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Comment on Google Merchant Search - is the end for price comparison sites? by Philip Wilkinson

Philip Wilkinson — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:55:37 +0000

oooh - interesting.. QVC online anyone

Comment on Google Merchant Search - is the end for price comparison sites? by James Penman

James Penman — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:42:04 +0000

Amazon taking an equity stake in a user generated shopping site. V. web2 …

http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-amazon-takes-equity-stake-in-diy-shopping-site-the-talk-market/

Comment on Google Merchant Search - is the end for price comparison sites? by Daniel Tangen

Daniel Tangen — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:30:18 +0000

I think there are many ways to approach this, but the key area is to provide the consumer with an appeling reason to use your service and to interact with you. Added value through a community approach where you can tap into the expertise of other users, access to tools that assist you in keeping control of money, and automatic updates of best offers in opted in product areas.

Open social platform is very interesting as far as taking the price comparison sites into web2.0

Comment on The European start-up scene: a good beginning by tv reytingleri

tv reytingleri — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:07:11 +0000

10 am of a weekday is not great for most working people really.

Comment on 7 iPhone Interface Issues that Really Need Fixing by Richard

Richard — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:44:47 +0000

Sounds rubbish. I, for one, will not buy one.

Comment on Google Merchant Search - is the end for price comparison sites? by philip.wilkinson

philip.wilkinson — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 14:37:35 +0000

I’m with you guys - social and editorial to enhance the commodity that is price comparison. Daniel - how would you enter web2 as a comparison site?

Comment on Google Merchant Search - is the end for price comparison sites? by Daniel Tangen

Daniel Tangen — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:57:26 +0000

The price comparison itself has become a commodity and to compete in that market now you have to be different in a relevant and credible way, and one way to do that is to provide users with value added content and a community aspect. Time for the comparison market to enter web2.0!

Comment on Google Merchant Search - is the end for price comparison sites? by James Penman

James Penman — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:53:26 +0000

When MoneySupermarket floated, Mr Boss suggested that they’d provide more editorial content to protect their position. I think the comparison market will move towards the editorial and social with the comparison information aspect of it becoming a commodity. There are legs in the reward angle as well. Certainly think the first generation arbitrage model is buggered by this but then again it’s been dying slowly anyway.

Comment on 7 iPhone Interface Issues that Really Need Fixing by Referral: 7 Suggestions where iPhone could improve | TechWinter

Referral: 7 Suggestions where iPhone could improve | TechWinter — Sat, 31 May 2008 08:02:08 +0000

[...] Recently I read an article from Crowdstorm blogger Philip Wilkinson where he potificates 7 ways Apple could improve the iPhone experience. The best part is the suggestions are simple and wouldn’t require any serioud effort on Apples part except maybe using their ear once and a while. 7 iPhone Interface Issues that Really Need Fixing [...]

Comment on 7 iPhone Interface Issues that Really Need Fixing by philip.wilkinson

philip.wilkinson — Wed, 28 May 2008 21:47:01 +0000

@Neil

2: You can definitely do this already. Go to “settings -> wi-fi -> Ask to Join Networks (off) and it won’t pester you again

3: Good point

Comment on The European start-up scene: a good beginning by diyet hapı

diyet hapı — Wed, 28 May 2008 07:19:30 +0000

Phil - why don’t you switch on a feed for comments, or allow us to receive emails when someone posts a comment?

Comment on 7 iPhone Interface Issues that Really Need Fixing by Neil

Neil — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:22:36 +0000

1) Searching emails would be good, but maybe I’m just spoiled by gmail. I have gmail IMAPped in to the iphone and have to open up a browser whenever i need to search for an archived mail.

2) around London their are various private wifi networks: t-mobile, bt, the cloud. The wifi automatically picks these up but then can’t do anything because I don’t want to pay and haven’t logged in. It would be nice to be able to tell the phone that once, and not have it interrupt me every time, but instead stick to Edge.

3) there should be half-an-inch or so of un-insertable space above the keyboard when editing emails. Often I’ve missed a top-row letter (qwertyuio, or p) and inserted the pointer and continued to type without noticing. The machine shouldn’t let me do that, because it’s annoying.

Comment on 7 iPhone Interface Issues that Really Need Fixing by philip.wilkinson

philip.wilkinson — Mon, 26 May 2008 19:00:10 +0000

@DavidPhillipOster - well kind of, as you would still like the phone to work where as Airplane mode turns that off too…

Comment on 7 iPhone Interface Issues that Really Need Fixing by philip.wilkinson

philip.wilkinson — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:57:11 +0000

Yep - running parallels…

Comment on 7 iPhone Interface Issues that Really Need Fixing by Ciaran McNulty

Ciaran McNulty — Mon, 26 May 2008 18:24:07 +0000

Re: the image, is that Windows the iPhone’s running?