In No Particular Order

These my micropostings and bookmarks - June 24th through June 30th: Ruder Finn Intent Index - Interesting index on consumers' intentions for their use online, and some lovely graphics too. Alice.com - Managing home essentials online - brands, direct to customer rather than via a supermarket... Interesting to know the ownership of Alice... P&G? Big Brands? Challenging the supermarkets...? Or another WebVan? Quicklist: Diptyque luxury body and beauty products from ...

These my micropostings and bookmarks - June 21st through June 23rd: Customers given too many choices are 10x less likely to buy | Derek Sivers - Useful summary and factoids: "For 10 years, Columbia professor Sheena Iyengar has been studying choice. For her research paper, “When Choice is Demotivating”, they ran a great test: They set up a free tasting booth in a grocery store, with six different jams. 40% ...

These my micropostings and bookmarks - June 9th through June 17th: activeCollab 2.1.2 is Available for Download | activeCollab - Project Management and Collaboration Tool - Microsyntax.org - GE | Plug Into the Smart Grid | Augmented Reality - SOFA - Design, Interfaces & Software - How beautiful is this design? really? 'Tis luscious. 50 Alluring Typography and Grid Focused Websites | The Design Cubicle - Nice list of ...

These my micropostings and bookmarks - May 25th through June 2nd: House of Fraser boss urges retailers to support retail diploma | News | Drapers - YouTube - What's Your Moleskine In? - ay yi ay. What craftsmanship! Handmade leather covers for Moleskines. What a pity that the paper's not worthy of this, but wonderful nonetheless. I want one. Royal Mail Environmental Policy – Sustainable Mail - Can you ...

Inspiration Index - MyDeco takes the top spot in the "Customer Engagement" dimension - Internet Retailing So - it's not official: MyDeco.com has grabbed the top spot.   You can read the full results and analysis of the second 'dimension' of the Internet Retailing Inspiration Index (IRII) at the post above. The next dimension is open for voting NOW and for a week, just a week, until 8 June... Vote here: https://ecustomeropinions.com/survey/survey.php?sid=349531418 Vote now. Tell ...

These my micropostings and bookmarks - May 20th through May 25th: Mobilizy - Wikitude AR Travel Guide - Augmented Reality travel guide. Looks like a product. Only on Android atm Impressive Augmented Reality Game Possibilities on the iPhone - Augmented reality. The demos and mockups are getting better... Plugging In $40 Computers - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com - $40 -aka "soon to be nothing"; self-configuring IP... "every lightswitch can be ...

These my micropostings and bookmarks - May 18th through May 19th: A Collection of Social Network Stats for 2009 « Web Strategy by Jeremiah Owyang | Social Media, Web Marketing - Social network stats and where/how to access them. Useful. Staction - Simple communication based project management and time tracking - Hm - two passions in one: project/management software AND command-line interface and rich fingertip control. Worth watching. Can't ...

We've been fans of Nelly Duff for ages, and our growing collection of prints attests to this. Cassius & Co are not only knowledgeable and infectiously enthusiastic, but also full of great ideas and a sense of fun. The latest 'wheeze' was collaborating with Eine (rumoured to be, ahem, Banksy's print-maker and of course recognised creator of the alphabet of 'circus font' stencils that adorn most of Shoreditch and ...

A couple of months ago the folk at Google asked if I'd contribute to a YouTube channel they were creating, soliciting input from a range of practitioners, thinkers and leaders in eCommerce on the subject of how best to survive the economic downturn. I agreed (very pleased to have been asked) and then immediately regretted it (a combination of _hating_ being filmed and a bit of a panic attack ...

These my micropostings and bookmarks - May 7th through May 14th: Introduction to Wolfram|Alpha by Stephen Wolfram - Just amazing. This is a step ahead of TrueKnowledge in terms of polish and presentation, but seems only to focus upon 'things that may be computed'. TK is more flexible and 'relational' - an 'inference engine'. Be interesting to see how WA is populated, but it's extremely exciting. Ken Rockwell: Leitz ...

