From emarketer, small businesses with small marketing budgets are using “social shopping” sites to generate eyeballs to their sites. Interesting to note the difference in mediums used…
Use YourSpace to Sell OurStuff
emarketer.com
The New York Times reported this month on a new hybrid of social networking and e-commerce called “social shopping.”… These sites can be a boon to small businesses, with a word-of-mouth factor that outstrips what they might otherwise be able to generate on small business marketing budgets.
Interesting to note that social shopping sites are significantly more popular that social networking sites.
I found this over at Paul O’Flaherty’s blog. IMHO, I don’t see commercial use of the web as a bad thing. Even in the old days, the average consumer needed the grocer and the blacksmith and the guy who made saddles and horse shoes. I see lack of ethics as the problem. Lack of ethics seems to be part of corporate culture all too often… but it’s not just corporations. I’ve met plenty of individuals whose ethics are on the short side, too.
Everywhere you look, you see the little “digg this” icon or text link at the bottom of blog posts. Most of them with “0″ Diggs. But, Digg this… the category list for submitting a blog post to Digg;
I can thing of a whole lot of categories that don’t seem to have a place to fit in at Digg.
PC WORLD: Facebook Admits Ad Service Tracks LOGGED OFF Users.
Facebook’s controversial Beacon ad system tracks users’ off-Facebook activities even if those users are logged off from the social-networking site and have previously declined having their activities on specific external sites broadcast to their Facebook friends, a company spokesman said…
Even caught red handed, they still only provide a partial opt out. But Golly, Juney Moon, them user lists and tracking data is worth mucho payola.
So they know what logged off users are doing. Wonder if they’re jiggy with what pissed off users are doing. You think?
