What Bill Gates should have said during his CES keynote

... avoided saying the things Xbox Live users wanted to hear. Here’s what he should have said during his otherwise flat keynote at CES: “We’re going to stop selling Xbox Live Gold accounts until all of the problems have been sorted out...

Q&A: Eric Frenchman, Chief Internet Strategist, Connell Donatelli

...applied by digital marketers at large in advance of his keynote at Econsultancy's The Future of Digital Marketing conference....seeing you succeed. Eric Frenchman will be delivering a keynote presentation (his first in Europe) at Econsultancy's Future...

'Open-source brands' can thrive in the digital age

Ogilvy Group's Rory Sutherland made an entertaining keynote speech this morning at the Insight 2007 conference, describing how brands 'on a clear mission' are the most likely to prosper in the digital environment.      The DoubleClick event was ...

Affiliate marketers out in force as investment surges

....at after ad:tech). Thanks to Affiliate Summit organisers Shawn Collins and Missy Ward for asking E-consultancy to do a keynote presentation about UK Affiliate Market trends . The timing was spot-on because last week also saw the publication of our UK...

Steve Jobs, Blue Peter and usability

... Apple’s flagship London store to launch the iPhone in the UK, but I can guess what he was like – I watched the keynote at Macworld last year.  I am sure he was genuinely delighted with the phone and enthusiastic about its features, although I’m sure ...

Publishers face up to challenges of atomisation

... content, data and functionality. Atomisation in the context of the digital landscape was the subject of Ashley Friedlein's keynote talk at Internet World earlier this year when E-consultancy's CEO talked about how website content is being ...

Ann Summers to relaunch website

... a vendor-laden line-up of speakers at the Retail Business Show  in Olympia today, so the hottest draw was undoubtedly the keynote presentation – the story of Jacqueline Gold, the woman behind Ann Summers. It was a pity that the good lady didn’t turn ...

Countdown to Affiliate Summit West

... What are the stand-out events scheduled for this year's Affiliate Summit West? I’m excited about the keynote from Jason Calacanis , as I think he’ll have some provocative words that challenge the crowd. The Video Innovation in ...

“Don’t pollute the river”, affiliates told

Jason Calacanis delivered a typically candid keynote address at the Affiliate Summit in Las Vegas today, during which he urged affiliates to “ stop polluting the river ”. What we heard from the Mahalo founder and CEO wasn’t quite as ...

Drama 2.0's Web Week in Review

... from Joe Schmoe either. Zuckerberg talks about Facebook's future with News.com After Mark Zuckerberg's now-infamous keynote at SWSX, he sat down with Caroline McCarthy to discuss Facebook. The two most amusing comments: "Most of...

Nike to kick the Flash habit?

... of a company like Nike can have its advantages, as we heard at ChannelAdvisor’s Catalyst event this week. In his keynote, Chris Shimojima, the firm’s global VP of e-commerce, talked about how it had used web-based  personalisation and ...

Irish search market is flourishing - new research report

... the specifics of the Ireland market, Search Engine Land 's Chris Sherman had earlier kicked off the conference with a keynote which looked at the global landscape and trends in search. Google's dominance in Ireland is as absolute as almost anywhere (...

The Web Week in Review

... out of the castle? " Creators of Scrabble knockoff on Facebook sued Mark Zuckerberg used his keynote at the second annual Facebook developers conference to make some zany comparisons about Facebook applications. ...

E-consultancy lands in OMMA, New York

I’m excited to be back in New York next month and while I’m hoping to find some time to pop to the shops, we’re mostly there to find out more about digital marketing in the US and meet new people who work in the industry. On the 18-19 September,...

comScore - ecommerce shrinks first 23 days of November, will Black Friday, Cyber Monday save the day?

...Kohl's and Saks had performance issues and even Amazon.com and some of its partners experienced a minor slowdown according to Keynote Systems. Hopefully all this traffic was not for naught and browsers were doing some buying as well. And with today being ...