Today I co-presented a fireside chat on behalf of IDC Multicloud Events with Cloud Reach and Intel. You can watch below.

Retaiil Week wrote an aritlce this week about technology companies and how they have turned themselves into platforms. I was interviewed to give the Amazon viewpoint on this.

Creating an ecommerce website that supports multi-currency transactions is a monetary minefield. Looked at and discarded as too complicated by many website owners, especially smaller companies, here’s my ten point check-list of the key areas you need to consider when selling outside the UK.Creating an ecommerce website that supports multi-currency transactions is a monetary minefield. Looked at and discarded as too complicated by many website owners, especially smaller companies, here’s my ten point check-list of the key areas you need to consider when selling outside the UK.

It’s all well and good having a shiny website with lots of products and fancy images but if you don’t have the right content running throughout the website, the success of it will be seriously hindered not least by its inability to surge up natural search engine results. From the moment a website is launched, content plays the key role in ensuring your website evolves into a successful presence on the World Wide Web. However, content writing is often an afterthought – something you ‘retro fit’ to your website after it has been built, or been live for a long period of time. So I’ve taken a look at some of the mistakes people make when it comes to website content and the best ways to get the most out of it.

It’s been one of those slow weekends where I spent a lot of time playing with search engines and wondering what’s coming around the corner for us in the world of search.

It seems that someone at the LA Times has finally woken up to what I’ve been saying all along – the saviour of regional newspapers is going to be content, content, content. Editor James E. O’Shea finally took action in unveiling a plan to continue publishing the paper rather than letting it go to the wall.

With Northcliffe up for sale and advertising revenues showing no signs of a recovery, could the future for the regional press really be Local? When Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) announced the sale of its regional newspaper division – Northcliffe – last week, many observers commented on the likely outcome of the sale. Speculation of who the new owners would be was rife.