pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=48ec2ee914b9b9e40054efe3maxX=300maxY=209" border="0" alt="ObamaMcCain_AP_10_07_08.jpg" title="ObamaMcCain_AP_10_07_08.jpg" width="300" height="209" /Now that the presidential election is over and Sarah Palin has skulked back to Alaska, we had wondered a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/how-politics-sites-plan-to-survive-post-election"how politics sites could survive/a a massive drop-off in post-election traffic./p pBut according to number-crunching whiz kid Nate Silver of a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/"fivethirtyeight.com/a (itself a fledgling politics site), the predicted drop-off in traffic hasn't happened to everyone. A few politics-heavy Web sites (The Atlantic, Drudge, HuffPo) are even doing better./p pHere's a href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/11/friday-ecommerce-interlude.html"Nate's analysis/a of how well sites have done retaining their pre-election audiences (see his site for the full methodology). But big disclaimer up front: traffic numbers are based on Alexa, at best an imperfect tool./p pDoing well: (Percentage of pre-election traffic retained post-election.)/p ul liTheAtlantic.com: 125%/li liDrudgeReport.com: 124%/li liHuffingtonPost.com: 109%/li liNYTimes.com: 97%/li /ul pOf course, not everyone is surviving. Ouch:/p ul liElectoral-Vote.com: 30%/li liRealClearPolitics.com: 25%/li liRasmussenReports.com: 15%/li liGallup.com: 12%/li liJohnMcCain.com: 9%/li /ul pAnd fivethirtyeight.com itself? Retaining 59% of its traffic. But Nate, you have access to better analytics for your own site than Alexa. Why don't you give publish the real numbers so we know how accurate your analysis is?/p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/how-politics-sites-plan-to-survive-post-election"How Politics Sites Plan To Survive Post-Election/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/three-reasons-political-sites-are-glad-the-election-is-over"Three Reasons Political Sites Are Glad The Election Is Over/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/R3xdvtBeqIjFC07pAlbLmb40HSY/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/R3xdvtBeqIjFC07pAlbLmb40HSY/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=kzzkhQRP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=kzzkhQRP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=IHudzL3h"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=VbZJ9mqk"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=OWHtWOmO"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=OWHtWOmO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=rqo7YXJn"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=UEXwMyyL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=66iqp0PU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=vGEX6z8B"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/2oS-9q7UPRE" height="1" width="1"/

br /What it doesbr /br /A visit to this site is the order of the day for those wishing to barter, swap, trade, buy or sell anything over the web. Trashbank stands as an online marketplace where people from different locations can convene together and engage into any of the abovementioned activities, and without having to pay any fees. br brRegistration to the site is also inexpensive, and it is accomplished in a very simple way too. You furnish personal particulars and profile information as well as choosing your portrait from the featured ones. br brAs far as navigating the site is concerned, a menu that touches upon the different categories on offer is prominently featured for you to focus your searches. These include “Clothing Accessories”, “Computers”, “Electronics” and “Antiques”. In addition to that, featured items are spotlighted on the right-hand side of the main page. br brTo sum it up, Trashbank is a cost-free service that is there to ensure online bartering and transactions are duly carried to completion. Follow the link that is featured below should you need further information. brbr /br /In their own wordsbr /br /“Trashbank is an online website where you can sell your items or services or barter, swap, and trade your items or services with other people. You can get far more value from the items you are willing to trade by exchanging it with other people's items that are of more value to you.”br /br /Why it might be a killerbr /br /It is an online trading resource that covers a lot of ground and categories. br /br /Some questionsbr /br /What kind of items can and can’t be traded at the site?br /br /Link: a href='http://www.trashbank.com'http://www.trashbank.com/abr /Our Review: a href='http://www.killerstartups.com/eCommerce/trashbank-com-barter-like-never-before'http://www.killerstartups.com/eCommerce/trashbank-com-barter-like-never-before/abr /br / nbsp;div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=2HSoS0zN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=DVMlpC7C"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=BtryDT7O"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=BtryDT7O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=HsSxDllL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=HsSxDllL" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=LduLlqes"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?a=DFtsXwlW"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/killerstartups/BkQV?i=DFtsXwlW" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/killerstartups/BkQV/~4/R0r3sZS0Htg" height="1" width="1"/

Ecommr is a collection of interface and design elements from ecommerce sites. I wish there were a bit more context around each screenshot (e.g. which interface element is the focus and what's novel about it) but it's a good start.

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