The Perfect Product Page

The product page—that all-important detail page on an ecommerce site where you purchase a product—is an undervalued content format. I see a huge variety of them nowadays »

Cool Stores

I'm inspired by the stores I've been finding lately [http://wanelo.com/seanflannagan/stores]. I've written about cool independent stores [http://deeplinking.net/small-stores/] before, but the frequency of »

So You Want to Sell Products on the Internet

Great! It's getting dramatically easier to do so every few months, and the playing field keeps getting leveled. There's also a rapidly evolving set of best practices worth paying »

The Discovery of Fascinating Objects

It's not very cool to say so but the Flickr iPhone app [https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/flickr/id328407587?mt=8] is the most addictive app on my »

More Richly Interpretable Information

Wanelo [http://wanelo.com/about] gets a lot of press in high school [http://www.jchschariot.com/wanelo-want-need-love/] and college [http://bcgavel.com/2013/03/18/tight-right-now-wanelo-the-fancy-and-store-envy/] newspapers, which »

The Company Your Company Keeps

If you have an app or web service out there with a rapidly increasing number of people using it, one of the most interesting things in the world for »

Please Don't Use the S-word

I was interviewed by Sandi MacPherson [https://twitter.com/sandimac] the other day for Quibb [http://quibb.com], which is gradually growing into something really great. Here’s the »

Small Stores, Big Ideas

I discover a lot of small independent stores through Wanelo. These are relatively small operations, larger than your average Etsy shop or eBay business, but much smaller than your »

My Wanelo Feed Erupted with Goodness Last Night

This natural event occurred because we began surfacing the individual shops behind the hundreds of thousands of products from Etsy [http://www.etsy.com] that have been posted to »

The Social Life of Small Urban Spaces

Narrated by William H. Whyte [http://www.pps.org/reference/wwhyte/] in 1980. Classic, and strangely familiar if you work in product, and/or skateboard. »