On the back of Vente-Privée’s commercial success, a number of invitation-only Private Shopping Clubs have been popping up around the globe selling designer and luxury goods (typically end of season, overstock, and sample sale) online at...
A year old, but still useful: A table from socialmediatrader.com, on top social shopping (qua product reviews) sites. The article notes that whilst small, social shopping site traffic jumped 477% last year (2008). Tribesmart.com and pronto.com...
Shopping can be a very social activity; in fact it’s the favorite social activity for teens. So why does social shopping (co-browsing, wishlists, group-buying…) online have such a chequered history? Remember Smackshopping...
The ants are back! In 2001 letsbuyit.com, a sucessful shopping platform, had to declare bankruptcy spectacularly. Now it is back with a new business concept: a mixture of social shopping and price comparison. Users can exchange opinions about...
So I’ve been reviewing the social commerce landscape for the last month – customer reviews, deal feeds, shopping widgets, social shopping… But there is one social commerce application I’ve yet to cover, and it’s is...
I’m enjoying Woot, the popular Group Buy social commerce store – with a bit of attitude. Woot sells one just product a day at a deep discount – and lets shoppers discuss that item. It started out as an employee-store / market...
Nice video introduction to social shopping from Fluid, promoting their slick “Fluid Social” social shopping (aka co-browsing) tool that works with Facebook Connect and does what Fluid are calling “Friend-Based Merchandising”...
Nice new Groupon (group coupon) app from Adidas at FreeStripes.
Simpler than Dell’s Swarm Groupon/Group Buy app and all the better for it.
Share your coupon with 5 people and get a free pair of sneakers. (Click to enlarge).
Article (archived below) from Wall Street Journal about social shopping tools that use Facebook Connect to allow shoppers to shop together online. Mentions TurnTo and Fluid’s Fluid Social as two services providers helping brands off social...
Another recent article in the Financial Times on social commerce (archived below for reference), talking about the rise Facebook storefronts and twitter deal feeds. The article reports that Alvenda will be launching 20 more Facebook storefronts in...
Pierre Raiman over at the Sherpad social commerce blog has posted an article on Vuitton’s choice of Facebook for streaming it’s fashion show – resulting in a big bump in sign ups to Vuitton’s art of travel Facebook page (run...
Interesting article (archived below) from AdAge on the ongoing evolution of Facebook from social networking platform to social commerce platform. Right now, if brands want to sell on Facebook, they can create a shopping widget, set up a Facebook...