All the articles of January, 2007

Jan 29, 2007 Back from the US
These were two busy weeks, discussing with the guys at Yahoo! Shopping US, and Yahoo! Search Marketing: I had the opportunity to have a deep look at Panama, the new ad system from Yahoo!. I also took time to visit Los Angeles and Joshua Tree National Park.
Jan 29, 2007 USA - Joshua Tree National Park - [34 photos]
Une visite rapide (4 heures environ) à Joshua Tree National Park, en Californie. Le temps n'était pas aussi clément qu'il y paraît: un vent violent rafraîchissaient considérablement l'ambiance.
Jan 13, 2007 Five things about me…
Seb tagged me, so here are five things you may not know about me: After about 8 years working in engineering (mostly on web development), I’ve just accepted to become Product Development Manager (PDM) at Yahoo! Shopping. I live in Grenoble (FR) for almost 7 years now; and I still don’t want to move anywhere [...]
Jan 12, 2007 Two weeks in the US
I will be in the US for the next two weeks. I will spend the first week in Sunnyvale to discuss with the guys at Yahoo! Shopping US. During the second week, I will meet the guys working at Yahoo! Search Marketing, to learn about Panama, the Yahoo!’s answer to Google AdWords. That will be [...]
Jan 07, 2007 Social unshopping
Published on Yahoo! News, an article – entitled “S.F. group enjoys shopping sabbatical” – explains the experience of ten middle-class californians that decided to not buy anything during a full year – excepted “food, essential toiletries like toothpaste and shampoo, underwear and other purchases that fell under the categories of health and safety“. The story [...]
Jan 02, 2007 Miscellaneous
Social Shopping? An Oxymoron like “Windows Works”?. Interesting and disruptive idea, where the author explains social shopping may not be as useful as we would expect. I’m not really convinced – especially in the discovery phase where I think the social networks could unhide products buried in the Google / Yahoo! results Social Shopping Spurs [...]
Jan 01, 2007 Product reviews: are they really useful?
Two recent articles made me think about product reviews written by consumers and published on the various shopping engines and merchant websites. The first article – published on the Crowdstorm blog – confirmed the opinion I had on reviews: they are great for SEO as they bring some UGC (user-generated content) to shopping sites, but [...]