uCommerce Anywhere and Anytime Key fact for uCommerce anywhere and anytime is the net coverage. Latest successfull example is the introduction of Toll Collect in Germany.
The automatic toll booking system is based on an innovative combination of GPS (Global Positionning System), LBS (Location Based Services), GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and OBU (On Board Unit).
The OBU determines the covered route distance via GPS and LBS and calculates the toll fees.
All this wonderfull, advanced innovative automated system is only possible, because Germany has a GSM net coverage of above 98%.
  ¶ 'uCommerce Anywhere and Anytime' posted by eA : 10:01 AM  0 comments links to this post

  Fields of Growth, Innovation and Change 2005 - 2007 The latest forms of digital highspeed data transmission might have the potential to transform traditional eCommerce to a more enhanced and ubiquitous form of commerce, uCommerce.
The 'u' stands for ubiquity, uniqueness, universality, unison and for more adjectives added over the next weeks and months.
Enabeling base technologies of uCommerce are already wellknown like GSM, UMTS, WLAN and of course wired.
Interesting will be the future adoption of uCommerce, innovative known fields are wireless commerce (logos, ringtones), voice commerce (VoIP), television commerce (digital TV) and digital commerce.
uCommerce will improve communication and the exchange of information between the connected parties anywhere and anytime, the benefits out of uCommerce will result in improved and innovative services, higher efficiency and better accessibility.

• See also my conceptual overview
• Download digital business template

  ¶ 'Fields of Growth, Innovation and Change 2005 - 2007' posted by eA : 8:33 PM  0 comments links to this post

  World of DSL Usage Facts about DSL:

• DSL users have a comfortable connection to load videos they find at google and yahoo video search
• DSL users made about 68% of all US online shoppings in Nov. 2004

Worldwide DSL Usage in Q3 2004:
WW DSL Users: 85,300,000
WW Internet Users: 819,931,592
WW Population: 6,390,147,487

Country	DSL users#	|#DSL users/#internet users	|#DSL users/#population
CN:	13,700,000	14,6%	1,1%
JP:	12,739,564	19,1%	10,0%
US:	12,594,316	6,3%	4,3%
KR (South):	6,717,251	21,9%	13,7%
DE:	5,950,000	12,8%	7,2%
FR:	5,253,000	21,2%	8,8%
IT:	3,680,000	12,9%	6,3%
UK:	3,335,000	9,6%	5,6%
WW:	85,300,000	10,4%	1,3%

Source: CNNIC, Nielsen//NR, KRNIC, C.I.Almanac, InternetWorldStats  ¶ 'World of DSL Usage' posted by eA : 3:30 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Celebration of Search Technology Part II Sometimes it is just like intuition: You talk about the celebration of search technology and a few days later it's going to happen: Yahoo! and Google launched of course their new beta video search. While Google focuses the content of leading TV content providers, Yahoo! includes it's own content from Launch etc.
Adding the links to try out:
http://video.google.com/
http://yahoo.com/  ¶ 'Celebration of Search Technology Part II' posted by eA : 1:40 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Celebration of Search Technology, Peer-To-Peer Networks and Blogs The latest Nielsen//Netratings analysis shows, that the major german internet shopping sites, Amazon, OTTO, Neckermann, lost between 9% and 12% unique visitors in the months of November and December 2004 compared to the year before.
The winner were shopping bots like Yahoo's Kelkoo +37% and shopping malls like T-Online +7%.
This indicates the major trend: A proceeding structural change in the (german) internet. People tend to make use of product search technology (see Google's Froogle), peer-to-peer networks (personal recommendations) and last but not least blogging.
This is a great chance of growth for smaller traders. Niche products can be extremly successful now.

  ¶ 'Celebration of Search Technology, Peer-To-Peer Networks and Blogs' posted by eA : 11:55 AM  0 comments links to this post

  Do you like Movies? I always wondered, why visitors spend 3 hours and more in a month on the sites of Warnerbros, Paramount or Miramax.
Watch yourself: The Phantom of the Opera
  ¶ 'Do you like Movies?' posted by eA : 1:02 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Top Domains for Sale! I'm selling the two toplevel domains:

• buy-it.net
• sell-it.info

Buy-it.net promots IT infrastructure and sell-it.info has it's focus on IT marketing. Imagine to combine them with a blog at blogger.com to promote your products....

