I was really pleased to be invited to moderate a discussion at the Google Retail Summit – on “eCommerce Excellent – winning this Christmas”.
The event brought the great and good together to hear from Google and each other and followed the successful and enjoyable inaugural event last year (Google’s site, my blog post).
On my panel [...]
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 [...]
As the regular reader will know I’m a big believer that the convergence of location-based information, structured data, inferred/contextual relationships and a slick relevant interface will change our world and start delivering the sort of “future” interactions that we had in the 1960s’ SciFi.
Google’s Mobile App is a step closer.
I won’t rehash the explanatory video [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
oxford internet institute :: collaboration
This looks interesting – pity I can’t be there on 3 November.
Google’s stated mission is to “organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” The presentation will give a tour of some of the ways Google tries to fulfill that mission with emphasis on the legal issues that [...]