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Wishpot, the social bookmarking site that does universal wishlists and gift registries, is launching Wishpot Social Commerce, a new service allowing retailers and publishers to integrate Wishpot features directly into their websites. Wishpot Social Syndication for Product Feeds will enable retailers to merchandise their products on [...]

More from Allurent‘s CTO Fumi Matsumoto in the Ecommerce Times on social commerce in 2010, offering 7 reasons to do social commerce, and 7 tips for doing it right (Allurent software powers Reebok’s and Charlotte Russe’s foray into social commerce, (nb. Allurent defines social commerce narrowly as extending [...]

We’re enjoying Honk, a Pandora for cars that does car recommendations based on your personality and interests (as well as age, gender, and lifestage) – and allows you to solicit opinion from your Twitter or Facebook contacts.  And it gives listings and local prices too… Mashable [...]

Inspired post by John Bell on the evolution of social shopping over at the Digital Influence Mapping Project. In addition to the standard social shopping fare of soliciting friends opinions, reviewing ratings or reviews by strangers or friends, group buying, finding endorsements from friends or ‘strangers with expertise’, wish lists [...]

Are your customers divorcing you? We’ve just been watching this short and snappy “Break Up” video again by the folks at Microsoft advertising. Consumers are divorcing brands on the grounds of bad behavior – i.e. not giving them a voice on your website, and instead [...]

Erik Qualmann, author of Socialnomics, answers tough questions on social media in an interview with IDuniversity. Speed summary (and our take) of the top six questions and answers here. Q1: Isn’t Social Media just for kids? A: The evidence doesn’t support this view – only [...]

Vignette (recently acquired by Open Text) has published a useful review of social media tools for organisations, which we’ve summarised in another post. In the report, Vignette included their own employee guidelines for social media guidelines, which are clear, practical and commendable. So if you’re thinking [...]