"If you look at the walled garden of content today, whether its eBay or Monster.com or Overture, etc. They basically create and get a lot of value from the ownership of the data. As we get to the UGC (user-generated content) world where users own their own data, what happens to a Monster.com if anybody can publish a job announcement off the website? It then gets syndicated and anybody can aggregate that. The value that they believe in ownership of the data will disappear and where you will get value as a service to layer on top of them." Join discussion...

"Yahoo! Shopping pioneered the idea of social commerce online when we launched the Shoposphere in 2005, and we are going to continue to bring innovative technology and features to our users and merchant partners. eCopt Interview Icon What Online product marketplaces, other than Yahoo! Shopping, do you personally use to shop from? Yahoo Shopping Interview Icon The great thing about comparison shopping engines is that the user doesn’t have to visit multiple sites to try and find the product they want at the best price. Yahoo! Shopping does all of the work, and compares products and merchants side-by-side so that the shopper is able to “look” at products from across the Web on one page." Join discussion...

"The guys from Yahoo! Shopping US have launched their own Facebook app, named “My Favorite Thing“. This application makes good usage of Yahoo! Shopping APIs, to let Facebook users search products, manage list of products and share favorite products with their Facebook friends. The basics of social shopping are there, and I’m waiting for the next level: transform this app into something really fun to use or really useful to use; the current version is between the two, and quickly forgettable in the end. Come on, guys, I’m sure you can transform it into a killer app :)" Join discussion...