Shop till you drop dead on the avenue ...

This WebDNA talk-list message is from

1997


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 11867
interpreted = N
texte = Hi,From Edupage:>IBM SHOPS TILL IT DROPS >IBM will close its World Avenue shopping mall web site next month due to >lack of interest from consumers. Mary Cronin, an author who specializes in >Internet business activity, says: World Avenue did not deserve to live. >The site offered little that was novel or particularly attractive to >consumers. The concept of the online shopping malls is dead in the water. >The new general trend in Internet retailing is toward standalone sites >targeted at specific market segments. (Financial Times 11 Jun 97) Should read: The new general trend in Internet retailing is toward standalone sites targeted at specific market segments with Web Catalog 2.0. :)BTW, FWIW, I got 2 replies about my pending scoreboard and chat tour post headed here last week. So I'll put those ideas on ice for a month or so. Figure everyone is too deep into 2.0 development to want traffic this month. I'll be back with this later.-------------- Mark Rauterkus, Publisher, S.S.S.mrauterkus@sportsurf.net -------------- Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Shop till you drop dead on the avenue ... (Mark Rauterkus 1997)
Hi,From Edupage:>IBM SHOPS TILL IT DROPS >IBM will close its World Avenue shopping mall web site next month due to >lack of interest from consumers. Mary Cronin, an author who specializes in >Internet business activity, says: World Avenue did not deserve to live. >The site offered little that was novel or particularly attractive to >consumers. The concept of the online shopping malls is dead in the water. >The new general trend in Internet retailing is toward standalone sites >targeted at specific market segments. (Financial Times 11 Jun 97) Should read: The new general trend in Internet retailing is toward standalone sites targeted at specific market segments with Web Catalog 2.0. :)BTW, FWIW, I got 2 replies about my pending scoreboard and chat tour post headed here last week. So I'll put those ideas on ice for a month or so. Figure everyone is too deep into 2.0 development to want traffic this month. I'll be back with this later.-------------- Mark Rauterkus, Publisher, S.S.S.mrauterkus@sportsurf.net -------------- Mark Rauterkus

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