Internet Marketing and eCommerce Expert – Nigel Burke's Blog

What is Skype?
Skype has been used for cheap or free phone calls between friends for a number of years now.

How do I use Skype?
You need to download the Skype software which is free. You can download it here -

If you add your friends to your Skype account, you can call them from your Skype account to their Skype account for free. They can be located anywhere in the world.

Imagine if there was a way where you could find out if someone mentioned your name, business name, product or service on the Internet.

Now you can with Google Alerts!

Why do you need to know?
Before I tell you how to setup a Google Alert, I need to let you know why it is so important to monitor this kind of activity.

It’s an exciting time because Adobe have just released the latest website authoring tools that most website designers and developers use everyday.

I cannot think of day when I do not use Photoshop or Dreamweaver. As I write this post, they are both open.

The industry standard for web design is Adobe Photoshop and Dreamweaver. For over 10 years, web developers have used Dreamweaver to build all sorts of web pages.

Google Place Listings is the results box when you even a search query that may be location specific.

There is no hard rule for when the business listings will be displayed but it usually appears when a keyword is about a location or the type of keyword would be loacation specific.

If you entered pizza into Google, it would then show the business listings. The same would happen for accomomdation, hotel or motel.

These listings can be a very powerful tool that you can use to list your business above everyone else. Managed right and you will be up the top. Do the wrong thing, and you will be removed very quickly – within hours!

The iPad has now been released in Australia. Some iPads have been circulating around in Australia which were imported from the US. It has now been launched in Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.

In Sydney, eager customers waited overnight to be one of the first people to purchase an iPad in Australia. Most Apple stores sold out of the iPad within the first day of release.

Magento have released a new version of their shopping cart system. It is called Magento Professional aimed at small businesses.

What is Magento?
Magento is an open source shopping cart system. It is a very complex shopping cart for advanced shopping carts. I have only setup a couple Magento shopping carts where are I have setup dozens of osCommerce, CRE Loaded and Zen Cart shopping carts.

YouTube has just turned 5 years old. This is a website that changed the Internet. If you imagined 10 years ago that you could upload a video and share it with millions of people around the world, you would have been told that you were mad!

Today – YouTube has 24 hours of video being uploaded – every minute!

Today – YouTube has over 2 billion views – everyday!

What is Google Wave?
Google Wave was launched last year which is an online document service allowing a number of users to edit documents and collaborate. There was a lot of excitement when it first launched but that excitement soon faded away. It is now a product in it’s own right.

At the Google I/O conference this week, Google unveiled GoogleTV. This is a similar concept to WebTV and AppleTV. None of which have become mainstream.

Maybe with Google’s branding, they can push it further than any of company can?

Google has teamed up with Sony, Intel and Logitech to produce products that will compliment GoogleTV.

Facebook has had it’s challenges. Growing to over 400 million users within a span of a few years is one of those challenges. With this many members, it’s hard to keep everyone happy. Just look at the backlash they got when they changed the interface. That caused all sorts of PR problems.