All the articles of December, 2007

Every time I hear about a new or emerging social shopping site, I usually repeat the same operations: Create an account, and set up a user profile by adding my points of interest and preferences, Upload a couple of products I own / I like / I want to buy, to start testing the features [...]

TechCrunch published stats from comScore about the traffic evolution of the Google properties in 2007. If, overall, 2007 is another great year for Google, its shopping service gets the worst evolution with a 73% drop year over year. Nothing really surprising as Google has not really promoted its Product Search for the last year. More [...]

I have been pretty silent on the blog during the past weeks. I was busy at Kelkoo, working on the ’08 product roadmap (with really cool projects in it :) ). And I spent my spare time working on the photo section of the site, pushing new photos and cleaning / re-coding a few pages. [...]

I was in California to visit the Yahoo! office in Burbank; as I stayed over the weekend, I visited downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills on the Saturday afternoon

I often visit the Yahoo! office in London, but I usually do not take time to go visiting and taking photographs. That day was the exception :)

A small collection of photographies taken in 2007 near Grenoble

A few days ago, when I reported that Google pushed Product Search in its main navigation, I concluded by saying it was a pity Product Search has not evolved for a long time. Apparently, I have been heard ;) as eCommerceOptimization is reporting some big changes in Product Search: New “compare prices” buttons, including price [...]

If you read this blog, I suppose you are either interested in my thoughts on comparative shopping / social shopping (the primary subject of this blog), or you are a friend of mine :) First option, you probably don’t care about posts not related to shopping ; second option, you only care about those (rare) [...]

We spent three days in the village of Manuel Antonio, near the Manuel Antonio National Park, on the Pacific coast. It is said to be one of the most crowded national parks in Costa Rica; [...]

After a couple of days on the Pacific coast, we headed up towards Monteverde, up in the mountains covered by forests where clouds and rain is really common. We stayed at the little village of [...]

From Monteverde, we went to La Fortuna, a small village near the Arenal Volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in the world. We spent three days in La Fortuna, to enjoy the views on [...]

We spent three days in Cahuita, on the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. A very different experience from the rest of the country, a kind of Jamaican way of life with rastas, reggae music...

We spent the last week of our trip visiting the Central Valley of the country - San Jose, Alajuela, Sarchi...

We spent one entire day in La Paz waterfall garden, a private park near Virablanca. Amazing place to look at birds, hummingbirds, butterflies, and of course the waterfalls.