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If you were to invest $100,000 of your own hard earned cash in a social commerce site or technology, where would you invest? Sure, private sale clubs and group buy sites/technologies are the hot trends right now.  But what about the established ratings and reviews industry, [...]

It works like this.  You want to buy something from a local store – a car, a luxury fashion item, gadget or gizmo.  So you tap your social and local networks online for others wanting the same thing and you organize a flash-mob; you agree [...]

So what’s the cost of deploying social commerce? Wondrous Forrester report out by Sucharita Mulpuru, listing 17 social commerce tools, how they are being used and, critically, what they cost.  ATG have posted the Forrester TechRadar Social Commerce Q1 2010 Report for free download here – [...]

DecisionStep, purveyors of fine social shopping toolbars to brands such as Mattel as Charlotte Russe have just released ROI data for their ShopTogether toolbar. Working with German cosmetics brand, Hautbalance Naturkosmetik, specialist in natural and organic cosmetics, DecisionStep implemented their ShopTogether toolbar on the brand’s e-commerce site. [...]

LivingSocial, the US social commerce site offering city-based group-buy deals, announced today that it has secured $25 million Series B round of venture funding led by U.S. Venture Partners, with Grotech Ventures and Steve Case’s Revolution, LLC participating. With 85 million followers, and present in [...]

Here’s our social commerce presentation, “International Trends in Social Commerce” given at last week’s e-commerce conference in Germany. We cover the 7 trends in social commerce that we think are on the rise. Let us know what you think, and if you’d like a copy [...]

Leading advertising trade magazine, Adage, has just published an article on social commerce – focusing on Facebook e-commerce.  Forget e-commerce, f-commerce is here. The article is archived below, but here are our top takeouts; The jury is still out on whether social media can drive [...]