Online Grocers: Welcome to the price war!
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I love to read predictions made at the beginning of the year and look back at those predictions at the end of the year in retrospect. Click here to take a look at what people were talking about web analytics at the beginning of this year.
As we approach end of the year 2008, I have put together a timeline representation below to give the readers a snapshot view of the key developments in the area of Web Analytics and the direction taken by key players in the industry in the past year. I have tried to provide references wherever possible but this post can be best received if you are familiar with the Web Analytics market dynamics.
(For the benefit of the readers the links for each of these announcements are provided at the end of this post)
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LinkedIn recently announced launch of its open application platform for others to develop social applications. (http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=600). Out of those, the one which caught my attention was an application named as the “Reading List” developed by Amazon. Those, who haven’t seen this yet, would probably want to take a look at the Demo video on YouTube. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNlANI9juY8). However, if you think about this, this is not the first time somebody has developed an application like this on a social network. So, you might be wondering as to what makes this one different?
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If someone were to write a book called “Great eCommerce Site Launches in History”, the book would be very thin. With few exceptions, the replacement of an existing eComm Platform with a new one is a wild ride filled with crashes, slow-downs, time-outs, and roll-backs. In this post, I will discuss the source of these bad experiences, and how to improve the situation on your next project.
Early in the project, the team is focused on gathering the requirements, creating the customer experience and designing the back end connections to the legacy systems. “Going live” seems safely in the distant future, and gets very little attention up front. As a result, the deployment is handled by a team that is exhausted from the push to finish the coding on time. Errors are made and sites crash. Revenue is lost, managers are embarrassed, programmers are stressed out, etc. There has to be a better way.