IMRG has carried out some research which shows that the popularity of the internet as a sales channel continues to grow. The amount spent in 2007 will be equivalent to all sales in the West End (multiplied by nine!!). Global e-retail figures for 2007 are expected to be £250bn.
Avinash has listed the top ten blogs for web analysts to read – Occam’s Razor is number one (and quite rightly so). For those that don’t know (and I had to ask Avinash at the post eMetrics London dinner what Occam’s Razor is) it is the theory of:
“The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating, or “shaving off,” those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. ”
eConsultancy has just sent over one of their regular emails which a very interesting article about the British preference for using natural search rather than paid for search.
I’m probably one of the last people to blog on a fantastic two days – eMetrics 2007 was great and the venue superb.