Archive for Tag ‘E-Commerce‘

Walmart.com on open source

Matt Assay (Walmart.com runs open source) points to a Yahoo News article on Wal-Mart’s recently launched redesign with features built on top of the Open Laszlo platform.

There’s a tour of the new features or you can go directly to Toyland and start creating your wishlist by voting yes or no on the toys.
Some interesting functionality inside women’s apparel (highlighted in the tour) which hasn’t been leveraged throughout the site yet, including an add-to-cart that doesn’t interrupt the shopping flow and live color swatches.

Worth a persual even if you’d never admit to buying clothes from Walmart.

Kom In I Garderoben

Sites like these make me wish I spoke Swedish.

Two excellent examples of how rich internet applications (in this case Flash based) can revolutionize the shopping/merchandising experience on the web.


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Schadenfreude 2.0

The blogosphere has been exhibiting a bit of Schadenfreude 2.0 over the demise of WalMart’s “The Hub” site, which until recently was found here.


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