Hyperisland index
I loved Rachel Whiteread's Embankment (plastic boxes) at the Tate Modern
[Oct 23, 2005]
Recommendations activity and exam case study preparation
Improving an ecommerce site (this weeks activity) Choose one of the two sites that you have been working with over the last two weeks. Choose the site where you think that you can have the bigger effect... [Oct 21, 2005]
Ecommerce Detective Feedback
A really good showing this week with over 90 students completing the activity on time. Some of you really “get it” while others are still struggling to understand why any of this stuff might be important... [Oct 20, 2005]
Brilliant foam sculpture as part of Flux exhibition in vaults under London Bridge station.
[Oct 20, 2005]
Building an ecommerce site using active server pages (session 4)
This session will look at the technologies required to understand how an ecommerce site is built using Microsoft’s ASP technology. I have chosen this approach because so many students have PC’s with... [Oct 20, 2005]
Starting your project
Here are some general comments about things you should do to make sure your project starts in the right way. Make sure that you know what you are investigating By now you should have filled in a form... [Oct 14, 2005]
Ecommerce detective work (activity)
A challenging but I hope interesting activity this week. Using one or both of the same sites as last week I want you to try and discover the answers to the following questions and then fill in an online... [Oct 14, 2005]
Feedback on ecommerce site evaluation
Thanks to all of you who completed the task. It wasn’t hard but a few of you still cannot follow instructions. I will be lenient this week but not next week. Remember that you have to complete the majority... [Oct 13, 2005]
London Theatre Tickets On Line: an e-commerce case study (session 3)
Theatre tickets like flight tickets are excellent for selling online because of their low warehousing and fulfilment costs. Customers search the web for particular shows such as the Lion King, Mary... [Oct 13, 2005]
Inside the search engines
All three of the major search engines run blogs to help their power users keep in touch with current thinking inside their development departments. They mix this with eclectic pieces about life, culture... [Oct 11, 2005]
Strange and wonderful show at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station. Like waking up in Twin Peaks. Dress up!
[Oct 10, 2005]
Really great book about search engines and Google
A new book, The Search, by John Batelle is well worth reading if you are at all interested in ecommerce. John Batelle was co-founder of Wired and founder of the Industry Standard so he certainly has... [Oct 10, 2005]
Ecommerce site evaluation (activity)
This activity is part of the work you must complete for the module. You will receive an email with links to two websites. For each of these sites you need to evaluate the site using the form provided... [Oct 6, 2005]
Evaluating ecommerce sites (session 2)
To help us understand some of the issues in ecommerce it is worth looking hard at some existing and well-known sites. During this session we will compare several sites and then in the follow-up activity... [Oct 6, 2005]
Great forum posting on search engine optimisation
the OTHER media gets asked regularly to help clients achieve higher search engine rankings in order to improve their traffic. I explain that its a long slow process and that you cannot expect a result... [Oct 5, 2005]
An introduction to Ecommerce (05 lecture 1)
In this first lecture we will try and answer the following:what is electronic commerce, what are the components of an ecommerce system, what is the difference between B2B and B2C systems and what should... [Sep 29, 2005]
Ecommerce Module Guide 05
Here is the module guide for this year's ecommerce level 3 course. A link to the document exists on the right hand side of this page --> Inside you will find the objectives of the course, the approach... [Sep 28, 2005]
A week in Hong Kong before term starts. Asia, shopping, technology and two typhoon warnings
[Sep 22, 2005]
Why won't Googlebot come and look at Food Parcels?
I am busy trying to get Food Parcels into the search listings and its proving harder than normal. Working with search engines is a deeply black art and sometimes the things that normally work don't... [Sep 13, 2005]
Children (unidentified) fighting at my MD's Wedding - nice wedding with the normal range of behavour
[Sep 3, 2005]
