a staff of 10 or so, including 5 or 6 developers. For the last several months, we've been communicating in part using an internal, password-protected blog, mostly as a stand-in for what would normally go into group...
To those of you that work on websites that require users to click a link in an e-mail to validate their accounts: what percentage of users complete the activation process?
What do you think? I see it done all over the place...
I'm going through the process of writing all the various e-mails our site sends out to users, e.g. "Welcome!", "Reset Password," "Confirm E-mail Address," "You have received a private message."1. Is there a template for these things somewhere? All the little decisions about the best language to use are driving me nuts.2. Is it wrong to (more or less) plagurize the "reset password" kind of...