Groupon Shifts Focus From Daily Deals To Marketplace With A New Website

Groupon has been serving up deals to buyers since 2008, and in that time it has never done a complete redesign of its website. That’s all changed now, as the company has given it a full overhaul. It’s changed more than the look, as the new site actually shifts the focus from daily deals to more of a marketplace. This is a major shift in thinking from Groupon, and it will be interesting to see how its massive user base responds to the differences. When users first visit the new site they will see a deal placed in the spotlight,...

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3 Steps To Get Google Authorship For Yourself And Your Website

If there’s a knock on your door and when you answer, a man tells you that he’s an FBI agent and needs to search your house, would you let him in without checking his identification? Probably not. The concept is the same when it comes to Google Authorship. Using another analogy, if you meet someone for the first time and they point at a book you’re reading and they tell you they’re the author, how do you know they’re telling you the truth? Odds are good you check their picture on the back cover. You might even ask them for...

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Help Open Source Happen: Support Developers You Love Using Gittip

Isn’t open source code just great? It gave us all of these Linux distros and great Linux apps, Apache, Python, and the list goes on. If you’re a coder, this movement is very easy to contribute to. But what if you don’t code and still want to pitch in and show your support? We’ve previously discussed eight ways to support open-source projects besides coding, and today I’d like to expand on the first: Donating real, hard-earned cash to support the developers you love, using the online service Gittip. First Things First: Gittip Is About People, Not Projects Here is the...

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