And some areas are more suitable than others for social commerce.

Social commerce is now estimated at over $300 million in Australia.

Walmart is yet to develop a clear social commerce strategy.

“Shopping 3.0 is all about this engagement model,” which she calls social commerce.

Other industry giants are thinking through ways to horizontally integrate into the social commerce space.

Social commerce aims to assist companies in achieving the following purposes.

Social Commerce is still a newer concept that most retailers may not have employed.

Onsite user reviews are also considered a part of social commerce.

Lockerz.com was an international social commerce website based in Seattle, Washington.

Social Commerce has become a really broad term encapsulating a lot of different technologies.

Social commerce can be measured by any of the principle ways to measure social media.

Facebook, however, is still the heavyweight of social commerce.

Yes, but there is a difference between social curation and social commerce.

She said the new service 'redefines what's possible in the world of social commerce.'

Communities could lose traditional sources of economic and social commerce, for some, their only means of transportation access.

Both companies monetise collected data sets through direct marketing and social commerce.

Offsite social commerce includes activities that happen outside of the retailers' website.

ShopSquad is a social commerce site for consumer-to-consumer shopping advice.

"Social commerce could be bigger than eBay," he argued.

Founded in 2010, its social commerce technology is already in use by several of the industry's most respected brands.

The partnership is expected to generate revenue from advertising and social commerce services for Sina.

Over time the responsibility to enforce fair exchange in all areas of social commerce has devolved onto government agencies.

ShopSocially is a social commerce platform for online retailers.

It promises to be appified and gamified social commerce at its best."

July 2011, acquired by social commerce site Lockerz.