Why would content matter when you are running an e-commerce site? After all, you provide a product or service that people want to buy, so setting up your site to easily purchase should be your primary goal, right?

Not necessarily.

Let’s look at some of the more successful e-commerce sites on the Web and see how they balance content with marketing and sales techniques to get people to not only return to the site, but buy. (more…)

Facebook is undoubtly the most relevant social networking website today. Here is a profile of Mark Zuckerberg, the 24 year old Harvard whizkid that created Facebook.

Programming since sixth grade, he acquired a sensation while he was a Harvard sophomore. Always attractive to affluence the transfer of information between groups, he created an online techno-social that accustomed Harvard students to post profiles, browse or search for fellow students, view uploaded pictures, and share their affiliations and interests. Within two weeks, two-thirds of Harvard students signed up. Three weeks after the February 2004 launch, Zuckerberg opened it up to Columbia, Stanford and Yale; now it’s available to students (and some alumni) at more than 2,100 colleges and universities internationally and 22,000 U.S. high schools. (more…)