The Macrosite for News, Analysis and Opinion about the Future of the Internet
Content tagged with Retail
posted in August 2011
All (328)           Blog Posts (17)           Comments (311)          
All
Comment: Are you kidding me? - jwallace - 8/31/2011
Comment: re:Bad Times for GroupOn - ivka - 8/31/2011
Comment: Sample Size Too Small - kenton - 8/31/2011
Comment: Yes. - nathanwosnack - 8/31/2011
Comment: Love the Concept - KMT568 - 8/31/2011
Bad Times for GroupOn?
Internet Evolution Poll  
8/31/2011   16 comments
Recent press suggests GroupOn may be headed for a fall. What's your take?
Comment: Re: Bigger fish to fry - aum007 - 8/31/2011
Comment: Re: Simple Process - dcuperus - 8/30/2011
Rumors of Foursquare Danger May Be Exaggerated
Christopher Olson  
8/30/2011   40 comments
While it may be risky, there doesn't seem to be much evidence that it's terribly dangerous to participate on location-based social sites.
Tales of E-Commerce & Solid State Disk
Mary E. Shacklett  
8/30/2011   2 comments
Technologists have some new and exciting ideas about solid state disks.
Comment: Simple Process - dcuperus - 8/29/2011
 Executive Clan Chat: How Not to Succeed In China
IE Radio  
8/29/2011   110 comments
Despite high expectations of the burgeoning China Internet market, many firms have met disappointment and even failure in the People's Republic. Groupon's recent problems illustrate what executives in any sector should avoid when starting a business in China.
Future Beckons in Online Hotel Services
Susan Fourtané  
8/29/2011   60 comments
Anticipating a trend, Omena Hotels has launched hotel concierge services based on automated systems driven by a Web interface.
Comment: Re: No all bad - Mary Jander - 8/26/2011
Comment: Re: No all bad - Kim Davis - 8/26/2011
Comment: Not all bad - Mary Jander - 8/26/2011
Verizon Offers Intuit Mobile Card Reader
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
8/25/2011   Post a comment
Verizon Wireless will sell Intuit Inc.'s GoPayment mobile credit/debit card reader, highlighting progress in wireless payment gear.
Comment: Re: Yikes - Kim Davis - 8/25/2011
Comment: Yikes - Nicole Ferraro - 8/25/2011
Tracking Company Faces Class Action
Kim Davis  
8/25/2011   7 comments
ComScore accused of siphoning confidential information from unsuspecting users.
Comment: Re: Lots of mistakes - Mashka - 8/25/2011
How Not to Succeed in China
Executive Clan Editor's Blog  
8/24/2011   17 comments
Despite high expectations of the burgeoning China Internet market, many firms have met disappointment and even failure in the People's Republic.
Comment: Free is a culture - Kicheko - 8/22/2011
Comment: Re: Kudos to Speed! - Anand Y - 8/22/2011
Comment: Re: Kudos to Speed! - slfisher - 8/22/2011
Comment: Re: Kudos to Speed! - Anand Y - 8/22/2011
Comment: Re design - nasimson - 8/21/2011
Comment: E-commerce websites - Gigi - 8/19/2011
Design Change Revitalizes E-Commerce Site
Scott Koegler  
8/19/2011   8 comments
Diabetic footware retailer Medipeds revamped its Website design without having to swap out the underlying e-commerce software.
Comment: Re: Sad but true - taimur_tz - 8/18/2011
Comment: Re: Sad but true - nimantha.de - 8/18/2011
Comment: Sad but true - rasika1000 - 8/18/2011
Comment: Security is an issue - scucci - 8/16/2011
Comment: what did we expect - dbergman - 8/16/2011
Comment: Re: Not Surprising - Kim Davis - 8/16/2011
Comment: Re: Not Surprising - taimur_tz - 8/16/2011
Online Advertising: It's Everyone's Business (For Now)
Editor's Blog  
8/16/2011   14 comments
Thanks to technology and the offer of incentives, Web users have become brand ambassadors. But as demand for their attention grows, there may be breaking point.
Comment: Not Surprising - smkinoshita - 8/16/2011
Comment: promoting open source - Gigi - 8/16/2011
The Truth About Software Piracy in Developing Nations
Taimoor Zubair  
8/16/2011   36 comments
Instead of blaming emerging nations for failing to combat software piracy, vendors should create lower-priced options.
The Efficient Middle Office
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
8/15/2011   2 comments
Improving efficiency in the middle office may have special resonance for the midmarket, and the tools for the job are increasingly available.
Barcodes, QR Codes Used by Young, Affluent Males
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
8/12/2011   Post a comment
The majority of mobile subscribers who are at least 13 years old use their smartphones to snap a barcode or QR code are male, comScore says.
Visa Pushes EMV Authentication for Cards, NFC
Alan Reiter's Wireless Web World  
8/9/2011   Post a comment
Visa is encouraging the use of point-of-sale (POS) terminals in the US that accept EMV cards and contactless payment products.
Decision Management by Customers
Midmarket Clan Editor's Blog  
8/8/2011   7 comments
Combining decision management analytics with social metrics creates an opportunity to put the customer in the operational driving seat.
Comment: Re: Hesitant - Ron_Miller - 8/8/2011
Comment: Re: up and coming - Ron_Miller - 8/8/2011
Comment: Re: Hesitant - antonis - 8/8/2011
Comment: up and coming - dbergman - 8/7/2011
Comment: Re: Hesitant - Nicole Ferraro - 8/5/2011
Comment: Re: Hesitant - Ron_Miller - 8/5/2011
Comment: Re: Hesitant - Mary Jander - 8/5/2011
Comment: Re: Hesitant - Nicole Ferraro - 8/5/2011
Comment: Re: Hesitant - Ron_Miller - 8/4/2011
Comment: Hesitant - Nicole Ferraro - 8/4/2011
Comment: Re: Groupon - Ron_Miller - 8/4/2011
Comment: Re: Groupon - Gigi - 8/4/2011
Comment: Re: Groupon - Mary Jander - 8/3/2011
Comment: Re: Groupon - Ron_Miller - 8/3/2011
Comment: Re: Groupon - Mary Jander - 8/3/2011
Comment: Re: Groupon - Ron_Miller - 8/3/2011
Comment: Groupon - Kim Davis - 8/3/2011
Comment: Show me the deals - antonis - 8/3/2011
Deals Drive Location-Content Connection
Ron Miller  
8/3/2011   35 comments
An agreement between Groupon and Foursquare and Google's purchase of The Dealmap show the strengthening link between location and content.
Comment: when do people live? - Mashka - 8/2/2011
The Power of Kleenex
Mary E. Shacklett  
8/2/2011   4 comments
The techniques of branding might change, but the challenges to achieving super-brand status remain the same.




