Posts Tagged ‘shopping’

To get in the holiday shopping spirit we decided to put together a list of fun holiday present and shopping videos to inspire last minute gift ideas (or at least a few laughs).

Join Baratunde Thurston (left), The Onion’s Director of Digital and author of How to Be Black, for an entertaining look at creative social media campaigns in our Social Media Marketing Boot Camp starting February 16. Other speakers include Morin Oluwole (Facebook), Tim Devane (bitly), and SocialTimes' writer Devon Glenn.   Register now.

There’s no denying that the way we shop is changing drastically and a fun motion infographic from Resource Interactive is exploring these changes.

The information answers questions like what items people were most excited about purchasing, where they plan to make most their purchases and whether they were shopping for themselves or someone else.

These numbers and more are from this infographic that Foursquare released on its blog, along with ideas on how to find specials through the Foursquare app.

Google’s deal service, Google Offers, now has its own Android app for mobile deal searching and redemption. The app displays featured shopping items in a range of categories such as Outerwear, Beauty, Video Games and Appliances. You can drill down to a specific product. Sellers for these items were from online vendors rather than local [...]

A new video promo for Google Analytics shows us what the online checkout would look like in real life. Check it out after the jump.

The cameras in today’s smartphones have improved enough to take very good pictures, but even the lowest resolution camera can be useful for capturing information. One way to use a smartphone is to take pictures of receipts and then store them in a database. Lemon is a combination of smartphone app and web service for [...]

ShopNear.me launched its location-based shopping application last month, but that’s not all they are looking to do they’re looking to do in the coming months; they’re trying to take over the mobile shopping scene. ShopNear.me provides mobile users a way to shop at local boutiques and stores by finding deals and new clothes on their [...]

Google Offers, which is the company’s fledgling deals service similar to Groupon, is taking another step in its slow rollout with an expansion into Austin, Boston, D.C., Denver, and Seattle. The service is already available in Portland, New York, and the Bay area.

Choosing either home broadband service or a mobile device, Hong Kong people 18 years or older devote more time than any other country watching videos, gaming, shopping and sharing online, according to the BlogHer 2011 Social Media Matters Study.