If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!I will be speaking at the Seamless Website Journey event at the LeMeridien in Piccadilly on 17 September.
I’m really looking forward to this event. User eXperience and Usability have long been passions of mine, so being invited to [...]
Posted on August 31st, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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I learn about the launch of the Nokia Music Store (NMS) from TheRegister’s excellent piece on the launch. Nokia are calling it Ovi and sports a logo right out of make your own Web 2.0 logo in 3 easy steps.
It’s never been cool, and its critics say that it’s boring and bland, with all the [...]
Posted on August 29th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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Last week I wrote about eBusiness in the UK and found myself stating that the education system was to blame. It may seem quite a conclusion, and substantiating that in a blog post would be quite a feat. So today I’ve decided to go back to the original statement and look at the symptoms, in [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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The long weekend came and went. Strangely for us, we stayed put in the UK and decided to make the most of the finally sunny weather around Britain.
Saturday we headed off to Flitton for Marta and Liam’s BBQ. The drive was a lot longer than usual -everyone was out on the roads- but with the [...]
Posted on August 28th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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I read with a mix of amusement and disbelief that a leading UK online bank lost ther Web service yesterday. They were down for at least a day. This has made me think about the state of eBusiness in this country, and what implications this may have for the future of a market that shows [...]
Posted on August 24th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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2 interesting reports by e-colsuntancy this morning. The first one shows online shopping reaching record highs as people shun the wet streets. Nothing I wouldn’t expect although the numbers are rather staggering.
The second one is a bit more controversial, and claims that comparison shopping may be experiencing the inital stages of a consumer backlash, on [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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