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Are we being penalised by Google?

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Just a month ago, we had about 1.7 million TicTap links in Google’s index. Now we are down to less than 1000.

I’m not sure why that should be the case, because we have added more information, and never tried to ‘cheat’ any search engines.

Someone mentioned that it could be because we are an Amazon.com […]

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TicTap Shopping for the Visually Impaired

Tuesday, March 21st, 2006

In a post a few weeks back, I mentioned that Damon and I were thinking of making it easy for folks with visual impairment to shop online.

Today, we released TicTap Shopping with Screen Readers for the visually impaired.

The top down layouts and large fonts should make it easy for their screen reader software to extract […]

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Vrooooomm!

Friday, March 17th, 2006

We added another store today - Automotives!

Now you can shop for your car accessories, tools, fluids and everything else at TicTap.

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Currency Converter

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

For all our non-US users, you can now insert your countries’ exchange rates and get TicTap prices in your local currency!

When you view a product’s details, you will see a small form called ‘Price to Local Currency’ above the product’s name.

Enter your country’s exchange rate to the US dollar. If you enter ‘GBP 0.5′, […]

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Amazon’s Simple Storage Service

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

The incredible folks at their web services division have done it again.

With their Simple Storage Service (S3), anyone can now use Amazon’s architecture to store and share data.

Their pricing is extremely reasonable too, just 15 cents per GB-month of storage and 20 cents per GB of transfer. No start up or monthly costs.

I […]

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Real-time Community Chat Roll-out!

Friday, March 10th, 2006

In the previous post, we said that we will launch the feature within the coming week.

Why not now? After all, we’ve got it working in the sandbox.

Today, we release the first version of the real-time community chat. Like the rest of TicTap, it’s erm.. plain-looking, but it does what it should do without the […]

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Real-time Chat

Friday, March 10th, 2006

Damon and I have been talking about a whole slew of features we want to add to TicTap.

Our focus has always been to take the side of the user and ask ‘Would I even use this?’ when we decide whether or not a feature is useful.

Lately, we’ve decided on a couple of things we want […]

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Firefox Search Plugin for TicTap

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

This is a free tool that we’ve made specially for all users of firefox and mozilla-based browsers.

You have the options of auto-installing, or downloading the gzipped files and manually installing them.

Try our plugin and compare it against the Amazon.com search that comes with Firefox, and let us know what you think.

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New Feature - Price Alerts

Monday, March 6th, 2006

After weeks of procrastinating, we finally decided to create a feature for the budget-conscious (read: Damon and I).

Price Alert is a TicTap feature that allows you to specify your budget for an item, and we’ll inform you by email when its price falls below your budget.

Like all other TicTap features, there’s no registration required. […]

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Locate a Physical Store

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

We know some people cannot wait 24 hours for an item to be shipped to them, so TicTap now allows you to search for the nearest physical store by zip code.

This feature is accessible by US users only. It is accessed in a product page, under the header ‘Find The Nearest Stores’. Type […]

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