Jack made some waves at eTail 2009 this morning with his keynote speech “Mob Commerce – A Strategy in Tough Times.” A good presentation technique, of course, is to draw the crowd in with an interesting story, a joke, or something else to capture their attention.
Our choice was to present this bit of silliness – [...]

Another sketch: what ordering breakfast might be like if your waiter only listened to the words you were saying, instead of the intent behind the words. Of course, this would never happen in real life, but it happens with website search all the time. If only there was an intent-aware search system…

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As a web guy, I spend quite a bit of time surfing the tubes. Today I found this interesting bit over at compete.com:

According to their website, compete.com “triangulates multiple data sources, including ISP, Panel & Toolbar to estimate U.S. traffic.” Basically, they follow network traffic to provide usage reports.
The “Visits” chart above shows a steady [...]

This little doodle gives some insight into the inherent problems of using visitor profiles to target recommendations. We’ve all been at a site or two where the recommendations just don’t make much sense–what would happen in a real store using that same profile-based targeting system?