The Shopit application that has become so popular with Facebook and MySpace is now available on the hi5 networks. I am a computer science student at the University of California, Los Angeles interning at Shopit and have been working over the past several weeks to bring this application to a true OpenSocial environment. OpenSocial initially had some stumbles but has now shown that it is capable of hosting robust and unique application experiences with easy portability.
The application provides users with a dashboard to view all the current incoming or outgoing orders, see the latest products, add or remove products, and even make purchases from start to finish all from within the hi5 network. This combination offers both a easy and friendly interface as well as a viral market for both buyers and sellers.
The biggest feature of any social application is sharing and with the Shopit application it is as easy as clicking share, selecting your friends, and watching your business spread. You can just as easily let your friends know when you’ve found a great deal. Save money on the products you need just by watching your notifications in hi5.
As an intern in a continuing learning experience I have found the development and testing of this application to be exciting. I was able to watch the power of the sharing features grow as I built them beneath my fingertips. The hi5 API is becoming more and more complete ever day as it moves towards OpenSocial 0.8 and a more finalized REST interface. Although I’m still awaiting a PHP client library.
Anyway, I hope everyone enjoys the application and finds those great deals. I will be heading off to explore Europe in my first backpacking experience next week. Thanks for your interest in my efforts. I’d also like to give a big thanks to Sameer and Eric, and the rest of the hi5 team for their continued help.

-Matt Snider

MoneyExchange Gives Shopit Users $10 for Signing Up*

(Los Angeles, CA) - July 8, 2008 - Shopit, the fastest growing free Peer-to-Peer Social Commerce Network, today announced a partnership with Revolution Money Inc. to provide its customers with a special offer for its official online payment service of choice, Revolution MoneyExchange™. This dynamic online payment service is free to sign up and offers Shopit users a $10* credit when they open a new MoneyExchange account. [Read More]

AIM Users Can Easily Buy and Sell Items Right from Their Buddy Lists

(Los Angeles, CA) - June 30, 2008 - Shopit, the fastest growing free Peer to Peer Social Commerce Network, announced today that it has created a new mini-application for users of the latest version of AOL’s popular instant messaging service, AIM 6.8, which is available as a free download at http://www.aim.com. The new Shopit mini-application enables AIM users to buy and sell goods right from the AIM Buddy List. [ Read More]

With online networks and a plethora of desktop applications connecting people across the world, there’s no reason why online store can’t be better integrated into all of these platforms. That’s what Shopit thinks, at least. Given the freedom for communication that the web has allowed, the ability to build on such freedom has allowed for the growth of web-based banking, dating, and shopping. It’s expected for these forms of communication and commerce to want to go where the people are. It’s the nature of the beast, and a catalyst for the ideal meeting of supply and demand.[ Read More ]

Whales Benefit from Zude & Shopit Partnership

(Roslyn Heights, NY) - May 27, 2008 - Hayden Panettiere, star of NBC’s Heroes, announced today a first-of-a-kind partnership with social computing site Zude and peer to peer social commerce marketplace Shopit to sell many of her favorite clothes, from designer brands to everyday t-shirts,to raise funds and awareness for the “Save The Whales Again!” foundation. Panettiere, one of the featured celebrities with fan sites on Zude, will offer the items through zude.com/hayden [ Read More ]

| 05.27.08 - Hayden Panettiere Sells the Shirt Off Her Back

Commerce Platform Provider Uses Insight from Omniture to Proactively Build Widgets that Appeal to Consumers(OREM, Utah) - April 28, 2008 - Omniture, Inc. (NASDAQ: OMTR), a leading provider of online business optimization software, today announced that Shopit, Inc.-a leader in social commerce-has selected Omniture to measure the performance of retail-based widgets and other applications the company hosts on social networking sites such as FaceBook and MySpace. Using Omniture SiteCatalyst® Web analytics, Shopit will be able to better understand how each ‘Shopit Store’ is driving traffic as well as identify the entry and exit points associated with each application. With this insight, Shopit will have the information it needs to enhance the user experience associated with these personalized shopping applications. [ Read More ]

| 04.28.08 - Shopit Uses Omniture to Optimize Performance of Ecommerce Widgets on Social Networking Sites

(San Francisco) - April 22, 2008 - Zude™, the social computing platform that provides users an unprecedented level of freedom and design customization, today announced it has formed partnerships with three of the Web’s leading services companies: Myxer, Shopit and Widgetbox.
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| 04.22.08 - Shopping & Ringtones & Widgets, Oh My!

SHOPIT TO LAUNCH SHOPIT STORE APP ON MYSPACE
Shopit’s Shopit Store App to bring buyers and sellers together to the Worlds Largest Social Network

(Los Angeles, CA) - April 14, 2008 - Shopit, the leader of a new revolution in ecommerce, social commerce, today announced that it will launch the Shopit Store App on MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/shopitstore), the worlds most popular social network. There are no listing, hosting, or transaction fees with the Shopit Store App. The App enables users to buy and sell right from their MySpace page. Empowered by MySpace’s newly announced Developer Platform (http://developer.myspace.com), Shopit was able to easily build, test, and ultimately deploy the Shopit Store App. [ Read More ]

| 04.14.08 - Shopit Launches Shopit Store App On MySpace

9 Facebook Applications To Make You Money

Did you know you can sell things on your Facebook profile? Well, you can with the help of a couple handy applications. Whether it be your own music if you’re a musician, a shirt you designed, or old junk you have laying around, there’s probably an application out there that can help you earn some extra dough.

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Shopit was featured on “The Roizen Report” by Ezra Roizen today. He breaks down the vasts possibilities of the social commerce concept, including some interesting use cases on how consumers may adopt our service in their day to day lives.

Our choice quote:

“Shopit is the ultimate democratization of online shopping: Stores of one. ShopIt enables anyone to create a fully-featured online store. Your store can then be plugged into your blog or social network profile. Today on ShopIt, you can sell anything you’d sell on eBay, sans the fees. Tomorrow, ShopIt will let you sell items you don’t own. It plans to roll out a digital media sales platform, which allows users to sell both their own licensed content as well as over 3 million music tracks and movies. By the end of 2007, it will have launched an affiliate network with big online sites like Amazon. Essentially, you’ll be able to sell just about anything under the sun. Your very own Harrods.”

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