RE: UKNM: State of the Nation

[Garret Keogh]

I went along with some other people from here and it was very dull, very

empty and badly focussed. there were a strange mixture of end-user web

creation tools, ISPs and security and e-commerce applications. Citibank for

example, had no one on the stand that knew anything significant about their

online banking service as they were just there to open accounts (£2K deposit

needed)


I'd like to think that the show was quiet because the market had diversified

and all the action is elsewhere in the UK. However I just think it was a

badly planned, poorly marketed show with nothing new to say. As the tools

become more common place, the issues surrounding online business become more

interesting. None of this was really reflected. I spoke at a Business Online

event in Amsterdam recently which was much more lively with an intelligent,

informed audience concerned with real integration of ecommerce technologies.


IW was a missed opportunity and a waste of an afternoon.


Garret Keogh,

Content Manager, Computing and Games

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