Were you just asking yourself about where you can find out about the most effective online merchandising techniques? Well what do you know? Mike was just talking about exactly that last week with Jason Billingsley, Co-founder and VP of Innovation at Elastic Path. Mike and Jason’s webinar is available here if you’d like to listen, [...]

Have you ever wondered how an entire colony of ants can find their way to a food source? Or how internet marketers apply the same principle to make contextual recommendations? Or how merchants automatically promote certain products to super specific customer segments? If you haven’t already then I bet you do now! You can find [...]

This week was a big first for us here at Baynote with the debut of our premier webinar, Bond vs. Barbie: The Dynamic Positioning Imperative with Stanford consulting professor, Tom Kosnik. In the webinar, Tom discusses the shift in branding strategy from the concept of durability and the never-changing “spy-chic” persona of James Bond [...]

Come join us Wednesday, June 27 at the Santa Clara Convention Center for the WebGuild Searchnomics 2007 Conference and hear Baynote CEO Jack Jia speak on the Increased Revenue through People-Powered Site Search and Recommendations panel. We’d love to see you there! Register Now.
The Searchnomics Conference is a one-day event aimed at web and internet [...]

We had a good laugh recently, thanks to our friends over at ElasticPath who have managed to find some humor in the “crazy, messed-up world of eCommerce” and just launched four original parody videos on YouTube called:
- Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought…
- Premature Redirection
- Zero Results Found
- If Only Search Engines Could Understand [...]

Congratulations to our CTO Scott Brave, and Baynote Advisor Clifford Nass, whose book Wired for Speech: How Voice Activates and Advances the Human-Computer Relationship won the International Communication Association’s Outstanding Book Award last week. Scott and Cliff go way back to Scott’s pre-Baynote days as a doctoral student at Stanford where Cliff [...]

For those of you out there who might not have seen this yet, Jack wrote an article for Foundread.com this past week all about succeeding as an entrepreneur. The article, Get Psyched! Why Understanding Your Right Brain Will Help You Succeed, offers some of Jack’s hard-earned wisdom in the start-up game, including some tips and [...]

For those of you out there who might not have seen this yet, Jack wrote an article for Foundread.com this past week all about succeeding as an entrepreneur. The article, Get Psyched! Why Understanding Your Right Brain Will Help You Succeed, offers some of Jack’s hard-earned wisdom in the start-up game, including some tips and [...]

Dan Keldsen, CTO of the Delphi Group and BizTechTalk blogger sat down with Jack recently to discuss the use of emergent behavior and automatically adapting systems online. A free twenty minute clip of their conversation can be heard on BizTechTalk website. In the clip, Dan and Jack discuss the “wisdom of crowds” and of [...]

On the internet today, people seem to be able to buy just about anything. Have you ever stopped to wonder about that? I mean, I’m not buying personalized garden gnomes, are you? How do these vendors survive? The answer is simple: they’ve put their faith in Long Tail economics and I think its time that [...]