Yahoo Shopping Needs a Facelift

After Yahoo! showed me their new site for the holiday season, I was pretty much underwhelmed. How could Yahoo! Shopping not introduce something incredibly bold for the holidays? And unfortunately I couldn’t even properly articulate my disappointment. I know Chris and Matt (and Haley) wanted to strangle me that afternoon… What I want to do [...]

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December 11, 2006 | Comments Off | Read Story

Mpire Shopping Plugin: Market Analytics Distributed Across Thousands of Shopping Sites

I interviewed consumer empowerment engine Mpire’s CEO Matt Huelett in July. Mpire started *out of the gate* with an eBay partnership. That’s hot shit people. I dug in back then to understand why eBay invested time with them, and how their approach to shopping comparison (perhaps better called consumer empowerment) differed from the 100 or [...]

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Like.com : Celebrity Look a Like Search and Commerce

Like.com formerly known as Riya.com launched today. A new concept that makes a lot of affiliates (including myself) just watch in awe and envy :). Image pattern/face Recognition, a strength of Riya is used in a new innovative way to identify objects on images, such as the latest blink-blink or Gucci hand bag of your [...]

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November 8, 2006 | 13 Comments | Read Story

Yahoo! Shopping : New Features Abound

Yahoo! Shopping has added a whole lot of goodies to its service, just in time for the holiday shopping season. New additional services include integration of Yahoo Answers, Buying Guides, and new Search Short Cuts. From the Yahoo! Shopping Blog: * Right off the bat, you’ll notice we’ve redecorated the site. We tried to clean [...]

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