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Starbucks And McDonald's Traffic Trends

Odds are decent that you see at least one of these establishments every time you leave the house.  So Hitwise has pulled up some data and examined whether Starbucks or McDonald's will win the high-priced coffee war.

EBay Creates Social Networking Neighborhoods

EBay has entered the crowded social networking space with an ecommerce twist it calls eBay Neighborhoods. These neighborhoods enable people to connect with others who share their passions for certain products or topics.

Google Analytics 'Coffee Table Book' Debuts

I'm not sure what constitutes a "coffee table" book in Mountain View, or wherever there might be another high concentration of Internet professionals, but an e-book on Google Analytics wouldn't make the definition in my house. I prefer my etymological dictionary because I am an entirely different kind of geek.

EBay Sellers Get Some Help, Online and Off

The eBay Developers Conference in Boston offers up some juicy tidbits for online retailers, from forthcoming third-party applications and research tools to ways to hire certified developers to create widgets for your website.

Scoble Drinks the Adobe coffee

The Adobe Engage event is already proving interesting. Ryan Stewart wins the first report to come through Google Blog Search. Takeaway? Adobe is indeed coming after developers. It’s interesting to hear their positioning vs. Microsoft. My post last week pretty much nailed it. Adobe’s Kevin Lynch says they try to extend the Web where Microsoft looks, he says, to extend Windows.

MSN Serving Coffee

Thank god for Microsoft

Your Blog is (or should be) a Coffee Shop

Many of us enjoy the free WiFi offered at today's Coffee Shopsbut Coffee Shops are not popular because of WiFi.

Yahoo Serving Coffee And Ads

A marketing blitz by Yahoo with television and radio advertising will culminate Friday with a coupon offering free Dunkin' Donuts coffee to those who set their browser home pages to Yahoo.

Heading to WebmasterWorld PubCon 2006 in Boston

I'm heading out on a late night flight for Boston this evening to attend the WebmasterWorld conference in Boston.

Goofus & Gallant: Business Ideas

Seth Godin's book, Free Prize Inside, looks at creating "ideas that make our products and services remarkable."