http://www.pacificarticles.com en-us http://www.pacificarticles.com N/A rchamria@gmail.com Mon, 13 Oct 2008 07:42:24 CDT 20 http://www.pacificarticles.com/blogs/7/Find-it-with-Google-Buy-it-with-Google-Checkout.html Posted by Benjamin Ling, Product Lead, and Louis Perrochon, Engineering Director on http://googleblog.blogspot.com  We’ve heard time and again from users: “I find great stores through Google search, but every time I try to buy from an online store, I have to re-enter the same billing, shipping, and credit card information. There are too many steps. Why can’t it be as fast as a Google search?” This motivated us to improve the online purchase process, and so today we’re announcing Google Checkout, a checkout option that makes buying across the web fast and easy. One cool feature of Google Checkout is that you can buy from stores with a single Google login – no more entering the same info each time you buy, and no more having to remember different usernames and passwords for each store. To help you find places to shop, you’ll see a little icon on the Google.com ads of stores offering Google Checkout. It’s an easy way to identify fast, secure places to shop when you search. And after you’ve placed your order, Google Checkout provides a purchase history where you can track your orders and shipping information in one place. Because we see big benefits for shoppers as the service grows, our immediate priority is to help more online stores join Jockey, Starbucks Store, Levi’s, Dockers, Buy.com, Timberland, Zales, and others to offer Checkout on their sites. To keep website integration simple, we’ve built a range of integration alternatives such as cut and paste buy buttons, pre-integrated ecommerce partner offerings, and an API that supports more advanced integration. Beyond flexible integration options, Google Checkout also works with Google’s search advertising program, AdWords, so online stores can more easily attract new customers, increase sales and process them for free. We’re especially excited about combining Google Checkout with AdWords because it gives our advertisers a more complete solution for attracting customers through Google and processing the sales that result. Just so you know, you don’t have to be an AdWords advertiser to use Checkout on your website, so don’t let that hold you back. We hope this new service makes online shopping sprees faster, easier and much more fun. For our advertisers and online store partners, we hope this service also helps you serve your customers and grow your business. Learn more by watching these videos for shoppers (which you can also watch below) and merchants - and remember to visit http://checkout.google.com. Super Admin Tue, 04 Jul 2006 00:00:00 CDT http://www.pacificarticles.com/blogs/5/IT-Customer-Service.html A lot of people complain about the arrogance of IT people and our general failure to understand either the customer or the business. So what happens when IT is the business? or, at least, where IT has a clear role on the customer service delivery side? Well it depends first on the extent to which the company feels competitive pressure and second on who's in charge in IT. The longer you make the customer wait, the more likely it is that people requiring simple answers drop off. Canada is a land of monopolies with almost everything ultimately owned by the same people and lots of heavily protected, and deeply entrenched, monopolies frozen in place by inertia and interlocking government and financial processes. Bell Canada, for example, dominates consumer telecommunications services in central Canada - and really should have a single upward waving finger as its corporate logo. No matter what you want from them, there's a procedure, an extra charge, weeks of delay, and at least an hour of hold time before they allow you to place a service order. Telus, formerly Alberta Government Telephones, has a similar functional monopoly in Alberta and B.C. Everything is now web or IVR based - and their web site materials, although I believe served from Sun gear, pretty much require you to have I.E. Indeed "require" in the legal sense of judicial compulsion is one of their favourite words - for example they "require" you to give them your legal land description before they'll provide local service. On the other hand their website, although heavy handed in terms of customer imposition and general arrogance, doesn't provide simple factual information like what a local line costs. The answer turns out to be $25.16 per month - oh, plus $4.95 to enrol in a long distance plan, another $5.00 for the first 100 minutes of long distance service, $4.95 for caller ID, and $7.95 for call forwarding; i.e. about $48.01 per month for basic service. In other circumstances that's called "monopoly rent," but this is a monopoly rant so I need to mention that the information-free