The past week my mind has been focused on curation based commerce (Fab.com, onekingslane.com) and the emerging rocket ship called Pinterest. I love Fab and their emails and think that curation based commerce is a vertical that will expand. (The only problem is that they need to scale internationally, cough South Africa.) Let me be frank for a minute, after looking at Pinterest for close to a month, and writing a post on the company; I am still not sure whether Pinterest has a use case. Pinterest – A bubble waiting to burst opens this weeks’ look back with regards to ecommerce news.
The 10 e-commerce stories for the week ending 15 June 2012
It is the end of the week and what a week it was. Monday Apple dazzled everyone with their product launches (iOS6 can be seen as a direct to Google, that is going to be a separate post soon) and then word came of the struggles of Nokia. Mobile commerce is something that I encounter on a daily basis, so these story lines are of importance.
Conference organizers, I have a simple request for you. As someone who is interested in some of the ecommerce conferences that happen all over the world. how about a single user rate to view some of the speakers? I love reading posts like Tim Kilroy’s in which he summarises IRCE 2012, but the missing context is an issue. So videos or livestreams would be beneficial. Please folks.. spread the knowledge.
The 10 e-commerce stories that got my attention this past week
It feels like yesterday, that the change to Google Product Search was announced. Yet, the story continues to make it into my RSS reading (it will most probably continue). I have been deliberately not speaking about in depth as I want to properly write about it. Anyway, this week was dominated by eCommerce in the Middle East and Africa, Google Product Search and Russian eCommerce. Also IRCE 2012, has been added to events that I would like to attend as content coming from the conference is of excellent quality.
The 10 e-commerce stories that got my attention this past week
The past week has been an interesting one. If I ever win the lottery I have one event that I would like to do. Create an event in which 3 speakers of my choice come and speak to me and a select of individuals. Preferably the event should be held in US to ensure that the speakers make it. The 3 speakers are individuals whom I respect but also would love to have an audience with. So who is the three: Jeff Bezos, Marc Andreessen and Mary Meeker.
Mary Meeker provides some of the best presentations that are publicly available for anyone related to the business of the Internet. There is one other analyst whom I respect, Imran Khan but ever since he joined Credit Suisse it seems he has gone very quiet. (Can someone please make something similar to “Nothing But Net” as that PDF provided information which was relevant for the entire year…). The changes of this event taking place are small but it is a dream…
The 10 e-commerce stories that got my attention this past week
Today, I start something that I have been thinking about for the last few months. As of this Friday (depending on a million things), I am going to be posting a list of 10 stories that got my attention. Yes, I said my attention.