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BV Capital / eVentureCapital Partners, heavily supported by Germanys Otto Group, recently invested in Recurly (see press release), a company specializing in subscription billing management: "Today, were proud to announce that Recurly raised $6 Million in a Series A round of investment to grow our company well into the future. Wed like to thank our new investors from BV Capital for sharing our enthusiasm for our business. Continue Reading »

As promised, here the start of our little Freaky Friday series about change management. And for starters Id like to give you some fundamental thoughts on change management and why it is so important in ecommerce. And for all you project guerrillas out there: this is a perfect weapon to bust every project if you know how to use it. Change happens always. Continue Reading »

Bodymetrics uses Microsofts Kinect controller to visualize wether an outfit fits your body. Neat concept if only customers would not need to own a Kinect to use it. "At the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the London-based company showed how it lets you scan your body at home using a 3D capture camera from PrimeSense.That gives the system a computer or, in the future, an Xbox 360 game console an exact image of what you look like. Then you can try on clothes in a virtual way, standing in front of your web-connected TV set and using hand gesetures to look at different selections. When you try on an outfit, you can view a heat map that shows additional data you cant get through ordinary online shopping. For instance, you can see a heat map that shows areas where the clothing would fit your body loosely or where it would be too tight. Continue Reading »

These days some interesting surveys about tablet computers made the news. So here I will give you an update of this interesting development. Number of tablets and e-book readers nearly doubles in the US Continue Reading »

Apple has been holding back significantly in the publishing area. Although the manufacturer has very attractive hardware with the iPad and the most mature digital sales platform with iTunes, they had still to come out with original ideas for our previously discussed book of the future (German link). Continue Reading »

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Today I want to break with our Freaky Friday series and the book excerpts from How to ruin your project. Instead I want to jump on a topic we already reported about this week: the launch of the Media Markt online shop. But I want to twist the point of view on this topic in a direction that fits the fashion of this column: What went wrong with the Media Markt shop?Because in my personal opinion the launch was a complete disaster. Continue Reading »

The brand new Customization 500 ("An International Benchmark Study on Mass Customization and Personalization in Consumer E-Commerce") was recently published. It's an international comparison study for which the professors Dominik Walcher and Frank Piller, put 500 Mass customizing companies under the microscope. Continue Reading »

Figureprints with its popular Xbox and World of Warcraft games figures may be still the top-selling company for 3D prints, but Shapeways is the first company that published its numbers. "2011 was a solid year at Shapeways. We saw a huge growth in the number of community members, uploaded models, 3D printed products, shops opened and income earned by Shapeways shop owners. Continue Reading »

In the last two weeks, 100 participants have registered for Exceed 2012 already (see also Was wird aus den Live Shopping Days?). When looking at the following map, it becomes obvious why we like to let our spring conference take place in Berlin: Continue Reading »