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I was prompted to write this blog in a sort of pseudo response to an article in the FT  article http://tinyurl.com/RetailFT around the predictions of ecommerce and why there is not the glutton of mass adoption of this medium. Well firstly it is doing very well just now, thank you very much, across Europe online retail sales grew from €98bn in ...

At what point do retailers embrace the social shopping sphere? From reviews, comments, payments, marketing and brand voice, where and how do they begin? There are so many social networks and sites here today gone tomorrow that retailers and brands are  concerned that there either too late, too early or will waste their money on something that ...

Digital Nutshell: Issue 4 – MidemNet 2009 Special ~ Digital Music 2.0 Next stop after Las Vegas (as well as a brief stop over in Gibraltar – full analysis of the Online Gaming industry coming soon…) was onto Cannes and the MidemNet digital Music conference – and what could be classed as the Music industrys defining year such as the web was 2 ...

Firstly some exciting news from January 2009 The Diary of A Madman Blog will also be available as Podcast of a Madman  with the usual ranting's and good stuff, as well as a whole host of other media that I can only talk about, but the podcast you can also listen, watch and view some episodes - all be announced and then you can subscribe and ...

Retail readiness... Retail is in the detail... Christmas is coming..READY?? For retailers that have checked, double checked, reviewed, written post-Christmas documents around key learning’s from the past year – and how to ensure that next Christmas is even more successful that the one just passed. The teams then go into overdrive ...

**Update Google Chrome (Beta) is now Live - download here www.google.com/chrome More Opens Source stuff this time from Google - who announced their Open Source Browser in a direct fight with FireFox Google KNOW very well how we browse and use the web - so now it's there turn to deliver a browser that we need based on our browsing habits.. Here ...

I never underestimate nor get surprised at the lack of understanding, direction or vision that some companies have when it comes to their Digital Strategies or Digital Marketplace. Take Sanity down in Australia - The Brazin owned company (that also owns the Virgin and HMV Brand in OZ) re-launched their digital music service last week and with the ...

I have been writing for a while on the topics that I am directly working on a day to day basis or have a passion about - Digital Media! However I do have another that brings the engineer and geek out in me is the emerging SaaS / Cloud / Web Platforms that have been bubbling around for a while and are now starting to really take shape in ...

Sorry for the rant at the start of this topic (see Part 1) However we are always a nation of wrong priorities...Anyway Part 2 - is here!Let’s start with a brief history..Filesharing among kids, adults, boys, girls, mums and dads etc.. everyone does it. There is technology coming that will actually make it easier to share files better, smarter, ...

** Warning ** Just to point out and to mention - that the site(s) and topic that is being discussed below - if anyone does decide to review any of the content mentioned in my post below - be aware that the sites do show scenes, images and videos of very graphic and explicit adult nature ** You have been warned NO! However when 6 grown men start ...