> I've almost finished the very first version.
Cool. Now for some more ideas...
If you really, really want this to be a 'killer app' then you need to hack
in user tracking sytems. This means tracking:
When users enter a system
What pages a user goes to
What links a user follows
Everytime a user sees a product
Everytime a user adds a product to a basket [1]
Everytime a user buys a product [1]
When users exit a system [2]
In some kind of loggable format that can be fed into a suitable data
mining application (Either by slapping the data in a huge database
directly or some easily parsable plain log file.) Note that this gets
messy when you need to start abstracting out users (so we prevent our left
hand that knows about what people are doing from knowing what our right
hand does, which is their names and physical addresses.)
Companies are currently falling over themselves to get this kind of data
out of their systems. And they are paying *silly* sums of cash to buy
software that does it. Doing this could easily leapfrog perl into a very
favourable position in the market.
I'd be more than happy to help work on this kind of thing, including
working on the back end to integrate it with at least one of the
industry standard software solutions out there [3].
Later.
Mark.
[1] including cost at this time and quantity.
[2] i.e. what page they saw last.
[3] My cow is in the ditch ;-)
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print "\n",map{my$a="\n"if(length$_>6);' 'x(36-length($_)/2)."$_\n$a"} (
Name => 'Mark Fowler', Title => 'Technology Developer' ,
Firm => 'Profero Ltd', Web => 'http://www.profero.com/' ,
Email => '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', Phone => '+44 (0) 20 7700 9960' )
