E-Commerce Report: Meet Your Neighbors, but Just Not in Person
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A new company, LifeAt.com, is putting a local spin on social networking, creating password-protected Web sites for apartment buildings and housing developments.
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If you buy things on the Web--or even just browse--you could be at risk from prying eyes and sloppy security. Some people want to change that.
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The days of exchanging neighborhood news solely over the back fence or at the local post office are long gone. And often, by the time community newsletters are written, printed and distributed, the information is stale.
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Increasing use of e-mail, web apps and online networking might minimize the need for living physically close to our workplaces and social circles.  However, studies suggests that far from removing distance barriers, technology actually reinforces the value of proximity and face time.
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By Mick Zawislak Daily Herald Staff Writer  The holiday shopping season has begun and many purchases will be made online. Finding merchants you can trust and taking steps to protect your privacy are important this time of year, according to the Chicago Better Business Bureau.
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Social network firms reveal tools and technologies that aim to make the sites more than places to keep in touch.
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Street hawkers are history. Savvy resellers use the web to turn tickets into cash. By Steve Knopper from Wired magazine.
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U.S. holiday shoppers continue to turn to the Internet when searching for presents for family and friends, according to data released Thursday by VeriSign.
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To meet your favorite author, you don't wait in line, you go online.
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Social networking features are popping up on auction and shopping sites, allowing visitors to compare notes and turn e-commerce into a social experience.
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The other week I joined MeetUp.com, the online event, local and &#8220;meeting up&#8221; social networking site, in an effort to meet other bloggers, search marketers, web developers and restaurant snobs in the Tampa area.  I moved to Tampa, Florida last month and SEJ contributor Rhea Drysdale suggested MeetUp as a local networking tool.  So, I [...]
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Determining geographic locations based on Internet IP offers localization services and brings together user communities without the need for GPS receivers or complicated configuration switching.
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A new category of e-commerce called Âsocial shoppingÂ tries to combine two online favorites: shopping and social networking.
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Many people now find sense of community more important than privacy.
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Now buyers can use technology and databases to get a more complete view of a house without driving 30 miles to see it.
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Early Internet entrepreneurs envisioned a day when consumers would devour short bites of entertainment on their computer screens delivered over the Internet by fat broadband pipes. When the companies failed, executives blamed it on ...
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Retailers consider the potential of mobile commerce, but warily.