Amazon buys Zappos

July 22, 2009 by Tim Gill  
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Amazon announced just now that it buying Zappos. This is incredible news!  Zappos is a very dynamic company and had a great presence at the last SMX Advanced.  They have come along way in search in the last 2 years.

New Shopbop site

July 17, 2009 by Tim Gill  
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A new Shopbop.com site is live with lots of new features to enhance the user experience.  Shopbop now makes it easy to see all the Shopbop fashion designers on one page. The new site also allows users to sort by price and quickly find their favorite designers in the best size for the customer. [...]

Ray Ban ecommerce site launch

July 16, 2009 by Tim Gill  
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On July 15th Ray ban recently launched their ecommerce site over at www.ray-ban.com. What I fail to understand is why any modern day ecommerce site would launch a new site exclusively in Flash without an html version. That said their brand is making a comeback among fashionistas. In particalar the ray ban [...]

Google OS: just don’t call it Chrome.

July 8, 2009 by Tim Gill  
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A new Google operating system based on Chrome for netbooks sounds fantastic. They should be able to monetize it easily through search. This means that a Google netbook should be about $15 cheaper than a XP netbook. A thin computing device is the perfect complement to Google’s software offerings. But I [...]