Comments for RWW Live: Shopping 2.0

RWW Live: Shopping 2.0

2008-12-09T21:25:01Z

In this week's episode of RWW Live, to be broadcast live at 3.30pm PST Tuesday (6.30pm EST), ReadWriteWeb talks to a group of leaders in the online shopping market. We have executives from Retrevo, ModCloth, Baynote, ThisNext and Cartfly on the call, and we'll be discussing what's next in online shopping in this timely holiday podcast.

You can tune into the show, and interact with us via the chat, by clicking here. You can also use the Calliflower Facebook app to tune in and participate.

]]> Join the regulars from RWW Live, plus:

Jack Jia, founder and CEO, Baynote, a collective intelligence platform for online shopping, featuring recommendations and social search.
Eric Koger, CEO, ModCloth, an online retailer of vintage, indie, retro and mod clothing.
Andrew Eisner, Director of Community and Content, Retrevo, a "matchmaking service for people and electronics".
Kurt Collins, VP of Business Development, Cartfly, a social commerce store network that enables online merchants to turn their storefronts into portable widgets and distribute them across major social networks.
Mateo Gutierrez, Director of Social Marketing, ThisNext, a social shopping network "where people interact with community-validated taste makers and influencers to discover recommended products".

RWW Live is hosted as always by Sean Ammirati and ReadWriteWeb editor Richard MacManus.

Before the show starts, we're interested in what questions you have for the panelists. Please leave a comment on this post and one of the RWW crew on the call will do our best to ask your question.

We will post the audio from the show at the end, but we hope you join us LIVE on Calliflower or Facebook.

UPDATE: the show is now finished, here is the audio:

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Comment from Mark on 2008-12-09

2008-12-09T21:42:03Z

Having JUST (Dec 1st) relaunched a social/e-commerce website in the past week, I am interested in hearing information about the pros and cons of starting slowly, versus jumping in with both feet.

In our previous site launch, we spent months building a database of products, opened the doors of the site, and it was just too much product, and not enough interaction with our customer base.

In our relaunch, we decided to go social first, e-commerce second. Working on our customer relationships first. The site is a transition from our successful eBay business to a more controllable blog/e-commerce solution.

Unfortunately, I wont be around to listen to the show tonight, but will follow up with the recorded version in the morning.

Mark

Comment from 5556mall.co.nz on 2008-12-09

2008-12-09T21:57:39Z

I would imagine (or hope) that one of the key things that will come out of this would be the idea of allowing people to see prices / products any time of the day, where ever they are. That is what 5556Mall (http://5556mall.co.nz) has started in New Zealand (and can be ported around the world if your interested). Basically exposing on-line shopping sites via SMS / Text Message. We'll be looking into adding ratings from communities etc next year.

My 2 cents worth, if your doing an on-line shopping site, make it look nice on a mobile phone (it doesn't have to look great, just function) and allow people to easily leave comments / ratings - That's where we think the future is heading.