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NIAGARA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) Online Revealed Caribbean, the premier internet travel marketing conference, has introduced its Co-chairs and Advisory Board members for this high profile Caribbean travel industry event. Online Revealed is the first and only conference focusing on hands on, practical online marketing workshops geared toward the ever-changing online market place and what it means to the Caribbean Tourism industry.

The entire United States is debating whether the country is in the midst of an economic slowdown. Some of the signs are fairly explicit: steadily rising gas prices and their cascading effects on the average consumer, unemployment rate bumps, and the continued fallout from the housing market bubble.

The larger the business or government agency is, the bigger the volume of data it deals with. That translates into massive efforts to manage that data to meet ever-increasing compliance regulations for adequately maintaining electronic records. Any software company that can figure out how to manage this process better than its competition can become king of the vendor hill.

Ease of use and software simplicity have been mainstay messages in CRM for many years. I have watched as this messaging has alternated with financial benefits for a long time, and I am not sure if it's random alternation or if there might be economic undertones, but it seems like we're trading themes at the moment.

The key to your online business is attracting and converting website visitors. Writing effective copy is an under-utilized way of doing it, according to Scott Fox, author of internet...

The power of the internet as a sales and marketing channel is undisputed - and has been for some time now. Even so, it's still good to hear a success story where the web has played a major role in growing an organisation year on year.

EBay responds to its loss in the LVMH case, gmail users get phishing protection and eProvider offers eBay integration. Plus, a price comparison widget and mobile commerce tools grab headlines.

If you already thought it was a Google world and we're all just living in it -- well, now you can with the introduction of Lively, Google's free 3-D virtual world application that brings game-like qualities to the concept of internet chat. "The Lively team wants to help people experience another dimension of the Web," Niniane Wang, a Google engineering manager, wrote in a post on the Official Google Blog.

Yahoo-owned Flickr and Getty Images have inked a deal that could help photographers with pictures posted on the photo sharing site hook their work up with the largest media licensing company in the world. The effort, dubbed "The Flickr Collection on Getty Images" is the culmination of a longterm desire to create a way for consumers in the digital publishing industry to use photos on the site.

This week, system administrators across the globe are rushing to fix an internet-wide security flaw. The issue, discovered in the domain name system, would allow a hacker to gain access to domain name records and redirect traffic to an alternate location. That would mean trying to access something like your bank's Web site could take you instead to a malicious page designed to steal your information.