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Here’s a short and instructive podcast from leading UK trade magazine New Media Age, on the state of social commerce in the UK. NMA Social Commerce Podcast The NMA podcast is part of the rising tide of media coverage that social commerce is receiving in [...]

Kaboodle, the social shopping site, has launched PopPicks, a community-driven flash sale feature. Like Gilt.com, members can get access to private flash sales, short time-sensitive brand-name deals at high discounts, but like Threadless.com members get to vote on what goes on sale (press release below). [...]

Want to set up a fashion store selling top labels such as Diane Von Furstenberg, Gap, Barneys New York, Juicy Couture, Banana Republic, Tory Burch and TopShop?  Well now you can. The Sugar Inc. blog network (ShopStyle, PopSugar, FabSugar, BellaSugar) targeting 18-40 women, has just partnered with leading fashion brands [...]

A heads up on a free Mashable-sponsored social commerce webinar next week (Wed July 28, 12 noon EST) from Alvenda 8thBridge and Hallmark: “Learn How Hallmark and Alvenda Launched a Social Commerce Channel on Facebook” Details below, and registration here.  Social Commerce Today will be participating, [...]

Incase you’ve missed it, the ever-insightful Paul Chaney, social media consultant, and contributor to Practical E-Commerce is running a series of articles reviewing the growing number of social media store/storefront applications that allow businesses to sell directly within social media – primarily Facebook. In the first [...]

It’s good to feel part of something big – so here’s the latest 15 minute inspirational TED talk – from popular science author Matt Ridley (The Red Queen, The Origins of Virtue, Genome, The Rational Optimist) at Oxford University – on “When Ideas Have Sex.” So what does [...]

Just as Yipit, DealRadar, and DailyFlock have emerged as clearing houses for group-buy deals from Groupon, LivingSocial et al, the group-buy phenomenon has given rise to another new business opportunity – marketplaces for buying and selling purchased-but-unused group-buy vouchers. New marketplace sites such as CoupRecoup, [...]