Category Archives: ecommerce

Competitious Keeps Tabs on Your Competition

Posted on November 14, 2008

I recently started playing around with Competitious, and I think it’s a pretty cool idea. They’re in beta still, so I expect it will become a bit more robust. It looks like they raised some angel money about 18 months … Continue reading →

Posted in applications, ecommerce | Tagged competitor monitoring | 2 Comments

Crowdsourcing Site Threadless Gets a Redesign

Posted on November 11, 2008

I’m a big fan of Threadless, and I consider it the “granddaddy” of crowdsourcing web 2.0 business models. The site does an awesome job of getting visitors to participate, without necessarily buying a product. Of course, once that intial participation … Continue reading →

Posted in communities, ecommerce | Tagged affiliate programs, crowdsourcing, del.ico.us, Flickr, Last.FM, MySpace | Leave a comment

Fulfillment ‘Wow’ from 1800Contacts.com

Posted on November 2, 2008

I’m always impressed by ecommerce retailers that deliver orders quicker than their “estimated” length of time. Zappos is certainly the poster child for this, and it is an important aspect of their constant effort to WOW us customers. However, I … Continue reading →