In the physical world, it’s very hard for small business owners to get ahead of larger corporations. Generally, success is found by word of mouth, or if the business is old enough people are just used to it. Even those recipes don’t bring about success. In the virtual world, the playing field is leveled to [...]

Grab a strait-jacket, the co-founder of wikiHow, Jack Herrick, has implemented an ad strategy that could bring an end to the internet as we know it. He’s giving his users the ability to hide ads. I know, it’s crazy, but what’s even weirder is that Herrick stands by his marketing decision, and he says he’s [...]

eBay has really taken a lot of flak the past year or so. You keep hearing that they’ve gone commercial, and that it isn’t about the user experience anymore. If you do go on eBay, you’ll find that most of these claims are quite true. Most of your top results are all power users, with [...]