Friday 27 April 2007

April's Latest Web News

Latest web news that could affect your business now or in the future...

27/4/07
Amazon.com open up worldwide distribution centres for use by independent sellers!

If you're an independent seller that sells products online on your own website, on eBay, wherever - you can now let Amazon take care of the shipping and packaging for you. You can even send Amazon stock to store for you, ready to ship when the orders come in. How? Through Amazon's Web Services intiative - which includes the Fulfillment program. You will effectively pay for shipping twice, however, it saves costs like needing your own warehouse and staff to manage that warehouse!

Full Story here > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/27/technology/27amazon.html?_r=2&ref=technology&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

18/4/07
Google Base and Froogle renamed to Google Product Search

Do you advertise using Google Base? Search for shopping using Froogle? Well you'll now be needing to use Google Product Search instead - as that's the new name for it. They've redesigned the site too - it now resembles the main Google search a lot more closely. Head on over to http://www.google.co.uk/products to try it out!

Full Story > http://news.com.com/2100-1038_3-6177393.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1023_3-0-5&subj=news

17/4/07
They've brought us free online writing and spreadsheet tools, now it's presentations...

Google is to add free online presentation software to it's Google Apps suite, by the summer of this year. Google Docs and Spreadsheets has already seen massive success - allowing users to write and collaborate with other users on word processing and spreadsheet documents, anywhere in the world, as everything is saved on Google's servers. Now it's time for presentation's as well, as Google seems to be taking on Microsoft in it's own backyard - Microsoft Office and especially Powerpoint needs to watch out!

Full story > http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/software/2007-04-17-google-presentation_N.htm