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Google Microformats Will Have Large Impact On Online Retail — Not All Good

For better or worse, this is where online retail is heading, and your marketing and merchandising teams will benefit from being there at the beginning.

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AP: Retailers Brace for Major Change

The fate of many retailers in ‘09 will rest on how they’ve chosen to manage their balance sheets.

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AMZN: Ops Excellence

Amazon’s fufillment system is mind-bogglingly good. So good, I only notice it when buying elsewhere.

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Walmart.com Runs Obama & McCain Videos

Walmart.com is promoting Obama and McCain videos from the homepage.

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AJAX for Keeping Online Retail SKU Pages Fresh IntraDay

Crazy idea for a e-comm architecture: render the whole site in static HTML each evening, with prices and quantities accurate as of when written. Then use tiny fast AJAX calls throughout the day to update only those few bytes on each page that really change.

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Naming is Power, or, Tagging Makes Some Folks More Equal than Others

With some large folksonomies soon to launch, the retailers who tag early will define the game for those that follow them.

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Riya relaunches as Like.com

Riya relaunches under the like.com brand — check it out.

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The Social Challenges Of Growth: Shop.org

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.

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Riya: Show Me More Items That Look Like This One

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

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