Back in June I presented with Mo Syed the 10CMS head of user experience at the Internet Retail Jumpstart event for mobile commerce. The venue was the Swan at the Shakespeare Globe theatre. I resisted the urge to try and quote Shakespeare as it doesn’t sound quite as eloquent with a northern accent, however, several others could not resist the temptation. We had 20 minutes to discuss our views of mobile commerce. Being the second presentation we had the opportunity to set the scene Hope you enjoy the video. I didn’t realise my head looked so round. [...]
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As the InteractJS javascript framework for HTML5 Canvas simulates the Flash API the next step was to use interactJS as a basis for converting AS3 code into HTML5. Using a combination of open source software and interactJS we were able to compile Flash AS3 projects into HTML5 directly from [...]
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InteractJS was developed by 10CMS labs as part of an R&D project and was conceived following our research using the HTML5 canvas API and supporting JavaScript frameworks, which I discussed in the previous post. It become clear that in order to replicate the rich user experience of 10CMS modules we were going to have to build our own framework. [...]
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I can’t believe it’s been five months since my last blog post. I have been guilty of getting my head down and having too much fun setting up 10CMS Labs and developing some very cool technology. It’s time to start sharing some of the things we have discovered and created. I’ll start by describing our HTML5 journey following from the last blog I posted on rich applications and HTML [...]
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My views from recent blog postings highlight the rapid advances in browser technology and that browsers are becoming more of an application platform. I choose to investigate how far we can push the HTML4 / JavaScript and CSS technology stack. Based on the assumption that many people have today that HTML and JavaScript can now replicate the Flash user experience I set myself the challenge of replicating in a pure HTML4 standard 10CMS Carousel Module which is fully editable and configurable from within the 10CMS editor Portal. [...]
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Back in September I presented at Internet Retailing Jumpstart. The challenge set was to put together a short presentation (20 – 30 mins) on the important issues retailers will face in ecommerce in the next twelve months and how technology and platforms can help solve these problems. [...]
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The mobile App v Web subject keeps cropping up in nearly every conversation I have lately about mobile commerce including the 10CMS Internet Retailing event I hosted last week. The internet is also littered with sensational doom stories quoting the Death of the Web Browser. The simple premise is mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets will take over as the primary device for accessing web content and mobile applications will make the web browser redundant. Apps replacing the browser sounds like a simple and logical conclusion but does it really make [...]
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Yesterday I spent a whole day at the Internet Retailing conference and chaired the 10CMS workshop. The workshop was only scheduled for 30 minutes so I reduced the grand scope from the whole user experience for ecommerce down to two key topics social shopping and mobile. The debate was very lively with a majority of the audience participating with questions and their own views. What came out of the discussion was some tremendous insight. [...]
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I’m back at last from my blogging sabbatical following a change in companies and moving into the exciting world of product start-ups. If ever a blog was named appropriately CTO Dilemma completely fits what I now have to do every day. My first big dilemma is one that most companies who are investing in web technology face. Is the arrival of HTML5 spelling the impending doom of Flash. Is Flash a dead technology that should now be banished from all websites. Or does the ‘H’ in HTML 5 stand for Hype. [...]
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In the last two years there have been a series of mergers and acquisitions that have completely changed the landscape of search vendors. This only goes to re-enforce the point I made previously that search in retail is commoditized and reached a level at which innovation in functionality is left to smaller iterative improvements, and the future for search is to not as a stand alone service but as an integral component of a larger vision for ecommerce.
But how have all these Acquisitions played out and what can we expect from retail search in the [...]
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