All the articles of March, 2007

• Mar 31, 2007 Miscellaneous news on social shopping and shopping engines (2007-03-31)

  (I’m in San Francisco till the end of next week, don’t have much time to blog, but here are a few links) On DmNews: Online shopping is something to talk about. Larger brands have also benefited from the social shopping sites. “When the iPhone was launched in real time we saw more than 100 people add iPhone [...]

• Mar 26, 2007 Miscellaneous news on social shopping and shopping engines (2007-03-26)

  Big news on the blogosphere this week: Google is testing CPA – cost-per-action - (also called PPA – pay per action) on AdWords. In case of you didn’t read anything about it yet, here is the official announcement on Google blog, and an analysis of this move by TechCrunch. To follow up the discussion on CPA, [...]

• Mar 18, 2007 Summize, an innovative aggregator of products reviews

  ReadWriteWeb has a really good review of Summize, an innovative aggregator of products reviews. Summize claims to aggregate 4 millions user reviews on 1 million products… Their coverage seems pretty good, but that’s not the big thing. The big thing is the UI !!! Forget the 5-stars pattern to know if a product is good or [...]

• Mar 18, 2007 Using Google Base to store photos

  A few months ago, I migrated my site from a subdomain (under my provider’s domain) to my own domain (www.nicolasleroy.fr). I tried to do a smooth transition – using 302 redirections – in order to keep my PageRank in Google. All I can say a few months later is that it didn’t work very well [...]

• Mar 14, 2007 Comparison shopping in India

  Thanks to my RSS feeds, I read an article, entitled “Comparison Shopping in India: current state and what’s in future“, that shows how India presents huge opportunities for new comers in the comparison engine world, and – why not? – for EU and US big players (eBay seems to be very strong in India, providing [...]

• Mar 14, 2007 New product comparison UIs are emerging

  In the previous months, a few innovative sites – supporting new user interfaces to shop products – have been launched: ShoppingPath (reviewed by ReadWriteWeb, ComparisonEngines) relies on a chart view, to show distribution of products according a criterion of the product family (for instance, browsing digital cameras with “megapixels” on X-axis, and price on Y-axis). The [...]

• Mar 04, 2007 “Enhanced preview” on shopping engines: who’s next?

  Web 2.0, through AJAX technology, has brought a lot of new patterns for the user interface, some useful, some just fancy and hype. “Enhanced preview” is one of those useful patterns that allows user to get the details of a product without having to click to a detail page. In the world of shopping engines, [...]