A Marketer's Wet Dream...Global Window Shopping

[mandy]

The “social shopping” site (get it, social-networking-meets-shopping?) ThisNext has launched a Twittervision-like feature that leverages Google Maps and allows visitors to view what people are shopping for and buying around the world...Now if someone could just marry this with a live shopping cart/bidding feature, we might be looking at the next big online retail success story

full article: http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/08/t...aunch.html

the ThisNext website: http://www.thisnext.com/

the "wet dream": http://www.thisnext.com/activity/map/

[bargainbloodhound]

Social shopping doesn't excite me and knowing that someone in East Bumblefuck is buying/looking at a product wouldn't influence my purchasing decision.    That said, the world is full of complete fucktards who would be influenced by (or have a wet dream because) knowing that some boinktard in East Bumblefuck looked at a product.  Hope this helps. 

[BellisimaJ.]

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Social shopping doesn't excite me and knowing that someone in East Bumbleboink is buying/looking at a product wouldn't influence my purchasing decision.    That said, the world is full of complete boinktards who would be influenced by (or have a wet dream because) knowing that some boinktard in East Bumbleboink looked at a product.  Hope this helps. 
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I suspect that the primary customers for this type of shopping would be terminally dumb adolescents.