Looks like I'm at one of the retailers you crawl. Recently, our site was getting hit with a web crawler that was following links incorrectly. I black listed several IP addresses from accessing the site and now I wonder if it was this!
Probably they don't, because so much of the web has robots files like
User-Agent: established_company
Allow: /some-stuff
User-Agent: *
Disallow: /
# keeps out filthy peasants
And you're either stuck following them, and not having data that would be offered up for free if you were someone else, or being a bad person and ignoring it. You don't really see the services that follow the rules.
Also, good paper on how much being on robots.txt preferred helps, which makes you a better product, which makes you more preferred...
We don't spider retailer websites. That means we don't follow links or go hardcore on building a database of products.
We hit your website:
* if someone has asked us information about a product url
* when we place an order
* weekly for regression tests
Ping us on contact@ and we're more than happy to jump on a call and describe exactly what we're doing. Most of the time we're completely un-noticeable except for the fact that you're getting more orders.
Are you a front-end developer? Interested in fashion? Interested in e-commerce?
DVF is a luxury fashion brand based in NYC. We're looking for a front end developer who can craft great shopping experiences.
ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
* Develop and modify websites and email campaigns.
* Optimize front-end architecture, for site performance and maximum e-commerce conversion, across multiple platforms (web, mobile, & tablet).
* Research and utilize emerging front-end technology in order to achieve e-commerce objectives.
* Daily QA of e-commerce storefront to prevent and address critical interruptions in the customer shopping experience.
* Provide technical assistance to multiple teams to ensure timely execution of merchandise and content updates of the e-commerce storefront.
* Monitor analytics to identify areas of improvement; provide technical recommendations that will drive e-commerce sales and increase brand visibility.
REQUIREMENTS:
* 3-5 years experience working in a collaborative environment.
* Basic understanding of Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for web production.
* Experience using code versioning tools (e.g. Subversion, Git) and bug tracking applications (e.g. Bugzilla, Jira)
* Familiarity integrating third party APIs (e.g. Google Merchant Center, Facebook, Twitter)
* Familiarity with XML for data manipulation and import/export processes
* Familiarity with analytics systems (e.g. Omniture, Coremetrics, Google Analytics)
* Strong documentation skills.
* Proven ability to build strong relationships with cross-functional business partners.
* Analytic strength and strong problem solving skills.
If you are interested, please reach out to me - t.sullivan@dvf.com
I concur - a few months ago I used the mobile Web site on an iPhone. I was idly scrolling around the "People You May Know" list while distracted. I noticed that if you merely scrolled the page by swiping and your finger happened to start on top of someone's profile, it would immediately invite that person to connect without any confirmation.
It was a pretty horrifying realisation that I'd become one of those random inviters - now I have much more sympathy to people I've never heard of inviting me to connect! I refuse to use the mobile site again, so I haven't checked if it's been fixed.
I've used Scene 7 for the past five years and think that it is a great product. The cost may seem expensive if you just look at the dynamic resize/crop technology and hosting, but it is a good solution for digital asset management for e-commerce. Our photo studio and re-touchers upload directly into Scene 7 and it has simplified the entire workflow.
I agree that Scene7 is a good product, but really overpriced, though my company was happy to pay for it because it was like a magic patch applied on their shitty worflow.
The site doesn't say that the POS supports a barcode scanner, but the video says that it does (and shows it in use). As a retailer, not having a barcode scanner would be a prompt deal breaker[0]. It should be featured somewhere on the microsite.
[0] lack of a barcode scanner isn't bad if you have 16 products. Once you're managing any serious level of inventory, especially with unique size/color combinations, there's so much risk for error if each item isn't being scanned. Then there's speed of service to the customer; it's just quicker.
I use Exact Target, every day, and I'm very happy with their product and their service. I won't speak to the valuation, but their technology and application is great.
You would call their technology and application great? I use it every day as well, and for me it's one of the worst pieces of enterprise software I have to use. Unusably slow, and what should be very simple makes me jump through multiple hoops.
I don't know if I would call it "great" it is pretty awesome. But it's also slow as you can possibly be. There are times it's unusable due to the slowness.
What's interesting is that the Salesforce.com integration is pretty poor when compared to other tools (including Pardot which they own). So Salesforce bought the tool with the worst integration. In contrast, Marketo has probably one of the deepest. So clearly more about revenue and customers than tech.
Using their application makes my internet connection feel like a dial up modem. Backend integration is horrible, API calls can take up to 5 minutes to get a response back.
Threatmetrix assigns a fraud risk/score based on multiple factors, including the geolocation, IP, & browser. Additionally (to your point #1), they anonymize data across their customers and alert if a device has been flagged in a fraudulent transaction elsewhere. On top of their own customers, they partner with Cybersource so there is quite a network of data behind their fraud analysis.
(I don't work for Threatmetrix- but I do use their product as provided via Cybersource.)
