A week ago Cadbury Chocolates Ireland announced the winner of their Cadbury Apprentice Contest to design a new Cadbury Milk Bar wrapper. All was well and the two top designers got well over 25,000 votes each. On Feb 15, 2010 they picked the winner, Sinead Costello. A lot of people voted for the design, but [...]
Archive for February, 2010
E-retailers Showing Little Progress On Accessibility
February 25th, 2010
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E-retailers, still somewhat in their pre-teen years as an industry are behind on a small, but vocal market. The visually impaired. It seems that while commerce and the internet continue to mold into one another, retail is failing to keep up. The famous case is National Federation for the Blind’s lawsuit against Target for failing [...]
Layar Augmented Reality: Not Only Fun, But Necessary For Local Business [VIDEO]
February 12th, 2010
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Layar is a mobile app that I have been playing with for Android Mobile Phones. Basically it uses your camera, GPS location, compass and accelerometer to calculate which way you are facing, and from where, to tell you web information on places near you and in what direction. Wikipedia is the obvious ‘layar’ to play [...]
Google Wave’s Massive Potential for Business
February 12th, 2010
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Mashable, the social media hub for marketers and techies has a great article on how Google Wave can be helpful to businesses and project managers: http://mashable.com/2009/12/18/google-wave-business/
Follow me on Google Buzz!
February 12th, 2010
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Google just keeps pumping out products faster than most of of can follow. Google Buzz is the nwe feature within Gmail (Google’s Email Client) that is similar to Twitter and Facebook in the sense that real time updates from your contacts are available within one click from your inbox. I’m trying it out now, and [...]
Bing Gains US Search Market Share For 8 Months In A Row
February 12th, 2010
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Microsoft’s Bing.com, an attempt to catch up to Google’s search prowess is consistently gaining market share that Google and Yahoo are losing. But they do have a LONG way to go. http://ow.ly/16vg4
Women Now Dominate European Online Retail
February 11th, 2010
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Over 61% of online transactions in Europe were initiated by women in 2009. This is in direct contrast to 44% in 2007. Men still dominated travel and services online, but electronic retail now a majority female sector. Data based on some 8 million transactions, not surveys shows that the demographics of online retailing are not [...]
