Archive for March, 2009
Mark Webber’s Daily Drive?
Apparently Mark Webber just handed back the keys to his daily drive whilst in Melbourne for the Melbourne Grand Prix F1 event in Albert Park. Mark Webber’s Formula 1 car is currently powered by Renault, but during his stay in Melbourne he was handed the keys to a Ford Performance Vehicles F6, a turbo charged [...]
Automate Australia Post Click and Send International labels
Australia Post has just released Click and Send, and new way to print out international labels and customs declaration forms. Previously international shipments were a real pain because of the handwritten customs forms and separate labels that needed to be printed. Now at least Click and Send can print these forms for you (see their [...]
A long (mostly non work) week. But still stressful…
I spent the week down in Hobart due to a family emergency. My dad had a health issue, and I flew immediately down to Hobart on Tuesday morning. I had spent the day in Sydney on Monday (long day), spent all week on Hobart and just got home yesterday. A long week. Thank God my [...]
An Earthquake in Melbourne!?
Melbourne just experienced an earth tremor or earthquake. Wow! Just sitting watching TV tonight, doing a little work on the laptop with a glass of wine, and the room started to ‘wobble’. I guess that is the best way to explain it. I put the wine glass down and thought maybe I had one sip [...]
What will Magento become in 2009?
Magento Commerce is quickly growing, and according to the Magento website is the fastest growing eCommerce platform at the moment. Magento is still young, but I peronally know more and more online retailers looking at it as a solution. The underlying structure, robust and powerful API, and complete separation of design/themse and core code make [...]
The traffic is coming, but why aren’t they buying?
It strikes me that many website owners out there concerned with conversion rates don’t spend enough time understanding the visitors to our websites. I have definitely been guilty of that. Maybe you are too? If you think about it, I am sure you would would agree with me too. We should spend more time really [...]
eBay Australia offers ‘no insertion fees’ for 99c auctions
Just a quick one, nice promo for the next 21 days, eBay Australia offering zero insertion fees from March 2nd to March 22nd for 99c auctions. You can even list in 2 categories. Nice. Details here.
Automated warehouse systems – fascinating!
I love seeing how the ‘big boys’ do warehousing. Think sites in the US like Zappos.com. Over $1b in sales, millions of SKUs. How do they ship orders out to customers within 4 hrs of ordering? They use a warehouse system like this one, from Kiva : Kiva Systems Demo. Cool!