I've posted the fuller story elsewhere, but I'm so pleased I couldn't let this pass without a post ;) The Post-Graduate Diploma in Internet Retailing (which I created along with Econsultancy.com) has just been accredited by Manchester Metropolitan University as the UK's first Masters programme in Internet Retailing... We're about to change the marketing blurb and website to proclaim 'MSc in Internet Retailing', but for now I'm just enjoying the ...

It's been a busy time speaking of late. In the last month I've: given a keynote for the DAS/Omnicom "Innovation in Retail" CEO briefing, along with Mary "Queen of Shops" Portas, FutureLab and Oxford University; provided the keynote for the FDIH (the Danish eCommerce Association) conference in Copenhagen on social media opened the Royal Mail's in-house Retail Insights conference in London For BBDO University's ...

These my micropostings and bookmarks - May 3rd through May 4th: 5 Terrific Twitter Research Tools - scRUBYt! - Scrape. Shape. Integrate. Profit. - Great approach - even better if I could get it to work on OSX. Bookmarked in hope of that wondrous day. Dapper - Amazed to find that I didn't already have Dapper in my bookmarks. Error. Rectified. If ONLY it could work nicely with password-protected ...

These my micropostings and bookmarks - March 29th through April 29th: 6 Creative Ideas for Filtered Navigation | Get Elastic - Tips for filtered navigation in e-commerce | Blog | Econsultancy - isbndb.com - free ISBN database - Free ISBN database (er - isn't that Amazon ?!? ;) ) with new, fast price-comparison too. via @winjer Master List ‎(A Wiki of Social Media Marketing Examples)‎ - Global examples. Useful and ...

I've just posted my article on Social Media in the Luxury sector on my blog: http://www.ianjindal.com/the-walpole-yearbook-article-on-social-media/ The article was a short one, written to stimulate debate in the luxury sector, where adoption of social media both lagging and also challenged as to whether it's relevant to the sector. Research on this was really interesting, and I came across some fun companies (especially ThisNext.com which is now a firm favourite as an ...

Just updated Flickr with some images I took in Amsterdam while at the IADS conference. I managed to get a couple of hours' wandering done after the conference and was lucky with some bright, early spring weather: low sun, nice contrast and best of all wonderful wandering weather. I took a stroll up to the Central Station and then walked along the river/waterfront before cutting back through the station. I used ...

These my micropostings and bookmarks - March 19th through March 26th: Arduino - HomePage - Asahi Black - Beers of Europe Ltd - Japanese Beer - Yay. At last a source of Asahi Black that's not just retail (ie Wagamama and Abeno). Delivery's a bit steep - maybe I should buy in bulk?? User:Matt/Famous Blogs « WordPress Codex - Famous blogs, eh? Good source of hard-working but smart WP template ...

The March issue of InternetRetailing's hitting desks around Europe and we're able to release the standings after the first 'dimension' of the Inspiration Index voting - on "Moments of Brilliance and Delight". To recap for those who missed the IRII announcement, the InternetRetailing Inspiration Index focuses upon: those moments of admiration, enjoyment and - frankly - envy: when we look at another retailer’s activities and wish we’d thought of that ...

These my micropostings and bookmarks - March 9th through March 15th: http://www.neurofocus.com - Quoth them: "SIX CRITICAL MEASURES FOR SUCCESS Neuroscience provides a deep, clear view into the real-world, real-time reactions of consumers at the most elemental level: their brainwaves. The human brain reacts to stimuli in milliseconds. NeuroFocus captures these reactions thousands of times every second. Our sophisticated methodologies measure: * Attention * Emotional Engagement ...

So, the ugly, ink-swilling, temperamental Epson Stylus Pro 1270 finally died a death. Total inability to feed paper (bit of a disadvantage in a printer). So, with Vicky having a book to get ready for London Book Fair it was back to the PITA of finding an A3 colour printer for high quality home office use. Mac users know that the only company to have a full driver complement ...