Facebook is adopting eBay's commerce platform to create new social shopping experiences for hundreds of millions of consumers, according to a report from CNET.


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Debi Kleiman, President, MITX This guest post is jointly presented by Tim Putnam, VP of client services at Moontoast and Debi Kleiman, president of Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) and head honcho for FutureM. Join their conversations on Twitter on @Moontoast and @drkleiman.Online behavior has shifted over the last several years. People are spending less time browsing and more time consuming information from within social and publishing networks. Yet brands, by and [...]

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Mark Zuckerberg has said, "If I had to guess, social commerce is next to blow up."  Facebook commerce, also known as F-Commerce, is booming, with more and more brands opening up shops on their Facebook pages.  But the truth of the matter is that there are still a lot of people out there that aren’t sure what F-Commerce is, how it works and what it can do for brands.  Social storefront app provider Zibaba sets out to answer these questions with a new video called ‘Facebook Commerce In A Nutshell’ [...]

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The buzzword on everyone’s lips at the moment is social commerce. It’s the area within social media that shows the most promise as it represents a step towards change in the way people engage with social media.We’ve now progressed from using social media as a place to converse and share content, and as we build up trustworthiness in social channels we are becoming more comfortable with the idea of transferring money and allowing social technologies to transform the shopping experience. Yet it’s [...]

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The August 16, 2011 issue of TIME magazine Economy section has a great infographic describing changes in consumer spending between between 2007 and now. Why 2007? That year preceded the so-called "Great Recession."The category with the biggest loss of consumer spending is postal and delivery services which dropped 28%. Other more obvious categories with drops in consumer spending are not surprising: Clothing repair and alteration (-19%), tobacco (-16%) and new automobiles (-12%).So, what was the [...]

Read More: What Do Spend a Lot More on Now Compared to 2007? Cell Phone Services (U.S. Dept. of Commerce)

Last week, Facebook's marketing head, Randi Zuckerberg, caused a stir when she asserted that online anonymity has to go away. But the reason large, powerful networks are pushing for a world in which our verified and authenticated identities exist online isn’t simply to stop cyber-bullying and to create incentives for users to behave more nicely. This is about money. Part of the company's drive is also to help users leverage their online identities to transform and accelerate online commerce.

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Mark Zuckerberg has been quoted as saying, "If I had to guess, social commerce is next to blow up."  The statistics say that 150 million people are engaging with Facebook on external websites (including ecommerce sites), 90% of all purchases are subject to social influence, and by 2015 the social commerce market is expected to be worth $30 billion.  But what is social commerce?  How did Facebook commerce, or "F-Commerce" come to be?  A new infographic from Social Media In [...]

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