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Something really cool today from the Windows Live Services team. Using the Live Messenger services, and the Live Search services to create 'social search' - or in my book, a nice way of being able to share online research with someone - or a group. The announcement from Angus ...

Everyone knows Flickr is a great community platform for sharing digital photos with friends and family. However, Flickr is also a great tool for capturing, organising and sharing Design Patterns or collections of Interface Designs.  Here are a few examples of people doing this... DragonVista’s collection of 500+ ecommerce home ...

Am I one of the rare breed of eBay virgins who has resisted the allure of this auction site for over a decade?  If so, the clan is one man less as I was deflowered this weekend after years of resistance.  I finally succumbed to the charm of eBay as a seller tempted me with a delicious and extremely rare compilation CD (limited to ...

Now, at the risk of sounding terminally uncool, I've got to kick this blog off with a bit of down-to-earth reality checking. There's a huge buzz at the moment across the new media and technology industries about the unbounded possibilities afforded to retailers and consumers by the wonder of Web 2.0, and whilst there are indeed numerous ways ...

Retail Week has a special on Web 2.0 to be launched tomorrow (14/3). To be up front, Conchango has sponsored the event, but Retail Week wrote and produced the material. If I were take a single statement away from the supplement, it would be: Web 2.0 is necessary, but luckily aspects are lower risk and cheaper than you'd think; BUT get Web 1.0 ...

Amazon - purveyor of books. Sorry, purveyor of books and CDs. Sorry, books, CDs and videos DVDs. Actually, I guess it's now books, CDs, DVDs, t-shirts, cameras, mp3 players, duvets, ovens, garden gnomes,... you get the idea. Well, they've finally forgotten why they came to the party in the first place. They're so overwhelmed ...