"Das Konzept klingt dabei irgendwie vertraut. Immerhin wagte sich schon vor einigen Jahren letsbuyit auf den Markt und scheiterte 2002 damit - nicht zuletzt am Rabattgesetz. Oschütz lässt sich von diesem Negativbeispiel nicht beeindrucken und sagt: “Bei snipgo sind es dir Kunden, die den Preis dem möglichen Händer vereinbaren.” Ob der sich auf den Preisvorschlag einlässt, steht ihm offen. Oschütz denkt dabei beispielsweise an Saisonware, die die Händer aus ihren Regalen verbannen wollen." Join discussion...

"Heckman was most recently at Fox Interactive Media; he joined Fox when his company, Scout.com, was acquired by them in 2005 for $60 million. Heckman was also the chief negotiator at Fox in their $1 billion search deal with Google. In other words, they made a heavyweight addition to the management team. Kleiner Perkins’ John Doerr supposedly recruited him personally." Join discussion...

"Sedo bietet seine Dienstleistungen in mehreren Sprachen an und erwirtschaftete 2006 einen Umsatz von mehr als 41 Millionen Euro - in etwa doppelt so viel wie im Jahr zuvor. 70 Prozent davon stammten aus Auslandsgeschäften. 2004 zog Sedo an seiner Konkurrenz in den USA vorbei und erreichte mit einem Marktanteil von 40 Prozent die Weltmarktführerschaft. Diese Position wurde 2007 durch die Übernahme von Great Domains, dem einstigen Konkurrenten in den USA, gesichert." Join discussion...

"MySpace will be working with custom products company Zazzle to sell t-shirts and other merchandise via News Corp.'s social networking site. The rollout is supposed to be announced at the end of this month at the Digital Hollywood conference in L.A." Join discussion...

"“Social Shopping is exploding among consumers and is likely to be the only way to shop in the future.” “PriceForSure.com is at the forefront of this new class of e-commerce combining two of the most popular on-line activities: social networking and shopping,” says Olubaju. Building on the social networking phenomenon created by MySpace, Priceforsure.com is designed for shopping, browsing, and blogging. Priceforsure.com is unusual among shopping comparison sites because it provides far more than just basic information. Join discussion...

"“We sell about $30,000 worth of books for Amazon every month,” said Mr. Buckman, who gets 8 percent of the take. BookMooch is hardly the first or the only book-swapping site. The list includes SwapTree.com and TitleTrader.com, which also trade CDs and DVDs; SF-Books.com, which specializes in science fiction; and the Book Exchange Network (tbxn.com), which helps college students exchange textbooks. " Join discussion...

"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...

"Independent designers and fashionistas who want to capitalize on social commerce and are looking for an easy way to increase their online sales now have a new option: OURthreads.com. Launched today, the community site lets members buy, sell or trade items from their customized virtual closets. "There's been big news in the social networking area, we're seeing MySpace and Facebook and other sites attracting a lot of attention, so we decided to create a social networking site for fashion," said co-founder Brian Finn. "We wanted to offer a social networking site for fashion, for people to buy, sell and trade, but also to communicate with each other." OURthreads allows members to connect to others with similar styles across the fashion spectrum from couture to retro through message boards and by showcasing their virtual closet. When you register with OURthreads you will be given a closet where you can post pictures of yourself, your clothes, your accessories and other items that you would like to share with the community. The site attracts anyone from college students l" Join discussion...

"Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s service that gives developers access to Amazon’s technology platform with pay-as-you-go pricing, is launching something called the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge - a contest for the best web startup. The winner will receive $50.000 cash and additional $50.000 in Amazon Web Services credits, as well as mentoring sessions from an AWS technical expert, and - last but not least - an investment offer from Amazon. Four second-place winners will receive $5.000 in AWS credits, and everyone that qualifies will receive $25 in AWS credits. " Join discussion...

"Launching on October 1st, and created by MashupAwards.com, mashup enthusiasts have a whole new competition to start on in MashupChallenge.com. There are several angles to keep the competition fresh and exciting. First up is the quarterly nature of the game with everything resetting at the beginning of each quarter. The big twist comes in the form that the developers will receive a random set of 5 APIs from the site’s pool. This should help to ensure some fresh and unique ideas coming out of the competition." Join discussion...