Comments on: Social Commerce http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/ Simeon Simeonov on entrepreneurship, innovation & venture capital Thu, 19 Jan 2012 15:31:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ben Bloch http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-1436 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 18:17:34 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-1436 In terms of Sim’s view of social commerce – “I’m thinking about ways commerce happens in communities through more than the direct relationship of a buyer and a seller.” e.g. “recommending a book”, I’d also like to add commerce between communities as another facet of social commerce and IMHO even more interesting. One company I am involved with is doing some things here (although can’t talk too much about yet – BOOO). It is more interesting and potentially more profitable because it solves tougher more complex problems associated with coordinating pricing and transactions across disparate – even ad hoc – groups.

+1 on need for Wikipedia entry. Keep trying – I’ll try to help too!

]]> By: Vijay http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-1213 Sat, 16 Dec 2006 05:01:26 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-1213 I thought your entry had some good links…got me thinking as well :-)

In the meantime can you post those links on your blog?

Thanks !!

]]> By: Simeon Simeonov http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-1178 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 11:12:26 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-1178 Vijay, yes, apparently the Wikipedia bots have won. I’ll try again next year when I’ve had the chance to assemble more content for an initial post.

]]> By: Vijay http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-1170 Fri, 15 Dec 2006 09:41:40 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-1170 Simeon,
Has your Wikipedia page been taken down?

]]> By: Duane Nickull http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-873 Tue, 05 Dec 2006 19:23:29 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-873 I added some meat to the Wikipedia page but feel I did not do it justification. Social commerce is a huge issue based on trusting your community and society. When that trust is abused or lost, it is hard to come by. Think of it in terms of examples – what would you do if you purchased something online and XYZFoo corp took all your personal and credit card info and sold it? Not only would you never do business with them again, you would make sure others heard about this. The concept of social commerce is an important aspect of the web 2.0 movement.

]]> By: William Volk http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-831 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 23:18:13 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-831 I’d like to bring MyNuMo to your attention. It’s a social community centered around independent artists publishing into the Mobile (and soon VOIP) markets.

]]> By: Simeon Simeonov http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-808 Mon, 04 Dec 2006 02:47:55 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-808 Troy, I see many different ways in which social groups can enable commerce. The examples you provide use groups for capital aggregation and risk mitigation. Is this really P2P–there is an aggregator in the middle.

When I use the term social commerce, I’m thinking about ways commerce happens in communities through more than the direct relationship of a buyer and a seller. For example, you recommending a book to a friend would be an example of social commerce, especially if you get some monetary benefit for doing this.

Sim

]]> By: Troy Angrignon http://blog.simeonov.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-786 Sun, 03 Dec 2006 03:45:24 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/2006/12/02/social-commerce/#comment-786 Hi Simeon,

I just saw your note go by on the SCM editors list but thought that it might be useful to post here rather than reply in email.

My first interpretation of social commerce commerce that was enabled by a social group – in other words things like zopa.com (peer to peer lending in the United States) and Kiva.com (peer to peer lending that serves as a debt capital pool for micro-lending to entrepreneurs in developing countries.

Do you think that is under the same name? It seems very different than your existing definition.

Troy

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