There seems to be a number of open-source ecommerce packages gaining in popularity this past year, upgrading and coming out of beta. Just as Drupal and Joomla are dominating the open-source CMS market (along with one of my faves, CMS Made Simple), the ecommerce arena may soon have a few dominant players. (Or maybe not.) [...]
Considering Amazon doesn’t have a retail store front where physical products – the product’s packaging doesn’t need to be marketing or theft-proof. A round of applause for Amazon for coming up with this innovation and for having the pull with manufacturers to implement it. Not only does this save frustration, it also uses fewer materials, [...]
Best Buy is seeking a skilled front-end Web Developer with excellent communication and consultative abilities. This position will leverage a variety of programming and markup languages combined with web standards and usability-guided design principles to develop and deploy web sites/web applications for the Best Buy enterprise. Ideal Candidates have: Expert knowledge of hand-coded HTML (XHTML [...]
A question to the community at large. I’ve been asked to give an opinion on the PNG file format. More specifically, if it would be worth it to include a PNG version of products in the process of creating web photo assets. Note that I’m referring to a large number of product images (in the [...]
Having a couple extra minutes today, I thought I’d renew my Costco membership online. Here’s the process I expected: Click Membership in the top nav of Costco.com Click on a ‘Renew Now’ button Enter my membership number and a credit card number Get back to work Instead, they made it much more “engaging”: Click Membership [...]
A while back I was window shopping online at Ikea when I came across their Error message. Instead of feeling frustrated or angry, I was delighted to see this:
I’ve spent no more than $47 at the iTunes store – despite the increased catalog; movies, music videos, etc. The difficulties of sending my “purchased” music to my new MacBook Pro confirm I have no intention of sending another 99¢ supporting FairPlay. So, you can see why I’m not impressed by the pissing match between [...]
I ran across this section of a form today and thought it could use some improvement, simplification, etc. Rather than saying, ‘this is bad’ and leaving it at that, I thought there could be an interesting conversation about how to improve it. With that, it’s the first of what I’ve dubbed the ‘lunchtime redesign challenge’. [...]
Running across this interview with Jeff Zucker, pres. of NBC, really says something. Some monster media companies are starting to see the light. Can you put the Apple iPod deal into perspective? It is part of our overall digital strategy, something Bob Wright had laid out for us for more than a year now, which [...]
You remember webvan…I never used it myself so I can’t speak to what they offered, but this post isn’t a “buying groceries online is cool,” Ric Romero kind of post. I wanted to focus instead on the “activity based†aspects of it. In other words, it’s not the fact that you can buy your food [...]