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The process is extremely simple. When a consumer "likes" a product on Speck's website, a Facebook stream campaign pops up on their Facebook wall and enables their Facebook friends to buy the product directly from the consumer's Facebook wall. The action also appears in friend's newsfeeds.

The company revealed today that 10 percent of its entire user base will see promoted stations. This is actually the first time that Pandora has incorporated an ad product inside the station list. While the company has seen a gradual rise in listening hours it has been working hard to improve its ad products in order to increase revenue. This is certainly a major step in that direction. At first the company has created promoted stations for 10 national advertisers which include Kleenex, Taco Ball, StubHub, Toyota and more. The advertisers will create the music personality of their stations and will also decide how many ads per hour do the users have to listen to.

Partnership with Redbook and Nearby Now   Working with 65,000 retailers nationwide, NearbyNow has its own concierge team that calls stores to verify if an item is in stock, and then emails the customer within 10 minutes to confirm availability. Customers can then reserve the desired product. Users will only see a "Find It" Button if an item is carried by a local store. Otherwise, they will be directed to online stores that sell the product.

q-stores where the majority of product is from the main brand, g-star, but there are other brands in the store whose products compliments g-stars

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Kellogg's is using a "Tweet shop" in London's Soho to promote its new product, Cracker Crisps. The idea is customers "pay" for a packet by tweeting a message about the snack to their friends and followers. Customers sample their wares in a "try before you buy" area and write their Twitter review. The Special K representatives then check every customer's tweet before handing over a 60p packet of crisps.

" The interactive product will be based at www.bravotv.com/playlive, and on the Bravo Now app. Bravo details exactly what to expect in the official announcement: Live voting results are shown on-air, changing in real time during the broadcast as the audience reacts to what's happening in the show. Fans can cast votes, deciding who's hot, who's not, and an array of other interactive questions customized to what's happening on screen. For example, when the experience rolls out to other Bravo programming, questions such as, 'Which chef would you choose to cook dinner for you?' or 'Who will bring the most drama this season - the housewives…or their husbands!' could appear on screen."

At an event strictly for developers in San Francisco, Twitter announced an expansion of the preexisting Twitter Cards to include three new types of Cards: App, Product, and Gallery, as well as a new feature for mobile apps: Deep-linking.

Similar to Tesco in subways. Set up near the Standard Hotel in Manhattan's Meatpacking District, features beauty products from C.O. Bigelow, Elizabeth Arden, Unilever, Versace, John Frieda, Clearasil and Johnson & Johnson.

Google's tally of activity on "Google Plus-enhanced products," by contrast, suggests frequent activity on the network by at least 50 million people. But it includes activity on YouTube, the Android Marketplace and the Google search engine. Even if you don't have Google+, you probably spend a significant amount of time on these sites. In The Times article, Google defends its statistic by saying time spent on Google+ isn't reflective of how much the network is being used. Gundotra described the social network as "a social blanket that envelopes the entire Google experience."

I'm in total j-trend mode today. This is an example of a social commerce execution in Japan. Essentially "Tweets Begging" involves people asking for deals on certain kinds of products and then a store rep will discount a product in that category, or the exact product requested.

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in Japan's upcoming Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity. This game franchise has a history of over-the-top product placements, such as the previous installment's "Pizza Hut shield."

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got this from Nicola- product check-in social networking site. users and brands have profile page. users rate products and leave comments, share experiences.  dont really understand the LBS part though

Shareable.net's Mary Fallon has a nice article called "Should Products Be Designed for Sharing?" that explores the current state of design for items that are intended for use by multiple people (such as shared-use short-hire bicycles)

demand-side social commerce from JWT in Singapore. Company shows products in the dev pipeline, users vote on favorites, and the products with most votes are hurried into production

he EZ Face "Find Your Look" makeover tool, which allows a customer to snap a digital photograph of herself and then virtually apply products found in the store simply by scanning the bar code; a fragrance display that spritzes 40 scents onto blotters or wrists, and the Nail Bar by Essie-OPI housed in David Rockefeller's former office (complete with his fireplace). Service prices range from a $10 manicure to $65 for a Phyto treatment, with blow-dries hovering at around $40.