Please place your offer here: buy-it.net -- sell-it.info
  ¶ 'Top Domains for Sale!' posted by eA : 9:52 AM  0 comments links to this post

  PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn)) Want to know what this is?
Read:
The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine from Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page.
  ¶ 'PR(A) = (1-d) + d (PR(T1)/C(T1) + ... + PR(Tn)/C(Tn))' posted by eA : 7:00 AM  0 comments links to this post

  Digital Business - Conceptual Overview Andreas Engel - Business Consultant

The high dynamic of the digital economy in the technology driven markets eCommerce, IT and telecommunication requires a steady optimization of the business concept. I worked out a concept how to grow and optimize the different areas in your business.
By the use of my services you can achieve the following benefits:

• Business: Growth, access to new markets, shift of fix costs
• Innovation: Convergence, innovative communication models, modularization
• Technology: Design and refinement of portals through complex solutions

My target groups are decision makers in Business Development, Marketing Management, Product Management and IT-Management.

Strategy:
Focus:
Here comes my pure strategy concept. It's sharp, it's brilliant, it's proven and it's perfect to design your business strategy. It's modular, it serves to define and structure your business in a natural way, each module can be booked independently, as a package or modularized like:

• Navigation - Design - Metrics
• Business - Markets - Channels
• Trust - Security - Privacy -Ethics - Contracts
• Communication Structure
  

Navigation:
Navigating the web and the site seems to be easy, but it is one of the most challenging tasks, when it comes to find and to be found. What are you looking for?
Design:
What is design? Design has many faces and does not only target layout, graphics and typography. It is also a part of strategy.
Metrics:
Ever wondered how many pageimpressions you have, where they come from and go to on your site, how long they stay? How high is your conversion rate?
Business:
Did you know, that there is around nine main models and around 40 sub-models on the web? And they are successful.
Markets:
I collected my market knowledge at Amazon.de and Vodafone live! and enhanced it through actual case studies of wellknown internet firms. Which market are you targeting?
Channel:
While going a way like Amazon.com, there is no channel-conflict at all. So the question is, how to manage and coordinate multi-channel distribution systems.
Trust:
How do you gain a customer's trust? Which way is right?
Security:
How to add sufficient security? SSL encryption is a standard and required when it comes to confidential data-exchange, but there is also a lot other security risks to be considered.
Ethics:
Vitreous customers, data analysis, personalisation, how far can and may someone go.
Contracts:
Design of online contracts.
Communication Structure:

• Business-To-Business
• Business-To-Consumer
• Consumer-To-Business
• Business-To-Employee
• Consumer-To-Consumer

Marketing and Technology:
Focus:
Only the best, most efficient and powerful functionalities and systems are presented and go into action. Covered areas: Content, community, transactions, the brightest systems from the software community, what they serve for and what you can do with them. The high dynamic of digital economy requires a continuous ajustment of the business concept, please consider what you're targeting:

• Multiple markets
• Single market
• Content and community
• Transactions

Content and community:
With a focus on content and community a web portal is a web site that provides a starting point or a gateway to other resources on the internet or intranet. Visitors and customers can communicate, share interests and process their business in an efficient way. Internet technology lays the foundations therefor:

• Search Engine/Directory
• Groupware and Collaboration
• Knowledge Management
• Content Management
• Work Flow
• Multi Channel Facilities
• Single Sign On
• Integration of Applications

Transactions:
With a focus on transactions you offer your customers and visitors the advantage to pay online and process their orders 24 hours/day in a very efficient way. Again the internet technology lays the foundations therefor:

• Shop system
• Catalog system
• Payment gateway
• Shipping options
• Selfservice tools
• Marketing instruments

  ¶ 'Digital Business - Conceptual Overview' posted by eA : 5:28 AM  0 comments links to this post

  ARE YOU SK(H)YPE? Skype is a little piece of software that will let you make worldwide free calls over the internet with your friends. Excellent sound quality and highly secure calls with end-to-end encryption makes it worth to download and to install it on your windows, mac, linux or pocket pc. To get started you'll need either a headset, speakers or a USB phone, have fun.

Watch this little movie

About:
Skype is the global peer-to-peer telephony company founded by Niklas Zennström, former CEO of KaZaA, the world’s most downloaded Internet software.
Save even more money using SKYPE, it's free.
  ¶ 'ARE YOU SK(H)YPE?' posted by eA : 6:15 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Contact Andreas Engel

Eduard-Schloemann-Str. 37
40237 Düsseldorf, Germany

Cellphone: 0049 - (0)171 - 26 38 0 25
Skype:
Phone: 0049 - (0)211 - 52 85 46 2

Email: info@andreasengel.com
Web: http://andreasengel.com  ¶ 'Contact' posted by eA : 5:02 AM  0 comments links to this post

  Save Money!