nature of their website with respect to basics like pricing forces you onto their IVR system. It's wonderful, the computer delivered voice even manages to sound irritated; as if, you know, the CPU had been in sleep mode when you dared interrupt. For complete Blog, click here Super Admin Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 CDT http://www.pacificarticles.com/blogs/4/Why-Google-and-Microsoft-need-Javascript-compilers-.html Why are Google and Microsoft developing Javascript compilers? As web applications grow more and more sophisticated, with lots of user interaction, it gets harder and harder to hand code it all in Javascript. Back when Javascript was conceived as a macro language for web pages, web apps were much less interactive than they are today. So even though it is possible to write very complex applications directly in Javascript - it is hard work and to most programmers is just not practical. Applications such as Google's Gmail or Microsoft's Live products depend heavily on Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript And XML) - a now common Web coding technique that allows the creation of complex, interactive web pages that do not have to be completely reloaded from the web server to update. This technique, though not overly complex to implement, requires a lot of coding. So in order to create complex web applications, as well as maintain and evolve them over time, solutions such as 'high-level language to Javascript' compilers have come into play. These products allow developers who are not familiar with Javascript - and indeed may even have no idea what Ajax is - to quickly develop complex applications by writing in the language they are already familiar with. It's the old 'write once, run anywhere' scenario. In Google's case this is Java, in Microsoft it appears C# will be the choice, and in Morfik they handle C#, Java, Pascal and Basic (for VB). We can also see the larger J2EE vs .Net battle involved in this - Google choosing Java and Microsoft of course going with C#. So both will only support one language seriously, because they're busy fighting with each other. This possibly opens up an opportunity for Morfik, which supports more languages. Time will tell I guess. One final thing, looking at it from a higher level - GWT allows Google to hire more Java developers to do web app coding, rather than Javascript developers. I'm no expert in the programming job market, but I'm guessing skilled Java developers are more plentiful than skilled JS developers. So GWT is a smart move for Google, because it allows them to have a much bigger pool of programming talent to choose from.Source with complete post Super Admin Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:00:00 CDT http://www.pacificarticles.com/blogs/3/Searching-For-Link-Partners-on-MSN.html MSN has a very cool new feature described at SEOMoz.org that allows you to see whose linking to your competitors but not to you. For example a search for: (linkdomain:amazon.com.com linkdomain:bn.com) (-linkdomain:borders.com) Will provide a list of all sites linking to Amazon.com and BN.com but not to Borders… This is a great way to find potential link partners, as well as to find areas of the web where your visibility is low compared to your competitors. Tags: http://www.seomoz.org/blogdetail.php?ID=911 Super Admin Sat, 27 May 2006 00:00:00 CDT http://www.pacificarticles.com/blogs/2/Smarty-PHP-Template-Engine.html Smarty is a PHP template engine written by Monte Ohrt and Andrei Zmievski. Yet another template engine you say? The authors (and I too) would disagree. Smarty is different from the rest of the pack. What differentiates Smarty from other template engines like FastTemplate and patTemplate is that Smarty compiles your templates into PHP scripts, eliminating the overhead incurred in parsing the templates every time they're accessed. This makes Smarty very scalable for large applications and high-traffic Websites ...and if that didn't make any sense to you, just take it that Smarty is very fast and would work well in stressful and high-traffic conditions! The Smarty template engine has several other outstanding features besides template compilation, read the complete article by By Cheah Chu Yeow at http://www.sitepoint.com/article/smarty-php-template-engine  Super Admin Sat, 27 May 2006 00:00:00 CDT http://www.pacificarticles.com/blogs/1/Welcome-to-pacificarticlescom.html Hi  we are very glad to announce the launch of an Article Directory www.pacificarticles.com. Our endeavour is to provide Free Articles for Reprint over virtually all the topics under the sky with good collection of article content.Each and every article, blog and author has been approved the professional team of editors.I hope this Article Directory will help you get desired content.RegardsPacificArticles.com Team Super Admin Sat, 27 May 2006 00:00:00 CDT