All the articles of February, 2007

• Feb 28, 2007 Wikio Shopping: a shopping-oriented digg-like on steroids

  Wikio has just launched a new Shopping section on its french site. Currently focused on electronics / computing stuff, it has all the basics of a comparison shopping engine, with a few interesting improvements: Ratings brought by Wikio users for each product transform the category browsing into a powerful shopping-oriented Digg-like The product page (for instance the [...]

• Feb 25, 2007 Yahoo! launches 18Seconds.org

  Yahoo! has just launched 18Seconds.org. 18 seconds is the time needed to change a bulb and replace it by a CFL bulb. As described on Yahoo! Anecdotal: Yahoo! has built a powerful tool in www.18seconds.org, which tracks data for CFL purchases nationally and locally. You will be able to see the amount of CFLs sold across [...]

• Feb 21, 2007 Windows Live Shopping is shut down

  As first reported by LiveSide, Windows Live Shopping is now shut down, and users redirected to current MSN Shopping US. This decision is apparently part of the rationalization Microsoft is doing with its Live brand. A responsible of Microsoft declared to LiveSide: Windows Live Shopping Beta was launched as a technology showcase that paired the vast [...]

• Feb 18, 2007 Fashmatch, social shopping for clothes and fashion

  Launched in Sept 2006 (but I just discovered it today), Fashmatch is a social shopping network focused on clothes and fashion: FashMatch is an online community for anyone who shares a love for clothes, fashion and dressing stylishly. FashMatch is based on two things: The first one is fun. Creating your own looks via the [...]

• Feb 18, 2007 Some updates…

  The beginning of this year has been pretty busy for me. I’ve changed my job, moving from engineering to product definition (still at Yahoo!, still on shopping). Teaching the guy that replaced me, learning my new job, discovering my new project, traveling to the US and the UK… as you may understand, there was no [...]

• Feb 05, 2007 Shopping oriented Digg-likes: a crowded space

  Following the success of Digg, there is more and more vertical Digg-likes, especially in the shopping area. This is now a crowded space where it is difficult to identify a leader, but where I’m pretty sure most of them will die in the near future. Indeed, if Digg ever decides to open a shopping section, [...]

• Feb 04, 2007 Miscellaneous

  Nellie Lide wrote her 5 “Shopping Trends for 2007“: “Shopping as a Societal Force for a Better World”, “Men Come Into Their Own as Shoppers”, “Celebrity Wannabe Shopping”, “Social Shopping”, “Shopping for Temporary Ownership: The Shopper as Buyer AND Seller” Social retailing is a new experience that links the off and on-line shopping: “the Social [...]