Posted by Karen Webster on 22 June 2011 | 5 Comments
Tags:
Facebook,
IPO,
social commerce,
I have always been up for a challenge. I read just last week a quote from someone from Forrester who basically said that anyone who believes Facebook is the commerce frontier is basically smoking something. (Well, what he said was that they had about as much credibility as the guy who bought billboards predicting the end of the world, so sort of the same difference.) And, since I was quoted earlier this year as saying that people who didn’t believe that Facebook was the commerce frontier were basically smoking something (what I said was that they’d be wishing for a Christmas miracle), I thought I’d better do something to redeem myself.
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Posted by Karen Webster on 15 October 2009 | 5 Comments
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facebook,
payvment,
payment,
social,
network,
social commerce,
social network,
ebay,
paypal,
ecommerce
So, here's a development: Paypal has opened up its payments platform to enable developers to easily integrate payment apps into their Facebook apps using PayPal as the enabling payments mechanism. This solution is designed to open up commerce on social networks and tap into the tens of millions of people who hang out there each month. The solution creates many, many winners, some unintended consequences, and one big loser.
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Posted by Karen Webster on 14 October 2009 | 9 Comments
Tags:
social,
commerce,
social commerce,
social networks,
youtube,
facebook,
myspace,
twitter
I was part of an interesting panel discussion on Saturday on what social networking means for business and what the future holds. This panel was part of the Harvard Business School’s African American Alumni Associations Annual Leadership Summit and included Kevin Colleran from Facebook, Laela Sturdy from YouTube/Google, Julitte Powell, entrepreneur and author of 33 Million People in the Room and myself as panelists. We covered a lot of territory in the 90 minutes we had to interact with each other and those who attended the session. Here are a few of the more interesting issues that we discussed.
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