• Telephoning VoIP to VoIP for nothing
• Telephoning VoIP to fixed-line network for nearly nothing
• Telephoning VoIP to mobile devices for little money
  
• Highspeed surfing via WLAN, LAN and DSL-Flatrate
• Free Fritz!Box
  

The FRITZ!Box is the modem to connect you to the internet via high speed DSL, LAN and WLAN at home or in the office. It's integrated phone board equips you perfectly for internet telephony. Serving as a rooter, it's ideal for small businesses as well.

Watch this flash movie (german)

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  ¶ 'Save Money!' posted by eA : 10:58 AM  0 comments links to this post

  Make Money!

• Professional webhosting including high quality content-modules
• Actual news and infotainment from major brands included
• Entertain your visitors to spend more time on your website
• Select out of numerous content-categories like news, sports, finance, travel
• Userfriendly interface for easy setup and maintenance

SignUp here

  ¶ 'Make Money!' posted by eA : 8:29 PM  0 comments links to this post

  European Chartity Campaigns to Raise Funds for Tsunami Relief A review of new campaigns throughout Europe (week ending 9 January) shows many charities chose to publicise their appeals online in their efforts to raise money to help countries affected by the Asian tsunami.
The facts:

• 110 million Europeans using the Internet each month (home and work)
• Campaigns were advertised on high traffic portals and media sites
• Huge public response to the disaster in Europe
• Online appeals allow people to easily click-through to donate online

Read the full article from Nielsen//NetRatings
  ¶ 'European Chartity Campaigns to Raise Funds for Tsunami Relief' posted by eA : 11:17 AM  0 comments links to this post

  Tsunami Desaster Blog

• The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog
• Tsunami Help India
• Tsunami Video Blog
• Tsunami Tragedy Blog

  ¶ 'Tsunami Desaster Blog' posted by eA : 5:26 PM  0 comments links to this post

  BLOGGER.COM TRAFFIC SURGES 73 PERCENT IN WAKE OF TSUNAMI AFTERMATH Interpretation confirms the expert expectations listed in yestarday's 'The Future of the Internet / PEW INTERNET' posting: Blogging may have a strong impact on the news and publishing world.

Traffic increased in unique Visitors (000) and percentage from Week Ending 12/26/04 to Week Ending 01/02/05:

• Blogger.com 755 1,307 73%
• New York Post 560 733 31%
• CBS News 898 1,149 28%
• Forbes.com 614 775 26%
• Time Inc. Publications 1,126 1,372 22%

Read the full article from Nielsen//NetRatings
  ¶ 'BLOGGER.COM TRAFFIC SURGES 73 PERCENT IN WAKE OF TSUNAMI AFTERMATH' posted by eA : 1:14 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Report from Goldman, Sachs & Co., Harris Interactive®, and Nielsen//NetRatings Online Consumers Spent the Most on Apparel/Clothing, Toys/Video Games and Consumer Electronics; Fastest-Growing Categories Included Jewelry, Flowers and Computer Hardware/Peripherals
View full report

  ¶ 'Report from Goldman, Sachs & Co., Harris Interactive®, and Nielsen//NetRatings' posted by eA : 11:56 AM  0 comments links to this post

  The Future of the Internet / PEW INTERNET Summary (What experts believe and expect):

• Serious attacks on the internet network infrastructure
• Internet as part of our physical environment and increase of high-speed connections
• Dramatical change of the world of news and publishing, almost no change in religion
• Celebration of search technology, peer-to-peer networks and blogs
• Disgrace of slow institutions

Read the full article
  ¶ 'The Future of the Internet / PEW INTERNET' posted by eA : 4:31 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Launched my voice... Always happy to entertain you...  ¶ 'Launched my voice...' posted by eA : 1:16 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Launch of my international presentation platform Launched my Typo3 international pesentation platform containing CMS, blog, press center, eCards, eShop, cross format search, account area, multimedia center, banner management, downloads, contact management, business intelligence, multisite, multilanguage, automatic language detection: german/english and many more useful features.
The main purpose was to have a flexible CMS for my personal needs.
Here comes the link to visit, have fun!
  ¶ 'Launch of my international presentation platform' posted by eA : 3:06 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Enhanced Hints about VoIP Imagine to have additionally a Sony Playstation connected....
  ¶ 'Enhanced Hints about VoIP' posted by eA : 10:57 AM  0 comments links to this post

  Some More Hints about VoIP Not that I mean it's necessary to use a PC and a headset, one can, but the great advantage of the FRITZ!BOX is that I can phone someone up anytime and anywhere sitting on my leather sofa using my normal analog phone parallel to PC and laptop, even without any internet connected computer it's possible, FRITZ!BOX handles that all for me.
See yourself
  ¶ 'Some More Hints about VoIP' posted by eA : 3:21 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Some Personal Hints about VoIP Some days ago I got my new Fritz!Box. It's a combination of VoIP, WLAN, LAN und more, which means I can do a lot with it:

