I came across a useful free tool for creating heatmaps of your website design at Feng Gui. The site allows you to type in your url or upload an image and it creates a heatmap based on what it thinks a real human would be most likely to look at. The application uses a ViewFinder algorithm […]
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Circuit City’s CEO Philip Schoonover has done a couple interviews this week, one with the WSJ and the other with the Times-Dispatch of Richmond, VA (Circuit City’s Headquarters). Here are some of the more interesting questions and answers from the two interviews.
WSJ: Why do you think the new, smaller-sized store will improve Circuit City’s profitability and sales […]
Here’s another visualization which shows the ecommerce sites in the top 500 which use Adobe Flash on their site. While this is not a clear indicator of good use of Flash, it does give a sense of how much flash is used. I use it to look at the sites to see who’s doing innovative things […]
I’ve been playing around with the data visualization tools at IBM’s Many Eye’s project and came up with a visualization in a treeview that shows the top 500+ ecommerce sites split by category of retailer with google page rank. It’s an interesting way to look at the data as you quickly see that apparel & […]
Google just release Google Checkout Trends. Similar in nature to Google Trends where you can compare the popularity of search terms, here Google is allowing you to compare sales of products or brands that were paid for through Google Checkout.
After playing with it a bit, I started to think about how it might be used by retailers […]
While surfing I came across Beyond Alt Text: Making the Web Easy to Use for Users With Disabilitiesfrom the Nielsen Norman Group. It’s normally $124, but they are giving it away for free for the holidays. Accessibility design has become increasingly important over the last few years with ecommerce websites due to rulings in the courts […]
Bestbuy.com gets a C+ for their holiday widget strategy
Posted in Analytics, Ecommerce, Retail, Stores, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0 on Dec 19th, 2007
I’m giving Bestbuy.com a C+ for their holiday widget strategy this holiday season. They provided two widgets, one in the form of Yahoo Widgets for your desktop and the second for igoogle. Both are identical in look and functionality. The visual design was well done, although the functionality came up short IMO. Details below.
This is the first […]
Strong words from the CEO of Ikea. Furniture Today has an article today that says that a memo is making the rounds in Sweden from Anders Dahlvig, CEO and President.
“According to the memo, which came from Anders Dahlvig, Ikea’s CEO and president, the Swedish company will focus on the in-store experience as “the only sales channel,” […]
Mashup App for Tracking Top Ecommerce Sites for Design Analysis & Best Practices
Posted in Analytics, Blog, Ecommerce, Resources, Retail, Social Networking, Web 2.0 on Dec 13th, 2007
I haven’t been writing much over the past couple weeks because I’ve been focused on developing a new mashup app that will track the top 500+ ecommerce sites on the web. Trying to keep up with what the top companies are doing is always a difficult and time consuming task so I decided to pull […]
Article on Optimizing for Google Product Search
Posted in Ecommerce, LinkLog, Resources, Retail on Dec 4th, 2007
Brandon over at “The life and times” wrote up a great article on Optimizing for Google Product Search (Formerly Froogle). Definitely worth checking out.
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