Huge Market for Google Checkout in Europe Experience showed that centralization into a single European currency provided many practical benefits for citizens, I'm thinking of travelling with a single currency and buying goods and services abroad, particularly when coupled with the progress of eCommerce it fostered significant growth in trade within the euro area and seen overall it's a big step forward in user friendlyness.

For most German retailers offering a web shopping cart means trying to follow and copy the Amazon model - tschibo.de, otto.de, quelle.de, weltbild.de, neckermann.de, conrad.de, buch.de - their number is endless, a shopping cart is a shopping cart with or without customer reviews and customer experience seems to be a foreign word for them although they should be able to form an attention loop to gather continuous feedback and establish an environment to optimize value.

On top of everything most of them don't even care about the critical areas where their shoppers drop out. Checkout and payments technology should address convenience to get onto a path the Web can really improve one's life.

The single personal Google Checkout provides an experience that centralizes and stores payment information and purchase history across several merchants for buyers and extends reach and enhances security for sellers, it even reduces costs through clever financial incentives accepting Google Checkout as a payment method.

Experience showed that a centralization on behalf of a user simplifies the checkout process, leads to more sales and returns customers thus Google Checkout is a wonderful new thing that really can improve one's digital lifestyle. I'm expecting Google Checkout to enter the European Market in 2007.

Labels: checkout, europe, google, lifestyle, markets, payments

  ¶ 'Huge Market for Google Checkout in Europe' posted by eA : 12:19 AM  0 comments links to this post

  Trendy: Mobility and Cross-Platform Capabilities in 2007 Anytime, anywhere access to any multimedia services is in progress and addresses current trends in the telecommunications sector. Today's cellphones converge more and more into hybrids combining voice-centric and data-centric services.

• Upward Mobility (Business Week)

IP and IP-based products and services with a focus on new user-centric broadband services transform already and will continue to transform information and communications products and services within the fastest moving market in the world today.

An intense competition, exploding multimedia content, new devices and IP based networks make it neccessary to create seamless services that meet the needs of targeted customer segments.

Superior and clever presentation layers in terms of quality, cross-platform capabilities, video, audio, probably also offline storage(AMASS) will be a requirement to leverage these trends.

• The Web's Brightest AJAX Libraries and Toolkits
• Top AJAX Libraries and Toolkits (Specialized Search Engine)
• Creating Customized Applications via Mash Ups
• Back in Black: CSS Rounded Corners
• Sketching Early Stage Designs with AJAX
• AJAX Toolkits of course OpenSource
• AJAX Will Transform Web-based Applications Forever
• Winning OpenSource Frameworks in Web 2.0

Labels: ajax, bizdev, flash, trend

  ¶ 'Trendy: Mobility and Cross-Platform Capabilities in 2007' posted by eA : 5:55 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Trendy: More Online Video Entertainment in 2007 Since I expressed my thoughts last summer about the hottest topics on the Web Blogging, Video Sharing, Social Networking and Socializing on Tech-Based Interaction the gravity has further shifted to sites featuring online video and entertainment especially among very young target groups. BBC brought an excellent special about online video and the future of TV:

• Online video 'eroding TV viewing'

The technology behind the recent success of digital video distribution, the use of Flash which allows users to easily embed videos onto their own web pages complements that of blogging, forums, or web-pages.

I did a bit of research on the Internet for streaming video content over the Web that will enhance the online media experience for video enthusiasts. Brightcove, Bittorrent, You Tube, Veoh, Video Egg... and created a list of more than 40 sites. For the case of a very specialized scene like 'Skiing Le Face du Charvet in Val d'Isere, France' I set up a customized search engine that allows to search and find across those networks:

• Comprehensive Video Search Engine
  

Here a list of more than 40 online video distribution networks:

• Angry Alien, ArtistDirect,
• Blastro, Blennus, Blip.tv, Bofunk, Bolt, Break.com,
• Castpost, Current TV,
• Dailymotion, DevilDucky,
• FindVideos, Free Video Blog,
• Google Video, Grinvi, Grouper,
• iFilm,
• LuluTV,
• Metacafe, Midis.biz, Music.com, MusicVideoCodes.info, MySpace, MySpace Video Code,
• Newgrounds,
• PcPlanets, Pixparty, Putfile,
• REVVER,
• Sharkle, StreetFire,
• That Video Site, The One Network,
• VideoCodes4U, VideoCodesWorld, VideoCodeZone, vidiLife, VIDNET.com, Vimeo, vSocial,
• Web62.com,
• YouTube,
• ZippyVideos, ...

