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I just got back from an amazing conference in Reykjavik, where everybody at Avail gathered for our annual winter Boot Camp. Iceland is an amazing place; Situated straight atop the rift between the North American and Eurasian tectonic plates – drifting apart by around 2 centimeters per year – it’s a wild, ravishingly beautiful landscape raptured by volcanoes and geothermic activity. Yet it is the home to one of the world’s oldest democraties; Already in the 9th century, the Viking settlers gathered once a year at Tingvallir to issue laws and make decisions in a democratic parliament.

At the conference, the Collective Intelligence of all the smart people at Avail was put to work for our customers. You can expect some very exciting developments coming out of it in the coming months.

I already got myself my own christmas gift; booked a short trip to the alps with a friend after the holidays. To me there’s few things better than looking out from the peak of an alpine mountain, skis on, sun glittering.

But for all the near and dear ones I still need to get my christmas gifts and this year I promised myself I would shop all my gifts online, not having to buy everything in a hurry on christmas morning.

For those of you who also decided to buy your gifts online this year; On http://www.pasttimes.com/ visitors from the past will guide you to the perfect presents. With a little help from their new Avail Behavioral Merchandising solution of course.

This may sound as something from 1993. But I truly love the Internet! It simply never ceases to amaze me.

The Avail solution is just one example of the little online applications that constantly evolves to benefit the world in more and better ways when users – I don’t even know who all of them are – finds new and cooler ways of using it.

Tonight, I realized I could use Youtube to integrate a video-recorded demo of our solution into the (Google Docs based, online) standard sales presentation our account managers use when they explain why merchandising is so crucial to the success of eCommerce and the benefits we can contribute.

Feel like taking a look? It’s right here:

Goodnight wonderful world!

Another day is coming to its end in Northern Europe.

In the UK, 118golf.co.uk started using Avail Behavioral Merchandising to allow the collective intelligence of all visitors pick the right club for each individual. By simply going about their business, indvidual visitors to 118golf now also contributes to the game of all other visitors.

Good night all golfers. Collectively, you just got a little better.