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Google has recently announced on its official blog new features and a new look for Google Translate, which now includes a text to speech function, real time translation functionality and phonetic transliterations for a number of languages including Chinese, Arabic and Persian.

Studies are showing that the struggle online newspapers have faced for the past few years in getting paid for online content may be leading them towards just that. While many online publications have announced plans for paid models, another study shows that much more advertising is headed for the online world. In addition, it seems that online video advertising is on the rise.

The Google team has been busy lately (well, they always are, aren’t they?). They’ve got the blogosphere buzzing about some new items about to be unveiled, including its new Fast Flip, a neat new feature called Image Swirl, and the much-talked about Google Phone.

Video provides a compelling way for retailers to sell products. But is it for every ecommerce merchant and is it being fully utilized? One man who has a strong opinion on the matter is Justin Foster. He is the founder of The Video Commerce Consortium. It's a group of ecommerce professionals, online marketers, and technologists dedicated to advancing the use of video in ecommerce. In this "Quick Query", Foster shares his insights on video for ecommerce. Practical eCommerce: Does video benefit every retail product? Justin Foster: "Video tends to have more of an impact as products become more complex and, therefore, require more investigation to figure out certain traits of it. Video also tends to be more effective when the ...

For the first time since 2007, Adobe has updated its Air platform, released recently in beta with a slew of new features. The features include support for detection of mass storage devices, advanced networking capabilities, ability to open a file with its default application, improved cross-platform printing, and a bunch of other things that you probably won’t really notice in any other way other than your Adobe working significantly more efficiently and smoothly than before.

There are a number of matters an ecommerce business must address to become PCI compliant. For one, an online merchant’s shopping cart must be certified via the PCI's PA-DSS process. A merchant's web hosting environment and payment gateway have to be secure. And a merchant’s own internal payment data handling practices must adhere to the requirements of the PCI Security Standards Council. In this “eCommerce Know-How,” I will focus solely on shopping carts and, more specifically, I will give you three important questions you need to answer about your shopping cart. Answering these questions will bring you one step closer to operating a PCI compliant business. 1. Does my shopping cart need to be PA-DSS certified? For the vast majorit...

A recent report by e-Marketer shows that Generation Y women are significantly influenced by blogs and other social media. The report was based on a study performed by PopSugar and Radar Research entitled “Why Y Women?”.

Thanks to everyone who took time to enter our Vimeo competition. We had a lot of fun watching the videos and seeing what you thought the Future of Web Design holds. After much deliberation, it was close, we all agreed that Tim Lum is the worthy winner of the free conference pass to next weeks Future of Web Design New York.

We would also like to give a special mention to Adam Soffer for his cool guitar and vocal entry.

Tim – please email keir[at]carsonified.com and I’ll let you know how you can collect your free conference pass. I hope you can make it.

The Video – The Future of Web Design is Creativity

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Over the last couple of weeks we asked a number of speakers and workshop presenters from the upcoming Future of Web Design New York conference a few questions about their particular area of web design. We covered everything from WordPress, typography, jQuery, content strategy, HTML5, CSS3, Dribble and inspiration. If you missed one or need a recap here are the links:

• Elliot Jay Stocks on WordPress for Designers
• Dan Rubin on Web Typography
• Karl Swedberg on jQuery
• Steve Smith on HTML5 and CSS3
• Dan Cederholm on Bulletproof Web Design, CSS3 and Dribbble
• Mike Kus on 3 Dimensional Web Design
• Kristina Halvorson on Content Strategy for the Web

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