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Re: Introducing Facebook Shops

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Post by AndrewKemendo »

gitgud wrote: post #193
Thorentis wrote: post #190

It's fascinating to see these tech giants fight each other for control over the Internet empire. Eventually I think we will see 1 by 1 they will fall, and a couple will remain. This is Facebook's attempt to take on Amazon and Google both at once, and given their huge user base and method of engagement, they may just have a shot at it. I can see it now. Scroll Instagram to see photos of your friends wearing new clothe…

They might also implement object detection within photos and match things in the photo to products you could buy... on Facebook...

That is a core selling feature of Shops:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2686633214905269

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Post by ta17711771 »

kumarvvr wrote: post #242

Shopify will be the loser here. FB will use them, chew and spit them out. FB only wants shopify now because it has all the data, inventory, categorization, etc. The next logical move would be to buy a company like wix, then target smb with their sales and marketing team to help them make digital storefronts on FB, integrate with their social platform and then ditch shopify. Edit : Also, there is no way to tell if you…

True. Square bought Weebly for this.

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Post by _curious_ »

Lio wrote: post #224
dmode wrote: post #164

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a great post. But the biggest opportunity here is to build an aggregate SMB platform to take on Amazon. In my local downtown, I see a ton of mom and pop stores, but they don’t get a ton of foot traffic. I sometimes imagine unlocking their inventory that can allow for some inherent advantages like same day pick-up and supporting local businesses

I’ve had similar thoughts. If I could find out who has what in stock and at what price before I leave the house and if I could reserve it, it would definitely encourage me to shop locally more. I’m put off by the thought of a wasted trip. The suggestion of “we could order that in for you” is obviously not great either when I can probably order it in faster myself. I hardly ever browse in a real shop anymore because I…

What about calling them?

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Post by artificial »

paulryanrogers wrote: post #259
neillyons wrote: post #256

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Ad block also gives zero ads on YouTube.

... Without compensating content creators. So unless you want ads baked into videos then premium is the way to go.

If they do both they can repeat Cable! Win win!

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Post by mnehring »

busymom0 wrote: post #219
mnehring wrote: post #172

Has anyone seen anything specifically mentioned about an API? I did a quick search and didn't see anything mentioned, but if they integrated with 3rd party tools, either they have an API or they already programmed a feed scraping tool of some sort. I suppose if there is an API, but they haven't released public documentation, it might be possible to find out details about many of the endpoint from WooCommerce's code.

As someone who’s been burnt by using their IG API before when they decided to shut it down out of nowhere, I won’t trust their API for this.

For my personal selling, I wouldn't trust the API's:-). However, I have a product that helps a particular retail vertical list their items for sale online. I imagine my clients wouldn't mind having their items automatically cross-posted to Facebook's shop as well. (So, if Facebook kills the API, it would kill a feature in my product, but not my whole product.) That's why I was wondering about the API. I'll probably need to do some reading and searching today when I get some time!

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Post by rakoo »

The WeChat-ification of FB is going forward. There is still so much to do, but I for one am happy that total control over society's interaction by a single company is slowly coming over to the Western world.

(For reference if you don't have wechat or alipay in China, you might as well live as an hermit because fewer and fewer places will accomodate you)

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Post by redblacktree »

CivBase wrote: post #260
woodrowbarlow wrote: post #254

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there was a period when i thought similarly (pretty soon, facebook won't be "cool" anymore) but it came and went. people are complaining more about facebook's disturbing moves, but they're not doing anything about it.

I think it's happening. It's just very slow. Most people wont delete their account. They'll just start using it less and less. Facebook hasn't been "cool" for a long time. It's not a platform most people want to be on. It's just so ubiquitous that many people feel obligated to be on it. Unless that changes, Facebook (the social media site, not the company) will continue to die a very slow death.

Exactly the case for me. I just routed facebook.com to 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file. I realized that I was going there out of habit and I always felt worse when I was done. It's been one of the best things I've done this year.

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Post by DaiPlusPlus »

CraneWorm wrote: post #214
DaiPlusPlus wrote: post #204

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> I don't know of any mainstream platform that died because of ads. * Traditional television. * Online websites of traditional newspapers - they wouldn’t have moved to paywalling if advertising was working. * MySpace (not directly, but a contributory factor).

> they wouldn’t have moved to paywalling if advertising was working they surely make something on advertising because the ads are present even behind the paywalls.

I subscribe to the NYT - and I don’t like the fact there’s ads behind the paywall either - but at least they’re static ads for boring things like ING Bank. Comparing that to my local TV news’ website with Adblock disabled is night-and-day: auto-playing video ads embedded in content, clickbait “one weird trick”-ads, and no end of Share buttons either.
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