Comments on: Facebook recruits retail partners for big Gifts holiday push

By: FlashPurchase

FlashPurchase — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 13:27:55 +0000

Social commerce is always great as long as it offers convenience and value to users. With that in mind, we are poised to launch Flash Purchase to enable consumers to create their own deals, join others and share them leading to group purchasing volume and sellers bidding on the business to get large groups of consumers in a single transaction. Sellers can also create their own deals that vary pricing depending upon participation level. We call this win-win commerce.

By: Chris Taylor

Chris Taylor — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 07:13:27 +0000

Facebook Gifts is exactly why we’re not worried about where the company is going. We explained why “Facebook will do just fine” here: http://successfulworkplace.com/2012/11/15/facebook-will-do-just-fine/

Facebook has math on their side…and that matters more than science. With 900 million profiles, they don’t have to all be authentic for the math to kick in and Facebook to monetize in so many possible ways. Gifts is a start but there will be more to follow.

By: Fred Roosevelt

Fred Roosevelt — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 02:32:56 +0000

I think discovery is going to be the future of social

There is a facebook recommendation engine app that is better called recomendo.

http://recomen.do/

because instead of gift for others it helps you discover things that YOU like.
In addition you can designate friends as tastemakers in specific categories and that influences what is recommended to you.