E-Commerce News: Startups to Watch

Goldsmith Jewelry: Tapping Into the Blogosphere Treasure Trove

Wednesday - May 7, 2008

As a small brick-and-mortar jeweler with retail stores in Central Florida, Goldsmith Jewelry may seem like an unlikely potential e-tail star. Goldsmith, however, has had early success by using blogging to drive traffic to its Web site and gain exposure for its fledging Internet store. The company is committed to continuing and refining those efforts, said Don Lair, the online arm's cofounder. Since it is new to the Web, gaining name recognition among online shoppers is no small feat for Goldsmith, which is a well-known brand in the Orlando area, Lair told the E-Commerce Times. [More...]

QuestKeys: A Workaround for the Long URL Tangle

Tuesday - May 6, 2008

Daniel Allen sees a problem faced by Web surfers: How to share long URLs with others and quickly locate favorite Web pages or documents without wading through lists of browser bookmarks? Allen and his wife, Mary Jane, are both self-taught programmers, among other professions. Their answer to the above problem is QuestKeys. [More...]

One Person's Tech Trash Is BuyMyTronics' Treasure

Friday - April 25, 2008

The hottest gadgets of today will look old and tired a year from now. Sellers of mobile handsets, smartphones, MP3 players, gaming consoles, camcorders, digital cameras and laptops constantly push the latest and greatest technology, leaving yesterday's choice items in the dust. Then there's the fact that this stuff is pretty easily broken. [More...]

Veodia: Gambling on a Better Way to Stream Video

Tuesday - April 22, 2008

Creating videos in-house means corporations have to either hire contractors who have their own equipment or sink thousands or millions of dollars into hiring trained staff and leasing or buying equipment. Then they have to spend days, if not weeks, editing the videos. [More...]

ShopLaTiDa.com: An E-Boutique With a Personalized Focus

Friday - April 18, 2008

A new fashion shopping site from Florida boutique La Ti Da is banking on personalized service to set it apart. Visitors to ShopLaTiDa.com, based in Boca Raton, are invited to complete an online profile including profession, style sense, body measurements, preferred designers and areas of shopping where they might need assistance. [More...]

New Contact Center Mashup Unifies Customer Data

Monday - March 31, 2008

SynerG, formed in 2005 to develop interactive business mashups, has released its first product -- a contact center application -- from beta. SynerG Contact Center targets a familiar pain point -- one that all agent desktop apps have tried in various ways to address: the difficulty of accessing and integrating data from a company's back end. [More...]

OoVoo Aims to Bring HD Videophone to the Living Room

Monday - March 24, 2008

Will the high-definition TV set be the new picturephone? Quanta Computer, a leading contract maker of laptop computers, and OoVoo, a maker of video chat software, are announcing plans Monday to take high-definition videoconferencing to the living room with a gadget that plugs into the HDTV and connects it to the Internet. [More...]

Zlio: Everyone's a Retailer

Friday - March 21, 2008

The Internet has become the ultimate democracy in many ways, leveling the publishing playing field for writers with blogging software, allowing musical acts to distribute music without a record label and giving video producers outlets such as YouTube. With e-commerce outlets like eBay, anyone can sell virtually anything. [More...]

StoreXperience: A Mobile Bridge Between Bricks, Clicks

Thursday - March 20, 2008

Retailers in Japan and South Korea have been using image capture technology for several years now, and with the growing base of smartphones, companies in the U.S. are rolling out a wide range of new mobile applications, including some that use interactive digital symbols captured in photos to provide customers with product information, prices and incentives on the spot. [More...]

JS-Kit: Building Web 2.0 One Brick at a Time

Tuesday - March 18, 2008

Web 2.0 technology is revolutionizing the way businesses display their wares on e-commerce sites. The service delivery model of Web 2.0 presents a pressing challenge to Web designers in small businesses and home-based businesses. Anyone with a community-based information and public comment Web site is often hard-pressed to offer the look and feel of a modern, interactive portal. [More...]

RatePoint Seeks to Filter Out Biased Customer Reviews

Monday - March 17, 2008

One of the great things about the Internet is the way people post reviews on just about anything you're considering trying, whether it's a movie, a new restaurant or the local florist. This also introduces one of the worst things about the Internet: trying to figure out which reviews to trust. [More...]

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