Last week, I attended the ChannelAdvisor Catalyst E-commerce conference, a lively two days of insightful presentations, panel
discussions and debates and a real focus on the channel aspects of developing
and driving e-commerce.
Here I round up some of the key points from the conference...
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by Alexander Shaida
22 April 2010 11:22am
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Even though 2009 may not be the most hotly anticipated year of mobile, the mobile channel has been rapidly developing as a serious communications channel for marketers. You only have to look around in the industry, sniff out a few recent and ongoing mobile compaigns, and you’ll see plenty of major brands out there experimenting and pushing the mobile envelope, and doing some pretty interesting stuff.
You’d need to include in any current market assessment of mobile the growing popularity of smart phones, the launch of many new models by the big handset manufacturers, the sudden proliferation of tweets using Twitter, the rise of a plethora of applications to support the iPhone and other such devices.
There is also the fact that the mighty Google machine launched its own open source Android platform to carve out its share of the market, taken on by next generation Symbian (Nokia runs on this and bought the company) whose software and functionality is also heading towards open source, and we can see mobile is finally becoming a serious medium.
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by Alexander Shaida
06 May 2009 17:10pm
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