Interesting read Social Shopping: Nuji Brings Product Curation to Mobile Published on MobileBehavior | shared via feedly mobile Social shopping has been heating up over the past few years and got a big boost from Facebook’s Open Graph API and Like button this year. The most exciting services in the space are taking the trend offline, letting you “like” products you see in retails stores as well as online. A new company called Nuji, launching today at Le Web in Paris, takes this approach. By combining Svpply...
Springwise is reporting: bring.BUDDY is a program that will soon be tested out by DHL to recruit city dwellers to deliver packages along urban routes they'd be taking anyway. Created last year...
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Google Googles says hola to brands. NYT is reporting: In the early days of smartphones, users could find out about a movie by entering its title in Google’s browser and searching. Then Google introduced the ability to use voice to make a query. Now, the Google Goggles visual search app, available in iPhones and Android phones, allows users to take photos of an object, say a movie poster, and find out more about it in search results. Google hopes the experiment will give it...
TechCrunch is reporting Foursquare and Facebook Places are popularizing the location check-in. Instagram and PicPlz are perfecting the photo check-in. Is the product check-in next? Billy Chasen, the founder of barcode-scanning app Stickybits, thinks so. He’s spent the past few months pivoting his startup to focus more on brands and turn product check-ins into rewards. A major update of Stickybits is in the App Store (iTunes link), and an Android update will be ready before the end of the year. Its website...
Bing Maps FTW! It's now officially official, probably. First that amazing AR demo at last years TED, then the StreetSlide announcement, and now FastCompany is reporting: A new research project from Microsoft taps taxi drivers' navigational wisdom in an effort to give people smarter driving directions online. As wonderful as online maps are, you've caught them giving you dumb directions before. Extreme examples include the woman who sued Google after being told to walk along the highway, or those unhelpful instructions...
AisleBuyer has released a new iPhone app that allows customers to scan the barcodes of products in a retail store and get further information about them, reviews and any discounts coupons. That’s not all; users with this program can avoid long checkout lines by using its unique mobile self-checkout system, giving the customers the convenience of online shopping in a retail store. Watch a video demo below: AisleBuyer [via Mashable] via psfk.com
In much of the world, shopping online involves browsing e-commerce sites or typing what you want to buy into a search engine. In countries where Internet-connected computers are a rarity, a Seattle-based startup called Slimtrader hopes to offer Internet shopping via text message instead. Text app: This Android phone app helps store owners in Colombia track their stock and accounts, an example of mobile commerce tapping the explosive growth of phones in emerging economies...
Click here to download: Method_10x10_Changing_Retail_Currency.pdf (1.37 MB) (download) Click here to download: Method_10x10_Changing_Retail_Currency.pdf (1.37 MB) Method has just published the 6th piece in the 10x10 series. "Changing Retail Currency" explores the new value that stores offer and the opportunities this creates for in-store and online retailers.
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