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Mark Randall is the Chief Customer Officer atBulletproof. Businesses who fail to adopt ane-commerce strategyrisk being left behind and losing revenue to their more forward-thinking competitors. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. High availability and reliability High availability is critical to an online store. Instead, frustrated visitors simply spend their coveted dollars on a competitors fully functioning site. This is where scalability and load balancing, i.e. the ability to manage traffic/demand spikes, and the ability to manage outages also comes into play....

40% off TNW Conference! Amazon says interstitial ads can be integrated into an app or game in as little as an hour. The company also offers revenue tracking through the same developer portal as it does for banner ads. Amazon first introduced its Mobile Ads APIin March 2013, but advertising would only show up to US viewers. Stay in touch viaFacebook,Twitter, andGoogle+. Also tagged with

Serial co-founder Andy Baio re-introduced Upcoming, the collaborative events site. Purchased by Yahoo in 2005 andshutdown last year, Baio is relaunching the site viaKickstarter. The site was a collaborative calendar of art and tech events. Curated by the community, Upcoming surfaced what was happening in your area and what your friends were doing. The original site launched in 2003. He left Yahoo in 2007. A month ago Baio was contacted by Yahoo....

In ablog post, Appetas said it would be shutting down its service tofocus on new endeavors with Google. It will alsobe helping its customers to move their sites to alternative platforms. Well be reaching out to each customer individually to ensure a smooth transition, the company added. you could reach him onTwitter, circle him onGoogle+and connect with him onLinkedIn. Also tagged with

40% off TNW Conference! Likely in anticipation ofAndroid Wear, the Location API has gained new activity detectors: running and walking. Google hopes this will lead to more collaboration and social engagement between players. None of these features are major additions, but they certainly do add up. That being said, we cant wait to see what comes out of the Street View imagery integration. Stay in touch viaFacebook,Twitter, andGoogle+. Also tagged with

Dominic Smith is a senior writer and content strategist forRackspace Digital, the digital marketing infrastructure specialists. Digital marketing, like the analog marketing that came before it, relies on word of mouth. Clicks, shares, pins and retweets are all part of the conversation. But a handful of companies go it alone, even after they achieve considerable success. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. A beautifully designed car that can be custom-ordered for delivery, direct from the Tesla onlinedesign studio....

Initial partners for the new solution includeKleenex,Skechers, StubHub,Taco BellandToyota. Its difficult to predict what each station will look like though. This can entail custom content from an artist or a mix of songs powered by Pandoras Music Genome Project. you might reach him onTwitter, circle him onGoogle+and connect with him onLinkedIn.

With its latest update, however, Ping.it may have just gotten smarter. 40% off TNW Conference!

After teaming up withSpotifyandRdio, Shazam is strengthening its music discovery service through a new integration with Deezer. Keep your eyes peeled. 40% off TNW Conference! you could reach him onTwitter, circle him onGoogle+and connect with him onLinkedIn.

Twitter todaylaunchedlanguage targeting for promoted tweets and promoted accounts. It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Other social networks have had this for a long time, so its not exactly groundbreaking. As such, advertisers will be able to use language targeting in conjunction with these to optimize their ROI. To advertisers, that sounds great. Whether the feature works as intended, and how well, remains to be seen. Stay in touch viaFacebook,Twitter, andGoogle+....

It’s free, every week, in your inbox. Its also possible to make programs invisible, while retaining their window positions by using the hide keyword. As Alfred learns your preferences, youll notice that it takes fewer characters to execute common tasks. Alfred goes even further by offering shortcuts to some of the most popular sites and services on the Web. Once youre done, just hit Save. Custom searches are a little trickier....

This looks like one that has promise. Ben used to be a professional online poker player. you might contact him viaTwitteror onGoogle+. Also tagged with