December 2010
32 posts
“65% of internet users have paid to access or download some kind of digital...”
– Pew Internet & American Life Project
Trust: The Secret Sauce in Social Commerce
Any salesperson will tell you, without trust there is no sale. Trust doesn’t sell goods, but it acts as a wrecking ball against the brick wall of uncertainty that can stop shoppers from going through with the transaction.
Trust is the reason that social media matters to ecommerce. Understanding this is the first step to understanding how to make the most of the social Web for your online...
Streams, Walls, and Feeds: Free Report with UX... →
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Holiday Spend Soars to $28B - MarketingVOX →
the continuing multi-channel evolution
So far this holiday season, consumers have spent $27.5 billion online, a 12% increase over last year, compared with overall retail growth, which grew just 3 to 4%. And according to the National Retail Federation, e-commerce sales on Black Friday jumped 15% to make up 34% of all shopping that day.
How 2010 tech changed retail forever - Fortune Tech
US Consumers Now Report Spending Equal Time With...
For the first year ever, the average time US consumers report spending online is the same that they report spending watching offline TV. While Gen Yers have been spending more time online than watching TV offline for a few years now, this is the first year for Gen Xers. And Boomers now report spending equal time for both. Of course, Seniors Boomers still report spending most of their media time...
“[The Blue Nile] price check app launched in September, and co-founder and...”
– How 2010 tech changed retail forever - Fortune Tech
“Web retail sales increased 11.4% in early November.”
– Mastercard reporting on Industry Statistics in “E-commerce sales accelerate in early November”, Internet Retailer
Ex-Googler Helps Users Disconnect From the Social... →
Facebook Ramps Up Big E-Commerce Drive -... →
The Billion Prices Project @ MIT →
The Billion Prices Project is an academic initiative that collects prices from hundreds of online retailers around the world on a daily basis to conduct economic research.
We currently monitor daily price fluctuations of ~5 million items sold by ~300 online retailers in more than 70 countries. This webpage showcases examples of average inflation indexes that we created to illustrate the type of...
“In the past year social scientists have begun looking more broadly at the...”
– Social Media as Social Index | The 10th Annual Year in Ideas, NYTimes.com
“E-mail is still one of the most widely adopted and used vehicles for marketing,...”
– Shar VanBoskirk, VP and principal analyst at Forrester Research in DM News
“Facebook has more power in determining who can speak and who can be heard around...”
– Law Professor Jeffrey Rosen, George Washington University
Mobile Web Application Best Practices →
W3C Proposed Recommendation 21 October 2010
“In a move to provide authors with a service their publishers have not, Amazon is...”
– Amazon gives Nielsen BookScan to authors | Jacket Copy | Los Angeles Times
Web Science Conference 2011: Call for Abstracts →
Let's make the web faster - Google Code →
Financials - The biggest online retailers make the... →
“You just have this package of stuff that was invented before the Internet. When...”
– Android founder Andy Rubin on the Windows Phone 7 in the Guardian
Meet Cloud Picker from Google →
Industry Statistics - Why 72% of shoppers will buy... →
Legal/Regulatory - FTC backs ‘Do Not Track’ option... →
Gawker Is A Blog. Just Like Twitter. - Anil Dash →