Stylefeeder is a social shopping site that works like a personal shopping assistant, picking out personal recommendations for clothes, shoes, jewellery and accessories based on stuff you like, and the stuff people with similar taste profiles to you like.  Think of it as Netflix Cinematch or Pandora for fashion. Under the bonnet, Stylefeeder is a collaborative [...]

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 discount prices and powered by a customer-get-customer referral model… Here’s an evolving list of the top Private Shopping Clubs (site name [...]

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 (price comparison) were added in comments.   Table data was compiled from Compete, Quantcast and MSN Adlabs. Website Age Demographics Sex [...]

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 products and retailers and provide advise to other users. To animate them to interact they get points [...]

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-testing store for an electronics distributor, but grew into the deal-a-day Group Buy store [...]

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).

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 as a ‘Flog’ – Facebook blog). It’s good to see luxury brands, previously laggards in [...]

The 2009 Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide lists PowerReviews and Bazaarvoice as the top customer reviews service providers for US e-commerce sites. BizRate, part of Shopzilla Inc (who recently partnered with PowerReviews to distribute PowerReviews’ product review solutions in Europe), is cited as the 3rd player in the market.  Data was gathered by Internet Retailer [...]

I’ve been thinking about Atrinsic (the digital advertising and marketing services provider) and its recent purchase of Shopit, the social commerce company that lets buyers and sellers complete simple transactions on social networking sites. Strategically, this purchase could be a smart move for Atrinsic, if brand storefronts in social networks such as the Alvenda powered 1-800-flowers [...]

Leading UK high street shoe retailer Barratts is rolling out social commerce functionality across it’s six websites (Barratts.co.uk, Pricelessshoes.co.uk, minibarratts.co.uk, petitfeet.co.uk, bigshoeboutique.co.uk and discountshoestore.co.uk). Online shoppers can read customer reviews, and rate and review their own purchases, courtesy of Bazaarvoice – Barratt’s social commerce solution provider.  Shoppers are being incentivised to review their purchases with [...]