Archive: 2011 September

Starting to make holiday travel plans? If you’re on Facebook, your friends probably already know where you’re spending Thanksgiving. Thanks to the newest Facebook platform enhancement known as the Open Graph, your friends can now see when you “book” a flight, “stay” in a hotel, “hire” a rental service, and so on. “Like” you expected anything else from Facebook, right? In a guest article on tnooz.com, Travis Pittman explains why Open Graph is landmark move that will affect thousands of travel companies using Facebook to engage with customers, as well as...

It has been a very busy news week for Team Deem as you may have read.  But aside from our game-changing financing and acquisition announcements, there were many other interesting conversations happening in the media this week, including one about the daily deal space that reinforces what we believe to be true. In AdAge, Kunur Patel reported on a study out of Rice University about consumers’ enthusiasm for daily deal sites. Despite recent less-than-glowing headlines about some of the big name companies in this space, the study found that consumers still have a hearty...

Social commerce is truly a phenomenon that is transforming ecommerce — yet it remains to be seen which platform will emerge as the leader in this space.  Here at HomeRun.com, we’ve been laser focused on effectively connecting merchants with relevant consumers. With our acquisition by Rearden Commerce, we have truly found a partner who shares that vision and will help us create the premier social commerce platform. It has been an exciting week for all of us at HomeRun! The daily deals market has incredible potential, but this market remains inefficient.  As a part of...

We’re on an incredible journey at Rearden Commerce, building a marketplace that makes buying and selling on the Internet more simple, meaningful and relevant for buyers and sellers. As Andy Cunningham stated in her introductory post, it’s time for technology to serve humanity, not the other way around. With this mission at our core, this is an incredibly exciting time for us. Just this week we announced that we’ve secured $133 million in private equity funding from current investors American Express and JPMorgan Chase, as well as from new investor Citi. We’re...

With a chill in the air this week, the attendees of the Search Marketing Expo East Conference in New York City have likely pulled out their sweaters and jackets! The first item in our news round up is a post from the aimClear blog, which provided an overview of one of the conference panels. The topic – one of Dan Pritchett’s favorites – was personalization. During the discussion, keynote speaker and author Eli Pariser talked about both the benefits and downsides to search becoming more and more personalized. Pariser said, “The web is increasingly showing us...

Another big week in smart commerce news! Last week we introduced our news sharing feature; today’s second edition points to stories from ReadWriteWeb, SemanticWeb.com and Business 2 Community. Let’s dig right in. In the first story, Richard MacManus details the findings of a study from the UK’s Technology Strategy Board. The lengthy report concludes that the future of the Web will be a convergence of services into a ‘brokerage’ model — essentially a relevance engine that brings the world wide web together in a way that is tailored to each user’s needs. We...

In a recent article on Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Mike Uomoto, senior vice president of product management at Rearden, discussed how to avoid the one-size-fits-all approach in mobile development. As mobile innovations such as HTML5 come into play, debates naturally arise as to best practices. Should you implement in HTML5, or are native apps better suited for your customers? Many developers tend to align with a single approach – but Uomoto suggests that a better strategy is to focus on the customer experience, rather than the development tool. Technology will continue to...

As Andy Cunningham said in her introductory post, we are working 24/7 to transform the ecommerce industry. We aren’t the only ones running around the clock. News from the industries in which we operate breaks by the hour, and there is a lot of momentum happening in smart commerce! In an effort to open up this blog as a forum for sharing ideas and perspectives, we will regularly round up relevant stories, articles and announcements that have an impact on our world. When these items give you an idea or spark a thought, please join in on the conversation. We’ll start with...