http://gigaom.com/2012/06/20/video-chat-startup-lutebox-dumps-plan-a-goes-shopping/ Wed, 22 May 2013 15:33:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/2012/06/20/video-chat-startup-lutebox-dumps-plan-a-goes-shopping/#comment-854480 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 17:01:34 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=534345#comment-854480 Interesting concept as shopping is almost always a social activity, why not make it an online social activity. At least with younger generations, video chat is the future, so sites such as this should have some success, at least with certain markets.

]]> http://gigaom.com/2012/06/20/video-chat-startup-lutebox-dumps-plan-a-goes-shopping/#comment-854442 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 15:09:51 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=534345#comment-854442 Hi Bobbie, many thanks for the coverage of our beta launch. Just wanted to mention that users can still view videos with friends at the same time on the website. However, with our beta we hope that Lutebox can lead the charge in a new wave of social shopping, and we feel that the best way to do this is through shared videochat experiences. People go to malls with friends to socialize, hangout, window shop and buy stuff, but there is no online equivalent to that today. Lutebox is taking the entire real-world shopping mall experience and putting it online.

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