On the heels of last week’s launch of the premium Group Buy plugin for WordPress blogs from GroupBuyingSite.com, GetShopped has launched a similar but free (for now) group-buy plugin that works with the popular WP e-Commerce plugin. You’ll remember...
Like Amazon, the other grand dame of e-commerce, eBay is tooling up for a new era of social commerce. eBay has just purchased Brands4Friends, Germany’s largest private shopping club (3.5m members) for €152m ($200m). Private shopping clubs, upscale...
This year, the tech-Oscars, known as the “Crunchies”, have added a new “social commerce app” category, and the internet community gets to nominate the nominees. Hosted by GigaOm, VentureBeat, and TechCrunch, the 2010 Crunchies is the fourth annual...
Brian Fetherstonhaugh, Chairman & CEO OgilvyOne Worldwide, the interactive marketing and consulting arm of the Ogilvy Group, has just published an interesting research report on the future of selling (embedded below – click through to slideshare to...
Techcrunch recently published a scanned image (embedded below) of a confidential overview of tech mega-trends to guide investment from angel investors SV Angel. As you’d expect social commerce related themes figure prominently. So here’s a...
So Facebook founder “the connector” Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is Time Person of the Year 2010, triumphing over a more politically contentious runner up Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and joining the ranks of winning heads of state including Barack...
Just a few months ago, you’d have to argue why your business should have a Facebook store, today you’d probably have to justify any decision not to open up shop on Facebook. So it’s no surprise that new f-commerce stores from major brands and...
Maybe this is a sign of the times, but you know when something has gone mainstream when there’s a WordPress plugin to do it. The world’s favourite (and free) CMS (content management system) has Groupon’d itself up with a plugin that allows you to...
Keeping up with developments in the fast-moving social commerce space can be daunting. So here’s a quick e-briefing of the latest presentations, articles and factoids of note… Paul Chaney on Social Media’s Effect on Holiday Sales: Traffic from...
So last week’s big tech news was the social commerce mega-deal that didn’t tip; Google’s offer to buy the group-buy e-couponing giant, Groupon, for a rumoured $6bn was rejected by the 100 week wordpress-blog-to-billion-dollars-sensation. But all the...
So yesterday Amazon invested $175 million (WSJ) in group-buy social commerce platform LivingSocial, putting other social commerce investor news – $6m for f-commerce storefront software Payvment, and $5m for “eBay of Facebook” Yardsellr – into the...
Here are two useful and new presentations, with speed summaries, for your download and delectation from PayPal and Skive – the London, digital creative agency. First, the PayPal presentation from social media strategist Sudha Jamthe (@sujamthe)...