Posted on: 2nd Aug 2010
By: Adam Moss
On the day where Amazon have dedicated virtually their entire homepage in homage to the latest version of it’s Kindle device, I thought it is perhaps appropriate to draw attention to this impressive piece of hardware. No doubt Apple’s iPhone and iPad have turned up the heat on Amazon’s development of the Kindle, and as [...]
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Posted on: 9th Apr 2010
By: Robert Kent
Back in the day…we had a wide selection of buildings, some big, others slightly smaller. We called these strange places “shops”. In these “shops” lived a few humble “staff”, whose job it was to patrol the “shop” and keep a wary eye out for miscreants and vagabonds. They were also required to “face-up” the aisles [...]
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Posted on: 23rd Sep 2009
By: Adam Moss
For a while now, ecommerce has moved further and further towards marketplace sites, where it’s not just the website selling goods to users, but users selling goods to users through the website. The most well known example of an online marketplace is Ebay, where transactions are purely user to user. Sites such as Amazon and [...]
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Posted on: 31st May 2009
By: Adam Moss
Ecommerce giants Amazon and Play have recently decided to challenge Apple’s dominance in the MP3 market by offering MP3 downloads as part of its service. Amazon launched Amazon MP3 with the intention of reducing Apple’s markets share by undercutting it’s prices whilst maintaining the convenience of the iTunes store. As far as first year’s go, [...]
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Posted on: 16th Apr 2009
By: Adam Moss
WordPress has been hailed in blogging platform circles for a number of years for it’s excellent open source contribution to the world of bloggers. Not only is it free and open source while being very simple to modify, it is also capable of executing impressive levels of functionality using it’s vast plugin library. E-commerce is [...]
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