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From the Blog

Speed matters
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Have you ever thought about how fast your shopping cart is? We suggest doing so. According to many investigations your store speed directly influences your sales.
It's a well-known fact that every 100ms of latency costs Amazon 1% of profit. A 2 second delay is 20%, and so on.

Customers don’t like waiting. There are a zillion different web stores they can go to. So don’t irritate your visitors with delays, your pages should open fast, period.

So what are the ingredients of a really fast store?

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How to add your shopping cart to MySpace
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One of the Ecwid advantages is the ability to deploy and use the application on different sites or social networks at the same time. This enables an enormous grow of number of your potential customers.
We already described how to create your own Facebook shopping cart and make your store available to 350 million of active users.

In this post we’ll instruct you on adding your Ecwid to MySpace — another large social network with millions of users.

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Ecwid v2.0 has been released.
Ecwid v2.0

We're pleased to announce that a new major Ecwid version(2.0) has been released. All Ecwid users have been upgraded.
This upgrade brings many highly anticipated features. Main of them are:

- New modes of displaying products: grid and table
- The list of available currencies is greatly extended
- Ecwid is now available as Google Gadget
- Integration with Google Analytics
- Support of Australia Post real-time shipping rates
- Ability to import products from CSV files in X-Cart and LiteCommerce formats

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How to add OpenSearch support to your shopping cart
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OpenSearch is a collection of simple formats to share search results and discovery of search engines.
It allows accessing search engines directly from search boxes in some browsers: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Google Chrome.

In this post we will describe how to add OpenSearch support to your Ecwid shopping cart. So your customers will be able to search your products right from their browsers' search boxes.

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Ecwid November news
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- New version of WordPress module is released.
- We're looking for help with Ecwid translation.
- A pilot video tutorial describing on how to add taxes to Ecwid.

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