Some people just like to window shop, be it online or in real life. I think sites like http://www.thisnext.com, http://www.kaboodle.com tailor to those people pretty well, since they let users aggregrate content to their website for browsing. It’s almost like a virtual mall.

But what about people who want to do research or talk in a community? That’s where I think http://neighborhoods.ebay.com/ and http://www.buypile.com get a little more interesting. They almost provide a forum on various topics that people are interested in.. it’s almost like how you’d get advice in real life about things you want to buy.

Only time will tell which type of online shopping site becomes the most popular, although I feel like we’ll have room on the internet for all these sites.

I can think of some of the reasons though. Well, to start off with, most of the shopping portals have the problem with earning trust if the users. Most of the users are not sure weather their demand would be properly met by the portals or if they would get the product they ordered for in the right time and right place. The mode of shipment is one another big issue that has posed a problem in this respect. I mean their aren’t many options for shipping and most of the portals charge a high sum for shipping. This is the reason why e-commerce is yet to gain momentum in Asia and most of the American sites are not doing good in the Asian
continent.

Then comes the cluttered layout of the portals…one can hardly find out the desired things. I mean c’mon there has to some way. And what can it be…? .. Let me know…

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Yes, I would agree with you. Social shopping will probably take off sometime in mid 2008. Especially amongst teens and amongst women.

The foundation of it will have to be organic though. No intrusive concepts like Beacon.

You nailed it.