Tag: ECOMMERCE

Canadian Brad Turcotte, AKA Brad Sucks, makes music. In fact, he makes open source music, and he lets people download the source files of his songs for free and remix them into all sorts of weird creations. Given his open source musical model, it should come as no surprise to you that Brad is a nerd. And as a nerd, he scratched his own itch and created the Brad Sucks Digital Download Store. The ...

The Tracktor is a very simple website, letting you view the Amazon price history for any product on a neat (if small) graph, and set custom email alerts for when the price (used or new) reaches or drops below a certain threshold. The particular graph you see on the screenshot is for an MS Natural 4000 keyboard. That's a "lifetime" graph for the product -- I can't believe someone was trying to ...

Payvment, the e-commerce app that allows you to add a PayPal shopping cart to your website and launch a Facebook storefront, announced a new feature for its Facebook app. Retailers can now offer special discount pricing and incentives to fans of their Facebook Pages. Payvment calls this feature, Facebook Fan Incentive Pricing. Now, retailers can induce people to become fans of their Facebook ...

Finally, beyond the sale of virtual gifts like hugs and angel wings, Facebook has an app that allows you to open an ecommerce storefront via Payvment. Introduced in November 2009, Payvment uses a PayPal shopping cart for its app to work with Facebook Pages. In addition to its Facebook app, Payvment has a shopping cart web service which allows you to add a shopping cart to any website by ...

OK, bear with me on this one. No, underwear isn't something you can download. Well, maybe from vending machines in Japan, but you know what I mean... But as a man who knows how to do little things like, say, wash my own clothes and go shopping, I'm a little offended by the idea behind Manpacks. Sign up, fork over your credit card info, and you'll never have to worry about remembering to buy ...

Has this ever happened to you? You run out of ink, paper, good books to read, or something else, so you go online to order replacement as soon as humanly possible. You find what you need for a good price, add it to your cart, and then when you hit the checkout button the shipping charges hit you like a 2 ton heavy thing. The truth is while many sites like Amazon promise free shipping on orders ...

digg_url = "http://downloadsquad.switched.com/2007/11/13/who-can-you-trust-find-out-with-trustplus-peopleresearch/"; Not sure who to trust in this crazy world? TrustPlus, a browser plug-in, looks to solve your trust issues with some social networking mojo. The plug-in, available for both IE and Firefox, adds an overlay to sites where trust can be an important decision factor, like Craigslist, ...

Does your business have a Facebook page? MySpace? Chances are you have heard about each but chances are also that if you're a small business owner, you haven't had time to figure out how to get yours or worse, what to do with it. Heck, you don't even have a blog yet, do you? You're way out of the loop and I won't even mention Twitter or Jaiku. (Not yet.) But they're coming. The 2008 Presidential ...

Awhile back we reported that Google is really trying to push its Google Checkout payment processing service by offering a $10 coupon to everyone who signs up. They're still offering the coupon, and they've even dropped the if-you-spend-$30-or-more requirement, and today I decided to bite the bullet and grab my sweet, sweet coupon. But I was a little annoyed that Google doesn't tell you up front, ...

Feel the need to custom code your own e-commerce site to rival giant Amazon? Well maybe you can try it out using Microsoft's "free" Commerce Server 2006. Of course, it isn't free, it's a beta version you can test and help MS at the same time. As usual, you'll have to be approved before you can participate, but if you've ever considered working in the "big leagues," this is ...