More posts about online video:

• Current Business Models for Free Online Video
• Most Coveted: YoUser-Generated Videos
• Creating an Atmosphere Sharing Video over the Web

Labels: bbc, bizdev, entertainment, flash, mashup, movies, trend, TV, web2.0

  ¶ 'Trendy: More Online Video Entertainment in 2007' posted by eA : 2:55 PM  1 comments links to this post

  Creating Customized Applications via Mash Ups In these days it's trendy to collaborate, share data and information over the Web. It seems to me like the Web has quickly morphed into a giant global operating system which allows to remix the Web via mash ups.

Over a period of nearly two years I posted more than 200 entries on my personal blog. The increasing amount of posts made it necessary to apply new ways to look up existing entries and to extract information quickly with precision.

Applying the state of the art Google AJAX Search API this combination of Web-based applications across different sources offers a useful, cheap and easy way to create a customized application solving this issue.

I found it easy to integrate and a fast way to search several blog posts without leaving the site and the quality of search results for my blog improved a lot applying the GblogSearch module. Reason enough to give the search box a prominent place on top of the page now.

Extracting information quickly with precision inspired me recently to create two customized search modules featuring AJAX and Video. I'm thinking already about leveraging a mash up including groupware and collaboration, information management, knowledge management, content management, work flows, multi channel facilities and single sign on. Mash ups put more power in the hands of end users.

Labels: ajax, apis, bizdev, google, mashup, search

  ¶ 'Creating Customized Applications via Mash Ups' posted by eA : 7:47 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Hourly Work Activity in New Product Development Planning and leading comprehensive marketing and technology strategies in support of business goals and objectives requires expertise in directing the creation of marketing tools and steering the execution of technology programs on the one hand, on the other it requires constantly to acquire information and to carry out and to participate in technology research and analysis on an international level across the globe.

Using Google Search as research tool No.1 the hourly search activity in the the personalized search statistics reflects also activity to develop new products and services.
Isn't that a bit different from an average employee? Germany: 40.9 h/week, 29.1 payed holidays, free weekend :-)

Labels: google, planning, product, search

  ¶ 'Hourly Work Activity in New Product Development' posted by eA : 2:57 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Commander James Bond 007: Licence to Sell Bond, Casino Royale, stunning girls and a list of product placements from Aston Martin over Sony Ericcson to Omega sound like a big advert event ready to kill. I haven't yet seen Casino Royale, but I've made my mind about it: I like James Bond movies and I'm going to watch Casino Royale.


Need more?

New technology and the help of digital video cameras, computer graphics and high-powered home processors are giving online fan films the ability to grow in sophistication with each new generation of digital tools.

The result is products of astonishingly high technical quality with complex scenes and cinematic camera work, that serve as an homage to characters and creations of the original movie.

• Find more videos across all major video networks

Labels: Casino Royale, James Bond, movies, search

  ¶ 'Commander James Bond 007: Licence to Sell' posted by eA : 2:15 PM  1 comments links to this post

  Hit my First Million, Photo Shooting on Alexa It is the interactivity of the Internet that makes information individual and the XML-based technology that allows personalized distribution and consumption on-demand accross several content sources. I experienced a lot more traffic over the last weeks an months resulting in a quite good traffic ranking on Alexa.com.


Managing information becomes more and more important for individuals and corporations that want to use the web strategically to build value. Trends and reactions in terms of communications, marketing and technology can best be monitored in blogs and other user-generated media like web pages, chat lines, forums and message boards.

