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Women's network SheSpeaks and female-oriented marketing firm Lippe Taylor surveyed over 2,000 US female internet users in March 2013 and found that only 6% reported still researching products primarily in-store, while another 5% asked friends and family for recommendations most often. The rest-89% in total-did their browsing mostly on the web, either via desktop (71%) or on mobile devices (18%).

Could be useful in recommendations on how to market Motorola branded products.

PSFK report on future of retail

Concept: a digital chopping board that can connect to the internet via WiFi and display healthy recipes, recommended daily allowances or RDA, portion sizes, and other information.

Tumblr is recommending that advertisers use Radar to promote posts that feature images or GIFs because these are the posts that result in the most engagement actions -- likes, reblogs and follows. Tumblr also lets advertisers pay to reserve space on Tumblr's Spotlight section, which organizes Tumblr blogs by category. This is about as targeted as Tumblr advertising gets right now. While many internet upstarts are focused on highly-targeted advertising, Tumblr seems to be at least initially focused on broad-based advertising buys aimed at reaching as many Tumblr users as possible. "We don't really know anything about our users," Mr. Webb said, adding that Tumblr only collects email addresses and birth dates. "And we don't really care," he added. "We will give you great content and you will find it on your own."

Social Proof: 81% of customers reach out to friends and family members on social networking sites for advice before purchasing products Authority: 77% of online shoppers use reviews to make purchase decisions Scarcity: 77% of people like getting exclusive offers that they can redeem via Facebook. We assign more value to products that are less availableLike: 50% of shoppers have made a purchase based on the recommendation of the people they follow(and like) on social networks. We follow those we like and do the things they do Consistency: Purchases made from the brands we trust reinforce our future shopping patterns Reciprocity: We have an innate desire to repay favors in order to maintain social fairness, whether those favors are invited or not

personalized recommendations on products

Social beauty store. I don't understand all the particulars but it seems to be a shopping/recommendation tool for beauty.

The Inspiration Corridor, a booth that uses facial and body recognition, as well as purchase histories, to suggest items to consumers and help locate them.

google vitamins- concept would come with daily reminders via phone/email apps that recommend and dispense dosage  

facebook integration lets users see friends comments and recommendations on articles and most popular articles, log on with facebook info daily 8.31

foursquare testing recommendations

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