In 1997, I wrote a book called “Successful E-Commerce”. The title was the promise of tomorrow. I had no idea then that e-commerce would be so huge. Today I read that Macy’s are putting on an extra 700 staff to deal with online orders. The compound growth rates of the Internet Retail Top 500 is stupendous.

Here at SearchForecast we’re investing in a new technology publishing platform to help clients produce local pages with control of how their brands and products are displayed.

Tomorrow is about Mobile and the bus going down Townsend Street in San Francisco this morning says it all. Whether you like it or not, you do have a mall in your pocket!

I went to a meet up of iphone app developers in San Francisco recently and was left speechless by the number of despondent iphone app developers having problems selling and promoting their app on the AppStore.

Being a shareholder of Playhaven.com, I know to well how important it is and the limited opportunities for app developers to promote their iphone app or sell iphone apps they have created. Same same for Google! This is why we decided to allow iphone apps to be sold in the iphone app marketplace and hope that developers find alternative ways to buy and sell their technology.

The “best presentation I’ve head in 10 years” is how one person described it…..

At the AlwaysOn Conference, the audience were treated to a very entertaining pitch given by Rahul Sonnad, CEO & Founder of Geodelic. As you’ll see when you watch this musical riff of the journey of Geodelic vis-a-vis Facebook, Google and Yahoo! - Rahul and Geodelic have a “technodelic” look and breaking new ground in combining brands to be consumed by mobile users in an entertaining way. Even Sergey Brin, founder of Google, is shown checking out the app.

View the Geodelic - Ukele Smashing Presentation Video.

I think you’ll find it infinitely entertaining than Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman and John Hanke, a Google VP of Product Management when they were on stage at Social Currency CrunchUp last week - http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/30/google-yelp-war/

Maybe Google & Yelp should start singing from the Geodelic song book !

Geodelic - which I’m an advisor of - continues to make an impact with T-Mobile myTouch 3G (branded by Google) - which is redefining how the global mobile web evolves. Geodelic software powers the Sherpa application on the phone which learns user behavior and then present information that is customized to each user. That’s mobile local search in the future folks!At breakfast in New York this morning, Saj Sahay, director of product innovation, T-Mobile USA said “The amazing thing about Sherpa is that it learns your favorite types of locations and preferences over time and the more you use it, the better it knows you. MyTouch is all about putting you at the center of the device experience and Sherpa is a shining example of this true, powerful personalization.”Watch the Geodelic Video on ABC Online interview with Autumn Radtke. It can be preordered from T-Mobile’s web site starting today for $200. Deliveries will start on or about August 5.