All the articles of August, 2008

Microsoft announces today the acquisition of Greenfield Online, owner of Ciao!: Microsoft Corp today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Greenfield Online Inc, owner of Ciao GmbH, one of Europe’s leading price comparison, shopping and consumer reviews sites, in a move that will further extend Microsoft’s search and e-commerce services in Europe. [...]

DealTime is testing a whole new site on the US market. I saw it yesterday, but get the old design today. So DealTime seems to do some bucket testing to test the new design. Overall, it’s a great improvement over the slightly old current design. New color scheme, revised usability… the new site is a [...]

By writing my last post about the new design of PriceGrabber’s search result pages, I realized that I haven’t detailed the new product display we launched on Kelkoo in July. So let’s do it :) The previous product display was introduced in October’07 along with the full redesign of the Kelkoo site (See an example [...]

PriceGrabber has recently updated its search result pages, and introduced a new display for products and offers. This new redesign is a nice revamping of the previous SRPs, and perfectly matches the style introduced with the new PriceGrabber homepage in late ’07. In the details: The new style sports gradients / shadows / rounded corners… [...]

In Breaking Free of Outlook, Bernard Lunn explained how he recently switched from Outlook / Exchange to Google GMail… His article inspired me and I decided to switch to GMail for my personal mail. Why switching? I only have POP access to my current mail server and a personal computer running Outlook. However, on daily [...]