Launched back in March 2010, Pinterest is a social bookmarking site that allows users to create an online pin board of all the things they like, that can then be organised and shared. In the run up to Christmas a number of large apparel brands saw Pinterest appear in their 5 five social referrers in their analytics.
Social, Local and Mobile, nicknamed SoLoMo, is going to be huge in 2012 for a lot of sectors but in particular the Travel Industry. The term SoLoMo consists of three main components of a travel customer’s behaviour.
The time of year people chose to go on holiday is unlikely to change, with people wanting to go away in the summer and again in the winter. What is changing is when consumers are looking for and booking their holidays online.
We’ve been subjected to waves of Facebook updates over the past couple of weeks but they have been more user focused, such as the fixed top nav, the chat box, the activity ticker and most importantly Timeline. After the F8 conference on the 22nd of September we felt that not much was mentioned about Pages, but we’ve noticed a few small changes and if pages get the same updates as the profiles we are in for some significant changes.
The term F-Commerce, or Facebook-Commerce, gained some real traction in 2011, with Facebook making it a focus for their future developments in an attempt to further monetise their website. Although Facebook are trying to introduce methods and mechanics to support online transactions for brands within Facebook, many companies are now exploring ways that they can turn their fan base into commerce through social media and Facebook enhanced retail.
