An interesting finding by Columbia researchers Andrew T. Stephen and Olivier Toubia, who have looked at whether it makes commercial sense for online sellers to link to each others’ stores. The short answer is yes. The researchers make an...
On the heels of Singapore success, Dell are rolling out their ‘Group Buy’ (collaborative purchasing) social shopping experiment Dell Swarm in Canada – and extending it with some smart features. The basic idea is simple, group...
Technology blogger Steve Rubel helped put social commerce on the map at the end of 2005 with a post on his popular micropersuasion blog in which he highlighted social commerce as a trend to watch in 2006. Now that Steve has migrated away from his...
Venture capitalist David Beisel is credited with coining the term “social commerce” in 2005 in a blog post describing the trend of e-commerce sites publishing user-generated advertorial content – user pick lists, wish lists...