• Reaching People from 36 Countries Speaking 16 Languages
• Strategic Program Outline 2007

Labels: alexa, presentation, web2.0

  ¶ 'Hit my First Million, Photo Shooting on Alexa' posted by eA : 11:10 AM  1 comments links to this post

  Seamless Migration to Blogger.Beta I managed to seamlessly migrate to the new Blogger Beta version without any issues, the only thing to do was to update the archive url. Tagging and the integration of Blogger into Google Accounts make Blogger as an easy to use publishing tool a lot more coveted for me now, it's even possible now to publish directly to Blogger from Google Docs and Spreadsheets.

• New Blogger.com Version ads Tagging

Web navigation systems have conceptually shifted from traditional forms of classification using fixed taxonomies to distributed classification schemes using flexible taxonomies (folksonomies), electronic publishing has become more and more individual and shows that the Internet is shifting to a medium that is genuinely more and more peer-to-peer structured with a decentralized authority.

• Strategic Program Outline 2007

Labels: blogger, publishing, tagging

  ¶ 'Seamless Migration to Blogger.Beta' posted by eA : 4:38 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Strategic Program Outline 2007 Spotlight 2.0 - Exploiting the Web as a Platform in 2007

Summary: Customer experience beats all!

Digital business is quickly becoming the method of choice for any enterprise to offer products and services on-demand to their market. Competition is the natural evolution in the way we will interact with, share and purchase products and services within the fastest moving market in the world today. Communications, content, commerce and search are the challenging activities today, simplicity is the most compelling competitive advantage and different business models associated with them lead to a natural segmentation of the marketplace.

During Web 1.0 design and content were dictated and information was stored in documents, now in Web 2.0 new applications let users combine data and functionality from a variety of sources into a custom environment blurring the line between software and the Internet using an architecture of participation.

AJAX is an ideal partner to design accessible, clean, fast and flexible interfaces for an infinite number of media and to complement modern SOA architectures. Building the next-generation information infrastructures now exploiting the Web as a platform means to embrace the Web's unique strength: Interaction and participation.

I'm offering:

• Strategic Market Planning • New Market Penetration • Market Research & Analysis
• Product & Service Developmet • Team Building & Management • Technology Selection
• Budget Preparation / Administration • Languages: German / English

Index:

1 Strategy Development for Digital Markets

2 Product & Service Development for Digital Markets

3 Management of Products and Services within Digital Markets
4 Middleware
5 Base Technology
6 Licences

About:

Andreas has been in Information and Communications Industries since 1999 and has specialized in strategy, marketing and technology since 2000. In this time he has seen many changes in business practice, and many improvements in technology, methods, products and services have appeared. He works hard to ensure he keeps abreast of developments in both business and technology. Andreas has worked successfully at all levels from programmer to project manager. He has designed and implemented strategy, marketing and technology programs, as well as producing and presenting training programs. In several of his assignments he has been responsible for managing relationships with external organizations, both clients and suppliers. Andreas has a good knowledge of the consumer market, mobile and Internet industries. In particular, Andreas has an excellent knowledge of interactive Web platforms designed for consumer markets. Andreas is fully mobile on an international level - he has worked in Munich, Düsseldorf, in places of EMEA and Seattle.


This document has been published via Google Docs & Spreadsheets

Labels: mashup, strategy

  ¶ 'Strategic Program Outline 2007' posted by eA : 4:23 PM  0 comments links to this post

  Find Many Unexpected Scenes from 'Borat' I quickly created a comprehensive video sharing search engine. No matter if 'Best of Borat', 'The South' or Borat's MySpace Profile. Here you can find all Borat related videos, mashups and movies across the most comprehensive video sharing sites and communities until the last details:

• Find more from Borat

Funny entertaining clips, international TV shows, home-made amateur star videos currently dominate the needs of an international audience.

Since electronic publishing has become more and more individual networks are deployed to share amateur-made videos, personal mesh ups of film screenings and discussion programs and to reflect the diversity of culture.

• Check yourself

I think that content and users have become more sophisticated, creators, participators and businesses are able now to respond through ever increasing online connectivity and to deliver electronically at any hour around the clock.

• Comprehensive Video Sharing Engine

Labels: entertainment, movies

  ¶ 'Find Many Unexpected Scenes from 'Borat'' posted by eA : 11:33 AM  0 comments links to this post