Michael's Blog

Watching Retail Web Traffic

Bumped into this site – gives you a nice view on global retail web-traffic – consumers shopping online. Watch the trending of the last 2 months….

http://www.akamai.com/html/technology/nui/retail/index.html

To Sell or Not To Sell…

As the hot topic seems to be “to sell or not to sell” these days – here’s some food for play. Meet trefis and play, or even better – understand a stock price.

Trefis is a meaningful financial community structured around trends, forecasts and insights related to some of the most popular stocks in the US. Whereas most finance sites simply give you the facts about where a stock has been and what a company has done in the past, Trefis focuses entirely on the future. The price of a stock is determined by what will happen in the future, not what has happened in the past.

1.View the Trefis price and analysis for a stock
2.View and modify the forecasts for any part of our analysis
3.Generate their own price estimates by modifying the Trefis analysis
4.Share their forecasts and price estimates with other Trefis users
5.Share their comments with other Trefis users
6.See the price estimates and forecasts of other Trefis users

www.trefis.com

Windows Mobile Marketplace Adds Non-Mobile App Store

Microsoft added a few nice new features to its Windows Mobile Marketplace today, including enhanced security and a nice-looking store that can be accessed from your computer's browser, much like Xbox Live.

SkyDrive Explorer – using your SkyDrive from Windows Explorer

http://www.skydriveexplorer.com/

Nice.

SkyDrive Explorer is a free, easy-to-use, but very powerful extension for Windows Explorer. With SkyDrive Explorer you can make any every-day operations with your documents from Microsoft Live SkyDrive™ service (read more...) using Windows Explorer, as if they were on your computer.

Moreover you don't need to install and configure any additional programs or ActiveX components. SkyDrive Explorer will organize the interaction with the online storage itself.

Microsoft Generation 4 Data Centers

Concept video of Generation 4 modular data centers being developed by Microsoft Global Foundation Services.

Bing on your Mobile Phone

The changes include finger-friendly buttons and even a movie finger which will let users browse for movies that are available in a cinema near them. Just go to m.bing.com from your smartphone in order to see Bing in action.

Dutch Navy announces free downloadable Navy Ship Simulator – 804

Nice and very innovative…

http://www.804.nl/

Old and New Economy clashing – eBooks being sold-out …..

Have one of the Sony eBook readers and I love the device. Challenge is getting eBooks in Europe but that will change I hope when adoption and culture changes.

Interesting to see that on an online site where you’re supposed to buy and download eBooks the book has been sold out. Wonder how that works – or maybe the e-Tailer did not understand the principle of eBooks well…

 

Great example of Deepzoom – The Matterhorn

http://rubrik.ch.msn.com/reportagen/zermatt.aspx.

Interesting study measuring the ROI of engaging in Social Media of brands

Interesting research which “quantifies” the value of Social Media channels and how brands engage this in reaching their customers. And it gives ideas and best practices how to improve,

The goals of the study were to measure how deeply engaged the top 100 global brands are in a variety of social media channels and, more importantly, understand if higher engagement is correlated with financial performance.

http://www.engagementdb.com/Report