Classifieds haven’t been especially enhanced by mobile apps – although it is nice to have them on the go when shopping for a car or a house. But Oodle keeps pushing the envelope with its effort to bring the world of social media to classifieds.
The classifieds site, which also acts as a platform for clients [...]
Category Archives: Shopping and e-commerce
Oodle’s iPhone App: Mostly About the Camera
August 20, 2010 – 4:01 pm
HomeRun Shows What-and-When You Bought on its ‘Daily Steals’
August 18, 2010 – 10:54 pm
With 200+ deal a day sites and vendors, the only way to carve out a niche is to find dramatically different takes on group buying (i.e. focusing on verticals or integrating with other content). How about making your buys visible to your entire social network, and going deeper on the game mechanisms?
That’s the approach [...]
ShopCity Launches ‘City Managers’ Program
August 13, 2010 – 10:13 pm
ShopCity, a storefront and marketing platform for SMBs, hopes to jumpstart its reach via a new “City Manager” program that allows local media partners to secure local URL rights owned by ShopCity (i.e. ShopMountainView.com) and market its services. City Managers, who handle sales and marketing as well as community relations, share [...]
GroupTabs: Check-ins = Group Buying
August 13, 2010 – 7:16 pm
Some people (like me) don’t like games. Game mechanics-driven “check in” media like FourSquare, GoWalla, Loopt and BrightKite mostly leaves them cold.
But what if check-ins triggered group buying discounts? That’s the concept behind GroupTabs, a new service launching in New York City next week. The idea is that offers could be floated on smart phones [...]
CampusLive Connects College Students to Local SMBs
August 5, 2010 – 4:38 pm
College students are a rich market for local businesses in college towns. Indeed, advertising has become more important to local SMBs as colleges increasingly compete for the business and try to keep students (and their money) on campus.
CampusLive, the brainchild of UMass Amherst students in 2008, is positioning itself to serve as a media [...]
OpenTable Launches Group Buying Deals (Updated)
August 4, 2010 – 8:48 pm
Restaurants are among the top categories for group buying deals. Now OpenTable, the restaurant reservations service, is getting in on the game. On its blog today, OpenTable announced that it is launching a weekly “Spotlight” offer that provides diners with $50 of dining for $25 at a featured restaurant, which must be an OpenTable [...]
eBay Pushes More Integration With ProStores
August 3, 2010 – 4:48 pm
eBay is pushing to do more to integrate the flagship auction site and its Marketplaces products with ProStores, its online storefront software company. The effort to integrate ProStores is part of a broader effort to integrate its properties (i.e. eBay Classifieds).
ProStores, acquired by eBay five years ago, currently has “tens of thousands” of customers, who [...]
