Highlights from the Google/Yahoo/Microsoft panel at Shop.org Annual, NYC, Wednesday, October 11, 2006. Brett Goffin, Google.
Diane Rinaldo, Yahoo.
Jason Dailey, Microsoft.

The annual Shop.org conference in NYC this week is BIG. Great small shows become popular and grow into medium-sized shows. Medium and large shows can be great too, but they’re great in different ways.

“If you have $100k to spend on web analytics, buy a $10k package and hire a $90k analyst.”

Riya demos an interesting innovation in online retail: “show me more items that look like this one.”

Rumor from Threadwatch: Google to buy Facebook for $2.3B?

Standard data exchange formats designed to simplify online advertising were announced today in New York City at the annual convention of Shop.org, the online division of the National Retail Federation. These standard formats will allow advertisers to send detailed product-level information to search engines more efficiently.

Google is buying YouTube for $1.65 billion.

While there’s no perfect software development methodology, if adopting a better methodology could offer even a slight improvement in a IT project’s likelihood of success and/or speed, that’s of interest to the online retail crowd.

Virtual worlds like Second Life may impact real business not too far in the future.

Dumb PPC bidding is easy. Smart PPC bidding is hard.

Todd Mailcoat on how to create a strong web presence, and how a strong web presence impacts SEO.

A9 drops some of its key search engine features, AP reports.

Stephens and Rosenberg’s attack against pure XP is on-target and really funny.

There will be a press release going on the wires next week from NRF and ARTS on standardizing the formats used to send data to and receive data from the shopping comparison engines.