a moderated blogosphere of internet experts
Mary E. Shacklett
Social media has been with us for a decade -- but employer policies and the law are anything but firm about the most appropriate usage of this powerful tool.
Dan Cypra
Dan Cypra   5/23/2013   26 comments
Businesses often struggle to decide which domain to use. When it comes to purchasing a domain name, you have plenty of extensions to choose from, ranging from .com and .net, to .me, and even .mobi. But which one should you pick?
Matt Heusser
Matt Heusser   5/23/2013   7 comments
I've been writing about how the next evolution of the Internet might just be an advertising revolution, and how corporate IT can stay involved as the enablers and providers of the technologies that make this possible.
David Weldon
David Weldon   5/22/2013   15 comments
In the 1970 science fiction thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.
IETV: the thinkerNet on film
5
of
Kim Davis
Big-Data Can’t Always Sell Wine

5|21|13   |   2:23   |   4 comments


Whole Foods Global Wine Purchaser Doug Bell told me about some of the constraints on using analytics in the US wine market.
Paul J. Fleuranges
Digital Signage Keeps NYC Subway Straphangers on Track

5|6|13   |   3:51   |   No comments


New York's Metropolitan Transit Authority is conducting a pilot test of digital kiosks to guide subway users to where they want to go more efficiently and at lower cost.
Kim Davis
Fast Forward to the Future

4|23|13   |   2:29   |   20 comments


A look back at tech writing in the 90s makes us wonder where enterprise IT will be 20 years from now.
Mitch Wagner
Google Launches Its Most Depressing Service Yet

4|15|13   |   2:59   |   10 comments


Google's new Inactive Account Manager lets you control how Google disposes of your accounts when you die.
Second Shooter
Argument Over Top-Level Domains Is 'Stupid'

4|11|13   |   2:07   |   3 comments


The whole Amazon.reader debate is a double-stupid. It's stupid to think that there's any e-book buyer who doesn't know Amazon's URL, and it was stupider to let ICANN launch the whole free-form TLD initiative to start with.
Kim Davis
Ladies, Your Tablet Awaits

3|21|13   |   2:22   |   37 comments


ePad Femme is the world’s first tablet “made exclusively for women.”
Wisdom of the Big Chair
NFC Moves Into the Mainstream

3|20|13   |   2:16   |   No comments


While NFC's original goal was to enhance mobile commerce applications, it is finding its way into a number of other uses, which is creating both opportunity as well as challenges for IT departments.
Wisdom of the Big Chair
Integrating Security Into Your Cloud Contract

3|19|13   |   3:35   |   No comments


Enterprises would like to move to cloud computing but are hesitant because they are concerned about providers’ ability to secure company data. Here are some tips that help to ensure that if breaches occur, the business is not left holding the bag.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Collects Customer Information

3|18|13   |   1:15   |   No comments


Edmunds separates customers into segments based on the info it collects on its site and from partners, and uses that to push out custom content, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
Brian Baron
How Edmunds.com Uses Analytics to Customize Site

3|14|13   |   0:47   |   No comments


The automotive website uses propensity modeling to target ads and customer registration forms, said Brian Baron, director of business analytics for Edmunds.com, at Predictive Analytics Innovation Summit.
an IBM information resource
sponsored content
big blue blog
an IBM information resource
sponsored content
Expert Integrated Systems: Changing the Experience & Economics of IT
In this e-book, we take an in-depth look at these expert integrated systems -- what they are, how they work, and how they have the potential to help CIOs achieve dramatic savings while restoring IT's role as business innovator.

READ THIS eBOOK
your weekly update of news, analysis, and
opinion from Internet Evolution - FREE!

REGISTER HERE
Wanted! Site Moderators
Internet Evolution is looking for a handful of readers to help moderate the message boards on our site – as well as engaging in high-IQ conversation with the industry mavens on our thinkerNet blogosphere. The job comes with various perks, bags of kudos, and GIANT bragging rights. Interested?

Please email: moderators@internetevolution.com
Internet Evolution – not for thickies
Keep Critical Data With a Knowledge Management System
Taimoor Zubair
Fortune 500 companies lose at least
$31.5 billion a year by failing to share knowledge. A Knowledge Management System (KMS) can help companies significantly reduce these costs.

CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet
David Weldon
In the 1970 science fiction thriller
Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.

CLICK FOR MORE
M2M: Rise of the Machines? Not Yet
David Weldon
In the 1970 science fiction thriller
Colossus: The Forbin Project, two giant supercomputers from the United States and Soviet Union secretly join forces to take control of the collective nuclear might of the two countries. In the film, the two machines discover each other's existence, communicate back-and-forth, share their collective data, and cut their human creators out of the process. It is the ultimate example of machine-to-machine communications, or M2M.

CLICK FOR MORE