If you haven’t already heard, there’s a new Facebook! To keep up with the recent changes, we’ve updated the Shopit Facebook application. So here’s what you can do now with your Shopit Store on the new Facebook.

-The Publisher enables you to publish content— such as the newest items you’re selling on Shopit, latest sales, new product commercials, and so on—directly to your Wall. You can add content to your own profile or to a friends’!

-The Tabbed Profile is the new display of your profile. Now you’re in control of the information you want your friends to see. You can add your Shopit store to the new Info and Wall Tabs.

-The Info Tab shows information about you that doesn’t change frequently. Include your Shopit store directly to your Info Tab, so it will always display on your profile.

-The Wall Tab displays information both by you (that you publish) and about you (that others publish). Add your Shopit store to display your products for all your potential buyers to see. Keep your wall updated with your hottest items and best deals.

We hope these new features will allow you to gain maximum visibility for your store and help you make some money! In addition to these small changes, we’re currently working on a complete overhaul of our Shopit Facebook application. Besides a great design, the new Shopit application will have a ton of new functionality for selling and buying on facebook! We think we’re doing quite a thorough job, but we’re not perfect, so if you have any ideas and suggestions we’d love to hear them!

-Stephanie

Our MySpace application is currently down for maintenance. We just wanted to give you a heads up and let you know that we’ll be back up and going shortly.

Thanks for your patience!

Rhett McNulty, Shopit COO, and I flew up to Frisco for the day to attend the Socialmedia OpenThread meetup.  The flight was delayed, the train ride was sweet, and the beer was tasty.

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Eddie Smith and the rest of the team from Socialmedia put together a very nice meetup atmosphere with a little financial help from SUN.  There was lots of guac, salsa, chips, cheese, fresh fruit, nuts, and beer, OH MY!

We also received some sweet tee’s that said “Flex your apps” from Socialmedia (I wore mine today with my TOMS shoes).

My favorite presenter would have to be Paul from hi5 (Google was good too :-)) because of the tutorials (thanks!) and the fact that they are changing their page time-out interval just for us (thanks again!).

It was also nice chattin’ it up with one of the engineers from facebook (Luke Shephard). Cool guy.  He and I were discussing some issues they were having with their new east coast data center (ECDC) and memcache (hehe).

David King of (Lil) Green Patch was also there giving pointers.  It was great to meet and talk to him at the end of the presentations to get some dos and don’ts when it comes to the success of social applications.

After drinking some Blue Moon, and then finishing up with a little Pacifico… I think Pacifico was the better of the two but left me with a headache for me to enjoy on the flight home.

Because we couldn’t find a taxi near the Socialmedia offices at Pier 38 we had to take a Lincoln Continental, how awesome is that?

All in all, I had a good time.  Met cool people, learned some things, got a few questions answered, and even met a few app developers (Nimit Maru) of some of my favorite apps like Typing Tutor.

Until next time,

–Troy (apps honcho)

Our designer Alessandro, is a new daddy! Congratulations to Alessandro and his wife Jennifer on their first baby boy.

Name: Tiberuis Alexander Fard
Born: August 13th, 2008
Size: 7 LBS 14 oz
Height: 20 in
Mood: Hungry, Sleepy, Poopy

… The comps and specs will wait. Enjoy your new little miracle.

Our brilliant app developer Troy, and our COO Rhett, attended the recent Web App Dev Meetup hosted by the kind folks at Mahalo Wednesday night.

The first event speaker was Eric Marcoullier, CEO of Gnip. Eric spoke about the Gnip technology, which is focused on reducing the pain of constant pinging to servers every 15 minutes for updates from data providers such as Flickr, Twitter, Mahalo, etc. Hoping to amplify focus on creating great applications instead of aggregating data.

The second, a great presentation from Chris Schalk and Kevin Marks, Google Developer Advocates talking about Open Social; seamlessly getting user’s information out to the rest of the universe through a common API for social applications across multiple websites.

The event was a success…free education, free networking, and free food. What more could you ask for in a meetup? Looking forward to the next!

Shopit graced the red carpet at the the film premiere of “Forever Plaid the Movie” at CBS Studios on August 7, 2008 in Hollywood, California.

It was a tough day of work… so a big thanks to Johnny, a diligent member of the Shopit team for participating in the event.

More Pics of the Forever Plaid Launch Party

We know that most of you would love to hear from us every day, but surprisingly some of you don’t? So we got over ourselves. We built a tool for you to change your email settings all on your own, so that you can decide what you’d like or not like to be notified about. Now, you can choose to be emailed about network invitations, new orders, messages from friends, or any combination you’d like. You can find these email options in your Privacy Settings. Your trust is important to us and we will continue to make improvements to help protect your privacy. Any suggestions or comments are welcomed.

Hope this helps!

When Shopit first launched in August 2007, there were three things we told ourselves, “Listen to our users, listen to our users, listen to our users.” We initially launched the site with PayPal being our only electronic form of payment accepted, but quickly added Google Checkout to satisfy other users requests. Our most recent addition has been the integration and partnership with Revolution Money Exchange to help give our sellers a completely free commerce experience. Now Amazon is jumping into the game with their own portable payment system and we want your opinion. Would you use this service? Make sure to let us know if you are a buyer or a seller. If we get enough of a response we will take a deeper dive into what it will take to bring this service to Shopit.
To learn more about Amazon’s new payment service click here to see what they are saying about it or read what Brad Stone of the NY Times had to say on the topic.

We try to offer our users as many options as possible without cluttering the site (hence the mention of a redesign recently). Expect to see more payment options geared towards our larger sellers with integration to larger payment gateways and processors – coming soon.

Thanks for the continued feedback and patience.

-Rhett

That’s right, your favorite social commerce site is changing it up…only this time with style (bling bling)

Style. We all have it. You’re style, his style, my style, her style. Sounds like a “Cat-in-the-Hat” book gone wrong. But it’s true. And when it comes to style, we try to keep up with the times. Of course, in our case, were not talking about fashion. Were talking about the big old “WWW”, the matrix, the spider confection we call the Internet in all it’s web page glory. On the Internet, styles tend to change dramatically, and as such web companies need to stay on top of upcoming trends, semantic technology, and user wish lists.

That’s where you come in. The user. The Site. The Magic. We want your ideas for design.

So don’t be shy. Send ‘em over. We need them, we crave them, we want them. Because once we know what you want, we can do something great. No matter how large or small, your ideas for this web site are what make it tick. Have an idea for your profile? Share the love. Want to see a new feature for the site? Pass it on. Something not working they way you think it should? We can dig it.

You are the citizens of Shopit, and we are your public servants. So let us serve you what you crave by dishing out a sizzling redesign that puts the It in Shopit. BOOM!

-Alessandro
‘the’ designer

July 16, 2008 Shopit Inc., a free peer-to-peer social commerce network, teamed up with Revolution Money Inc.,an online payment network, to offer the Revolution MoneyExchange…. [ Read More ]