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Month July 2008

BBC NEWS | Technology | Search site aims to rival Google

BBC NEWS | Technology | Search site aims to rival Google
How lovely. On a hot and humid summer’s day we have someone claiming to take on google at search. Enter Cuil (pronounced “Cool” – how convenient), produced by some ex-Google staffers (although, Google’s now so big that saying “ex-google” is about as meaningful as saying [...]

Carling’s digital “iPint” – sensible, inventive mobile advertising.

Thanks to an article in Indy (Clare Beale’s “On Advertising”) I’ve seen and now downloaded the most excellent iPhone guerilla/game/viral advert. It’s the first ad I’ve seen that “works” on mobile: the Carling iPint.
The app appears on the iPhone desktop and upon launch you are given the task of sliding a ping of – er [...]

“People in Aid” – Board presentation.

A couple of weeks ago I gave a presentation to the People In Aid Board on the trends in the uses of digital and social media and how these might be used to provide improved services for the charity’s members, staff, field users and stakeholders.
People in Aid is a charity to support HR professionals and [...]

Google Retail Summit – moderating “Scaling and Managing the $1bn Online Business”

Retail Summit
Google UK have convenened an interesting and senior morning on etail and ecommerce. You can see the list of speakers at the website – quite a gathering.
I’m pleased to be moderating a session on “Scaling and Managing the $1bn Online Business”. I do this with some humility since the last ecommerce business I ran [...]

Blogging from the iphone

Just uploaded the new wordpress iPhone app and it’s simple, impresive and quick. Posting ‘on the go’ will be less of an exercise in masochism I hope…
Between the excellent new apps for Facebook, Twitter and now blogging there’ll be a rash of on-the-road “presentism”, status updating and thoughtstreams. Ok, now I’ve scared myself.

Speeches for Adobe and Sky

It’s been a busy time on the speaking front, culminating in a ‘double decker’ for Adobe and then Sky.
Adobe’s Scene7 folk have initiated a series of retailer briefings and, having spoken at the first, it would have been rude not to speak again when invited The topic of this presentation was “Excellence in [...]

Vulcan in flight at Farnborough

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Originally uploaded by ikj

Against my protestations (traffic jams, kids being terrified, crowds, expense, forecast rain, logistics, laziness) Vicky booked us a “day out” at Farnborough Air Show.
Mr Grumpy helped make the picnic and we “sped” the 3 hours of nose-to-tail traffic to Farnborough, finally coming to rest with 61,000 other cars in twelve playing fields’ [...]

The European eCommerce Forum’s inaugural meeting

This first appeared as an article in Internet Retailing magazine’s July 2008 issue. A pdf of the magazine article is attached.

The inaugural meeting of the European eCommerce Forum (ECF) was held in Amsterdam in April – the culmination of four years of conversations with leading retailers. Ian Jindal and Joris Beckers, co-founders of the Forum, [...]

From destination to distribution – new paradigms for the networked customer

This was my Editorial from the July 2008 issue of Internet Retailing magazine.

The paradigm of the web channel being a vast shop with elastic walls has run its course. As Ian Jindal packs his bucket and spade for the summer holidays, he considers a new etailing paradigm: active selling in the network age. Retailers have [...]

Patagonia Men’s Bollocks Shirt

Patagonia Men’s Bollocks Shirt
Honesty? a boast? Or a case of unfortunate product naming?
The image is safe for work, but the title may cause problems with your firewall…
Let me know of any other unfortunately titled products…

The San Francisco Citizen » Blog Archive » Google Employees Press 14 Buttons to Operate Their Toilets.

The San Francisco Citizen | Google Employees Press 14 Buttons to Operate Their Toilets.
Wow. Admiration and fear.
I don’t understand quite how “Front Wash” can be effective while yet not splashing one’s shirt…
I also have a concern about continued functioning during a power cut. Backup power generation?
For those who’ve read Philip Kerr’s Gridiron – “a story [...]