Sandy Boosts Local Online News Brands | Digital – Advertising Age

AOL-owned Patch, which operates roughly 860 sites across the country but has high penetrations in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut, reported its highest-ever traffic day Monday — page views were up 88% from the previous highest day. The Daily Voice, a competing network with 53 sites in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts, said traffic Monday was two times higher than normal.

via Sandy Boosts Local Online News Brands | Digital – Advertising Age.

20 experiential web design trends for 2012 | Econsultancy

Web design by its very nature continues to evolve, as it must, to make the most of modern browsers and the likes of HTML5, CSS3 and JQuery, and to provide a wonderful user experience for tablet and smartphone owners.

Nowadays there is plenty of opportunity to stand out from the crowd, by being ahead of the curve, or by embracing new techniques that can help you to improve the performance of your website.

via 20 experiential web design trends for 2012 | Econsultancy.

ESTA The downside of a new passport

The downside of a new passport 🙁

What should I do if the information on my passport has changed?If you obtain a new passport or there is a change to your passport information, you must apply for a new travel authorization and pay the associated fees. See What information can I update? for a full listing of information that can be changed after submission of your application.

via ESTA Screen Level Online Help.

How Zappos’ User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked (Forbes Cross-Post)

In January, Zappos (part of $AMZN) announced a massive data security breach affecting 24 million consumers.  As typically happens in these situations, plaintiffs’ class action lawyers swarmed over Zappos for the breach, filing dozens of lawsuits.  Zappos tried to send the lawsuits to arbitration based on an arbitration clause in its user agreement.  Recently, a federal court struck down Zappos.com’s user agreement, denying Zappos’ arbitration request.  This is an unfortunate ruling for Zappos, because its contract–now dead–would have been quite helpful in combating this high-profile and potentially very expensive data security breach lawsuit.   More importantly, the mistakes Zappos made in its user agreement–though common throughout the Internet–are completely and easily avoidable.  This post will make some suggestions for how to avoid Zappos’ fate.

via Technology & Marketing Law Blog: How Zappos’ User Agreement Failed In Court and Left Zappos Legally Naked (Forbes Cross-Post).