E-commerce UX outfit metaLinQ has posted a useful interactive directory of social commerce software vendors at specifically for online retailers. It’s a work in progress and metaLinQ are asking for feedback, suggestions and contributions. But...
Social intelligence – our ability to understand and learn from each other and profit from social situations – is a universal trait, but how we use our social intelligence may be culturally variable. Some new research from Lightspeed...
P&G have upped their f-commerce game, opening new Facebook stores for Tide, Gillette, Olay, Gain, CoverGirl, Luvs and Febreze. As with last year’s pilot P&G Facebook stores, P&G are outsourcing e-commerce heavy lifting; this time...
We all knew the SoLoMo consumer was coming, the new consumer who shops – and experiences brands – with social, location-aware, and mobile technology. With news from Google and Groupon, the SoLoMo consumer is metamorphosing from a...
Meteor, the Irish mobile communications provider from Eircom has been running a Facebook top-up store for pre-pay phone users since November 2010 (thanks to digital marketing consultant Krishna De for the heads-up). One nice touch is that users can...
Amazon has done it, Levi’s has done it, now beauty giant Estée Lauder has done it – integrating their e-commerce site with Facebook to personalise and socialise the shopping experience. Not on their main site mind you – but for...
Head over to the Facebook page of the English indie rock band from Leeds, The Kaiser Chiefs, and you might just see a glimpse of the future of f-commerce. Via a link on their Facebook page, customers can pay for and download Kaiser Chiefs new...
So social commerce has a high-profile fail; the shop-and-share service Blippy, valued last year at $46m with $13m funding, is headed to the dead-pool – at least in its current incarnation. People it would seem, didn’t want to post their...
UK mobile telco and broadband service provider O2 (part of European giant Telefónica) is launching a Facebook store to enable pre-pay mobile customers top up their accounts on Facebook. It’s an initiative similar to the Starbucks card top-up...
The ubiquitous Facebook ‘Like’ button has come to Diesel stores. Scan the QR code on jeans in-store with your handset and send a Like with a product shot to your friends. Would be nice if the Like had a call to action – such as...
A couple of new start-ups have appeared that we think embody the shape of things to come in the group-buy space. First, a site that focuses on a specific industry vertical; a new B2B group-buy site for office workers and office managers called...
Shop.org, a division of the National Retail Federation, has just published results from it’s 2011 Social Commerce study – a representative survey of 1787 adult US online consumers conducted in April 2011. Highlights 42% of US online...