If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!eBusiness Secrets is a series of in-depth articles about Internet mediated Business and Commerce, what makes a great eBusiness and how do the best ensure they keep thriving online.
Cashback sites are blood-sucking parasytes. I’ve recently said that much. In [...]
Posted on April 29th, 2008 by Roberto Hortal
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eBusiness Secrets is a new series of in-depth articles about Internet mediated Business and Commerce, what makes a great eBusiness and how do the best ensure they keep thriving online.
I’m a Renaissance Man: skilled in Marketing, eBusiness & IT and possessed by a keen commercial appetite, I have always found myself at the crossroads between [...]
Posted on March 24th, 2008 by Roberto Hortal
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2007 was the year of the price comparison site. uSwitch had been operating on the utilities space for quite a while and product price comparison has been available for quite some time as well through i.e. Google Shopping. Yet it’s been the arrival of Insurance price comparison and the deep pockets of Confused.com, MoneySupermarket and [...]
Posted on February 20th, 2008 by Roberto Hortal
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Open is the concept of the hour. On the back of Open Source’s triumph -with Linux, Mozilla and the LAMP Web stack ruling the roost- Open has become the talisman to attach to any project to guarantee its success (did OpenOffice start it all?). The latest area to succumb to the Open moniker is the [...]
Posted on January 27th, 2008 by Roberto Hortal
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The poster child of the online insurance market just launched a redesigned website. Gone is the challenger spirit that aimed to redefine insurance the way easyJet redefined holidays. Swiftcover has been assimilated.
The tired chicken-wearing-a-headset picture still features large on their homepage, which is still clean and clear and features a large amount of real estate [...]
Posted on November 28th, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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I recently wrote a post arguing that Open Source is essential to eBusiness success. Essential it may be, but it is by no means sufficient. Open source is just one third of the recipe. Ingredient number 2 is Agile Development methodologies.
Agile software development is a conceptual framework for software engineering.
Agile methods emphasize face-to-face communication over [...]
Posted on November 23rd, 2007 by Roberto Hortal
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