Required Reading

Ecommerce

• Checkout Inspiration From Top Converting Sites
• One in three web users afraid of shopping online
• Taking shopping cart abandonment too far?
• The 25 factors behind brilliant brand / domain names
• Barcode Scanning Now Available for Google Product Search on Android
• Shopping 2.0: Current E-commerce Trends (Redux)
• Goal Abandonment Rate in Google Analytics Explained
• What matters most to consumers: free shipping, low prices, or coupons?
• How The Porn Guys Do Things
• How The Porn Guys Do Things Pt. 2
• Google Analytics Mega-Post: 23 Google Analytics Tips and Tweaks

Productivity

• How to Be More Productive In Your Business

• The Five Reasons Why You Are Not Fulfilling Your Potential

• Losing Gracefully: What to Do When You Can’t Deliver

  • China

    • China: Where Patience Meets Speed

    • Foreign-registered companies face China tax scrutiny

    • Analyst: cyberwarfare arms race with China imminent

    • China fails to silence voice from the grave

  • Databases:

    • Facebook, Hadoop, and Hive

  • Development:

    • Yahoo! Pipes and the HTML5 canvas tag

    • Linked Data is Blooming: Why You Should Care

    • Designing a Custom WordPress Theme - Working with a Designer

    • Designing a Custom WordPress Theme - Working with a Designer [PART 2]

  • Random Others:

    • Blog Launch Check List

    • A Brief Letter to Startup CEOs, CPOs & Founders

    • Behind the Scenes Outsourcing with Chaunna

    • 5 Reasons To Buy David Meerman Scott’s World Wide Rave (And 2 Reasons Not To)

    • About Those iPhone App Store Revenue Numbers

    • The Rackspace Cloud Talks PaaS On Analyst Podcast

    • Not Being a Real Person: The #1 Self-Development Anti-Hack

  • SEO

    • Directory Submissions for Success

    • How MailChimp Uses CoTweet

    • 5 Lessons Celebrities Can Teach Us About Facebook Pages

    • Google AdWords, PPC Industry Becoming Far More Cut Throat

    • Headsmacking Tip #13: Don’t Accidentally Block Link Juice with Robots.txt