iknowthe.net - Internet and Ecommerce Consultant

I was talking earlier today with a client who felt his products sold better when he demonstrated them at industry shows, which was the reason he felt his ecommerce site wasn’t converting. We talked about digitising his demonstration videos and putting them online - easily done, and could work really well for him. Then I read this story online, which ties in very nicely with what I was thinking about…

I’ve not really got into the whole social web thing. When I first looked at myspace it seemed ugly, boring and spammy. I quite like Jaiku, but I can’t be bothered to twitter. As part of updating this blog to be a bit more web 2.0 - getting my wordpress install talking to Jaiku, for example, I joined Facebook. I’ve looked at it before, not been thrilled and so not done anything with it, but last week I contacted an old work colleague who had sent me a friend request, and then let facebook trawl my gmail account for contacts, and found an old mate was on facebook so I emailed them. Then I installed the blogfriends app, and quit.


A couple of days later, I get an email from facebook, and when I login, there’s little threatening warning bubbles all over my homepage.

Here’s the email

Borders to split from Amazon
The first company to partner with Amazon on their online platform is to go elsewhere.

The FT reported this week that UK retailers are urging the big labels to follow EMI’s example and release DRM free music.

Massive thanks to Techcrunch for my my ipod nano as won in their recent haiku competition.

Obviously I knew it was small but its hard to exactly visualise just how small until you see it in the flesh. I’ve been happily encoding films to ipod format, and can confirm Star Wars looks and sounds just great on it. Thanks Mike