• Telephoning VoIP to VoIP for nothing
• Telephoning VoIP to fixed-line network for nearly nothing
• Telephoning VoIP to mobile devices for little money
  
• Highspeed surfing via WLAN on my leather sofa via flatrate

As far I can say, it looks fantastic. It's easy to use and to configure, it's fast and it's got a lot of options I have not yet had the time to look at closer.
You can buy one now here (DE)

I hope that the german Regulierungsbehörde will be nice this year and split the rates for ISDN and DSL, since I'm paying for ISDN, but I'm not using it any more.

Other German VoIP Provider:
T-Online, 1&1 Internet AG, 1xnet, blueSIP, broadnet.mediascape, Freenet, GMX, Nikotel, PURtel, QSC, Sipgate, Sipsnip, Skype, Web.de

  ¶ 'Some Personal Hints about VoIP' posted by eA : 7:50 AM  0 comments links to this post

  eCommerce: How Consumers Search for Products Online Search Engine Product: 42%
Direct Store URL: 23%
SE Shopping Channels: 5%
Marketing Email: 5%
Internet Ad: 4%
Shopping Bot: 4%
Shopping Comparison Site: 2%
Others: 15%

(Jupiter Media Metrix)
  ¶ 'eCommerce: How Consumers Search for Products Online' posted by eA : 8:38 PM  0 comments links to this post

  eCommerce Trend Report by DoubleClick The facts:

• Visitors spend less time on an eShop, but visit more pages
• The usage of search functionalities is increasing
• Still many visitors leave the site after placing their orders in the shopping cart
• The bottleneck is still the shoppingCart-checkout-process
• The average conversion rate is 4,6%

Conclusion:
There is less time to catch a visitor's attention. Conversion rate increased thanks to improved processes during the last year, but according to my experience it's still pretty low.
View full report
  ¶ 'eCommerce Trend Report by DoubleClick' posted by eA : 8:23 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Mega Trend: Blogging 2005 Truly true:
View yourself
10 ways to use a blog

  ¶ 'Mega Trend: Blogging 2005' posted by eA : 8:09 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Top Site Genres 1 Week in Dec 2004 - Nielsen Netratings Email 3,622,377,000
Portals & Search Engines 2,948,056,000
General\National News 1,632,731,000
Sports & Recreation 1,074,933,000
Finance 1,036,328,000
General Community 1,027,391,000
Local\Regional 796,945,000
Games 771,353,000
Weather 604,019,000
Entertainment 570,552,000
Other 3,929,801,000
(Ranked by impressions)

Total
18,014,486,000
  ¶ 'Top Site Genres 1 Week in Dec 2004 - Nielsen Netratings' posted by eA : 7:49 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Germany: Top 10 Parent Companies Month of November 2004 Home/Work Panel Nielsen//Netratings

Property Name	Unique Audience (000)	Reach %	Time Per Person
Microsoft	20,697	63.84	01:02:15
Google	18,565	57.26	00:22:24
T-Online	17,784	54.85	01:51:51
eBay	17,237	53.17	02:36:30
Time Warner	12,270	37.85	03:54:28
Yahoo!	9,598	29.60	01:19:22
Bertelsmann	9,441	29.12	00:17:17
Web.de	8,952	27.61	01:35:45
United Internet	8,158	25.16	01:08:59
Amazon	7,967	24.57	00:17:44

  ¶ 'Germany: Top 10 Parent Companies Month of November 2004 Home/Work Panel Nielsen//Netratings' posted by eA : 7:44 PM  0 comments links to this post

  German eCommerce Landscape 2004

Germany's top online retailer 2004 are:
ebay.de, amazon.de, tschibo.de, otto.de, quelle.de, weltbild.de, neckermann.de, conrad.de, bol.de, buch.de
Their customer base has between 1 mio. and 14 mio. entries and the growthrate of new buyers is between 5% and 15%.

  ¶ 'German eCommerce Landscape 2004' posted by eA : 7:30 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Digital Business 2005 What is digital business, how to set up a strategy-, technology- or marketing concept for digitalization of your business, which steps are necessary and have to be taken and especially what kind of experience does exist. These questions and more are answered in my digital business concept.
Here comes the link to download.
Please feel free to comment.

  ¶ 'Digital Business 2005' posted by eA : 4:16 PM  2 comments links to this post