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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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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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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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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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 [...]
Continue reading What is the future of site search for ecommerce: Part 2
Search is pivotal in converting customers from browsers to buyers, but as site search functionality is becoming commoditised what future is there for search vendors in retail and [...]
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I start this blog with a summary of my latest thoughts around eCommerce platforms which I presented at eCommerce Expo recently. In this presentation I make the analogy between the journey a business takes when it comes to eCommerce platforms to that of a person navigating the property ladder. [...]
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