All the articles of October, 2007

Oct 17, 2007 In holidays for 3 weeks
It has been 10 crazy months. In January, I decided to move from engineering to product team. And since, I had the chance to work on very interesting and intensive projects. I spent the first 6 months of the year on a collaboration project between Kelkoo, Yahoo! Shopping US and Panama team (you know the [...]
Oct 09, 2007 Vercors National Park - Ballad to the "Pas de l'Essaure" - [12 photos]
A autumnal ballad to the "Pas de l'Essaure", an entrance to the Vercors National Park and the Vercors plateau. From there, you have a good panorama on the Mont Aiguille and the Grand Veymont (the [...]
Oct 08, 2007 The new Kelkoo
It has been a very long week (should I say a very long month? :) ). Indeed the launch of a revamped website that has the audience of Kelkoo is not an easy task. You have to take into account a multi-countries deployment on several data centers, you have to follow all the technical (CPUs, [...]
Oct 04, 2007 Green shopping by TheFind
TheFind has recently launched a new variation of their main site: after releasing the new Glimpse, they have put their focus on green products. In a move that is similar to ShopGreen by PriceGrabber, TheFindGreen is basically a view of the classic TheFind site with only green / eco-friendly / fair-trade products. As explained in [...]
Oct 03, 2007 Yahoo! to give more autonomy to Kelkoo
As a Kelkoo insider, I don’t want to comment this news. Still here are a few articles regarding the fact that Yahoo! wants to give more autonomy to Kelkoo: Yahoo ponders Kelkoo’s future (on FinancialTimes) Yahoo considers sale of shopping service Kelkoo, after bad performance (from VentureBeat) Yahoo may sell Kelkoo (on TechCrunch) Yahoo selling [...]
Oct 02, 2007 Live Search 2.0 provides shopping-oriented result pages
Live Search 2.0, the new search engine from Microsoft, have been announced a couple of days ago; but apparently the roll-out of the release has taken a few days as only today have I been able to put my hands on it… Beyond the improvements in search algorithms, what is interesting in this release is [...]
Oct 02, 2007 Kelkoo reloaded
Kelkoo has been relaunched today with a brand new design. Kelkoo Denmark is currently live; more countries to come in the next hours and days, more coverage later today or tomorrow :)