http://blog.tictap.com 2 guys' musings on creating a compelling Amazon.com interface Wed, 02 Jan 2008 05:13:27 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You can find a number of digital camera reviews, tips and tutorials at Point Click Review. The articles are scoured from reputable digital camera reviews sources from the net and conveniently placed at the blog. Attributions are included at the end of each post. http://blog.tictap.com/index.php/2008/01/01/digital-camera-reviews-blog Enlarge The images says it all. 7.3 billion pages, folks. Is that a mistake by Google? Last time I checked, we have a few million items at TicTap only. http://blog.tictap.com/index.php/2007/12/13/we-have-73-billion-pages-in-google I’ve just launched a new shopping site that you might call a ’simpler TicTap’. It’s called 109things. It doesn’t work for small screen devices and screen readers. But it has an AJAX interface to ensure that you do less work. It also has the innovative currency converter, email alerts. But 2 of ... http://blog.tictap.com/index.php/2007/12/06/attention-authors-sellers-track-prices-and-sales-rank-with-109things The Amazon Unbox service is a video-on-demand service that allows you to buy and rent videos from a selection of more than 10,000 movie and TV titles. You can download them your Tivo via the internet or download them to your computer and watch them there. The good folks at ... http://blog.tictap.com/index.php/2007/09/21/105 We’ve been running Adsense on TicTap for the past month. The results have been mediocre, and in fact the ads have been irritating for some users. Most of our users reach TicTap from search engines. We’ve learnt that they want information, not more ads. So we’ve decided to remove quite a bit of ... http://blog.tictap.com/index.php/2007/09/21/an-update-to-the-adsense-experiment-on-tictap After months of struggling, we’ve shut down the SMS service. It simply wasn’t profitable, and we had numerous problems with the network operator. Today, we relaunched TicTap. It has a simpler interface, and we’ve removed features that weren’t popular with users. The cool things you’ve come to expect from TicTap are still ... http://blog.tictap.com/index.php/2007/08/21/death-of-tictap-sms-birth-of-new-tictap Did you know that Amazon.com has a price drop policy? What they do is credit you the difference if the price of an item you bought in the last 30 days has dropped. You only have to ask for the credit. But you need to know if the price has dropped ... http://blog.tictap.com/index.php/2007/01/10/tictap-amazon-price-drop-policy-instant-cash-back There is a discussion in the Amazon ECS forum about negative reviews hurting book sales. That lead me to wonder if people actually read reviews. Or do they look at the stars and read those reviews with many stars or only 1 star? Or even worse, do they make a decision ... http://blog.tictap.com/index.php/2006/10/18/are-star-ratings-on-amazoncom-harmful TicTap now shows alternate formats for books, if they exist. With this feature, it is easy to check if your favourite book (in hardcover) is also available in paperback, audio CD, and even MP3. Try this Rich Dad, Poor Dad book for an example. http://blog.tictap.com/index.php/2006/10/09/alternate-formats-for-books This is a shameless plug for a project I’ve been working on during my free time. I read a lot of news everyday, and I’ve been wondering why I have to visit 10+ sites to read them. I could use a RSS reader, but it doesn’t fulfill some of my needs. So I ... http://blog.tictap.com/index.php/2006/09/23/news-hawker-fast-seriously-geeky-know-it-all