‘social shopping’ posts

Come Together, Right Now, Over Me

Posted by Kevin Carlson on 29 Apr 2011

Convergence. The buzzword that’s used to describe things that are merging and creating synergies holding untold potential for meteoric rises in profits. At least that’s the fun side of the story. The story where the rubber meets the road is … Continue reading →

Tapping into China’s Luxury Goods Market

Posted by Kevin Carlson on 04 Apr 2011

China is expected to account for over 20% of the world’s luxury goods market by 2015, according to recent research conducted by McKinsey. Understanding this market and how to reach it most effectively could provide an enormous opportunity for those wanting to tap into China’s estimated $27 … Continue reading →

Facebook Commerce 1.0? JC Penney’s Usablenet App

Posted by John Eckman on 28 Dec 2010

Last week I participated in two roundtable discussions at the PluggedIn Ventures Summit on Ecommerce.(There were lots of interesting tweets during the summit – search for the #pisummit hashtag). When the issue of Facebook for commerce (or F-Commerce) came up on the Social Commerce panel, I pointed to JC Penney’s new Facebook app store as [...]

Social as a Layer: Sears’ Social Commerce Experience

Posted by John Eckman on 06 Oct 2010

Email Invite from Sears.com When I got the above email from Sears inviting me into a new social shopping experience, I hoped that they’d found a way to combine MySears and Sears.com together more contextually and pervasively, letting me move easily between the “get advice before you buy” approach of MySears.com (with its action verbs [...]

TripAdvisor joins the Private Travel Club Club

Posted by John Eckman on 04 Oct 2010

Trip Advisor’s new invite-only travel offering TripAdvisor is joining Jetsetter, Kayak, and TabletHotels (good summary here) to offer a private sales site for hotel accommodations with the interestingly named “snique.” (I realize they’re going for “sneak,” as in “sneak away on a trip” – but I can’t help but read it as a contraction of [...]

Hip to be Square

Posted by John Eckman on 27 Sep 2010

Photo by Chris Harrison – http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdharrison/4992493250/ Got an email in late August that Square, the iPhone mobile card reader / payment acceptance application founded by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey, had begun shipping readers again. Mine came this week – 2 of them actually. I’m pretty certain I only ordered one, so I’m not sure where [...]

Facebook Connect Social Shopping for Magento

Posted by John Eckman on 27 Sep 2010

Just a quick note that we’ve released a new version of the Facebook Connect Social Shopping extension for Magento to the Magento Connect marketplace. This version is an update to the existing extension to accomodate the fact that Facebook connect notifications have been deprecated. This version relies on posts to the Facebook Wall instead. Note | View post »

Open Innovation: What Magento Can Learn From Firefox

Posted by Jochen Krisch on 10 Jun 2010

Magento is of interest to Exciting Commerce particularly due to its role as a driver of innovation. Can Magento evolve into more than just another shop system? When looking at how fast the Magento fever is catching on, memories of another open source project comes to mind. Mozilla, with its Firefox, didn’t just make another | View post »

Meet Magento: Bob Schwartz, the New Strongman at Magento

Posted by Jochen Krisch on 08 Jun 2010

Bob Schwartz is the new strongman at Magento, who as President is now driving the marketing, sales and operations areas. The founders will thus be able to increase their focus on product and development activities. “I am passionate about building great eCommerce companies” is the mantra which clearly places Bob Schwartz amongst the ranks of | View post »

Extras: Magento Mobile, Facebook Credits, Zappos API

Posted by Jochen Krisch on 04 Jun 2010

Some further exciting e-commerce news from the past days. Magento mobile Magento has announced their launch of Magento mobile: “The product includes a new administrative manager (which we wrote about earlier this week), a native iPhone app that is fully customizable (colors, images, buttons, etc), and a service where Magento manages the submission and maintenance | View post »

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